William D. Hoard an influential publisher, broke with La Follette in 1912. Hoard died in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1918 (age 82 years, 43 days). He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. In honor of Hoard's service to the dairy industry, a statue of Hoard by Gutzon Borglum was erected in 1922 at the head of Henry Mall of what is now the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which was the original quadrangle of the university's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.' Gutzon Borglum later went on to create Mount Rushmore. Wisconsin Statute W.S.A. 995.24 creates a Wisconsin state holiday called
Czechoslovak declaration of independence national council that would negotiate the future of the empire with Vienna, and Trieste was to receive a special status. However, on that same day, a Czecho-Slovak provisional government joined the Allies. This provisional government had begun drafting a Declaration of Independence on 13 October and completed its task on 16 October. The document was drafted by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and American sculptor Gutzon Borglum (Borglum hosted future soldiers of a Czecho-Slovak army on his farm in Stamford, Connecticut.) On 17 October, Masaryk presented it to the U.S. government and the president. It was published in Paris 18 October 1918