From the warmth of our home we watched the televised Veterans Day Parade held in downtown Tulsa. I think the mid-day wind chill was about 28 degrees. Several hundred hearty people appeared to watch the parade in real time.
Did you ever wonder what your local paper had to say on Armistice Day when The Great War ended? Me, too.
And this front page of The Tulsa Daily World is from the next day, November 12, 1918.
When enlarged the small print is still difficult to read. Here are two articles that share a poor description of how Tulsans made merry shortly after hearing the splendid news of the War's end. Both articles are from the pages shown above:
