In Search of Puifin . . .

By Zman53

Savoie side-paddle steamer on Lac Leman

Launched in 1914, the same year that saw:

- Ford Motor Company announce an 8-hour workday and minimum wage of $5/day

- Pancho Villa's troops take the Mexican state of Chihuahua

- Charlie Chaplin make his film debut

- Austrian Archduke Franze Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo plunging the World into WWI

- Baseball legend Babe Ruth make his major league debut

- The Panama Canal inaugurated with the steamship USS Ancon

- The last known passenger pigeon "Martha" die in a Cincinnati zoo

- Pope Benedict XV become the 258th pope

- First Battle of the Marne near Paris. Over 2 million fight and 500,000 killed/wounded.

- Joseph Kennedy Sr. marry Rose Fitzgerald in Boston

The passage of time does not necessarily mean change . . .

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