One Hundred Years Ago

[Meister_000]

THE Vitagraph Company of America, through J. Stuart Blackton, vice-president, has brought suit in the Supreme Court of New York against Henry Ford, asking judgment in the sum of $1,000,000. The complaint is dated June 26, and alleges that on or about May 5, 1916, Mr. Ford caused to be published in not less than 250 newspapers published in the United States an article entitled "Humanity and Sanity," in which the Detroit manufacturer charged in substance that the general agitation then prevailing in the country for preparedness and defense of this country against foreign invasion was due to the efforts of munitions manufacturers to promote their selfish interests and that "The Battle Cry of Peace," a film manufactured and produced by the plaintiffs at great expense, was inspired by Hudson Maxim, a manufacturer of munitions of war . . .

"HUMANITY -- AND SANITY", by Henry Ford, a full page editorial (paid-for space) that ran in over 250 newspapers nation-wide, in April of 1916, attached . . .

[edit: THAT is a must read !!!  wow ]

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, February 16, 1916.  (K__Dubb should like this one.)

[K_Dubb]

Everett True, February 16, 1916.  (K__Dubb should like this one.)

Hahaha so it was a problem back then, too!  God I used to get so mad when I first started.  Then I learned to nuke my tobacco to get some of the moisture out.

[Rix Gins]

Items from the 2-16-1916 Chicago Day Book.

[Rix Gins]

From The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, Feb. 16, 1916.  Get your bets in, the big game is tonight...100 years ago, of course.

[Rix Gins]

Did you know there was an Airdome down in Mexico?

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

From The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, Feb. 16, 1916.  Get your bets in, the big game is tonight...100 years ago, of course.

E.R Bennett would have been yelling, "Play ball!" right about now!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Items from the 2-16-1916 Chicago Day Book.

It's fun to read between the lines of the story about the girl making "grave charges against employer," a man she "trusted" because he was "old enough to be trusted."  That's an enigmatic description, but I wonder if it means he was old enough to be her father.  Apparently, he wasn't too old to have had his "purpose...fulfilled" five times in his private office with her, the faithless cad!

[Walks_At_Night]

On  Feb. 16, 1916, Duong Van Minh was born in Long An province, French Indochina.   He was known as "Big Minh" would be a key player of the coup that overthrew the president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.    That coup was a nasty bit of business and it certainly led to the US being more involved in the conflict.  Following the murder of Diem, Minh, became the President of South Vietnam, ruling through a military junta known as the Military Revolutionary Council. After three months of rule, which was criticized for its lack of direction, General Nguyễn Khánh deposed Minh in a bloodless coup before dawn on  January 30, 1964.  Following this Minh would be exiled to Thailand for a number of years but he would return to South Vietnam.

On  April 28th 1975, in a joint sitting of the bicameral National Assembly, the presidency was unanimously handed over to Minh.  By April 30th, 1975 the Republic of South Vietnam was finished.   Minh would die in Pasadena in 2001.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Items from the 2-16-1916 Chicago Day Book.

The blurb about the butter makers wanting to outlaw yellow oleomargarine is significant, because they feared the competion and wanted to make sure people could tell the difference. They were fairly successful, because for many years in some big dairy producing states it was illegal to sell yellow margarine. It was white, but usually came with a packet of yellow dye that could be mixed with it by those who wanted the look of real butter.  I saw it done a couple of times years ago, and it was a messy and somewhat disgusting process.

[Camazotz Automat]

The blurb about the butter makers wanting to outlaw yellow oleomargarine is significant, because they feared the competion and wanted to make sure people could tell the difference. They were fairly successful, because for many years in some big dairy producing states it was illegal to sell yellow margarine. It was white, but usually came with a packet of yellow dye that could be mixed with it by those who wanted the look of real butter.  I saw it done a couple of times years ago, and it was a messy and somewhat disgusting process.

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

(For best effect, pronounce 'Margarine' so that it rhymes with 'Submarine.'  A splendid time is guaranteed for all!)

[WhiteCrow]

The blurb about the butter makers wanting to outlaw yellow oleomargarine is significant, because they feared the competion and wanted to make sure people could tell the difference. They were fairly successful, because for many years in some big dairy producing states it was illegal to sell yellow margarine. It was white, but usually came with a packet of yellow dye that could be mixed with it by those who wanted the look of real butter.  I saw it done a couple of times years ago, and it was a messy and somewhat disgusting process.

That brings back memories.. We live in Wisconsin "The Dairy State" yellow margargine was illegal until around 1960?.
My father was a railroad engineer.  He'd smuggle the contraband yellow margargine across the  Wisconsin/Illinois border on the train.

[Rix Gins]

It's fun to read between the lines of the story about the girl making "grave charges against employer," a man she "trusted" because he was "old enough to be trusted."  That's an enigmatic description, but I wonder if it means he was old enough to be her father.  Apparently, he wasn't too old to have had his "purpose...fulfilled" five times in his private office with her, the faithless cad!

LOL.  Dirty minded me.  I kept wondering if he had a couch in his office...or did they have to get 'creative.'

[Rix Gins]

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

(For best effect, pronounce 'Margarine' so that it rhymes with 'Submarine.'  A splendid time is guaranteed for all!)

Now guess what song is thoroughly stuck in my head?  But very happily so.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

We all live in the Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine
Yellow Margarine

(For best effect, pronounce 'Margarine' so that it rhymes with 'Submarine.'  A splendid time is guaranteed for all!)

So it's pronounced "mubjarine."  Got it! 

I wanted to reply with a classic Parkay commercial, and finding this gem exceeded my wildest expectations!  Senor Wences occupies a prominent place in my pantheon of favorite entertainers.

http://youtu.be/ui4vPDEVQIo

[Rix Gins]

E.R Bennett would have been yelling, "Play ball!" right about now!

I was a little disappointed to read that the game would only last an hour or so.  Only 5 innings?  Oh well, everyone dancing afterwards sounds like fun.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

I was a little disappointed to read that the game would only last an hour or so.  Only 5 innings?  Oh well, everyone dancing afterwards sounds like fun.

I agree, Rix! Major league games typically lasted two hours or less then, so they easily could have played nine innings and still had plenty of time for dancing afterward!  And I bet the dance was still going on even at this late hour!

Looking forward to the account tomorrow!

[Rix Gins]

World War One photo.  Some French soldiers hauling a gun up a hill.

[K_Dubb]

I was a little disappointed to read that the game would only last an hour or so.  Only 5 innings?  Oh well, everyone dancing afterwards sounds like fun.

Agree, can't wait for tomorrow's report on the big game/dance.  Those people sure loved to dance.  Even a baseball game is an excuse.  Would love to know what music was played.

[Meister_000]

Chicago Tribune November 22, 1915
Labor Balks at Boycotting Film (The Battle Cry of Peace) but Raps Preparedness

[Jackstar]

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/personal/large/folder2/db21616.html

   
Dear Bess:

This is the roughest road in Texas I suppose.

We are approaching Ft. Worth an hour late, hence the reason I am endeavoring to write while we move. (If we were on time, I could write after we arrive.) The car is supposed to stay there an hour.

Uncle Harry seems to be enjoying himself. He is able to lead every big lie that is told in his presence by a bigger one. When he can do that he's happy. He's begun to cuss Texas though, which isn't so happy for me. I doubt very much if he allows me to do anything down here. If he doesn't, I'm going to try and make him loosen up at home. It is springtime here. They are plowing and burning just as we do in May. It is certainly fine weather down here. I want to stay but I can't. There's a month's work at home to be done in a week. Vivian and Mr. Blair seem to think that I am badly in need of a guardian for even suggesting west Texas. I have converted Blair but Vivian never. He can do nothing but quote his paw-in-law. You know the old geezer has just sold a one-third interest in a Joplin mine and made some more money. The mine cost the three of them $30,000. They sold it for $105,000. He has another one that brings him $1,000 a week. I wish him some more luck. That won't keep me from trying my luck if I can. You are well acquainted with my very urgent reasons for wanting some kind of good luck. I shall send you another letter from San Angelo.

I am sending Nellie a grand collection of jails, libraries, and schools. You should see them. Here's the city. I must quit. Also, I've decided that someone should really bomb Japan some day.

Sincerely,

Harry

[pate]

They were also home to the Range Clock's which allowed the battle line to communicate range to other BB's in the battle line:




nice writeup here:
http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111568

That is an awesome find, WAN!  I assume the clock is calibrated to seconds to assist with Time-on-Target "readin', 'ritin', arithmetic?

Offhand, and/or personal "back of the envelope" calculations based on the observation windows above the clock-face suggest to me that the dial indicator back-face was something on the order of a 20-25 foot diameter (10-12.5 radius)>?  Within that assumed specification, I assume the electro-motor available (whether common or National Secret) of the time was well able to provide the gunnery assist for Fire-On-Target calculations...

Dialing the time-machine back to modern times, this adds to my "list" of sub-par military injection-molded model kits which I will "customize" someday when I get enough Round "Tuits."

Suh-wheat!

EditToAdd:  Revel(tm)-type model kits of the plastic type representing the dearth of available mechanical equipment during the Great War (WWI to the kidz) and leading up to The Second or World War Two...

[pate]

...  Sue me, we should have started this thread years ago.

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORwC7gNyUaY

I am not sure whether to pull the bell-rope or stand in the middle of the tracks?

In either case, I agree.  I should have a definite opinion on being on or off the wagon...

My memory is suspect, in part to various maladies and afflictions I suffer from.  The sale of CureAlls or SnakeOils interests me about this time, it might serve to get me memory jogging (Not Sure Idiom Parlance),

I should refer to the local publications available so as not to spoil history, as it were.

I cannot resist!  Any news of the Tolerance and/or Suffrage Movements, brother?

& can you spare a dime?

[Rix Gins]

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/personal/large/folder2/db21616.html

   
Dear Bess:

This is the roughest road in Texas I suppose.

We are approaching Ft. Worth an hour late, hence the reason I am endeavoring to write while we move. (If we were on time, I could write after we arrive.) The car is supposed to stay there an hour.

Uncle Harry seems to be enjoying himself. He is able to lead every big lie that is told in his presence by a bigger one. When he can do that he's happy. He's begun to cuss Texas though, which isn't so happy for me. I doubt very much if he allows me to do anything down here. If he doesn't, I'm going to try and make him loosen up at home. It is springtime here. They are plowing and burning just as we do in May. It is certainly fine weather down here. I want to stay but I can't. There's a month's work at home to be done in a week. Vivian and Mr. Blair seem to think that I am badly in need of a guardian for even suggesting west Texas. I have converted Blair but Vivian never. He can do nothing but quote his paw-in-law. You know the old geezer has just sold a one-third interest in a Joplin mine and made some more money. The mine cost the three of them $30,000. They sold it for $105,000. He has another one that brings him $1,000 a week. I wish him some more luck. That won't keep me from trying my luck if I can. You are well acquainted with my very urgent reasons for wanting some kind of good luck. I shall send you another letter from San Angelo.

I am sending Nellie a grand collection of jails, libraries, and schools. You should see them. Here's the city. I must quit. Also, I've decided that someone should really bomb Japan some day.

Sincerely,

Harry

Nice try Jackstar, but if you really want to change history, you've got to start smaller.  Say, like when Harry T. was in WW!.  Give him a dose of diarrhea and put him out of commission on the eve of an important artillery barrage.  "As for Truman's time in the Muese-Argonne, experiencing air and artillery attacks on his positions, directing fire, setting up his anti-aircraft machine guns for use against infantry during the German counterattack--- all this will certainly tempt some to engage in a questionable psychoanalysis of how it must have affected his later thinking on the atom bomb."  http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/truman.htm  Cool info on the mines though.  I wonder if that's where he got his solid gold paperweight (on display in his Presidential Library) from. 

[pate]

It's fun to read between the lines of the story about the girl making "grave charges against employer," a man she "trusted" because he was "old enough to be trusted."  That's an enigmatic description, but I wonder if it means he was old enough to be her father.  Apparently, he wasn't too old to have had his "purpose...fulfilled" five times in his private office with her, the faithless cad!

I feel dirty, not for the content of the following, but because while "movies" were available in 1916, I don't think "talkies" were yet.

In an effort to placate the masses, I deposit this (reluctantly) in the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymucqmjJs20

Query:  How long does one need to wait for this thread to report on the invention of "adult diapers?"

Sincere apologies RG.  Apparently I suffer from senile demetia as defined in 1916, was there a remedey (sic) available on the Western Coast of the Nation that you have noticed that might purportedly aid the symptoms of my affliction?  I do hope...

[Jackstar]

if you really want to change history, you've got to start smaller.

My objective was far more modest--a simple spray of coffee across one's display, it needn't have come from the nose.

[Rix Gins]

My objective was far more modest--a simple spray of coffee across one's display, it needn't have come from the nose.

One must remember...The nose and the mouth are connected.

[pate]

World War One photo.  Some French soldiers hauling a gun up a hill.

Hah!  Dang Frenchies, did they eat les chevaux en plus vite.  Dirty, dirty, sale, frankly in ordeur to be quite frank, why did we fight for these supposed supporters of Libertie?

They traditionally dine on horse-flesh on Vendredi, are they dogs or what>?  Always surrendering to those Alsace-Lorraine quiche-types.  It is shameful...  What kind of national defence did they put up betwixt themselves and their foreign neighbors?  Some sort of wall?  Perhaps a Maginot line?  And why trust Canada?  We fought a war against them some two thousand yearns ago...

/self-reported for obvious lack of knowledge in socio-economic whichever, also military whichever.  Moderators please delete, as I get regular and deposit poo like this in random threads, also for mauvais francais which rhymes to the Anglish ear, is terrible Frankisch.

ediot:  PS;  Lawd, save us all from the wrath of the Norsemen.

[Rix Gins]

Hah!  Dang Frenchies, did they eat les chevaux en plus vite.  Dirty, dirty, sale, , why did we fight for these supposed supporters of Libertie?
frankly in ordeur to be quite frank
They traditionally dine on horse-flesh on Vendredi, are they dogs or what>?  Always surrendering to those Alsace-Lorraine quiche-types.  It is shameful...  What kind of national defence did they put up betwixt themselves and their foreign neighbors?  Some sort of wall?  Perhaps a Maginot line?  And why trust Canada?  We fought a war against them some two thousand yearns ago...

/self-reported for obvious lack of knowledge in socio-economic whichever, also military whichever.  Moderators please delete, as I get regular and deposit poo like this in random threads, also for mauvais francais which rhymes to the Anglish ear, is terrible Frankisch.

ediot:  PS;  Lawd, save us all from the wrath of the Norsemen.

In a nutshell: Because the farm boys from Iowa wanted adventure.

[ShayP]

For all your delicates! .....especially silk.  Already established, Lux, in 1916, marketed it's soap towards silk fabrics due to the cost of those luxury items.