One Hundred Years Ago

[21st Century Man]

Actually Richard is an astonishing 110 years old, so there is definitely something to his daily smoke and drink routine.  I noticed some nice comments under that bottom link, of nurses, etc. who want to volunteer some of their time to help the hero out.

Wow.  Cool story.  Still mowing his lawn at that age?  Unbelievable.  My hat's off to him.  I should be so lucky.

[albrecht]

Wow.  Cool story.  Still mowing his lawn at that age?  Unbelievable.  My hat's off to him.  I should be so lucky.

And you best keep off his lawn!
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The Evening Star, December 31, 1916.

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The Detroiter Abend-Post, December 31, 1916.

"Bloody went the old year to the new.  Will the new year bring it to an end?"

Flag:  "Peace."
Globe:  "Cheers.  New Year's Day."
Bag:  "Victory in the..." 

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The Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 31, 1916.

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Here's a pic from New Year's Day, 1917.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edbierman/6341052490/

[JesusJuice]

Nope. I deleted my post. Now people won't know what we were talking about.

[JesusJuice]

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[Rix Gins]

100 years ago today (or into the late hours of Dec 30, 1916, nobody seems to know the exact time.) the holy man makes his exit.  Unwillingly.

Info: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38469903


Grigori Rasputin  1864-1916  (Wikimedia)

[Ciardelo]

100 years ago today (or into the late hours of Dec 30, 1916, nobody seems to know the exact time.) the holy man makes his exit.  Unwillingly.

Info: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38469903


Grigori Rasputin  1864-1916  (Wikimedia)

indeed

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The Topeka State Journal, January 1, 1917.

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The Oklahoma City Times, January 1, 1917.

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The Harrisburg Telegraph, January 1, 1917.

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The El Paso Herald, January 1, 1917.

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The Seattle Star, January 1, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 2, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:30.

Sam Hull, 4144 N, Harding av., lost $45 watch and $7 when he went to sleep in loop saloon.

Mrs. H. S. Detmer,4608 Michigan av., lost $500 diamond on way home from New Years celebration.

Harry Poole, Alexandria Bay, N. Y., lost $50 to loop gypsy fortune teller. 

Ed Potel, negro, 9 E. 12th, shot through ear in crap game argument.

Limousine of O. Jacobson, 3920 N. Keeler av., found  ruined and loaded with copper, also stolen, and abandoned. 

Mrs. Rob't Longmore, 618 S. Kedvale av., ill from kick received when she resisted robber.

Pasquale Fort, 701 Miller, had narrow escape when four shots broke window.

Thaddeus Batrichich, attendant at Oak Forest infirmary, killed by Rock Island train near Tinley Park.

Cornelius Anderson, Morristown, N. Y., died on incoming Michigan Central train.

Steve Sheck, E. 103d, found dead in box car on Penn tracks near home.

Robert Hume, 6032 Prairie av., dead from fall on icy sidewalk.

Middle-aged, unidentified man near death at Alexian Bros. hospital hit by auto of Harry Kaufman, 4521 N. Francisco av. 

Oscar Carlson, 4162 Lincoln av., dead. Hit by auto of Alvin Nelson, 2428 ft. Campbell av.

Mary O'Rourke, 673 Lincoln pk. way., killed by taxi near home. W. Bondcott, 4164 Drexel av., driver, held. 

Bertha Heiden and Alma Berg hurt at Barnngton when sled hit telegraph pole and turned over.

Michael Costello, 237 W. Ohio, cut when street car was wrecked by cranky bridge at N. & Halstead and river.

David Green, 1730 Boomer pl., hurt when auto he drove was hit by street car on Ridge av, Evanston. 

Ceo. Everett, 22,28 E. 43d, dead. Clifford Boss, 64 Oakenwald ave., held after street fight.

Elbert Browne, 4159 Prairie av., missing. Accounts $30,000 short, police say.

Mrs. Jas. A. Kearney, 223 E. 46th,lost $1,000 worth of jewelry to nurse hired to care for her.

E. J. Dillon, 615 S. Marshfield av., badly beaten by gang of men who entered home. Blames family troubles.

Wm. Hernberg, 1542 Cleveland  av., went to bed with pipe lit. Dead from burns.


WAR STOCKS BRING HOOTCH DANCE TO LOOP HOTEL

Hootch dancer, $10-a-quart Paul Roget champagne, a jazz band, Hawaiian hula-hula dancers and plenty of swagger show girls from Ziegfeld Follies and the Palace theater vaudeville bill for the bachelors or husbands who didn't come with their wives, these were features of a New Year's party staged by a La Salle street broker in the Ft. Dearborn hotel's largest banquet room.
  Taken all ways, it was one of the most vivid and colorful occasion Chicago has seen downtown lately. Selling Chicago utilities stock and bonds and selling "war babies" the last year netted the La Salle street man something close to $250,000 for the year. And at this New Year's party he was remembering his friends and customers.
  They began coming an hour before midnight.  It was 4 am. before they quit.
During these hours four young men tended a punch bowl and dipped out enough wet goods to give a team of dray horses a bath. At another end of the room two lively young barkeeps stood between small mountains of oranges and lemons and fixed highballs, cocktails and fizzes of any and every kind called for. A third division of the wet goods bursars passed among guests with pails of champagne bottles and the cork of a $10 Roget bottle popped when a guest nodded for it. Though Mumm's extra dry costs $5.50 a quart, this was the, year of the Great War and the prosperity of "war babies," so the wine was Paul Roget's at $10 a quart.
  When things started shortly before midnight a dozen women, dressed in regular Marshall Field show window style, sat at a table by themselves. They were showgirls. When any bachelor, husband without wife or husband who had his wife's permission wanted to drink with a showgirl, he went to this table and made his pick.
  The hootch dancer was the thriller that followed the hula-hula. After wiggling in Oriental style like a lascivious and wicked Salome, the dancer tore off a wig and stood revealed as a male man who had only been impersonating the presumptive female--by heck! Chicago is getting to be a dingbusted Babylon.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 2, 1917.

MARK TWAIN'S LAST DAYS

  Mark Twain's last days, it will be remembered, were spent in Bermuda, at the home of Vice Consul Allen, where he had gone following the shock of his daughter Jean's death. The great humorist, suffering from heart attacks which began to recur with increasing frequency, knew that he was a dying man. Yet his whimsical humor never failed him. His biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, writing in St. Nicholas, recalls how Mr. Clemens at this time referred to the hypodermic injection, which had become necessary to him, as "hypnotic injunctions."
  "As long as I remember anything," writes Mr. Paine in describing the trip from Bermuda, "I shall remember the forty-eight hours of that homeward voyage. He was comfortable at first, and then we ran into the humid, oppressive air of the gulf stream, and he could not breathe. It seemed to me that the end might come at any moment, and this thought was in his own mind, but he had no dread, and his sense of humor did not fail. Once, when the ship rolled and his hat fell from the hook and made the circuit of the cabin floor, he said, 'The ship is passing the hat.'
  "I had been instructed in the use of the hypodermic needle and from time to time gave him the 'hypnotic injunction,' as he called it. But it did not afford him entire relief, he could remain in any position but a little while. Yet he never complained and thought only of the trouble he might be making. Once he said: 'I am sorry for you, Paine, but I can't help it.  I can't hurry this dying business.'

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The Seattle Star, January 2, 1917.

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Everett True, January 3, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 3, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:31.

Mary Stanko, Paris hotel, arrested. Harry Poole, lake pilot, said she swindled him out of $60.

Safe blowers got $386 from Cosmopolitan theater, 7938 S. Halsted.

Sam L. Kohn, clerk United Cigar store, Milwaukee av. and Paulina, beaten over head when he resisted robbers. They got $50.

Huston A. Smith, accused of embezzling $2,500 from Sherwin-Williams Paint Co., coming back from California to face charge.

Nathan Taylor, negro, convicted of robbing Ebenezer Donohue. Latter identified him by voice.

Mrs. Lillian McMuIlen wants divorce from Al. Says he won't work.

Henry McFarland, Palatine, wants divorce from Mrs. Frances. Says she's living in Maywood with Thos. Carroll.

Mrs. Jesse M. Allen, 361 Institutional granted divorce. Another woman broke up homey.
   
Adolph Sussner, 68, Oak Park infirmary, died from exposure.

Francis Oakes, 7026 Normal al badly hurt. Struck by auto of Chas. Holmes, 7592 S. Green.

Four men badly hurt when two huge towers used in construction of American Can Co. bldg., Maywood, fell.

Pres. Wilson thanked Nelson Fuqua, 13, 5733 S. Kimbark av., for birthday wishes.

Fritz D. Jugler, said to be son of Count of Luxembourg, found dead at 4805 Forsythe av., East Chicago. Heart trouble. 

David Cotter, 849 N. Clark, fined $1 and costs for trying to flirt with Policewoman Ada Chandler.

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The Seattle Star, January 3, 1917.

[Ciardelo]

The Seattle Star, January 3, 1917.

That was actually kind of clever. 

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The Chicago Day Book, January 4, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:32.

Two white men and two Chinese held as opium suspects. 

Judge Barrett probing disappearance of Felix Rodriguez, complainant against three negroes in robbery case.

Lucy Brabant, 14, 1626 E. 75th, student at Bowen High, missing. Had stage ambitions.

Mrs. Bertha Shapiro, 1607 S. Avers av., died on way to hospital from hemorrhage.

Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, 4736 S. State, found dead. Believed poisoned. Police probing.

Robert L. Reese, 5200 S. LaSalle, returned to wife after long absence. She refused him. Died of gun wound later. Wife, Matthew Young and Gus Hill, boarders, held. May have been suicide.

Rudolph Priess, waiter at Red Star inn, sued for divorce by Mrs. Rose. Cruelty. Gets $14 a week salary, she says, but tips amount to $45.

Alfred Tallman, 8805 S. Paulina, ordered to pay $550 to Anna Brasch, 18, 6345 S. Kostner av., whom he wronged after dance hall romance.

Francis Carbone, 1039 Taylor, asked Judge Stelk to order wife to support him. Judge refused.

Victor Cassel, 14, charged with deserting from Great Lakes naval training station. 

E. H. Sothern, noted actor, ill. Forced to cancel rest of engagement Underwent operation for organic trouble.

Dr. Chauncey J. Hadley, dentist, 6900 Lakewood av., suicide. Gas. 19 year old wife of three weeks found body. Cause not known.

John Gunderson, 1008 Monroe, jumped in lake in suicide attempt. Water too cold. Yelled for help. Rescued.

Dr. Wm. Sadler said yesterday the time was soon coming when healthy people would be able to borrow money and use vital organs as securities.

Butler' R. Storke, former "boy wizard of La Salle street," sued T. F. Keator,for $175,000 for numerous arrests.

Jury found John Carr and Jos. Stark guilty of robbing saloon of M. Feinberg. They pleaded it was only joke.

Jos. Brigole, 12, 206 W. Huron, found with head split open. Said father hit him with axe because he wouldn't beg. Father missing.

Bottle of liniment exploded and badly burned Sam, Nathan and Morris Katz, brothers. 1077 Maxwell.

Francis P. Owings, builder of Chicago's first "12-story skyscraper," to face sanity test.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 4, 1917.

SKYSCRAPER KING TRIED FOR INSANITY

  CHICAGO, Jan. 4. The sanity of Francis P. Owings was questioned today, but not for the first time.
  Back in the early eighties, Owlngs, an engineer of somewhat daring proclivities, rapped the climax of his revolutionary architectural ideas by proposing to build a 12 story building. Engineers laughed and his friends tapped their foreheads significantly, but he persevered and in time attained financial backing.
  The Bedford building an altitudinous marvel for that period, was the result. By l893, the year of the world's fair, the Masonic Temple, wlth its 19 stories, was a marvel to visitors, and Owings was pointed out as the "skyscraper king."
  But subsequent years dealt harshly with him and today, broken in health and purse, he was taken to the psychopathic hospital. Tomorrow he will have a hearing.
  A reporter making the rounds asked an attendant if there was "anything new."
  "Nothing worthwhile," replied the attendant, "unless you can dig something out of an old codger named Owings. He thinks he built the first skyscraper in Chicago.

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The Columbus Commercial, January 4, 1917.

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The Seattle Star, January 4, 1917.

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https://youtu.be/XVtJ9PzHmO4

[Ciardelo]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 4, 1917.

SKYSCRAPER KING TRIED FOR INSANITY

  CHICAGO, Jan. 4. The sanity of Francis P. Owings was questioned today, but not for the first time.
  Back in the early eighties, Owlngs, an engineer of somewhat daring proclivities, rapped the climax of his revolutionary architectural ideas by proposing to build a 12 story building. Engineers laughed and his friends tapped their foreheads significantly, but he persevered and in time attained financial backing.
  The Bedford building an altitudinous marvel for that period, was the result. By l893, the year of the world's fair, the Masonic Temple, wlth its 19 stories, was a marvel to visitors, and Owings was pointed out as the "skyscraper king."
  But subsequent years dealt harshly with him and today, broken in health and purse, he was taken to the psychopathic hospital. Tomorrow he will have a hearing.
  A reporter making the rounds asked an attendant if there was "anything new."
  "Nothing worthwhile," replied the attendant, "unless you can dig something out of an old codger named Owings. He thinks he built the first skyscraper in Chicago.

So dry, I love it

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Everett True, January 5, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 5, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:38.

Louis Bond, 805 E. 63d, killed by Michigan Central train near Sumit.

Ben Hero, nurse, Washington Park hospital, lost purse with $80 at Orchestra hall concert.

Herbert Gjorling, said to be talented musician, arrested on disorderly charge in Kedzie station, Northwestern railroad. Fined $10.

Harry Didler. 2623 W. Madison, arrested after he got $300 by cheating loan sharks.

Victor Brevity electrician, decided to take wife back when her bigamy case came up in court. She went.

Mrs. Lena Jackson, testifying in divorce suit against Att'y Charles I Jackson, fainted and fell from stand. 

Coroner's jury decided shooting of Tony Klinkhammer, 810 N. Clark st, Evanston, was suicide. Found dead in Grant park Wednesday.

Booth Tarkington, author, in Evanston to see ill sister-in-law.

Victor Casel, sailor, who tried to run away, found to be under age by trial board.

Abe Rubenstein, lawyer, sentenced for contempt of court by judge Landis, lost fight for release on writ of habeas corpus.

Herbert Grabinstein, 17, 2144 W. Harrison, shot in wrist by two boy bandits who held up mother's candy store.

Fred Ott, 2725 Barry av. shot in foot when he resisted robbers at 1940 Park av.

Mrs. Marv Mr.Kann 818 w 38th shot and killed. Husband sought by police.

Drug fiends being sought for murder of Otto Wintermeyer, druggist 1005 W. Madison.

Mrs. Wm. Marks, 641 N Waller av., came home from hospital to find husband dead.

Thirty six civil service employees of health department laid off by Com'r Robertson in effort to save money.

Turkish towel facsimile of $5 bill taken from saloon at Belmont and California avs. by federal sleuths.

Francis P. Owings, builder of Chicago's first skyscraper, found insane and sent to asylum by Judge Scully.


POLICE DEPT SAYS CRIMINALS ARE SCARED TO DEATH

  Professional criminals are becoming terror stricken at the efficient and rapid manner in which the Chicago police department captures criminals. At least a forecast by the police department of its annual report backs up this presumption. Crime has gone done 19.1 per cent the last year. Burglars, robbers, and the crooks who commit "larcenies and other crimes" are fleeing the city according to the police. This city is getting to he a most perilously dangerous place for criminals according to the police. And this very year in which the police official statistics show crime rate going down is the year in which the chief of police is indicted  by a grand jury and is to be tried for crime  himself.