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Newspapers started reporting that the eclipse was coming months beforehand, giving advice on the best places to travel to catch the “path of totality.” Scientists prepared their experiments, people prepared their travel plans, businesses prepared for a bonanza, and everyone sought a glass they could look through without going blind. And, as the event started to unfold, all the world seemed to stop their business and watch. It was eclipse mania on June 8, 1918.
There is a fear that small towns are dying, losing their young to opportunities in cities. There is some evidence this is true. But there is life in rural America yet.
The allied occupation of Iceland was almost bizarrely cordial, and became even stranger when the neutral state officially requested to be occupied by the United States, at the time also neutral.
