One Hundred Years Ago

[Walks_At_Night]

This seems appropriate since we all seem to sit back and watch from the comfort of 1916 and only occasionally join the fracas.  I couldn't find a picture of the back, sadly.

How cool is that?   I suspect there is a little error on the sign - it is highly probable that it should be Windsor, Ontario which is right across the river from Detroit.   There is a Windsor Township Michigan, but I don't think they ever made anything there but corn and soybeans.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Hoagy Carmichael at the Stork Club.  (Ashtray, lol)

Hoagy is the man!  And those giant ashtrays were actually props cleverly designed to promote the Stork Club whenever celebrities were photographed.  Sherman Billingsley was one savvy businessman!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Hoagie at the Stork Club.



He must've dropped Cronkite's name to get in.

     

[Rix Gins]

Hoagie at the Stork Club.



He must've dropped Cronkite's name to get in.

Of course Groucho is sitting at the other end of the table.  He's just told Richard, "Sure I'd like to join your club, so that I can take it and hit you over the head with it!"

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, April 15, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

Chicago's Day Book for April 15, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza for April 15, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza for April 15, 1916.

Oh my God!  Poor Happy and family!  Mr. Bowler sounds like he deserves a biography -- a real cowboy lawyer.

This Butler Building photo is from a panorama showing a mule train heading down the main street.  It's probably very early so I'm not sure it's the same one mentioned.  Several references indicate the Masons met on the upper floor until their temple was built, and that it had residences as well.  You can see signs for law offices.



The story of the poor nurse is horrible.  These days that'd just be a crazy night out.  Regrets, maybe, but not poison.

[WhiteCrow]

100 years ago today ..from the The Milwaukee Journal

A likely story?

[WhiteCrow]

100 years ago today ..from the The Milwaukee Journal

A likely story?

A search from his local Janesville Wisconsin newspaper revealed more information. Many  OCR transcription issues but still readable..


ENDS HIS OWN LIFE IN DESPONDENT FIT George W. Jones of Myrtle Street Shodts Himself In a Moment of Temporary insanity. During a moment or mental derangement, George W. Jones, aged fifty-seven years, committed suicide by firing a bullet into his head at his home. 6.6 Myrtle street, Thursday afternoon between four and five o'clock A mortal wound was Inflicted above the right ear. ' and death musa have been insfanianpmio ' ' health, a long confining illness lowing hi? oainaaiiF business, relative.-, any, caused the man lo end baa 1 fo. noon and upon entering the home, found it filled with smoke. On nor. -iitareon she found her husband '.vjng in Bed with the bed clothing afire. "She put out the (lames which threatened to consumB the bed and then notifii d the authorities. Chief of Police P. D. Champion and Officer William E Gower responded to the call. short bull-dog re The chambers o the gun contained nve snens, two ot wfiicli ivere exploded. Lt is evident tbat when Mr. Jones decided upon his Belf-eitecutlon he sat upright in bed and In going through the ordeal, fired one shot which went througn the bed, setting fire to the sheets. He then placed the gun to his head and pulled the trigger with the fatal results. The bullet lodged in the train. The revolver is a new one, of a cheap make, and may have been purchased quite recently, hut police investlgs Ion this morning failed to find any store in this city wjiKie-Hnen a i(uii nan Deen nougct and despondent for some time. He was employed for many years by the Fjfleld Lumber company, and during tne late years lie contracting business for himself. He leaves mourn ms deatn a wire and two sons Richard of Schenectadv, New York, and Byron of Beloit, His aged mother and father reside in Rlpon. He was a member of the No. 90 1. 0. O. P. lodce. the Mvstic Workers Hnri also the, Modern Woodmen. The funeral services will be held at the home Sunday afternoon a.t three o'clock and interment, will- be made at Ripon, Wisconsin, on Monday.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Oh my God!  Poor Happy and family!  Mr. Bowler sounds like he deserves a biography -- a real cowboy lawyer.

Definitely not a happy day for the Bowlers!  He does sound like he was a colorful and formidable character and a dedicated defense attorney.  "I hate that fellow, but he has good qualities and I would travel a hundred miles to defend him for nothing" is a great line!

[K_Dubb]

From the Seattle Star today:





















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ddcci1AGlo

[K_Dubb]

A photo taken a hundred years ago today showing a French general distributing decorations.  Is that a widow in mourning?



Also, Gabrielle mentioned carrier pigeons in her post about the Canadians fighting in the craters; presumably this is the sort of mobile coop to which they returned with their messages:

[K_Dubb]

A couple of cool exhibits from Le Musée de la Grande Guerre du pays de Meaux, which opened in 2011.  Looks like a great place:



German cigarettes, pipes and tobacco:


Germans always seemed to prefer these huge, complicate pipes.  I wish the photographer had captured the other side of the case, which looks like homemade pipes with horn stems.  I'm guessing they're French, but who knows?

From here: http://wwwjanetrobbinsaudio.blogspot.com/2014/04/la-grande-guerre.html

[albrecht]

From the Seattle Star today:

What a horrible crime and what a weird reaction from the sheriff's office, deputy "too busy" to investigate a woman's head that was found?! Though I'm not surprised at unsolved murders, unless they are domestic or witnessed (in a bar room say,) which most are, a stranger murdering someone must have been hard to catch back then. Bad communication between departments, no real id cards, no DNA and limited forensics, mobile population with lots of itinerant jobs and people leaving to go logging, mining, or onto ships, etc.

[K_Dubb]

What a horrible crime and what a weird reaction from the sheriff's office, deputy "too busy" to investigate a woman's head that was found?! Though I'm not surprised at unsolved murders, unless they are domestic or witnessed (in a bar room say,) which most are, a stranger murdering someone must have been hard to catch back then. Bad communication between departments, no real id cards, no DNA and limited forensics, mobile population with lots of itinerant jobs and people leaving to go logging, mining, or onto ships, etc.

Yeah haha the local population thought so, too.  Never heard of citizens investigating on their own like that before.

It makes me wonder if this is an early version of the official disinterest in murders of women with few community connections, like the Canadian murders of Native women that Juan Cena keeps bringing up.  Perhaps the official assumption is that they're prostitutes or drug-abusing runaways with few people to mourn them, so they're a low priority.

[Rix Gins]

A photo taken a hundred years ago today showing a French general distributing decorations.  Is that a widow in mourning?



Also, Gabrielle mentioned carrier pigeons in her post about the Canadians fighting in the craters; presumably this is the sort of mobile coop to which they returned with their messages:

That could just be head honcho Pétain doing the decorations.  Though I can't quite discern his telltale walrus mustache.  I think you are right, probably a mother in mourning standing there, waiting for a posthumous medal of some sort. 

[albrecht]

Yeah haha the local population thought so, too.  Never heard of citizens investigating on their own like that before.

It makes me wonder if this is an early version of the official disinterest in murders of women with few community connections, like the Canadian murders of Native women that Juan Cena keeps bringing up.  Perhaps the official assumption is that they're prostitutes or drug-abusing runaways with few people to mourn them, so they're a low priority.

Could be, like all the murders of women in Mexico over the past decade. But the description of her and the fact that the locals were concerned about the delay of police investigation I don't think, in this case, it was. It could've really been the sheriff's office was over-worked and under-staffed and the thinking was "she's been there a while what difference another few days make?" When I got a case here that I can likely solve now.

I think "in the old days," especially in rural areas the people got more involved in solving crime or catching the criminals, not just the infamous "sheriff posses" but also in things like Citizens Inquests, Grand Jury investigations, citizen's arrests, bounty-hunters, etc.

[Rix Gins]

What a horrible crime and what a weird reaction from the sheriff's office, deputy "too busy" to investigate a woman's head that was found?! Though I'm not surprised at unsolved murders, unless they are domestic or witnessed (in a bar room say,) which most are, a stranger murdering someone must have been hard to catch back then. Bad communication between departments, no real id cards, no DNA and limited forensics, mobile population with lots of itinerant jobs and people leaving to go logging, mining, or onto ships, etc.

The person who re-caps these old murder mysteries is a superlative writer. The early, ghost like descriptions of the flaxen haired girl.  Robert in the rowboat's testimony and how he didn't want to be an eavesdropper. And the anonymous 'Deputy Fife' who was indignant over the citizens getting a jump on his case.  I loved the 'canoe drifting into the setting sun' sentiment.

Now, without practically anything to go on, my gut instinct tells me that the lovely, flaxen haired lass arrived in the USA a number of years before her lover, who was still in jail, back in Sweden.  She, of course, was forced to survive by marrying Mr. Morris.  It was an amiable marriage but devoid of love, and this eventually led to its demise.  In the mean time, she anxiously awaited her true love who did eventually show up on the shore line, drunk as a skunk.  She innocently filled him in on her previouse marriage and the boyfriend didn't take it so well.  He killed her in a rit of fealous jage (thank you, Pink Panther) fit of jealous rage and sailed back to Sweden.  Case closed.  So what do you think of my prognosis, Charlie?

"Hasty conclusion like gunpowder - easy to explode."

[K_Dubb]

The person who re-caps these old murder mysteries is a superlative writer...

I was thinking the same thing!  It's the same sort of dramatic sense that made the murder of the two old sisters compelling.  Something tells me the Star realized they had a talent on their hands with that story and decided to turn him loose.

Your scenario is a classic one, though the location suggests their separation was due to the man working in the mountains, lumbering or mining or something.

[K_Dubb]

This happened a hundred years ago today in LA:



http://insideevs.com/april-15-1916-beardsley-electric-tour-in-los-angeles-100-years-ago-today/

Some survivors:


A 1916 model


A 1913 model with a cool paint job

The electric cars made it to Long Beach and back, over 70 miles.

[Rix Gins]

This happened a hundred years ago today in LA:



http://insideevs.com/april-15-1916-beardsley-electric-tour-in-los-angeles-100-years-ago-today/

Some survivors:


A 1916 model


A 1913 model with a cool paint job

The electric cars made it to Long Beach and back, over 70 miles.

These electric cars are so cool.  I especially like the sets of upper and lower lights.

[gabrielle]

An update on the situation at St. Eloi.....

[gabrielle]

And on a different note, I must say I agree with the content of this clip from the Boston Post.

[K_Dubb]

Not Norman Rockwell, who was a generation later, but J. C. Leyendecker.

[K_Dubb]

An update on the situation at St. Eloi.....

Ha, why to the the Germans always sound so...  German, even in English?

Beautiful thoughts on the stars.  I will look up for a bit when I take the dog out.

[gabrielle]

Ha, why to the the Germans always sound so...  German, even in English?

Beautiful thoughts on the stars.  I will look up for a bit when I take the dog out.

I will look to the sky tonight also.  I find myself drawn more and more to the stars these days.

[albrecht]

And on a different note, I must say I agree with the content of this clip from the Boston Post.

I agree, my old neighborhood had no street lights (unincorporated and not in city limits) and it was so much better than this place. Even in the outlying suburbs you could see the stars easily on cloudless nights. I support the fight against "light pollution" of trying to get people to point any lights downwards, less street lighting, etc. Even though, arguably, there is a safety issue involved, especially for females. But I also support concealed carry so maybe it could cancel each other out? Haha. But yes, going to the desert, large lake, or ocean is amazing to look up.

[Rix Gins]

I will look to the sky tonight also.  I find myself drawn more and more to the stars these days.

I love watching the sky, and especially the International Space Station when it sails by overhead.  NASA will notify you free of charge when the station will next be in your area.  Just fill out a couple things here, https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ and they will send you an e-mail as to the time it will appear and in which direction it can be seen.  If you have never seen the space station then you are in for a real treat.  It is way far brighter than any satellite out there.  Here is what the e-mailed message looks like: Time: Wed Apr 13 9:42 PM, Visible: 1 min, Max Height: 76°, Appears: 28° above NW, Disappears: 76° above NW   I received it for last Wednesday night but it was too cloudy here to see anything. lol   

[albrecht]

I love watching the sky, and especially the International Space Station when it sails by overhead.  NASA will notify you free of charge when the station will next be in your area.  Just fill out a couple things here, https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ and they will send you an e-mail as to the time it will appear and in which direction it can be seen.  If you have never seen the space station then you are in for a real treat.  It is way far brighter than any satellite out there.  Here is what the e-mailed message looks like: Time: Wed Apr 13 9:42 PM, Visible: 1 min, Max Height: 76°, Appears: 28° above NW, Disappears: 76° above NW   I received it for last Wednesday night but it was too cloudy here to see anything. lol

There is an app, at least for Androids but I imagine for Apple also, that alerts you and shows there ISS is overhead. Pretty cool. Also lots of apps where you can point your phone to the sky and identify/map constellations, planets, etc (and also feature red back-light so you don't ruin your night-vision.)