100 years ago: Spokane celebrates the first Armistice Day

'Delerious' celebration gripped Spokane's streets as news reached the city that armistice had been declared, bringing a close in name -- if not yet in fact -- to the violence in Europe.

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Sun., Nov. 11, 2018

Armistice Parade in Spokane in 1918.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle announced the end of World War I in multiple editions on Nov. 11, 1918.
“Red Cross Volunteers and Men in Uniform, c. 1918,” photograph from the Bruce Harding Collection.
“Naval Unit. Pullman Celebrating War’s End, November 11, 1918,” postcard from the Franks Collection.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle announced the end of World War I in multiple editions on Nov. 11, 1918.
Armistice Day 2018. Colourised version of a file photo dated Nov. 15, 1919 which shows the Victory Parade passing down Whitehall, to mark the end of the First World War.

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The Spokane Daily Chronicle announced the end of World War I in multiple editions on Nov. 11, 1918.
Armistice Day 2018. Colourised version of a file photo dated Nov. 11, 1918 which shows a huge crowd gathered outside the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England in London after the announcement of the Armistice, which heralded the end of the First World War.

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The Spokesman-Review announced the end of World War I in multiple editions on Nov. 11, 1918.
PFC Samuel F. Austin, a Spokane man who was part of a machine-gun battalion during World War I. He survived fierce fighting in the war's final months, only to die in an accident in France while waiting to return home.
“Parade in Spokane, n.d.,” photograph in album from the Frank and David Guilbert Collection
Jonathan Brunt The Spokesman-Review
Light shines on the World War I memorial plaque at St. Johns Cathedral in Spokane on Thursday, March 30, 2017. The idea of building of new Episcopal cathedral in memory of soldiers killed in World War I was proposed in 1919 as a replacement to All Saints Episcopal church.

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