One Hundred Years Ago

[WhiteCrow]

Lately I've been very busy at work.. Just a quick post to say. LOVE this thread. As a life long student of history thank you all for your efforts. I stop in and read it at all hours of day and night. Fascinating details that help complete the historical framework of the era.

Bravo!!!

[Walks_At_Night]

Lately I've been very busy at work.. Just a quick post to say. LOVE this thread. As a life long student of history thank you all for your efforts. I stop in and read it at all hours of day and night. Fascinating details that help complete the historical framework of the era.

Bravo!!!

Me too......   Hopefully I'll have some time to breathe soon and I'll be able to finish up the last part of the Ford saga.
Sorry for the delay

[gabrielle]

I have been doing some reading about smugglers and rum runners circa 1916 in both Canada and the U. S.

To date, this is the best site I have come across.  Take note of the author.  It is an interesting read, and features a pic from 1916.

http://ehto.thestar.com/marks/canuck-whiskey-pouring-into-us

[Rix Gins]

Lately I've been very busy at work.. Just a quick post to say. LOVE this thread. As a life long student of history thank you all for your efforts. I stop in and read it at all hours of day and night. Fascinating details that help complete the historical framework of the era.

Bravo!!!

Thanks for the kind words, WhiteCrow.  We are happy to provide you with the latest news from a hundred years ago.  Best wishes to you.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, March 24, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

From the March 24, 1916 Chicago Day Book.

[Rix Gins]

Some clippings from the March 24, 1916 Daily Bonanza.

[Uncle Duke]

http://gcaptain.com/ship-photos-of-the-day-uss-conestoga-found/

OK, not quite a hundred years ago, but a solution to the 95 yr old mysterious disappearance of a US Navy ship.

[K_Dubb]

From the March 24, 1916 Chicago Day Book.

Well, that was fast!  Gen. Funston comes across as something less than enterprising; many commanders would have seen that as an opportunity, such as the famous story of Nelson putting his telescope to his blind eye to read a signal he didn't want.

What interesting recipes!  I remember a bar coming out with deep-fried macaroni and cheese like it was some kind of innovation.  And the other, was it perhaps spread on toast like welsh rabbit, or dipped, like fondue?

[gabrielle]

Here is a little bit more information about prohibition in Canada.  These excerpts come from the a magazine called "The Legion" and the article in titled "For Beer and Country." (dated March 28th 2010).

[K_Dubb]

From the Seattle Star today:













And a couple of disparaging items on mechanical music:





I guess they didn't think the American Fotoplayer and its like were as cool as I do.

[gabrielle]

Rix Gins, one of the books listed in the clipping you posted is available on line; Clipped Wings by R. Hughes.  It looks like it might be interesting.

[K_Dubb]

Here is a little bit more information about prohibition in Canada.  These excerpts come from the a magazine called "The Legion" and the article in titled "For Beer and Country." (dated March 28th 2010).

Oh, if I were a solder I'd be so angry!  What a horrible thing to do. Makes me want to give Molson another shot.

[gabrielle]

Oh, if I were a solder I'd be so angry!  What a horrible thing to do. Makes me want to give Molson another shot.

Yes, and it seems that alcohol was available in Canada for "medicinal purposes" with a prescription.  Surely the men in the trenches had medicinal needs if anyone did.  What a bizarre world we liveed in.

[Rix Gins]

Rix Gins, one of the books listed in the clipping you posted is available on line; Clipped Wings by R. Hughes.  It looks like it might be interesting.

Indeed it does, and thanks.  In another one of those ironic coincidences, the author, Rupert Hughes, was Howard's uncle.


                Rupert Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Hughes

Also, did you notice another book on the list entitled K.?  (Now does that ring a bell or what?)  It was written by an Agatha Christie like author whose main claim to fame is that she was the first mystery writer to have penned the phrase, "The Butler did it!"


              Mary Roberts Rinehart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart


                 K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._%28novel%29

[Rix Gins]

http://gcaptain.com/ship-photos-of-the-day-uss-conestoga-found/

OK, not quite a hundred years ago, but a solution to the 95 yr old mysterious disappearance of a US Navy ship.

That's good news.  Now I'm waiting for somebody to find this baby.  (Sunk 98 years ago.)


                             USS Cyclops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyclops_%28AC-4%29

[albrecht]

Indeed it does, and thanks.  In another one of those ironic coincidences, the author, Rupert Hughes, was Howard's uncle.


                Rupert Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Hughes

Also, did you notice another book on the list entitled K.?  (Now does that ring a bell or what?)  It was written by an Agatha Christie like author whose main claim to fame is that she was the first mystery writer to have penned the phrase, "The Butler did it!"


              Mary Roberts Rinehart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart


                 K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._%28novel%29

Interesting about the Crash causing Rinehart to turn to writing for family income. Reminds me of another great mystery writer P.D. James, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, who turned to writing (and civil service,) to support her family after her husband returned after the war (WWII) with mental problems.
I'm going to look up some of her books as a guilty pleasure is reading "golden age" mysteries (Just read a republished work "Murder of a Lady" from British Library Crime Classics, who republishes old mysteries. A bit melodramatic and, as often, the "impossibilities" of some of the murders a bit formulaic, but good and the characters and setting were good.

[WhiteCrow]

I have been doing some reading about smugglers and rum runners circa 1916 in both Canada and the U. S.

To date, this is the best site I have come across.  Take note of the author.  It is an interesting read, and features a pic from 1916.

http://ehto.thestar.com/marks/canuck-whiskey-pouring-into-us

Noticed that piece was authored by Ernest Hemingway.

http://ehto.thestar.com/marks/how-hemingway-came-of-age-at-the-toronto-star

[gabrielle]

Yes WhiteCrow, Hemingway was writing for the Toronto Star in his early years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway


One of the things I love the most about this thread is the unexpected twists and turns each post leads to.  Love it.

[gabrielle]

Indeed it does, and thanks.  In another one of those ironic coincidences, the author, Rupert Hughes, was Howard's uncle.


                Rupert Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Hughes

Also, did you notice another book on the list entitled K.?  (Now does that ring a bell or what?)  It was written by an Agatha Christie like author whose main claim to fame is that she was the first mystery writer to have penned the phrase, "The Butler did it!"


              Mary Roberts Rinehart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart


                 K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._%28novel%29

Well now I have to read the novel.   I will report back.

[WhiteCrow]

Yes WhiteCrow, Hemingway was writing for the Toronto Star in his early years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway


One of the things I love the most about this thread is the unexpected twists and turns each post leads to.  Love it.

Like that too..

Poncho Villa General and General Jack Pershing started to mix it up in March 1916.


http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/mexico_pershing.htm

[Uncle Duke]

That's good news.  Now I'm waiting for somebody to find this baby.  (Sunk 98 years ago.)


                             USS Cyclops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyclops_%28AC-4%29

Agreed.  The Cyclops story is better known than that of the Conestoga.

[albrecht]

Like that too..

Poncho Villa General and General Jack Pershing started to mix it up in March 1916.

http://ehto.thestar.com/marks/how-hemingway-came-of-age-at-the-toronto-star

Aside from the food, the one thing I like about Mexicans is that they still carry over the tradition of nicknames for people (in)famous or just regular Joes. Both based on the name, or name association, or based on their looks, color, or some event in their past. Even the scary and violent cartel guys always have funny nicknames. And sometimes, at face-value translation, somewhat insulting ones- but like good nicknames given to friends or earned some way, not considered insulting (when friends use them at least.)

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, March 25, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book, March 25, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The March 25, 1916 Daily Bonanza from Tonopah, Nevada.

[gabrielle]

From the Boston Globe Feb. 11 1916

[albrecht]

The Day Book, March 25, 1916.

Great postings as always. What is a "26" game? I know what punchboard game but curious about the "26" game that got him busted. Also that creepy story of Mrs.Light who was lead back by four police to the "psychopathic laboratory" after standing in traffic.

[gabrielle]

More war news.....things are heating up.

[Rix Gins]

From the Boston Globe Feb. 11 1916

The book does sound good.  Rupert also wrote a three part biography on George Washington that was highly praised.  I spent some time trying to locate any interaction with his nephew Howard but I couldn't find any.  I'm sure they must have known each other as they were both in the movie making industry at the same time.  I noticed that Rupert was a Captain with the famous National Guard unit, the 69th New York regiment and they (along with Rupert) were assigned to help Pershing locate Pancho Villa..  So every time we see a Villa clipping, we will know that Rupert Hughes was out there, riding around in the dusty desert looking for him.