One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, February 8, 1917.

AMUSEMENTS - BUTLER THEATER

  There will be vaudeville again this evening at the Butler. Sig. Giacoletti will appear for the last time in his novel musical act, with a change of selections. Julius Goldsmith will also be in the pit with his violin.
  The feature picture will be a plcturizatlon of a powerful plot of love and achievement entitled "The Challenge," another of the famous A. H. Woods stage hits, telling a human story of a real man and a real woman. A tense scene in which a card sharp is shown up, the arrest and conviction of the hero, the hold up by a straight-shooting girl, the rescue of a man who has fallen over a cliff, the jump from a bridge to a fast-moving train, making a picture that will hold you from the start.
  Tomorrow, a double bills. Theda Bara in a six-reel feature, "The Vixen," and a three-reel circus comedy with all the acrobats, clowns, bare-back riders, animal trainers, firemen, elephants, lions and tigers.
  Whenever the Butler advances its admission prices, which is seldom, there is a reason. The reason for the advance in the Clara Kimball Young and Pickford specials is that these pictures cost over four times as much as the ordinary feature, and that the public wants the very best and is willing to pay the slight advance is evidenced by the capacity houses on these occasions. The Butler price is never advanced for any other reason, and the Butler band never bally-hoo's unless the program merits so doing.

[Rix Gins]

The Seattle Star, February 8, 1917.

[Ciardelo]

The Chicago Day Book, February 8, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

Jesse E. Marvin, 3247 Warren av., sued for divorce by Edith G. Marvin. Desertion, nonsupport and too much W mother-in-law, she charges.

Geo. Mears, who has served 18 years in Joliet prison, escaped today.

Coroner's jury decided Mrs. Margaret Hare, 2229 Prairie av., came to death by accidentally mixing boracic acid and rat poison in pancake flour.

Mrs. Elizabeth Julian, 1420 S. Springfield av., died after eating oysters and mushrooms.

Peter Leffler, 40, freight handler, and his wife, Minnie, 37, killed by gas in home, 3551 N. Halsted. Mrs. Anna Meehan, 70, Mrs. Leffler's mother, overcome; may die.

Nils Westerlund, 1339 N. Ridgeway av., conductor on Grand av. car, was fatally hurt today while switching his car on the Municipal pier. He did not notice another car approaching through the blinding snow. Both legs were cut off. He died shortly
after.

Milan Hurling, 1354 S. Hoyne av., shot Died. Jos. E. Lemming, railroad detective, taken into custody.

Harry Prince, 115 W. Madison, and Seven Olson, 116 W. Ontario, stabbed in war argument. Jas. Klayde, 615 Wells, held.

Joe Mudloff, 1624 Indiana av., stabbed and wounded in war argument in saloon at 1308 Wabash av. Michael and Jos. Longo, brothers, sought.

Blanche Pyne, Juvenile Detention Home, stricken with scarlet fever after caring for young charges who were ill.

Company C, Third III. infantry, under scarlet fever quarantine.

Delta Upsilon fraternity, Univ. of Chicago, quarantined. Scarlet fever.

Frank I. Schoell Univ. of Chicago, lost hearing in left ear fighting in France.

John Smith, 725 Independence blvd., missing.

Woman's City club to teach hygiene to working girls.

"Jackies" from Great Lakes naval training station paraded in loop today as part of campaign to gain recruits.

Rep. B. F. Clettenberg introduced bill in legislature to bar women from smoking in public.

Fred Pugge, 60, 4243 Wentworthav., hurt by auto of F. A. Hart, 372 S. Halsted, died.

Seventeen Chicago men left for France to join ambulance corps.

Robert W. Gunther, alias Herbert Lackley, alias H. L. Herrick, who posed as nephew of ex-Ambassador Myron Herrick and obtained money at banks, wanted by police.

Board of assessors probing report that gang of tax sharks are operating, in Chicago. Receive money on promise to haye assessments cut.


CHICAGO AND THE WAR

Socialists to hold peace mass meeting tonight at Hodcarriers' hall, Harrison and Green sts. Several speakers.

Horace L. Brand, editor of Illinois Staats Zeitung, came out with "America First" editorial.

Young men of all nationalities in rush to join army and navy. 600 recruited here since Tuesday. Many Germans among recruits.

Wm. Schneider, Chicago, asked to submit plans for invention to protect United States coast line for 30 or 40 miles from shore.

John Bums, 75, veteran of war of '64, begged chance to join army.


WHEREABOUTS OF MARJORIE DELBRIDGE A MYSTERY

  The whereabouts of Marjorie Delbndge, 14-year-old white girl who was raised with negroes until the juvenile court decided this was wrong and took her away, is as much a mystery today as it was on the night of Jan. 25, when she disappeared from the home of Mrs. Louis Brock, 6825 Cornell av.
  Judge Bowles in the circuit court questioned "Mammy" Camilla Jackson yesterday, but the colored woman who raised Marjorie said she didn't know where the girl was.
  Marjorie was last seen, when she went to the door of the Brock home to bid "Mammy" good-by after her aged friend had paid her a visit.

I literally don't know where to start. lol This an embarrassment of riches.

[Ciardelo]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, February 8, 1917.

AMUSEMENTS - BUTLER THEATER

  There will be vaudeville again this evening at the Butler. Sig. Giacoletti will appear for the last time in his novel musical act, with a change of selections. Julius Goldsmith will also be in the pit with his violin.
  The feature picture will be a plcturizatlon of a powerful plot of love and achievement entitled "The Challenge," another of the famous A. H. Woods stage hits, telling a human story of a real man and a real woman. A tense scene in which a card sharp is shown up, the arrest and conviction of the hero, the hold up by a straight-shooting girl, the rescue of a man who has fallen over a cliff, the jump from a bridge to a fast-moving train, making a picture that will hold you from the start.
  Tomorrow, a double bills. Theda Bara in a six-reel feature, "The Vixen," and a three-reel circus comedy with all the acrobats, clowns, bare-back riders, animal trainers, firemen, elephants, lions and tigers.
  Whenever the Butler advances its admission prices, which is seldom, there is a reason. The reason for the advance in the Clara Kimball Young and Pickford specials is that these pictures cost over four times as much as the ordinary feature, and that the public wants the very best and is willing to pay the slight advance is evidenced by the capacity houses on these occasions. The Butler price is never advanced for any other reason, and the Butler band never bally-hoo's unless the program merits so doing.

Good on you Butler.

[Rix Gins]

I literally don't know where to start. lol This an embarrassment of riches.

Haha, that's OK Ciardelo.  Just enjoy.

[Ciardelo]

The Evening Star, February 8, 1917.

"a picture is worth a thousand words" I wouldn't mind having a litho of this for my office.

[Rix Gins]

"a picture is worth a thousand words" I wouldn't mind having a litho of this for my office.

Yeah, one can really see the anger in Uncle Sam's eyes.  Edit: Actually he's pretty sad, huh?  I missed it on the first glance.

[Ciardelo]

Haha, that's OK Ciardelo.  Just enjoy.

and I do, Rix, I may not post every day, but I do appreciate you time-traveling back exactly 100 years each day for us. 

[Rix Gins]

and I do, Rix, I may not post every day, but I do appreciate you time-traveling back exactly 100 years for us. 

My pleasure.  It's lots of fun putting the items together.  Glad you like it.

[Ciardelo]

Yeah, one can really see the anger in Uncle Sam's eyes.  Edit: Actually he's pretty sad, huh?  I missed it on the first glance.

You're right, good catch...it's a blending of mourning, and yet a spark of kick-ass. jeeze. Imma gonna print one, even if just on 8x10 copy paper.

[Rix Gins]

You're right, good catch...it's a blending of mourning, and yet a spark of kick-ass. jeeze. Imma gonna print one, even if just on 8x10 copy paper.

Cool.  It is a very well done illustration.   

[Ciardelo]

Cool.  It is a very well done illustration.

Do you know who the cartoonist was?

"Before we had talk radio and tailored TV channels, we had newspaper cartoonists."

[Rix Gins]

Do you know who the cartoonist was?

"Before we had talk radio and tailored TV channels, we had newspaper cartoonists."

I really can't tell though I think he singed with his last name...not very clearly I'm afraid.  Starts with a 'B' I think.

[Ciardelo]

I know we're in this sleepy, backwater, segregated section of BellGab...but that pic of Uncle Sam holding up the piece of paper...

Rix, I think you have unleashed a meme buddy, it might have been 100 years in the making, I might be wrong (I doubt) but I'm going to go ahead and call it right here, right now, the birth of a new (old) meme upon the American landscape.

WELCOME THE NEW UNCLE SAM MEME!

(YOUR MESSAGE HERE)

[Rix Gins]

I know we're in this sleepy, backwater, segregated section of BellGab...

Yeah, I kind of like it that way.  lol

[Ciardelo]

Yeah, I kind of like it that way.  lol

<g>

[maureen]

I really can't tell though I think he singed with his last name...not very clearly I'm afraid.  Starts with a 'B' I think.

Possibly Clifford K. Berryman?

[Rix Gins]

Possibly Clifford K. Berryman?

Winner!!!  Absolutely, Maureen.  Once you wrote the name, I could easily see it in the signature.  Plus, I looked up another one of his cartoons and the signatures easily matched up.  Thank you so much.  I also enjoyed reading about Mr. Berryman.  He was certainly one of America's top cartoonists for quite a number of years.  A fascinating person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_K._Berryman

[albrecht]

Possibly Clifford K. Berryman?

Impressive. Good job! And glad you still lurk around considering how site goes. I remember vividly when Washington Star went kaput and the 'intrigue' and business, labor, etc dealings before and after.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, February 9, 1917.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, February 9, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

Thos. Borsis and Jas. Sahris given 2 years and 18 months respectively in Leavenworth prison. Counterfeiting.

John J. Halpin, former chief of detectives, convicted of conspiracy, taken to Joliet prison. Numbered 5231. Sentenced from one to five years.

O. J. C. Wray, att'y for Ernest Wallace, sentenced to gallows for murders of Jacob Levine and Harry Monrie, says "lifer" in Joliet committed crimes.

State's Atty Hoyne began investigation into death of Lem Nutter, confessed auto thief, in county jail.

Mrs. Catherine Crawford, 82, 3218 Indiana av., died of burns incurred Feb. 2 when mattress caught fire.

J. A. Mussenden, 67, 4431 Berkeleyav., dead. Gas. Heater believed to have consumed oxygen.

E. J. Bush, 38, chauffeur, 4537 Congress, dropped dead in Halsted st "L" station. Heart failure.

Benj. Cohen, jailguard, accidentally shot self in leg.

Dog's barking saved occupants of burning bldg. at 1233 Frontier. Tony Anderss, suspected of starting fire, tried to hang self in cell.

Edw. Wagner, 1238 Chicago av., holdup suspect, jumped from 2nd story window to dodge police. Both legs broken.

Sylvester Lichtner, J. E. Marks and I. V. Henrici, motorman,  hurt when street car hit coal truck on 63d st.

Mrs. Victor Wolff, Maywood, found 4-year-old boy wandering in street. Said his name is Philip Schneider.

Blanche Slocum, Oak Park opera singer, is in Germany. Parents worried.

Carl Meltzer, chief gardener of the school board, under fire again on charge of flying German flag on his residence.

Mayor Thompson to start fight on infant plague.


PROCHOWSKI, GOLD COAST ROBBER, ILL IN JAIL
 
Considerable anxiety was expressed by attaches of State's Att'y Hoyne for the condition of Adam Prochowski, gold coast burglar who confessed that he worked with protection from police and politicians on the North Side. He is ill at the County hospital with pneumonia and tonsillitis.
  The fact that Lem Nutter, another star witness for Hoyne and a member of the same gang with Prochowski, died in the County jail from the same disease a week after he was sent there caused a rumor today that Hoyne was investigating Prochowski's illness as the result of a plot.


FEAR FOR GIANT LINERS IN SUBMARINE ZONE

  New York, Feb. 9. The White Star liners Baltic and Adriatic, the largest ships which have defied the German submarine decree since the five-day period of grace ended and attempted to run the new "blockade" in England, were subject of conflicting reports in shipping circles today.
  One report was that the Baltic, which carried 44 passengers, among whom were two Americans, had safely run the blockade and reached Liverpool and that the line officials were withholding announcement. The more general report was that she had not yet arrived. The last report from the Adriatic was that she entered the danger zone last night.


AMERICAN LINE UNABLE TO GET GUNS FOR SHIPS

  New York, Feb. 9. Unable to find guns with which to arm their ships, officials of the American Line today said the sailing of the St. Louis is just as indefinite as ever. Numerous attempts to get guns from American manufacturers has brought the response that they will have to come through the United States navy, as all guns now being made in this country are for foreign governments.
  Numerous applications from former gunners for work on the liners have been received, but they have not yet been acted upon.


COAL FAMINE THREATENS WITH MERCURY 2 BELOW ZERO

  The city's coal supply is the lowest it has ever been. People's Gas light & Coke Co. reports its supply so low that there soon will be no gas unless relief is obtained. Seven swell apartment buildings housing over 100 families in Hyde Park were cold today because there was no coal for the furnaces.
Coal men blame the railroads for not getting coal here and railroads say there is lots of coal in Chicago, but that coal dealers are simply working a game to get another boost in prices.
  City, state and federal authorities have been appealed to, including Gov. Lowden, Dis't Att'y Clyne, congress and the interstate commerce commission.


LIFER ESCAPES, LOSES MONEY AND IS ARRESTED

  How would you feel if you were sent to Joliet penitentiary for life and after you served 25 years of your term and got a soft job as a trusty you had a chance to flee the prison wall and you did, but had your pocket picked of $100, the last cent you owned, the first day you were out, and when you made a kick to a policeman he pinched you as an escaped convict and you were sent back to face hard labor and abuse? That's what happened to George Mears yesterday.


ALLEGED SECRET SERVICE MAN LANDS IN CELL

  William Reikow, 35, 1831 Park av., who said he is a secret service man and also an employee of the German consulate, caused the arrest of bimself and Mayme Hansen, 2507 Harrison, and Edw. Stauper, 22, 2509 Harrison, at Division and Halsted sts. early this morning after they had staged a street argument. Policeman Chris Brown stopped the argument and was about to let them go free when Reikow challenged his right to arrest him. Disorderly conduct charged.


JUDGE AND STATE'S ATTORNEY HAVE WORDY WAR

  A breath of the feeling that is said to exist between the morals court and the juvenile court cropped out yesterday when Judge Harry Fisher and Ass't State's Att'y Rob't Hogan had a wordy scrap in Fisher's morals court.
  When Julia Doyle, sleuth for the juvenile court, tried to defend a girl on trial, Judge Fisher started questioning her, to which Hogan objected. Fisher grew angry and ordered Hogan to get out of the courtroom and then to sit down. Hogan did neither.


THINK CAPITOL GUARD'S LUNCH IS BOMB HE'S HUNGRY

  Washington, Feb. 9. The vigilance of capitol guards, who since the break with Germany have refused to permit any one to bring a package into the capitol, cost Samuel Hicks, negro doorman at the foreign relations committee, his dinner today.
  Hicks carried his dinner in a long tin "feed box." He placed the box in a window. A guard found it. Visions of an infernal machine flashed before the guard. Gingerly holding the box at arms' length, the guard tiptoed to the basement with it and plunged the box, eats and all, into a pail of water.
  "Guess I'll have to use food tablets until this bust with Germany is patched up," commented Hicks.

[Rix Gins]

The Evening Star, February 9, 1917.  (Another Berryman cartoon.)

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, February 9, 1917.

NEWLY WEDS PLACED UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT OVATION AT BUTLER, THEATER FOR SAFETY FIRST MAN AND BRIDE

  Mr. and Mrs. George Riggs were treated to a demonstration last evening that did not appear in their honeymoon program. The affair was spontaneous and brought down the house with thunders of applause. The diversion occurred at the time Signor Giacolettl appeared in his famous musical act. The number was almost finished when somebody in the house rose and insisted that the musicians strike up the wedding march. There was a moment's hesitation, since the signor had not been coached for the event, but the orchestra leader, who was wise to the situation, instantly sounded the opening strains of the famous composition from Lohengrin. Then the man in the picture box swung his spotlight right down in the center of the house, circling around until he landed squarely on the newly wedded couple. Then the aureole of light rested. embracing the heads and shoulders of the popular couple, while the house applauded for almost three minutes, during which the blushing cynosure of the audience laughed and joined in the applause, while a perfect avalanche of rice poured on them from all directions. The demonstration was the result of a desire of Mr. Riggs' friends to avenge themselves on him for springing a wedding surprise without advising them of the event.


DANCE AT THE AIRDOME

  There will be a dance at the Airdome Saturday night, February 10, to which the public is cordially invited to attend. An eight piece orchestra will play and flashlight photos of the dancers will be taken.

[Rix Gins]

The New York Tribune, February 9, 1917.

[Rix Gins]

The Seattle Star, February 9, 1917.

[albrecht]

The Chicago Day Book, February 9, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO


J. A. Mussenden, 67, 4431 Berkeleyav., dead. Gas. Heater believed to have consumed oxygen.



Mrs. Victor Wolff, Maywood, found 4-year-old boy wandering in street. Said his name is Philip Schneider.

Blanche Slocum, Oak Park opera singer, is in Germany. Parents worried.

Carl Meltzer, chief gardener of the school board, under fire again on charge of flying German flag on his residence.





LIFER ESCAPES, LOSES MONEY AND IS ARRESTED

  How would you feel if you were sent to Joliet penitentiary for life and after you served 25 years of your term and got a soft job as a trusty you had a chance to flee the prison wall and you did, but had your pocket picked of $100, the last cent you owned, the first day you were out, and when you made a kick to a policeman he pinched you as an escaped convict and you were sent back to face hard labor and abuse? That's what happened to George Mears yesterday.



THINK CAPITOL GUARD'S LUNCH IS BOMB HE'S HUNGRY

  Washington, Feb. 9. The vigilance of capitol guards, who since the break with Germany have refused to permit any one to bring a package into the capitol, cost Samuel Hicks, negro doorman at the foreign relations committee, his dinner today.
  Hicks carried his dinner in a long tin "feed box." He placed the box in a window. A guard found it. Visions of an infernal machine flashed before the guard. Gingerly holding the box at arms' length, the guard tiptoed to the basement with it and plunged the box, eats and all, into a pail of water.
  "Guess I'll have to use food tablets until this bust with Germany is patched up," commented Hicks.

Fun stuff, things never change. Like post-911 where any unintended bag was viewed suspect. Also the gas thing is interesting- normally it is assumed to the gas itself is the cause for death but, in this case, they think the equipment was working (burning) but it "sucked all the oxygen out of the room? Highly suspect, especially buildings back then. (Today we wrap  and foam stuff and windows are pretty tight so, maybe, possible if a small room but back then? I'm suspect.

[Rix Gins]

The New York Tribune, February 10, 1917.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, February 10, 1917.

NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO
 
Two bandits got $20 from Thom. Branham, grocer, 949 Adams.

Two armed men knocked down Jos. Martin, clerk, in Blue Star grocery, 521 S. Halsted, and escaped with $40. Woman customer fainted.

Auto bandits got $70 from Geo, C. Goepper, druggist, 1425 W. Garfield.

Auto bandits got $110 from W. T. Adams' drug store, 5700 S. Halsted.

Two armed men got $160 from C. J. Doceralis, 1510 Milwaukee av.

Robbers got $300 and diamond lavaliere from Eli Cohen, jeweler, 2269 Lincoln av.

Screams of Mrs. Frank A. Babbit, 817 Lafayette, frightened holdup man away.

Bandits twice knocked down Mrs. Emma Johnson, 72, but her screams frightened them away before they could get $3,000 in safe in her saloon, 8701 Buffalo av.

Det. Serg't John L. Sullivan and squad raided alleged gambling house at room 714, Crilly bldg. Seven men arrested. Racing sheets found.

Jos. C. Jones, 21, 6632 Greenwood, and Lawrence Ennie, 20, G327 Harper, arrested for abusing Ansel Moore, negro, 3432 Rhodes av.

Att'v Geo. McGurn and J. L. Kinder, detective, who raided flat at 653 Madison, clashed in morals court. Judge Fisher made them shake hands.

Judge Garrett ordered bench warrants for "Mickey Frank" and men known as Gilhooley and Williams on charge of trying to bribe jury in Wm. Rooney murder case.

Jerry Cucharda given life sentence for murder of "pal," Elmer Carlson, killed during holdup.

Thirty boys, between 12 and 16, will be forced to pay for damages to bldg. at 457 W. 46th, occupied by colored people.

John J. Halpin, ex-detective chief, now in Joliet prison, assigned to work in kitchen.

The O. W. Moore, lake freight and passenger steamer, owned by Dr. John Floor, sank in Chicago river near Division. Out of service for two years.

Five hurt by falls on icy sidewalks.

Small fire caused excitement in office of Bartlett-Frazier Co. grain merchants, Western Union bldg.

200 employees driven to street when fire broke out in Appleton Mfg. Co., Fulton and Jefferson sts., this morning. Fire started in basement. Cause not learned.

Two men badly burned when fulminating cap exploded in Wilson av. tunnel.

Anna Ryan, police matron, suffered mental breakdown, caused by horror of rats. Bitten by rat last year.

John Smith, 55, Chicago mgr. for J. K. Stiefel & Co., New York, missing since Saturday.

Coroner's jury blamed no one for death of Lem Nutter confessed auto bandit, in County jail. Urged jail hospital.

Only boys permitted to see boxing and wrestling at Hyde Park high school.

Rumored that Marjorie Delbridge, missing juvenile court ward, is heiress.


SOCIALISTS PROTEST WAR

  Four other halls in the neighborhood were necessary to handle the overflow from the anti-war meeting held at Hodcarriers' hall last night under the auspices of the Socialist party.
  Ald. Kennedy, Ald. Rodriguez, Adolph Dreifus and other protested against the United States becoming involved in a war with Germany or any other power. Big biz was accused of being behind the present condition. Illness prevented Eugene V. Debs from attending the meeting. Peace meetings are planned for the future.


MAN HURT IN ELEVATOR DROP AT MORRIS & CO. PLANT

  An investigation of the elevator system in the stockyards plant of Morris & Co. is expected to follow the five-floor drop of an elevator there this morning. Adam Michael, 4619 Hermitage, the operator, sustained a broken leg in the fall. He was taken to the Englewood hospital in the Morris Co. private ambulance.


"UNTIL DEATH DO US PART"

Ensign R. M. Parkinson, U. S. N., son of A. E. Parkinson, Rogers Park, told Judge Foell how he made an unexpected trip to Atlantic City and found his bride of six months, Ruth Prentiss Parkinson, in a hotel room with Louis Corsaut. Divorce.

Wm. Cooley, 22 Honore st., was divorced by Mrs. Steela Cooley in 1915. They were remarried in 1916. Now she wants freedom again. Charges infidelity. Named May Williams.

Joseph Lapinskas wants annulment of marriage to Mrs. Vera Sobiski Lapinskas. Says he was too drunk to know what he was doing when married.


COUNCIL BODY INVESTIGATES BABY FARMS

  A half dozen "baby farms" were visited by the council health committee yesterday in an effort to get facts on conditions in these institutions. Things were found to be in a bad state.
  Health ordinances were violated, places were dirty, squalid and dark, women who had children in charge were ignorant and careless, and in some of the "homes" babies seemed to be starving to death.
  A baby farm is a boarding place for children not wanted by their parents.

[Rix Gins]

The Seattle Star, February 10, 1917.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, February 12, 1917.