One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

Anton Huber was a butler's son from St. Wolfgang, Austria.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Wolfgang_im_Salzkammergut  He was a reservist in the 25th Infantry Regiment, 6 Company. 

Anton died on April 7, 1916, during a storm assault at Haucourt.  (Northern France.)  He was 22 years old. 

An actual picture of Anton has been trimmed and glued to the top of the card.
 

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Mr. Cresswell is a lucky man, of a sort.

I imagine he'd be nervous watching his wife perform in front of a live audience.

Still, his wife seems to display a talent for a lost Art...

[gabrielle]

Things heat up for Sir Sam Hughes.....seems he "signed" a contract via quantum entanglement.

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Anton Huber was a butler's son from St. Wolfgang, Austria.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Wolfgang_im_Salzkammergut  He was a reservist in the 25th Infantry Regiment, 6 Company. 

Anton died on April 7, 1916, during a storm assault at Haucourt.  (Northern France.)  He was 22 years old. 

An actual picture of Anton has been trimmed and glued to the top of the card.

I wonder why he was with the German army; I would have thought he'd be on the other front.

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Mr. Cresswell is a lucky man, of a sort.

I imagine he'd be nervous watching his wife perform in front of a live audience.

Still, his wife seems to display a talent for a lost Art...

Ha ha ha.

Yeah, you never hear people whistling anymore.  From older books and movies it seems to have been common back then.

This is a cool version without a date, but sounds at least mid-'20s to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1qd2jzU_c

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The Chicago Day Book, April 7, 1916.

Funny story.  I don't know that song but it's in all the old songbooks from that era that my dad's collected from junk stores so it must have been pretty popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJeidEMdXA

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I wonder why he was with the German army; I would have thought he'd be on the other front.

I'm thinking he worked out some type of deal...like that other Austrian, Adolf Hitler.

[gabrielle]

I'm thinking he worked out some type of deal...like that other Austrian, Adolf Hitler.

[gabrielle]

Efforts are still being made, meanwhile, to confirm that the Sussex was in fact hit by a German torpedo.  On this day in 1916, it seems that the U.S. received confirmation of this fact.

[Rix Gins]

Efforts are still being made, meanwhile, to confirm that the Sussex was in fact hit by a German torpedo.  On this day in 1916, it seems that the U.S. received confirmation of this fact.

Thanks for the latest on the Sussex, Gabrielle.  I almost looked up which U-Boat was responsible for the sinking, but then I thought to myself, "What am I doing?"  It's way more fun to find this stuff out "real time" (Haha, real time as in a hundred years ago, that is) rather than looking ahead to see how something or other turned out.  Case in point, K's murder case regarding the two sisters.  By the way, I'm kind of hoping something turns up...he usually posts some clippings around about this time.      

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In 1916 the Hackett Motor Car Company was building automobiles in Jackson, Michigan.   The company was founded by Mansell Hackett of England.  Hackett would by auto companies that were on the ropes and sell off their assets. He finally decided to have a go of it himself and founded the Hackett Motor Company using the Argo Motor Company as a base.   The company was not a success by any stretch of the imagination as it would in total produceabout 120 cars.

What is fascinating is the Chief Engineer of the Hackett Motor Company.  His name was Fred Guy and he worked with Otto Heinz in developing a valveless engine that used  rotating, gear driven discs.  The Guy engine eventually went into a very limited production run.    This was almost 40 years before Felix Wankel would develop his famous rotary  engine.

I've learned that Hackett shared factory space with the American Gear Company in Jackson but I haven't found an address yet to see what is currently there.   I also have not found any photos of Hackett, Guy or Heinz.





Hackett Factory in Jackson Mich

[Walks_At_Night]

Another example of old fashioned justice.

Officer William Hayes of the Lawton Police Department in  Oklahoma died on April 8th, 1916.

Officer Hayes succumbed to a gunshot wound received the previous day while attempting to make an arrest. The suspect was taken into custody and put in jail, but after Officer Hayes died of the wounds an angry mob of citizens took control of him and hung him

Looks like a researcher may found Officer Hayes' grave almost 100 years later:
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/oklahoma_news/grave-of-former-lawton-officer-possibly-located/article_70c3ece1-06bc-55ed-8176-564a67424562.html

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So with Hackett Motors in the can we have two way cool car companies coming up next.

Hint - they both are still in the H's.   :

[Rix Gins]

Ooops!  Time to play catch up again, this  time regarding Max Immelmann.  The German pilot had his twelfth victory on March 29th, 1916 at eleven o'clock in the morning. 

A report was received at Douai airfield (Immelmann's home base) that some FEs from squadron 23 were headed that way for reconnaissance purposes.  (It was found out later on that the planes were actually headed to Douai itself to check (spy?) on it.)  Immelmann and two other pilots took off and after they gained some altitude, the enemy planes soon came into sight.  Immelmann counted five aircraft and from his higher vantage point, saw that the first two were using cameras and that the three behind were escorts.  Max almost went for one of the camera planes but found that he was in a better position to go for one of the escorts.  He shot round after round at his chosen target and it eventually went down just this side of being a controlled flight.  It was actually able to land in German territory and the pilot, Second Lieutenant Frank George Pinder (Canadian Expeditionary Force and 23 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) and his observer, Edward Athelstan Halford (2nd Wiltshire Regiment and 23 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) were captured. 

After his flight, Immelmann got a car and drove out to where the damaged plane had landed but his two opponents had been taken away.  He did find out that pilot Pinder's arms had been badly injured.  (This is why the plane's descent was so ramshackle.)  The observer had walked away from the plane unharmed.       

The downed aircraft was removed to Berlin where it was put on exhibit. The FE2b was in fairly good shape, though both tires had been shot off.

           
                            An FE2b.  (Photo from Wikimedia)

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I'm sorry, I've been out all day.  Here's the follow-up from the Seattle Star today:







I love the last paragraph!

The address of the murder has changed since yesterday.  It's now a Firestone:



The watcher's room is kitty-corner from that location -- I think it's a rug store:

[K_Dubb]

Ooops!  Time to play catch up again, this  time regarding Max Immelmann.  The German pilot had his twelfth victory on March 29th, 1916 at eleven o'clock in the morning. 

A report was received at Douai airfield (Immelmann's home base) that some FEs from squadron 23 were headed that way for reconnaissance purposes.  (It was found out later on that the planes were actually headed to Douai itself to check (spy?) on it.)  Immelmann and two other pilots took off and after they gained some altitude, the enemy planes soon came into sight.  Immelmann counted five aircraft and from his higher vantage point, saw that the first two were using cameras and that the three behind were escorts.  Max almost went for one of the camera planes but found that he was in a better position to go for one of the escorts.  He shot round after round at his chosen target and it eventually went down just this side of being a controlled flight.  It was actually able to land in German territory and the pilot, Second Lieutenant Frank George Pinder (Canadian Expeditionary Force and 23 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) and his observer, Edward Athelstan Halford (2nd Wiltshire Regiment and 23 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) were captured. 

After his flight, Immelmann got a car and drove out to where the damaged plane had landed but his two opponents had been taken away.  He did find out that pilot Pinder's arms had been badly injured.  (This is why the plane's descent was so ramshackle.)  The observer had walked away from the plane unharmed.       

The downed aircraft was removed to Berlin where it was put on exhibit. The FE2b was in fairly good shape, though both tires had been shot off.

           
                            An FE2b.  (Photo from Wikimedia)

Nice account!  I read somewhere that those pusher planes were an effort to give the gunner in the nose a clear field of fire.  Some of them had a rear-facing machine gun shooting high over the wing that required the gunner to stand up facing the tail.  Brave, crazy men!

[Rix Gins]

Re: The murder mystery.  Haha, those elderly ladies have taken the art of rubbernecking to a whole new level! The three strange acting men must have given that landlady the creeps, and she was left thinking they were going to rob the houses.  And the nephew!  I laughed when the detectives believed his story was true because, after three hours of interrogation, "He stuck to his story."  And yet, in the same article, one of the the experts said that it could be an inside job...that it was someone that the victims knew and that they would have to be done away with otherwise they could easily identify him/her?  Where was the nephew's wife while these murders were being done?  (My question...not in the article.) 

Have you got anything to add to this Charlie? 

"Canary bird out of cage may fly far."

[K_Dubb]

Re: The murder mystery.  Haha, those elderly ladies have taken the art of rubbernecking to a whole new level! The three strange acting men must have given that landlady the creeps, and she was left thinking they were going to rob the houses.  And the nephew!  I laughed when the detectives believed his story was true because, after three hours of interrogation, "He stuck to his story."  And yet, in the same article, one of the the experts said that it could be an inside job...that it was someone that the victims knew and that they would have to be done away with otherwise they could easily identify him/her?  Where was the nephew's wife while these murders were being done?  (My question...not in the article.) 

Have you got anything to add to this Charlie? 

"Canary bird out of cage may fly far."

Haha we're still only 15 minutes into the movie; Chan's still being opaque.

The assurance that the nephew hasn't been arrested suggests to me that many people were asking the same questions back then.  You guys are in good company!

One more from today's star, just because this particular music from 1916 is still being played outside my window right now:

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, April 8, 1916.

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The Day Book, April 8, 1916.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 8, 1916.  (Hopefully the writer of the Right Cafe 'poem' didn't quite his/her day job.)

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 8, 1916.  (Hopefully the writer of the Right Cafe 'poem' didn't quite his/her day job.)

So someone was disturbed by gunshots in Pahrump a hundred years ago, too!  Some funny stuff there.  That poem is truly awful but the passage of years has managed to make it at least quaint.  I hope forty cents was a decent dinner.

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From the Seattle Star today:

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More stuff from the Star today:












Walter Damrosch:



Percy Grainger was an eccentric Australian-born composer best known for collecting and arranging folk songs and for wearing elaborate costumes he designed himself made of terry cloth.  He served as a bandsman in the US Army during the war.  These are two of my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz3f6UmzBEk

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Our update on the war.....from the New York Times.

[gabrielle]

In the battle of St. Eloi, the Canadian troops fought from muddy craters that had been created when British forces had blown up several underground mines.  This is a picture of one of those craters.  It must have been horrific.

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In the battle of St. Eloi, the Canadian troops fought from muddy craters that had been created when British forces had blown up several underground mines.  This is a picture of one of those craters.  It must have been horrific.

I wish I could remember the documentary I watched that showed footage of these detonations.  It was spectacular.

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The cover of today's Le Rire comments on gender roles:



The caption is something like "the first impulses of culture".

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The cover of today's Le Rire comments on gender roles:



The caption is something like "the first impulses of culture."

Oh MY!!!!

[gabrielle]

I wish I could remember the documentary I watched that showed footage of these detonations.  It was spectacular.

Yes, the whole battle sounds like quite the cluster......mess.  The poor Canadian troops very often didn't even know where they were or where the enemy was.  War sucks.