November
11, 1918 – Exactly at 1:47 this morning, slumbering Minneapolis grew
restless, turned over a few times and then perked up its ears to hear the
noise.
Whistles at mills, shops and on railroad engines, shrilled in dissonant cadence, gongs were pounded to the bursting limit and within a few minutes the pandemonium rose to a nerve-wrecking intensity.
Whistles at mills, shops and on railroad engines, shrilled in dissonant cadence, gongs were pounded to the bursting limit and within a few minutes the pandemonium rose to a nerve-wrecking intensity.
Celebrating Downtown Minneapolis1
Minneapolis grumbled and stretched, then dressed hurriedly, speeding to the downtown street to make more noise, participating in the dizzy revelry. The celebration continued for 24 hours.
The war was over!
The Daily News
headline2
The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Bedlam Day, Year Ago”; Nov. 11, 1919; p. 1.
1https://www.minnpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_detail/images/articles/ArmisticeDayMinneapolis640.jpg
2http://contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/el-histnsp/id/294
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