One Hundred Years Ago

[Ciardelo]

The Chicago Day Book, January 5, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:38.
...
Booth Tarkington, author, in Evanston to see ill sister-in-law.
...

one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

[Rix Gins]

one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

Nice link, thanks Ciardelo.  Saw this movie playing last night on Turner Classics.  I didn't watch it though.  I had forgotten that Booth wrote The Magnificent Ambersons.  (That's gruff Inspector Tragg from the Perry Mason show at far right.)   


Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)  (Wikimedia)

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The Chicago Day Book, January 6, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:34.

AdolpH S. Lippert, saloonkeeper, 502 S Halsted, summoned by Judge Fisher. Eight girls taken in raid, said he installed buzzer system. John Dailey, porter, sentenced to six months. 

Edna Ralston, 17, Winchester, Ind., runaway, found at Hotel Gladstone, Wabash and Harrison.

Robert Rueping, diamond broker, 29 E. Madison, sued for divorce by Mrs. Maud Madson Rueping, 4301 N. Lincoln. Too stingy, she says.

Paul Everingham, local agent Travelers' Insurance Co.. sued for divorce. Wife says he drinks. Said he has $16,000 yearly income.

Mrs. Ellis Williams, Gary, Ind., failed to get divorce although she produced letters from other women to her husband.

Geo. G. Ogle, wealthy publisher and clubman, got divorce from Ruth Ogle. Said she used to beat him.

Mrs. Marie M. Bartos awarded $10,000 verdict against Chicago Railways Co. Husband killed by street car.

Five oculists yesterday testified that Peter Zyla was really blind.

Mrs. E. F. Wirth, 129 N. Sacramento blvd., left $400 gold mesh bag in Perfecto cafe, 150 N. Wabash.

Cohuslave Mysalicz, 1340 V 18th, dead. Gas. Accident.

Mrs. Isabella Frascher, 60, 6409 S. Laflin., fell on icy sidewalk. Dead.

Lucy Brabant, 14, 1626 E. 75th: Frances Baumgard, 17, 7116 Cornell av., and third girl missing. All would be Mary Pickfords.

Att'y Cornelius S. See, 70, 6503 Kimbark av., missing for 24 hours, returned home.

Fire in chair shop threatened Joliet prison. Convicts fought flames. $30,000 loss.

Mary Smith, former "$10,000 heiress" of Parkhurst farm, reported married to J. E. Whipple, 60, Inventor, Hamilton, Ont.

Pauline Ah and Marie Mitchell, gypsies, 943 Milwaukee av., arrested on charge of robbing two young girls.


EXPECT U-BOAT AGAIN

  New London, Conn., Jan. 6. Indication that the German merchant submarine Deutschland is expected here shortly wiith another cargo from Germany was given today in the arrival of more than a score of negro stevedores. They were put to work unloading merchandise from cars at the wharf of the Eastern Forwarding Co. Owners of the Deutschland,


BOOSTS BIRTH CONTROL

  "Birth control means voluntary motherhood," said Dr. Anna Blount before the Woman's Party of Cook County yesterday. "I long to see the day when mothers will not have to bear seven out of twelve children for the graveyard."- The New World, official Catholic publication, denounced the birth control idea.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. J. A. Cousins will lecture at Hobo college, 917 W. Washington blvd., tonight, on "Sanitation and Life."

Lucy E. Parsons lectures on "War as a Great Equalizer," at Economy Forum, 20 W. Randolph, Sun., 8 p. m.

Leslie Wahl will speak on "How Thought Force Can Change the Body" before the International New Thought Fellowship at Hall 210i Masonic Temple, Sun., 11 a. m.

Society of Superites, Colonial hall, Sun., 8 p. m. Debate, Sirfessor Wilkesbarre and John Loughman: "Resolved, That Ignorance Is of More Benefit to the Human Race Than Knowledge."

Universalist Church of the Redeemer, Robey and Warren av., Fred A. Moore, minister, 10:45 Sunday. "Divine Insight."

H. J. Crouch will lecture at Hobo college, 917 W. Wash, blvd., Sun., "2 p. m., on "The High Cost of Living. Who Is Responsible?"

W. C. Greenleaf will speak on "Sources of Theosophy" at Besant hall, 116 S. Michigan av., Sun., at 3:30 p. m.

Dr. A. P. Fitch, Cambridge, will speak on "Power of the Positive" at Sunday Evening club, Orchestra hall, Sun., 8 p. m.

M. C. Walsh will lecture at Hobo college, 917 W. Wash blvd., Mon., 8 p. m., on "The War in the United States."

[Ciardelo]

Sirfessor Wilkesbarre is On the Air

Strange little radio show linked on that site. One of the host's voices reminds me a little of John B Wells, but without the bass mic.

Society of Superites, Colonial hall, Sun., 8 p. m. Debate, Sirfessor Wilkesbarre and John Loughman: "Resolved, That Ignorance Is of More Benefit to the Human Race Than Knowledge."

Imma need a little more coffee for it. Apparently The Outbursts of Everett True is referenced in it as well. 

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, January 8, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 8, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:36.

Roderick Hewitt, 13, 8512 S. May, ran away from home. Found in Hotel Morrison lobby.

Mabel Franke, 15, 4334 N. California av., found on street with wrists bound, told "movie melodrama" story of being kidnapped. Later admitted she fibbed.

Police searching for Alex Marakos, 3234 E. 136th, hurt in auto accident Dec 28.

Andrew Smith, 3105 Sheffield av., escaped from Dunning asylum.

Chas. Sterling, janitor Pickford theater, 108 E. 35th, hunted for attack on young woman.

Gustav Carlson, 3651 Indiana av., dead. Gas. Suicide suspected.

John M. Houlihan, 38, 2017 W. 69th, dead. Gas. Accident believed.

Auto bandits got $36 from Arthur Schumacher, 1731 Farragut av., and Peter Mumerowski, 1146 Augusta.

Three auto bandits held up and robbed Vern Allers, 320 N. Austin av. $30 and watch and chain.

Wm. Sklakersky, 856 Townsend, robbed of $2 and badly beaten by three men.

Jas. Howard, 17, 1104 Madison; Otto Brower, 17, 2348 Monroe, and Chas. Wheaton, 18, 11 Washington, identified by Walter A. Clark as holdup men.

Thieves got 51 tubs of butter from Coyne Bros., commission merchants, 119 W. South Water.

Norman Rumbler, ,17, 402 S. Halsted, and Edw. Craig, 18, 26 N. Elizabeth, arrested on charge of robbing,

Moon was in eclipse early this morning.

Four people rescued in mysterious fire at 117 S. Halsted.

Blanche Skolczinsky rescued in fire at Brink Bros. cafe, 7200 Washington blvd.

Geo. Mayweather, negro, Chicago Heights, died of stab wound. Thos. Nantz, negro, suspected.

Daniel Turbot killed in fight with Jos. Nadroeich, 8947 Green Bay av., and Daniel Lisalovich over Nadroeich's wife. 

Gustav Telick, Rockford, fractured skull when he jumped from street car.

Brother of Luther Cosgrove, 51, who shot and killed himself recently and left $40,000 estate, trying to have his marriage annulled.

Sam Challiners, 3738 W. 15th, clerk at Metro Picture Service, accused of embezzling, tried suicide. Swallowed poison, turned on gas and jumped from third story window. Skull fractured. May die.

Harold F. Marble, Lansing, Mich., messenger boy, became '"smitten" with Wilton sisters, vaudeville actresses. Followed them here. Police sent him home. (Photo and some info on the Wilton Sisters): https://footlightnotes.wordpress.com/tag/the-wilton-sisters/

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 8, 1917.

SCENES IN TONOPAH

  The first of a series of Tonopah views, taken with a motion picture camera, was displayed at the Butler Saturday and made a distinct hit, particularly those of the visit of Jim Butler, the public schools and the fire department.


ECLIPSE OF THE MOON

  A total eclipse of the moon was visible in Tonopah last evening beginning at 10:10 o'clock and reaching total at 11 o'clock and lasting to 12:29 this morning. The most interesting feature of the phenomenon was the fact that the moon was visible while eclipsed wherever the moon was clear on the edge of the earth; that is, at the continually moving border at which the sun is rising or setting. This is due to sunlight passing around the edge of the earth into the shadow zone.


BENEFIT DANCE

  There will be a jitney dance the evening of January 10 for the benefit of a worthy widow and children in need of help. The management of the Miners' Exchange hall has donated it, lighted and heated, for the occasion. There will be a five piece orchestra under direction of Joe Monahan of the Airdome orchestra. All invited to come, have a good time and aid those who are deserving.

[Rix Gins]

The Seattle Star, January 8, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 9, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:18; sunset, 4:37.

Albert Delaurier, 2726 W.N Congress, found overcome by gas. Police suspect suicide attempt.

Harold Marble, 16, Lansfng, Mich., followed two movie ladies from hometown. Father took him back yesterday.

Wm. Buza, 2215 Trumbull av., phoned folks from Covington, Ind., that he was kidnapped. Police say he ran away.

Andy Foisy, 1105 Home av. and two companions arrested on complaint of his father. Took auto without consent.

Two young boys put on probation by Judge Arnold. Hid under counters of State street stores and stole after closing hours.

E. J. Broch, manufacturer, 343 N. Franklin, fined $100 for overworking girls 13 years of age.

Francis Boyliss, 72, and wife, 2821 E. 93d, told to go home and make up when they came into Judge Stelk's court quarreling.

Jas. P. Herrick, dry goods salesman, ordered to pay divorced wife $600. which she used in bringing witnesses against him to city.

Wm. F. Claussing hit by divorce bill, accused of drinking too much.

Mrs. Emma Marwill, sister, in court bill, says signature of late Frank Brede, pres. Globe Box Co., was forged to fake will.

Chief of Police Healey issued order to stop second-hand clothing men from crying wares in streets and alleys.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis Ruben stein born yesterday. Father sent to jail by babe's namesake Saturday.

U. S. supreme court decided against, tribe of Pottawatomie Indians which claimed rights to lake front property.

Warden A. Smith, county hospital, denounced law asking arrest for drunkards before they can get medical treatment.

Mrs. Florence Schaefer turned down in suit for $1,250 which she says she lost in placing it in Washington Park bank safety box.

Mrs. H. P. Manford, 1405 Judson av., lost $33 to pickpocket as she left movie theater in Evanston.

Bert R. Van Debogert, druggist, 1128 E. 62d, chased burglar down street in pajamas.

Mrs. Dominick Livcis, 1632 S. St. Louis av., shot and killed by brother, Jos. Suweisdise. Cleaning revolver.

Frank Degan, 435 Center, hurt when car hit wagon. May die.

Mrs. Elizabeth Trump, 1738 W. Madison, killed by auto at Madison and Hermitage av.


TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

Denver. Continuing his fight against death, Col. W. F. Cody rallied and today it was announced he was better than he has been for the past 24 hours.

Lansing, Mich. Anti-saloon league heads have determined "bone dry" prohibition legislation for Michigan is impossibility.

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The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 9, 1917.

LOSE BOTH FEET -  VICTIMS OF WHITE MOUNTAIN BLIZZARD WELL KNOWN IN TONOPAH

  A wraith of the furious blizzard that deprived Tonopah of light and power for four days comes from the other side of the range through the announcement that Steve Andrew and Ralph Andrew, brothers of John Andrew, had to submit to the amputation of limbs as one result of having been caught out in the storm.
  Stephen will lose both feet and his brother, Ralph, will escape with the loss of one hand. The news came this morning to their brother here, who is engaged in operating the night jitney service, and John left by train No. 23 for his old home near Big Pine. The boys are both well known to citizens of Tonopah, as they formerly lived here, and one of the lads played with the Big Pine basketball team. Both were magnificent specimens of manhood and their sufferings will win the sympathy of everybody who reads of their harrowing experience.
  The boys had gone out in the mountains with a team to gather a load of wood. Before they realized what was happening the storm broke and soon the snow was so deep that little progress could be made. In struggling through the drifts one of the horses stumbled and died in his tracks. After that it was impossible for the boys to induce the other animals to drive past the dead body. Valuable time was consumed before the boys, tried afoot for home. They plugged ahead until at last they dropped from exhaustion. They were unconscious when found and taken to Big Pine, where they received every attention that medical science could devise, but without avail, as nothing could prevent gangrene from setting in and rendering amputation necessary.


BILL CODY RALLIES WHILE ON DEATHBED

  DENVER, Jan., 9, William F. Cody improved today and is showing remarkable recuperative powers, though his heart action is very weak. His doctor said: "I do not see how he can live. Last night he fought with death as though he was fighting with a man. Today he was able to read a letter from an old friend."

[Rix Gins]

The Seattle Star, January 19, 1917.

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A third battle on the Sinai Desert took place today, one hundred years ago.  It was fought in a similar manner as that of the Battle of Magdhaba that was reported on last December.   The British Empire went up against the Ottoman Army and as you can see in this photo...


Ottoman prisoners on the road to El Arish from Rafa (Wikimedia)

...the British came out on top.

I won't pretend to understand the overall particulars of this battle, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rafa) but I did find it interesting that part of the British victory came about as a result of an engineering project.  A railway and water pipeline were being built across the desert.  That must have been quite an undertaking.


Laying the railway across the Sinai (Wikimedia)

 

[Meister_000]

This feels too familiar exactly now, in the age of Twitter, Fake News, Election Influencing/hacking/speculating, RT-ing unconfirmed stuff, Wikileaks, Parrots and Puppets. Poisoning the Well so nothing (and everything) is believable.


Punch: April 1917.   The RUMOURISTS
First Ass. "AND I HAVE IT ON THE BEST AUTHORITY"
Second Ass. "INCREDIBLE!"     [Goes off and repeats it.]

[Meister_000]

. . . I did find it interesting that part of the British victory came about as a result of an engineering project.  A railway and water pipeline were being built across the desert.  That must have been quite an undertaking.


Laying the railway across the Sinai (Wikimedia)

Hi Rix. That bit piqued my curiosity so I got a bit more from here:
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/sinai-campaign/overview


"The Sinai campaign arose from a change in British thinking about the defence of the Suez Canal. Initially, British forces in Egypt had built a defensive zone of strongpoints and trenches along the western bank of the canal. After the raid at Ismailia by Ottoman forces in February 1915 this strategy was extended to the eastern bank. But this did little to improve the overall situation for the British.

Directly defending the canal required large numbers of troops. By the beginning of 1916 the demands of the Western Front and other more active theatres of war meant that the British Army could not spare soldiers for such a manpower-intensive, yet passive, scheme. Furthermore, these defences extended only a few kilometres into the Sinai Peninsula. While the British could be reasonably confident of fighting off any future Ottoman raids on the canal, they couldn’t prevent such raids happening. Under this strategy, the Ottomans didn’t even have to make any more raids â€" the mere threat that they might do so would keep a big British force tied down.

In early 1916 the newly appointed commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), Lieutenant-General Archibald Murray, recognised this problem and offered his superiors in London a potential solution. Murray argued that the canal could be best defended by going on the offensive and seizing control of the Sinai Peninsula from the Ottoman Turks. Not only would this remove any threat of future raids on the canal, it would also reverse the strategic situation in the area. With control of the Sinai, the British could keep disproportionately large numbers of Ottoman troops tied down defending southern Palestine.

There was no doubting the strategic soundness of Murray′s argument. But the barren conditions confronting any army that ventured into the harsh desert environment of the Sinai Peninsula â€" not least the lack of water â€" raised practical problems. There were some wells and oases scattered across the peninsula, but none large enough to sustain the numbers of men and animals required. The construction of a *railway* and *pipeline* from the British base at Kantara in Egypt to El Arish on the Sinaiâ€"Palestine border lay at the heart of Murray’s plans." [cont. at above link . . . .]

[Meister_000]

A little something for our flightless feathered friends and their ancestors contributions. The Camels got all the press but it was these guys who toiled on the home front year after year suffering all manner of humiliation that the civilians might be humored.
Popular Mechanics: Feb. 1917.  [Struthio Camelus -- Camel Bird!  ]

[Rix Gins]

Great stuff, Meister, and thanks for the added info on the Sinai railway-waterway projects.  Oh, and welcome back!

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, January 10, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:17; sunset, 4:38.

Henry Solomon, 163 N. Halsted, robbed of $65 and watch near home.

Burglar who got $300 in valuables from flat of Mrs. Ida Hodgins of 1060 Leland av. escaped after being seen by neighbors.

Police seeking "Jimmie" Cantwell as suspect in robbing of Lake Shore drive homes.

Geo. Caliger created panic when he shot at estranged wife in Baker beautv shop. 39 S. State.

Two auto bandits got $52 and 100 morphine tablets in raid on the drugstore of Harry Shrago, 456 E, .50th.

Leslie Walker arrested after he shot at Louisa De Haven, cabaret singer, 15 W. Huron.

Street fight between black and white gangs at 57th and La Salle streets brought police on riot call. 

Arguments started in appeal of Fred Marhofer, oleo king, against five year sentence.

George Mears of Aurora, oldest white lifer at Joliet penitentiary, to apply for pardon. Will be opposed by father of boy he murdered.

Jos. Luweisdie exonerated of killing of sister while cleaning his revolver.

Charles Depew acquitted of murder of Policeman John Bialk, killed in struggle over gun.

Frank Kramer, 3110 Broadway, fined $1 for peeping into windows of German-American hospital.

O. G. Forrer, dope taster for federal squad, had narrow escape when he took pill of mercury into mouth.

Alice Appleton, 15, 6832 S. Aberdeen, stabbed in shoulder during fight of school children. Not serious.

Abe Hasson, 463 Milwaukee av., ordered to pay wife $5 a week. They quarreled because he is Mohammedan.

Frank and Lidori Locica, 826 Townsend, arrested for kidnapping Grace Modica, 16, 1130 Sedgwick in auto.

Wm. Edeh, 10, 435 N. Le Claire av., dead after being run down by fender less auto truck.

Mrs. P. L. Smithers and driver, James Paul, cut when auto crashed with machine of J. W. Eaton at Banks st and the drive.

Mrs. Bridget Moore. 3330 Flournoy, saw husband, wanted for non support, on street corner. Yelled "Stop thief." Hubby caught.


BELIEVE THERE WAS WITNESS TO STOCKING MODEL'S DEATH

  Philadelphia, Jan. 10. Detectives working to clear up the mystery surrounding the murder in her apartments here of Mazie Colbert, the art model, advanced the theory today that one person, and possibly two, besides the girl and her slayer, were
in the room when the crime was committed. '
  While they still adhere to their belief that Bernard W. Lewis of Pittsburgh, who committed suicide in Atlantic City last Thursday night, beat Miss Colbert and afterward strangled her to death with a silk stocking, the police say that discrepancies as to the time the model was last known to be alive and the time Lewis was seen in a Market street haberdashery have led to the supposition that there was at least one witness to the murder.
  Another theory that is again engaging the attention of the detectives is that blackmail was the motive for the crime. Captain Tate declared that he had learned the details of a blackmailing plot carried out in this city a year ago by men acquainted with Miss Colbert. He and Dist. Att'y Rotan, Capt.Tate said, were investigating the alleged plot to see if it had any connection with the Colbert mystery. The victim of the plot, he added, lives in a town upstate and has been summoned to the City Hall.  (Photo and some info on Miss Colbert:) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73907160


ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. G. Seastrand will lecture at Workers' Institute, 920 S. Ashland av., at 8 p. m., tonight on "Sex."

Dr. Samuel Cohon of Zion Temple speaks before Lawndale Civic Center tonight at Theodore Herzl school, Douglas blvd. and Lawndale ay., "Jewish Genius."

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 10, 1917.

MINNESOTA MAN KNOCKS OUT TOM COWLER, ENGLISH HEAVYWEIGHT

  NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., knocked out Tom Cowler of England in the first round of a ten round match in Brooklyn last night. Fulton weighed 218 pounds and Cowler 208.
  Fulton did very effective work with his left, scoring hooks and jabs to the face. Cowler sent in several hard body blows and brought his right to the head three times. Fulton, however, kept on the aggressive and with a left hook to the jaw floored Cowler for a count of six. The English heavyweight arose groggy and another left to the jaw ended the contest.


Fulton (left) in 1919 (Wikimedia)

[Rix Gins]

Buffalo Bill Cody passed away 100 years ago today, at the age of 70.


Portrait of William F. Cody (aka) "Buffalo Bill".  (Wikimedia)

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill

[Meister_000]

Great stuff, Meister, and thanks for the added info on the Sinai railway-waterway projects.  Oh, and welcome back!

Hi Rix! Thanks. Hope you're well. Glad the thread's still going.
Maybe sitting-out WWIII in this WWI bunker isn't a bad idea!
We shall see. God help us!


PS. This post editor is F*cked-Up now (some update?) I've tried two different browsers and same probs -- almost makes it too much effort to post at all, jeez MV!

[Meister_000]

 Punch: Jan. 1917, as the year opens . . .

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, January 11, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:17; sunset, 4:39.

Mrs. Wm. Merker rescued from fire at 1432 Montrose blvd.

Edwin Bevridge freed of charge of stealing $2,000 gems from former sweetheart, Mrs. Katherine Martin, 808 Eastwood av. Said robbery was frame-up. May be arrested on Mann act charge.

Albert A. Parks, 3542 12th, arrested on charge of transporting Helen Lark, 3540 W. 60th pl., from Chicago to St. Louis for immoral purposes.

Harold Prosser, arrested as "tango thief who stole $1,900 jewels from Mrs. Anna Coats, 917 Fullerton, freed. Mrs. Coats failed to appear.

Harold Veitz, ass't cashier A. H. Hill & Co. State bank, Irving Park, accused of being short 5,000.

Jas. G. Trainer, real estate man, fined $25 for assault on elevator man in U. S. Annuity bldg.

Robert Page, 513 N. Clark, and Jas. McCullen arrested on suspicion of stealing from American Express Co.

Rev. Jas. K. McClure, McCormick Theological seminary, wants Sunday golf at Onwentsia club stopped.

Police searching for sweetheart of Elbina De Broux, Gardner, I11., who died after illegal operation.

Philip Cinciolo, 1455 Ohio, given year in Bridewell when his mother said he wouldn't support wife and baby.

Chas. F. Creek wants divorce from Mrs. Marie Creek, 3531 Lexington. Afraid of her.

Edw. Holtz, 2107 N. Western av., suicide. Gun. Trouble with wife.

Wm. Simons, auto tire maker, 1741 N. Mozart, shot and killed himself.

Geo. Artis, negro, 2708 Washington blvd., found dead, Gas.

Martinus Peterson, 2846 Cortez, suicide. Gas.

Mrs. W. C. Reed, 2823 Washington blvd., died when gas consumed oxygen in bedroom.

Federal Judge Carpenter ordered 628 barrels of cider vinegar condemned.

Herbert E. Bucklen, rich patent medicine man, died at his home, 814 Michigan av. 

Frank Messina, 26, 2642 W. Huron, killed by train.

Gambling squad raided flower store owned by Wm. Grace, 35 S. 5th av., and caught 17 men. Also found racing sheets. 

City council finance committee approved Judge Scully's plan to transfer insane patients to asylum by street cars.

Court of domestic relations report shows that drunkenness is chief cause of family trouble.

Dr. Robt. McKee, 2804 Cottage Grove av., fined $1 for non-payment of taxi bill. 

Nels Larsen, union moving man, 2324 W. 24th, asked police to find man who placed bomb at rear of home. Moving van wrecked.

Sybil Putcher, 17, Batavia, telephone operator, missing. Family fears kidnapping.

Fred W. Schlicker, Libertyville, missing. Friends fear foul play.

Chicago spiritualists organizing to fight Ettelson bill to curb fortune tellers.

Battling Nelson sold his 50 acre Hegewisch farm.


Battling Nelson, Oscar Mathæus Nielsen, Lightweight, Denmark, Danish, Boxing. (Wikimedia)

BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA

  London. British battleship Cornwallis, 14,000 tons, was torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean sea Tuesday. Of the crew thirteen are missing.
  The Cornwallis was built in 1901 and carried a crew of 750 men. She was capable of a speed of 19 knots and was 405 feet in length.


Cornwallis sinking in the Mediterranean Sea on 9 January 1917 after being torpedoed by the German submarine UB-32. (Wikimedia)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dan H. Wallace will lecture, 8 tonight at Hobo college, on his experiences as a soldier in France for one and one-half years.

J. Frank Pickering will lecture, "The Cliff Dwellers of Ancient America and the Indians of the Great Southwest," under auspices of Lawndale Civic Center at Herz school, at 7:30 p. m. '

Friday, 8 p. m., John Loughman and James Allman will debate on '"Pessimism vs. Optimism," at Hobo college, 917 W. Washington blvd.

[Rix Gins]

One hundred years ago, today:  Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart" premieres in NYC. 

https://youtu.be/qG09vp0Z2QE

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, January 12, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:17; sunset, 4:40.

Oscar Sanberg, Lemont, Ill., jailed for ten days for dodging jury service.

Sylvester F. Koons, 4153 Sheridan rd. wants divorce from Sarah. Says she left when he kicked against company she was keeping.

Herbert Thomas, 16, 854 W. 51st, arrested in connection with attacks on women.

Louis Lemagna, 1437 Spruce, arrested on charge of threatening wife and four children with shotgun.

Clifford Mitchell, 1553 W. Madison, arrested. Wife said he beat her. Signed peace bond. 

Frank Mailiff, 31, who created excitement when he tried to force way to Judge Landis, sent to insane asylum.

Christian Schaeffer, 213 W; 22d, found dead in chair in upright  position.

Chas. H. Chandler, Cedar Rapids, Ia., businessman and former member of city council, dropped dead in Northwestern station. Heart trouble.

Holdup man got $10 from C. Tolman, saloonkeeper, 3525 Walton, but refused to rob bar patrons because they were workingmen.

Three small negro boys got $30 from Benj. Saltzman, grocer, 126 E. 30th. Locked him in icebox.

J. Maurice Pettit pleaded guilty to slaying girl-wife. Her mother asked that he be spared death penalty.

W. J. Cooke, clerk in Chicago branch of Bank of Montreal, who was missing, returned home.

Lawrence Jack, night clerk at Hotel Loraine, on trial on serious charges made by 15 year old girl.

"Mother Mary" Doane, 3356 Vernon av., who for years operated questionable flat at 210 E. Ohio, died after operation.

Don W. Osborne, Topeka, Kas., walked out of Fort Dearborn hotel clad only in pajamas. Psychopathic hospital.

Ten-year-old boy, thought to be Robert Hunt, 4603 S. Fairfield av., found unconscious on railroad tracks. Skull fractured. Probably hit by a train. 

Ben Konalzski, 1549 Blackhawk, and Rocco Larenato, 3555 W. Superior, hurt when gas lighting tank under express car exploded.

Katherine Beatty, 17 Moberly, Mo., who said Geo. Cochran brought her to Chicago and placed her on the streets, died before she could give Mann act testimony, but yesterday Cochran got nine months in Bridewell.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Zion City, is out against newspaper comic cartoons.

Doris Byrne;17, arrested on charge of trying to extort money; by conspiracy from Francis Junkermann, Cedar Rapids, la., merchant.

Chicago cabarets blamed by Kenneth Farnham, who confessed embezzling $1,100 from American Glue Co., Hammond.

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The Seattle Star, January 12, 1917.

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The Chicago Day Book, January 13, 1917.

NEWS. OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
Sunrise, 7:16; sunset, 4.42.

Policeman Thos. J. Gibbons and Floyd White, clerk of Bullard, Gormley & Co., held to grand jury. White charged with stealing revolvers and Gibbons with selling them.

Adam Prochacki, "chloroform burglar" who confessed thefts aggregating $100,000, failed to appear when case was called before Judge Pam. $7,500 bonds forfeited.

Frank Tomasewski held to grand jury on charge of robbing saloon of Stanley Heymar, 1555 W. 18tn.

Wlm. Talhot, 4107 S. State, city electrical employee, charged with stealing copper wire from city.

Inquest into death of Mrs Pauline Hill 1411 E. 53d, alleged victim of illegal operation, continued until Jan. Willard Hill, husband, and Dr. G.E. Forsberg, 1504 E. 53rd, held by police.

Kenneth Farnham, who spent $1,100 embezzled from American Glue Co., Hammond, in Chicago cabarets, given one to five years sentence. 

Alexander Macaluso, saloonkeeper, 1026 Harrison, given year in Bridewell on pandering charge. Three girls appeared against him.

Two armed men got $550. from saloon of Dante & Dalasso, 331 Rush.

Auto truck of Oscar F. Mayer & Bros., packers, driven by Geo. Schirk badly injured Alexander Grey, 62, 623 W. Madison.

Violet rays will be used to clean Ida Noyes natatorium, girls' swimming tank, Univ. of Chicago,

Arthur Off is "off' Mrs. Mabel Off. Wants divorce. Says she left him.

Dean Alexander, 163 Clark, gave Eleanor Hess, 1333 School, diamond engagement ring. Wanted it back. She said no. He had her arrested.

Mrs. Nellie D. Hart, Muskegon Mich., sent to asylum three years ago, wants sanity legally restored. Says she was "railroaded" to asylum by relatives.

Mrs. Isabelle Jackson, mother of Albert Jackson, bartender, slain recently, discovered after trying to starve herself to death. Grieving over son.

Dr. A. M. Corwin, who writes verses for health dep't bulletin, lost his $2,500 job. Finance committee abolished it. 
 
Gyles Myrick, 71, direct descendant of King Edward 1., died, forgotten and alone, in Kenosha hospital.


TWO DEAD, $2,000,000 LOSS, IN DU PONT POWDER BLAST

  New York, Jan. 13. Two million dollars property damage, but at a cost of only two lives, seemed likely at noon today to be the record of the Haskell, N. J., explosion of the DuPont Powder Co.'s plant last night, which shook four states. The company itself merely stated the two men are "missing." Only two of the thousands in the danger zone were so seriously injured as to require hospital treatment, the company declared in a statement from Wilmington today.
  The DuPont company regarded it as established that the explosion resulted not from incendiaries or a plot,but by simple accident. The first flare was in the glazing barrel, where smokeless powder is finished.
  Twenty five explosions have occurred in this plant since the company began making munitions for the allies, but in each instance officials in charge have insisted that they were accidental.
  Explosions in New Jersey munition plants within the last few months have caused $33,250,000 damage.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. J. H. Greer will give illustrated lecture on "The Venereal Peril" tonight at Hobo College, 917 W. Washington blvd.

Sunday's meeting of Workers' University society at Garrick theater, 2:30 p. m., will be devoted to evolution topics. Arthur M. Lewis will give an illustrated lecture, "Evolution and Plants, Animals, Man and Stars." Clarence Darrow will deliver a tribute to the memory of Prof. J. Howard Moore, evolutionist.

"How Old Is Man?", a Theosophical discourse by Julia K. Sommer, Besant hall, 116 S. Michigan, Sun., 3:30 p. m.

Dr. Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall will discuss "What the World Most Needs" before the International New Thought Fellowship in Hall 210, Masonic Temple, Sun., 11 a. m.

Sirfessor Wilkesbarre will speak on "Birth Control" at Colonial hall, 110 W. Randolph, Sun. eve., 8 p. m.

[Rix Gins]

The Broad Ax, January 13, 1917.

FINDS HIDDEN ROOMS IN HOUSE OF MYSTERY - Carpenter Work on Old Place Reveals Apartments None Knew About.

  Chicago. At 3624 Ellis Park is an old three story frame building that was a home when Ellis park was a woodland. For the last eight or nine years, in a remodeled form, it has been an apartment building.
  A few days ago a carpenter, tearing away old planking to build a porch, broke through a wall and made discoveries which made 3624 Ellis Park a house of mystery.
  Between the second and third floors he found a hidden apartment of which not even John Chamales, new owner of the building, knew. Carefully Frank Wilder, the carpenter, entered through the hole he had made in the wall.
  He found a complete set of rooms running from the front to the rear of the building. The walls and ceiling were unfinished. There were no windows and no visible means of exit. There was a small table in one corner with a few dishes on it and an old copper lamp. Rust covered, but with a frying pan of ancient days still on it there was a stove. Some straw in a corner seemed to indicate where the mysterious occupant of the mystery chamber had slept
  A piece of wire between two walls served as a hanger for an old coat. Over everything was a thick layer of dust
  In hunting for an exit Wilder came upon a panel in the wall fastened with a hinge, two big iron hooks and a bar that fitted into iron clasps. It opened upon the staircase and so matched the paneling that it was invisible from the outside.

[Meister_000]

WWI War-time British Government domestic borrowing
(i.e. raising money to pay for the War effort)
Distinguish: Saving Certificates, War Loans, War Bonds (over the course of the war)
(5 short articles (one site):


Government borrowing at home
http://www.rbsremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/supporting-the-nation/government-borrowing-at-home.html
War Savings Certificates
http://www.rbsremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/supporting-the-nation/war-savings-certificates.html
1917 War Loan (Jan-Feb 1917 one-off drive, targeting gen population)
http://www.rbsremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/supporting-the-nation/1917-war-loan.html
1917 National War Bonds (Oct 1917)
http://www.rbsremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/supporting-the-nation/national-war-bonds.html
1918 Tank Banks
http://www.rbsremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/supporting-the-nation/tank-banks.html
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An illustration in Punch from Jan 1917 (below) proved to be more involved to explain than I realized at first sight. For anyone interested, go read those 5 very short summaries linked above for the larger picture context.  Similar schemes and drives were run across the Empire (England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia [India?, New Zealand?, South Africa?] -- and very shortly (4 months later) the U.S. would enter the War and begin it's own War/Liberty bond/loan drives etc.)


In January 1917, England initialed a "War Loan" program, (one of numerous assorted capital raising schemes rolled-out over the span of the war) a short one-month-long one-off fund-raising drive (Jan 16th to Feb 16th), targeting the general population, i.e. very small "investor", the common man.  The "Loans" (to the gov, essentially a bond) were at 5% interest. 867 million £ (pounds) of "new" money was raised during this Jan 1917 drive -- "a vast amount, around four times the entire national budget for 1913-14". An additional 13,000 mill £s of paper-shuffle conversion products (to this new higher interest-rate) were also involved.

[Meister_000]

WTF?  How much time (minutes) do we have now to come back and *edit* (correct, add, del)
["Modify"] content before a post gets locked down? 

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, January 15, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

Geo. Macuma, 734 N. St. Louis av., found dead. Gas. Police probing.

Jos. Wegelson, Surnmitt, III., jumped in drainage canal in suicide attempt. Water too cold. Jumped out again. 

Jas. Scullem, returned to S. Chicago after absence of 50 years. Penniless and homeless. Sent to Bridewell for winter.

Jas. Downs, Indianapolis, ate, drank and slept at Hotel Sherman for two days without money. Sanity to be tested,

C. W. Morris, 27, 2301 W. Adams, stricken with what is believed to be infant plague. May live.

Police searching for Thos. Mahoney, 20, 11226 Watt av., and Caroline Backstorfer, 16, 5115 Ellis av., believed to have eloped.

Angel Brasche, Spanish teacher, 4124 Kenmore av., arrested on the charge of deserting wife and baby two years ago. Insists police want his brother, Angelino, and not him.

Goodrich Line steamer Indiana went aground on submerged portion of one mile breakwater in outer harbor. Capt. Carland's crew still fighting to pull it off.

August Grunwald, 33, 1700 Barry, av., arrested on charge of embezzling from Trier-Stanley Co. Police blame cabarets. Grunwald is married.

Two young men, posing as wealthy, caught robbing rooms in Plymouth hotel, 4700 Broadway.

Thos. McLaughlin, 13, 4814 Wentworth av.; Walter Francke, 12, 220 Swan, and Arthur Becker, 11, 234 Swan, arrested on charge of trying to rob Freund's dep't store, 4344 Wentworth av.

Three armed men got $105 from Wm. Hardiman's drug store, 5701 Wentworth av.

Five auto robbers got gold watch, pearl stickpin and ?7 from A. J. Smith, 5948 Kenmore av., and $2 and overcoat from Edw. Goldsmith,1040 McArthur av.

Four auto bandits got $17 and watch from Louis Youngermah, 4941 W. Huron. 

Two negroes and white man got $9 and gold watch from Geo. S. Brown, 420 Blue Island av.

Two auto bandits held up J. L. Schlessinger's store, 1209 N. Clark. Got $2 and gold watch from Perry Lipe, 818 Wilson av. and small amount from clerk.

Eleven men arrested in raid on alleged poker game in poolroom at 601 N. Dearborn.

Twenty six men and women arrested in raids at 854 E. 39th and 3455 Cottage Grove av.

Six persons hurt by bomb explosion that damaged St. Louis French Roman Catholic church, 11700 State. Labor feud theory held by police.

Mrs. Winifred Thompson, 4351 Paulina, said she saw a robin yesterday.


ARNOLD DALY, NOTED ACTOR, NEAR DEATH

  Daly, famous actor and producer, is reported near death in New York, following an operation for appendicitis.
The performance of "The Master," in which he starred, had to be canceled because of his illness.
  Daly was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1875 and first became connected with the theatrical profession as an office boy for Charles Frohman.
  He was married in 1901 to Miss Mary Blythe of Los Angeles, Cal. 

(He didn't die, at least not until 1927.)   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Daly


Arnold Daly as Eugene Marchbanks in Shaw's Candida (1903)  (Wikimedia)