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One Hundred Years Ago

Started by Rix Gins, January 01, 2016, 08:20:14 PM

pyewacket




Imagine getting away with selling chips for 10 cents these days.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: pyewacket on October 11, 2019, 04:39:03 PM


Imagine getting away with selling chips for 10 cents these days.

Art’s own brand? Wew, lad! :D

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 13, 1919.




WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on October 13, 2019, 02:06:29 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 13, 1919.





$200? Can you imagine if they charged Hugh $200 for every issue of Playboy to go through the mail?

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus, October 16, 1919.



Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 21, 1919.






albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on October 21, 2019, 01:37:17 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 21, 1919.






"Farmer" Burns was a famous wrassler back in the day. Back then it was real wrestling but also with the some showman's ship and spectacle, and often "no holds barred" and "no time limit" (or a set number of "falls.") Sometimes they would "take on all comers" at local fairs etc.

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

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









Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on October 21, 2019, 05:32:58 PM
"Farmer" Burns was a famous wrassler back in the day. Back then it was real wrestling but also with the some showman's ship and spectacle, and often "no holds barred" and "no time limit" (or a set number of "falls.") Sometimes they would "take on all comers" at local fairs etc.

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

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

Nice links, mr. a.  I hadn't thought to look the wrestler up.  Sheesh!
QuoteBurns was well known in the early twentieth century for his neck. He managed to have a twenty-inch neck. With this neck, according to an article in WWE Magazine, he gained fame by being put into a noose, getting hanged, and living, while whistling "Yankee Doodle".

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 24, 1919.


albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on October 24, 2019, 02:21:44 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 24, 1919.


Nice find. I like Gypsy stories. There is, even in modern day, lots of feuds between the various tribes. And I find interesting how a culture can survive over much distance, persecution, and criminality. 

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-curse-of-romeo-and-juliet/   

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jul/29/100-years-ago-in-spokane-police-chief-declares-war/ 

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/may/24/city-remembered-in-passing-procession-a-stop-at/ 





Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., October 25, 1919.


pyewacket

Halloween is almost here and I thought you all might enjoy a vintage true crime story that could be the inspiration for a gruesome movie or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECESHP3dE4I

albrecht

Quote from: pyewacket on October 26, 2019, 10:03:23 AM
Halloween is almost here and I thought you all might enjoy a vintage true crime story that could be the inspiration for a gruesome movie or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECESHP3dE4I
What is so bad/sad is how he, like in modern times, was apparently shuffled around to different churches and Dioceses despite being an obvious sick, perverted individual. At least he got some corporeal punishment and was caught and tried in his lifetime.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 05, 1919.


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle star., November 06, 1919.


WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 05, 2019, 02:31:59 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 05, 1919.


Drinking denatured alcohol? Poisonous and horrid tasting (from what I'm told.) Who in their right mind has a bottle of that crap hanging around for consumption?

I wonder if the denatured alcohol of 1919 only tasted bad but was not actually poisoned? I wonder if people continuing to drink it is the reason that it was made poisonous?

Rix Gins

Quote from: WOTR on November 10, 2019, 12:04:06 AM
Drinking denatured alcohol? Poisonous and horrid tasting (from what I'm told.) Who in their right mind has a bottle of that crap hanging around for consumption?

I wonder if the denatured alcohol of 1919 only tasted bad but was not actually poisoned? I wonder if people continuing to drink it is the reason that it was made poisonous?

Also drinking wood alcohol back then.  People would drink it and appear drunk and talkative but then they would get real sick, throw up and become delirious.  If they drank too much of it, they would flat out die. If they managed to survive drinking small amounts on a regular basis, then their optic nerves would get damaged and they would eventually become blind. 

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 11, 1919.


WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 11, 2019, 04:08:59 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 11, 1919.



"Smashed the car to splinters."  ;D

Ah, the good old days when you could use your car for kindling.  ;)

I have to admit that the recorded version sounds far better than this- but I had never seen it before. "I bought a '30 Ford wagon and they called it a woodie..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5V3wcREqcI


albrecht

Quote from: WOTR on November 11, 2019, 03:20:47 PM
"Smashed the car to splinters."  ;D


And, again, after this accident, though injured and "car to splinters" the driver and passenger can walk away!?

WOTR

Quote from: albrecht on November 11, 2019, 05:17:03 PM
And, again, after this accident, though injured and "car to splinters" the driver and passenger can walk away!?

I missed that. Another case of superhuman resilience of yesteryear.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress, November 20, 1919.

The Seattle Star


The Rock Island Argus


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 25, 1919.




albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 25, 2019, 04:02:58 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., November 25, 1919.




Car "practically demolished" by Street Car? Some less serious injuries. Some necessitating hospitalization. And "elder man" just needs a few stitches. No deaths.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus., December 01, 1919.

     



     

WOTR

Can you imagine a "light on a third floor" of a department store being left on causing a "squad of police officers" to be dispatched today? That is absolutely unreal. I suppose the fact that it was a faulty switch and turned on by itself might cause an officer to be dispatched to investigate.

But then it actually makes the morning paper as something worth reporting?

Wow. Must have bee a slow news day.  ;)

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: WOTR on December 01, 2019, 03:54:11 PM
Can you imagine a "light on a third floor" of a department store being left on causing a "squad of police officers" to be dispatched today? That is absolutely unreal. I suppose the fact that it was a faulty switch and turned on by itself might cause an officer to be dispatched to investigate.

But then it actually makes the morning paper as something worth reporting?

Wow. Must have bee a slow news day.  ;)

Sure! It’s how Watergate started.

Kidnostad3

Quote from: WOTR on December 01, 2019, 03:54:11 PM
Can you imagine a "light on a third floor" of a department store being left on causing a "squad of police officers" to be dispatched today? That is absolutely unreal. I suppose the fact that it was a faulty switch and turned on by itself might cause an officer to be dispatched to investigate.

But then it actually makes the morning paper as something worth reporting?

Wow. Must have bee a slow news day.  ;)

What I find it harder to imagine is a burglar turning on a light that is visible from the street.  That would have to be one dumb burgler. 

Uncle Duke

BBC News - German WWI wreck Scharnhorst discovered off Falklands
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50670743

Ok, 105 years ago, but still a cool find.  The Battle of the Falklands Islands was the first major naval victory for the Royal Navy since Trafalgar.

albrecht

Quote from: Uncle Duke on December 05, 2019, 07:44:28 PM
BBC News - German WWI wreck Scharnhorst discovered off Falklands
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50670743

Ok, 105 years ago, but still a cool find.  The Battle of the Falklands Islands was the first major naval victory for the Royal Navy since Trafalgar.
Cool-  salvage companies get it before it is protected....kidding, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel



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