One Hundred Years Ago

[K_Dubb]

The Seattle Star, October 27, 1916.

I love the way the identification of the assailant as the man's wife is saved for later!  Those guys understood drama.  Great story. The cartoon is wonderfully apropos.

[Rix Gins]

I love the way the identification of the assailant as the man's wife is saved for later!  Those guys understood drama.  Great story. The cartoon is wonderfully apropos.

Good point.  Yes, at first I thought the assailant was an escaped convict or something.  The poor wife had to use her slipper as an assault weapon, now that's pretty pitiful.  She should have put the rock inside of it, but hindsight...)  Hope she got off with just a fine.  I noticed the husband's lover had her slippers/shoes off while they necked.  Would that have been considered scandalous for those times? 

There seems to be lots of marital strife back then as is evident in the Chicago bits and the cartoons.  Perhaps things haven't changed all that much in that regard.

[K_Dubb]

Good point.  Yes, at first I thought the assailant was an escaped convict or something.  The poor wife had to use her slipper as an assault weapon, now that's pretty pitiful.  She should have put the rock inside of it, but hindsight...)  Hope she got off with just a fine.  I noticed the husband's lover had her slippers/shoes off while they necked.  Would that have been considered scandalous for those times? 

There seems to be lots of marital strife back then as is evident in the Chicago bits and the cartoons.  Perhaps things haven't changed all that much in that regard.

Ha, the rock in the slipper.  I never took you for a street-fighter, but now all those boxing articles make sense.

Hard to tell -- I thought we were well past the days where a glimpse of ankle was exciting.  I read the final line as a further dramatic revelation:  the woman was attacked with her own slippers.

[albrecht]

Good point.  Yes, at first I thought the assailant was an escaped convict or something.  The poor wife had to use her slipper as an assault weapon, now that's pretty pitiful.  She should have put the rock inside of it, but hindsight...)  Hope she got off with just a fine.  I noticed the husband's lover had her slippers/shoes off while they necked.  Would that have been considered scandalous for those times? 

There seems to be lots of marital strife back then as is evident in the Chicago bits and the cartoons.  Perhaps things haven't changed all that much in that regard.

I wish our newspaper reporters wrote so well and funny and clever. From the articles it would appear not much as changed in Chicago. But I wish I was there to party the other night when they cinched the NL pennant or when they win the WS.

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Rudyard Kipling

[Rix Gins]

I wish our newspaper reporters wrote so well and funny and clever. From the articles it would appear not much as changed in Chicago. But I wish I was there to party the other night when they cinched the NL pennant or when they win the WS.

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Rudyard Kipling

Haha  Great quote there, albrecht!

[Rix Gins]

Ha, the rock in the slipper.  I never took you for a street-fighter, but now all those boxing articles make sense.

Hard to tell -- I thought we were well past the days where a glimpse of ankle was exciting.  I read the final line as a further dramatic revelation:  the woman was attacked with her own slippers.

Good observation there, K.

[albrecht]

Haha  Great quote there, albrecht!

And said by a guy who born and lived in exotic places like India and Africa, had a sadistic nanny in England, and went to a military boys school with the hazing and discipline practiced there but, for him, Chicago was "savages!" Hilarious.

[Rix Gins]

A video about the German uniform.  (Adolf Hitler shown in a photo, bottom row to the left, at the 5:38 mark, though not mentioned.)  A nice, unrelated sentiment is expressed near the end of this video.

https://youtu.be/GMxwfijE_qo

[Rix Gins]

The South Bend News-Times, October 28, 1916.

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The Seattle Star, October 28, 1916.

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One hundred years ago today marks the final time that the great German pilot Oswald Boelcke took to the air along with five of his best pilots.  Manfred Von Richthofen and Erwin Böhme were among the group of pilots.  After awhile, the Germans came across a group of enemy DHII's and a dog fight ensued. 

Both Boelcke and Böhme went after the same target but right at that moment, Richthofen, who was chasing another DHII, flew across their line of sight.  Boelcke lurched his plane to the side in a successful move to avoid hitting Richthofen but by doing so, he came into contact with Böhme's landing gear, causing the fabric on one of Boelcke's wings to rip away and this in turn caused the entire wing to fall off.  There had been hope that Boelcke could survive the wreck but by the time the other pilots had returned to base they were greeted with the news that Boelcke was dead. 

Oswald Boelcke had been a beloved mentor and commander of Jasta 2.  He was admired by all of his hand picked pilots and he was a good friend to all of them.  Böhme was so depressed about his involvement in Boelcke's death that he had to be talked out of committing suicide.  (Böhme would be killed in combat himself exactly one year, one month, one week and one day later.)

Boelcke was a magnificent tactician and he had developed a set of rules to follow while engaging enemy aircraft in combat.  He taught all of his pilots these rules and some of them are still being taught to present day combat pilots.

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


        Oswald Boelcke (Wikimedia)

   

[Rix Gins]

https://youtu.be/yFgSTyEpwlA

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The Evening Star, October 29, 1916.

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https://youtu.be/dE5GRq0lPE0

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The Chicago Day Book, October 30, 1916.

Andrew Feldtz, Railroad Y. M. C.A., killed by train.

Jasper Unga, 2317 Wentworth av., killed by train.

Jos. Stafney, motorman, North Shore Electric, crushed to death while coupling cars.

Victor Anderson, 7935 Coles av., killed by crane while unloading boat at Illinois Steel Co.

Dwight Watson, who drove steam roller over Robt Glenish in Lake Brest, freed by coroner's jury.

Men's shoes, size 12, found at Dempster st and Sherman av.

John McCormack, Irish tenor, ill.  Disappointed crowded house at Auditorium theater.

Mrs. Josephine Dunkelberg, 3953 S. Michigan av., who disappeared Wednesday, returned home in dazed condition.  Gossips drove her away.

Dr. A. L. Blunt, 9 W. Harrison, arrested on charge of performing abortion on Katie Schwartz.

Eighteen autos stolen yesterday.

Victor Carlstrom, who was to start on aeroplane flight from Chicago to New York today, postponed trip because of unfavorable weather conditions. 

Mask ball of artists, singers, bohemians and malthusians who hang out at Dill Pickle, Oct 31, East End Hall, corner of Clark and Erie. "To get in, four bits; to get out, questionable," according to Jack Jones, manager.

[Rix Gins]

The South Bend News - Times, October 30, 1916.

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The East Oregonian, October 30, 1916.

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The Seattle Star, October 30, 1916.

SAN RAFAEL. Cal.â€"lf a man hits his mother In law, Is he cruel to his wife?  This is the question put up to Superior Judge Zook for decision by Mrs. Clara Conley, who is seeking a divorce.

SAN FRANCISCO.â€"Robert Rhea sued the Western Auto Electric Co. for damages when he barked his shins on a desk in the company's office, and It threw him into a fit of apoplexy.

CINCINNATI.â€"Chickens, 700 of them, have been provided for the dinner to be given here today for President Wilson.   Not chickens of the Broadway type, but fried Southern style.

ALLIANCE, Oâ€"Machie Bruaco promised visit from the stork on the payment of a generous sum.  Several "would-be dads" paid, but no stork.  Now the police are investigating. 

CLEVELAND.â€"This city has been terrified by an empty revolver.  Three boys, alleged automobile bandits, under arrest, said they never loaded their revolvers because "they might go off."

PHILADELPHIAâ€"An undelivered clay letter, written by a master to his servant 2,200 years before Christ, has just been opened and read by a Babylonia expert at Pennsylvania university.  Some mail service!

[Rix Gins]

Leon Day, American baseball player, was born on October 30, 1916.  (Wikimedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Day


Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, died on October 30, 1916.  (Wikimedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_G._Pratt

[Rix Gins]

Indy takes questions about the Great War.

https://youtu.be/P0ZVazB0bIg?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT

[Rix Gins]

Unidentified group of people in Halloween costumes, October 31, 1916. Photographed for Mrs. Reiser. New-York Historical Society Library
http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Untitled.jpg

''Elves & Fairies'' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. 1st edition, Lothian, 1916  (Wikimedia)


Some creepy clown from 1916.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_QPogE7y0M/T9jFn7wbX2I/AAAAAAAAFa8/TS-Myu_J_ZU/s1600/1916_clowns.jpg

[Rix Gins]

The Evening Star, October 31, 1916.

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The Denison Review, November 1, 1916.

[akwilly]

The Denison Review, November 1, 1916.

what the hell was the pig bringing to him lol

[Rix Gins]

what the hell was the pig bringing to him lol

I was wondering that myself.  Bacon perhaps?  Or sausage patties?  lol

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, November 2, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, November 2, 1916.

Mrs. Marion Quinn, 3010 Lake Park avenue, asked "warrant" for Steve Mulchewski, express man.  Knocked off gas jet; then "sassed" her, she says.

Allen Garrett, negro, freed.  Because he wore woman' s clothes Halloween.  Pinched, when he took a
smoke on street.

Mrs. Pauline Harz in suit for divorce says she was drugged and lured into wedding with Wm. P. Harz.

Patrolman John Dillon shot in foot when gun fell from pocket as he ran for train.

Dr. Wm. Hickson, psychopathic laboratory, says Jerry Sucharda, confessed killer of pal, is moron with
dementia praecox. 

Oliver Smith, 13, 134 S. 17th av., Maywood, ran off with father's auto.  Didn't like his new teacher at school.

Morris Babb, vaudeville performer, arrested for remarriage within year of divorce. Case to test law.

Wife of Albert Michnevitz, 2012  State, to get $6 a week. Told court hubby loved goldfish more than her.

Ben Hogan, 87, who ran "Hogan's Flop," 22 Meridian, dead. Was a prizefighter of note when young.

"J. P. Morgan," who claims to be son of banker although he has only a nickel, arrested at Chicago av.
station.

Harry Sachs, 1153 S. State, shot in head. May die. Police baffled in mystery.

Mrs. Jessie Day, store owner at 38 S. Hoyne av., didn't understand bandits when they demanded cash. Called son; robbers fled.

Yonkers. Mose Lester, who married the three Hunter girls, is dead at 75. He married Sophie in 1865. She
died and he married Margaret.  She died and he married Harriet.

Doctors hope to cure Dr. Emit Bunta, insanity expert at Psychopathic hospital, who lost mind after
marriage.


CARLSTROM LANDS AFTER FLYING 450 MILES

Erie, Pa., Nov. 2. Victor Carlstrom was forced to land here at 11:25 on his flight from Chicago to New York on account of a leaky gasoline tank. He has given up hope of reaching New York by night.   Carlstrom's actual flying time was four hours and 16 minutes from Chicago, covering the distance of approximately 450 miles in average time of 108 miles an hour.  Despite the fact that he descended, he established new American nonstop record, the previous best being his own flight of 416 miles from Newport News to New York.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, November 2, 1916.

AMERICAN BIRDMAN KILLED - BALTIMORE, Nov. 2.

Anthony Jannus of Baltimore, an American aviator, was killed in the Russian aero service on October 12, according to a dispatch.


Tony Jannus piloting the Benoist flying boat  (Wikimedia)

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

[Rix Gins]

The South Bend News - Times, November 2, 1916.

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Manfred Von Richthofen scored his seventh victory, one hundred years ago today.  He and two other German pilots came across some low flying, British aircraft.  Richthofen fired 400 shots down at one of the planes, and it crashed to the ground with no survivors. 

Sergeant Cuthbert Godfrey Baldwin was the unfortunate pilot of the plane and Second Lieutenant George Andrew Bentham was his observer.  They were in a FE2b and there was heavy fighting going on where they crashed, so neither of the men's bodies were found.  They are both listed on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, in France.  Richthofen made note of the activity in his combat report.  "As the place where the plane fell is under heavy fire, no details can be ascertained yet."  (He did manage too obtain the downed aircraft's serial number, though.)


    F.E.2b with "V" type undercarriage (Wikimedia)


Arras Memorial forming one side of the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery (Wikimedia)