And today is both Remembrance Day
and Remembrance Sunday, which is fitting for the 100th anniversary.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/11/a-century-ago-world-war-i-ended-and-spokane-went-n/"In small towns throughout the Inland Northwest, people went “frantic with joy†and staged monster celebrations on their main streets. Most main streets were completely closed to auto traffic because of the crowds. “The kaiser is hanging in effigy from many telephone poles today and is being hooted and jeered by frantic crowds,†reported one correspondent from outlying towns. In Spokane, Kaiser Wilhelm, who had just abdicated, swung in effigy from a guy wire at Howard Street and Riverside Avenue."
"A contingent from the Palace department store carried the “sad remains of Kaiser Bill and the Clown Prince†on stretchers. When a local “humorist†unveiled a sign saying, “We Got the Kaiser’s Pants,†the crowd gave him an ovation.
Companies of happily mischievous “hat-removers†roamed the streets and knocked off every hat within reach (hat-removing was a fad at the time)."