One Hundred Years Ago

[K_Dubb]

Yes, I noticed Mrs B's plight too.  Kind of horrifying to think but the paper didn't state if the husband was hauled off to jail.  Kind of like she had it coming?  The police were mentioned in the piece though, so here's hoping.

That is a very long hand grenade.  Not sure I've seen that type before.  I do know that the Germans had a grenade that was globular in shape with the required handle for throwing.  The British, in a somewhat macabre manner, labeled them as being 'Toffee Apples'.

Oh goodness, I didin't think of that, but you're right!  What an awful thought.

Ha nice name for a wicked thing.  Typical wartime humor I guess.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, August 22, 1916.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, August 22, 1916.

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The East Oregonian, August 22, 1916.

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The Evening Star, August 22, 1916.

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The Chicago Day Book, August 22, 1916.

Ha.  My natural inclination is to praise the policemen for their thoughtful response in the singing item and excoriate the sorry reporting party for a lemon-sucking killjoy, but a caterwauling tone-deaf neighbor with a questionable repertory has me reappraising my position.

Also wondering what circumstances found a drunken prizefighter stumbling through a second-hand store after hours.  Maybe he thought he was home and forced the door.

[Rix Gins]

Ha.  My natural inclination is to praise the policemen for their thoughtful response in the singing item and excoriate the sorry reporting party for a lemon-sucking killjoy, but a caterwauling tone-deaf neighbor with a questionable repertory has me reappraising my position.

Also wondering what circumstances found a drunken prizefighter stumbling through a second-hand store after hours.  Maybe he thought he was home and forced the door.

I guess I would be cool with Edna and her three companions filling the air with song, as long as it was tasteful and done during the day.  But late at night, when I'm trying to sleep?  No way.  I'd have to go tell the foursome to take their act to the stage...there's one leaving in ten minutes.  Haha

[K_Dubb]

I guess I would be cool with Edna and her three companions filling the air with song, as long as it was tasteful and done during the day.  But late at night, when I'm trying to sleep?  No way.  I'd have to go tell the foursome to take their act to the stage...there's one leaving in ten minutes.  Haha

Hahaha nice.  You bring up an interesting point, though:  so used to thinking of a stage as a horse-drawn affair, but the term continued to be used for what we'd call buses serving the same function well through this period.  Here is one near me circa 1912:



and in the late '30s at what was still called the stage stop on the Bothell-Everett highway:

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Hahaha nice.  You bring up an interesting point, though:  so used to thinking of a stage as a horse-drawn affair, but the term continued to be used for what we'd call buses serving the same function well through this period.  Here is one near me circa 1912:



and in the late '30s at what was still called the stage stop on the Bothell-Everett highway:

Neat pics, K.  I'd like to ride around in both of them.

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Everett True, August 23, 1916.

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The Chicago Day Book, August 23, 1916.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, August 23, 1916.

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The Bismarck Daily Tribune, August 23, 1916.

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The Bemidji Daily Pioneer, August 23, 1916.

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The South Bend News Times, August 23, 1916.

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The Evening Star, August 23, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

Pretty funny cartoons, Rix.  The guy's head rising in the sun is a little freaky, though.

I've read that the whole white-slavery thing was hugely sensationalized by the newspapers back then, but don't know enough to tell either way.  Funny that they're sold by the pound, though; these days it'd be inversely proportional I think.

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Pretty funny cartoons, Rix.  The guy's head rising in the sun is a little freaky, though.

I've read that the whole white-slavery thing was hugely sensationalized by the newspapers back then, but don't know enough to tell either way.  Funny that they're sold by the pound, though; these days it'd be inversely proportional I think.

Yeah, that head coming up over the mountain is Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., the dude who went up against Wilson in the 1916 Presidential Race.  I haven't been posting much on the guy, guess because I already know who wins, haha.  One thing though, the election was a close one.  Here is some info on Hughes:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes  Quite a fellow, actually.

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Everett True, August 24, 1916.

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The Chicago Day Book, August 24, 1916.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, August 24, 1916.

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The Evening Star, August 24, 1916.

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The Chicago Day Book, August 23, 1916.

Oh, by the way, K.  I'd love to get your thoughts on that exploding beer bottle death.  Any idea on what would have caused the bottle to explode?

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Everett True, August 25, 1916.

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The Chicago Day Book, August 25, 1916.  (John Borden died in 1961.)

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, August 25, 1916.

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The Sun, August 25, 1916.

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The Aberdeen Herald, August 25, 1916.

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The Evening Star, August 25, 1916.

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Alois Wimmer was a Mercenary's son with the 12th Reserve Infantry Regiment, Machine Gun Company.  He died on August 25, 1916, in the fighting near Maurepas on the Somme. He was 24 years old. 

Alois has the dubious distinction of having died in one of the costliest campaigns to both sides during the entire war.