One Hundred Years Ago

[K_Dubb]

Fascinating story unfolding in Seattle 100 years ago and I hope we are privy to it's conclusion.  Haha...Miss Clayburg snapped by Kodakers (I love that term) and posed for a moving camera in L.A.  Sounds like she was most comfortable in front of a camera's lens. I'd still like to know how they managed to get usable, sneak photos from what shutter speeds were available to them back then.

Me too!  I wonder if this was when all those little Brownie cameras first became popular.  I've been resisting the urge to look ahead and find out.  It's kind of nice to read the paper in the morning with coffee and pretend it's today's news.

Somehow I don't think the Star is a newspaper of the first rank.

[gabrielle]

How cute is this!!!  Fashion from the Winnipeg Free Press, March 15 1916.  I love it.  (and now...back to the war)

[gabrielle]

From the London Evening News....our update on Verdun

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

How cute is this!!!  Fashion from the Winnipeg Free Press, March 15 1916.  I love it.  (and now...back to the war)

They're cute from the perspective of a hundred years later, but I wonder how many of the unfortunate lads who were forced to wear those wound up learning painful lessons about bullying and playground taunts from the neighborhood hooligans. All I can say is I'm glad I didn't have to wear something like that when I was growing up! I had a great-uncle who grew up in Winnipeg and would have been about the right age to wear those outfits. In his teens, he was a champion amateur featherweight boxer, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a connection.  After all, there are no coincidences! 

[K_Dubb]

From the Seattle Star today:



Sadly, the case is starting to look a little more mundane.



A cool 1916 photo of Pioneer Square:



A selfie circa 1916:



Hard to say for sure, but it appears we're in fact in the snapshot era.

[Rix Gins]

I'm not so sure, K.  There might just be some fireworks in the case.

Photo One.  Prosecutor Lundin:  "Your Honor, if it please the court, I'd like to propose a bail amount of $5,000.00 for Miss Coots, and $3,000.00 for Miss Peterson."

Photo Two.  Attorney Murphy:  "Your Honor, these fair girls present no flight risk.  How about $1,000.00 for Miss Coots and $500.00 for Miss Peterson?"

Photo Three.  Judge Solomon:  "Oh, I think we can meet somewhere in the middle.  $2,000.00 for Miss Coots and $1,500. for Miss Peterson.  Courts adjourned."  'Bang.'

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, March 15, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book from Chicago, March 15, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

Some news from Tonopah, Nevada's Daily Bonanza, March 15, 1916.

[gabrielle]

I'm not so sure, K.  There might just be some fireworks in the case.

Photo One.  Prosecutor Lundin:  "Your Honor, if it please the court, I'd like to propose a bail amount of $5,000.00 for Miss Coots, and $3,000.00 for Miss Peterson."

Photo Two.  Attorney Murphy:  "Your Honor, these fair girls present no flight risk.  How about $1,000.00 for Miss Coots and $500.00 for Miss Peterson?"

Photo Three.  Judge Solomon:  "Oh, I think we can meet somewhere in the middle.  $2,000.00 for Miss Coots and $1,500. for Miss Peterson.  Courts adjourned."  'Bang.'

Awesome!!!

[K_Dubb]

Some news from Tonopah, Nevada's Daily Bonanza, March 15, 1916.

Haha you tell the story much better.

The boys' work on Brougher Mountain seems to have been maintained:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brougher+Mountain,+Tonopah,+NV+89049/@38.0650946,-117.2358582,108m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x80bc06c6602e0441:0x7832a372e9a7a240

Also interesting to see the positive coverage of Mormons; the church had only banned polygamy in 1890.  I've been reading a bit about it lately, and it looks like they were well on their way to a complete image makeover by this date.

[Rix Gins]

Wow!  I hadn't thought that the 'T' would still be there, but there it is.  And a rather fancy 'T' at that. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

The Day Book from Chicago, March 15, 1916.

I wonder if General Spingardi and Mussolini fought that duel. It's too bad the general couldn't have taken him out back then. It might have saved a lot of trouble a few years down the road!

Interesting story about Cuba. It sounds like the seeds of revolution were already being sown.  I have to wonder what the King of the Hobos was doing there, and how he got there since there wasn't any rail service from the States. 

[K_Dubb]

Also, "Moist" has to be about the most unfortunate name for a piano company I've heard yet.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Also, "Moist" has to be about the most unfortunate name for a piano company I've heard yet.

No kidding!  A "moist piano" sounds like the name of a specialized intimate act for extremely adventurous types. 

[K_Dubb]

A photo dated 100 years ago today showing a German assault with grenades and flamethrowers during the battle of Verdun:



I've read that some of this WWI stuff was staged, but that sure looks like the real thing to me.

[BobGrau]

The Day Book from Chicago, March 15, 1916.

These 'sound' strangely similar to Noory newscasts.

[gabrielle]

On this day in 1916, the S. S. Tubantia was torpedoed by a German submarine.  The ship was was owned by the Dutch Company Royal Holland LLoyd.  It was a fast steamer, built to ship mail and people between the Netherlands and South America.   After the war, a salvage attempt was made by people looking to recover gold that was thought to be on board. ( A feud between two rival men claiming the right to make the salvage attempt resulted in an important court case regarding possession of shipwrecks).

[K_Dubb]

The Issaquah History Museum has a neat old autograph book featuring several dated today collected by a 14-year-old girl named Ferol Tibbets, maybe for eighth-grade graduation:



Here is my favorite:



You can read the rest here:

http://issaquahhistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/from-digital-collections-ferol-tibbets.html

Some cool photos of the Issaquah depot:







Issaquah is on the way up to Snoqualmie Pass.  Here's what it took to get a car over the pass in 1916:

[K_Dubb]

From the Seattle Star today:



I tried unsuccessfully to find a photo of the electric sign, but these boats along the Tacoma waterfront in 1916 are undoubtedly the ones in question:



Another cool 1916 photo of the Tacoma waterfront showing an old square-rigger decked out with flags.  I wonder what the occasion was?  It doesn't appear to be operational -- no sails -- so maybe a derelict?







The Ivy Hotel:



My favorite Chinese bakery was in one of those street-level storefronts.  I'd kill for one of those taro buns right now, or a lotus seed moon cake, or the pineapple buns with cream filling.



Soldiers from the Vancouver Barracks at the Log Cabin Saloon, pre-January 1:

[gabrielle]

K Dubb that is great stuff.  I like the reference to the electric "juice".  Very nice.

[albrecht]

From the Seattle Star today:



I tried unsuccessfully to find a photo of the electric sign, but these boats along the Tacoma waterfront in 1916 are undoubtedly the ones in question:



Another cool 1916 photo of the Tacoma waterfront showing an old square-rigger decked out with flags.  I wonder what the occasion was?  It doesn't appear to be operational -- no sails -- so maybe a derelict?







The Ivy Hotel:





Soldiers from the Vancouver Barracks at the Log Cabin Saloon, pre-January 1:

I like McDonald's complaint about the signs showing folks the "way out of town." And the Opium seizure and find remind me of some Sax Rohmer novel or old movie with their sinister Oriental criminals and seedy opium dens.

[gabrielle]

 A little more on the sinking of the Tubantia:

[K_Dubb]

Ha, the old ship turns out to be interesting!  It is the Success, a former Australian convict ship built in the 1840s that was operated as a museum:



From here: http://prisonphotography.org/2009/03/18/19th-century-museum-prison-ships/

[K_Dubb]

I like McDonald's complaint about the signs showing folks the "way out of town." And the Opium seizure and find remind me of some Sax Rohmer novel or old movie with their sinister Oriental criminals and seedy opium dens.

This is the second place I've seen Chinese called "celestials", which sure gives them a mystical cast.

[Rix Gins]

A photo dated 100 years ago today showing a German assault with grenades and flamethrowers during the battle of Verdun:



I've read that some of this WWI stuff was staged, but that sure looks like the real thing to me.

I have poured over this photo for some time and, since I am no expert, I can only say that it looks authentic to me.  It does look to be a practice that the German's employed for quick attack, or 'blitzkrieg.'  If I could just get past the fact that none of the soldiers are holding rifles.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, March 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book, March 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Daily Bonanza for March 16, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

I have poured over this photo for some time and, since I am no expert, I can only say that it looks authentic to me.  It does look to be a practice that the German's employed for quick attack, or 'blitzkrieg.'  If I could just get past the fact that none of the soldiers are holding rifles.

Good observation!  I missed that completely.  The caption from German Wikipedia contests the date (it might have been taken on the 14th) but not the authenticity:

Angriff (Beginn): Deutsche Infanteristen verlassen die Schützengräben um die Höhe Toter Mann (Le mort homme) zu erstürmen (Hintergrund rechts oben). Links (mittlere Bildebene) werfen zwei Infanteristen Handgranaten, im Hintergrund ein Soldat mit Flammenwerfer. In der der unten angebenen Quelle ist die Aufnahme auf 15. März 1916 datiert, nach anderen Quellen fand der Angriff schon am 14. März 1916 statt.

It is one of the attacks on Dead Man's Hill.  If it's real, I don't think I've seen a more you-are-there work of WW1 combat photography.

This might be from the same occasion; at least it's identified as Dead Man's Hill: