Friday, March 16, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 16

March 16, 1916 – When Mrs. J. H. Johnson picked up today’s Tribune this afternoon, her son, absent from home for the past four years, looked up at her.

Her son is Captain Walter H. Johnson, Company G, Sixth Infantry, U. S. A., serving now on the Mexican border and in all probability a member of the expeditionary force that started this morning into Mexico after Pancho Villa.

By a freak of chance the newspaper photographer, snapping a picture of American infantry on the march, aimed his camera at soldiers led by Mrs. Johnson’s son.

Captain Johnson has been stationed at El Paso, Tex., since last November. Even more of a coincidence, his mother received a letter from him today.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Woman Opens Tribune and Finds Picture of son Who Is Chasing Villa”; March 17, 1916; p. 13.



The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; March 16, 1916; p. 1.
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