One Hundred Years Ago

[Meister_000]

Reading erotica that way would certainly make it considerably juicier.

But all the more frustrating. This guy also has no arms!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

But all the more frustrating. This guy also has no arms!

D'oh! Hadn't thought of that!

[Yorkshire pud]

I'd watch a show about the "Real Tenament Dwelling Housewives of the Good Old Days."

Carefully applied foundation, make up and your highest heels you'd make a good lead actor. Work on it and you'll be a star. Seriously.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Carefully applied foundation, make up and your highest heels you'd make a good lead actor. Work on it and you'll be a star. Seriously.

We're talking a hundred years ago here, and I'm not quite that old.  Will you please try to pay attention?  :

[Yorkshire pud]

We're talking a hundred years ago here, and I'm not quite that old.  Will you please try to pay attention?  :

You're not playing fair and I'm telling, so there. 

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book - February 4, 1916. 

[Rix Gins]

Here are some items from today's (if "today" was a hundred years ago) Chicago Day Book.

[Rix Gins]

Some more reality shows in the making from the Day Book.

[Rix Gins]

And finally from the Day Book.  An upcoming boxing match.

                       Jess Willard (Wikipedia)

                                vs
                   Frank Moran (Wikimedia)

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Some more reality shows in the making from the Day Book.

It's hard to believe counterfeiting nickels and dimes would have been worth the trouble even in 1916 when they would have bought quite a few items!  That guy deserved to be arrested just for being an idiot.

[Rix Gins]

It's hard to believe counterfeiting nickels and dimes would have been worth the trouble even in 1916 when they would have bought quite a few items!  That guy deserved to be arrested just for being an idiot.

lol.  Yeah he probably got nailed for making too much noise from  pounding the coins out of sheet metal.  I liked the one with the relative of Andrew Carnegie. She gets over pneumonia and celebrates by going to a cafe with her friends.  They get arrested for overdoing things, party-wise.  Hmm... Safe to say the cafe is no longer there. 

[Rix Gins]

Ooops, a couple of gems I missed from the Day Book.  Chicago sure was violent, even before Al Capone.

[Walks_At_Night]

On February 4th, 1916 Henry Kenyon, Jr. was born in Mount Vernon, New York.  He would join the United States Navy on November 5th, 1940 - he would be commissioned as an Ensign on August 4th, 1941.   He would undergo advanced flight training and would soon joined the ill-fated Torpedo Squadron 8 flying off of the USS Hornet [CV-12]. 

Torpedo Squadron 8 [VT-8] would fly the Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber which were equipped with the problematic Mark 13 torpedo.   By their very nature torpedo bomber were dangerous to fly - in order to release the torpedo properly they would have to fly at about 100 foot over the water on a long straight course.  The Devastator was especially cumbersome and would soon be shown to be a death trap.

The Hornet and VT-8 would soon be involved in the Battle of Midway in June, 1942.  The Battle of Midway would pit three US aircraft carriers - Hornet, Yorktown and Enterprise versus four Japanese carriers - Akagi, Hiryu, Soryu and Kaga.   Due to some nice code breaking by Joseph Rochefort the US Navy knew the Japanese were going to attack Midway Island, so while the US Navy was outnumbered it had the advantage of surprise as the Imperial Japanese Navy did not know the US Navy lay waiting for them.

The commander of VT-8,  John C. Waldron would lead the 15 TBD's off the deck of the Hornet in search of the four Japanese aircraft carriers that had launched strikes against the island of Midway.   VT-8 would become separated from the Douglas SBD dive bombers and Grumman F4F fighters that also launched from the Hornet.   Waldron would press on anyway and did find the Japanese aircraft carriers.   VT-8 would attack and all 15 Devastators would be shot down.  29 of the 30 members of VT-8 would be killed in the attack - including Ensign Kenyon.   Only Ensign George Gay would survive the attack - he would go on to fly for TWA after the war and would ultimately die in 1994.  VT-8 would score no torpedo hits on the Japanese fleet.

VT-8's sacrifice would not be totally futile.   The Japanese fighter cover swooped down to attack VT-8 which left no fighters up high at the time US dive bombers arrived.  The dive bombers would pound the Japanese aircraft carriers.  By the end of the battle Japan would lose all 4 carriers where the US would lose the Yorktown.


Ensign Kenyon would be awarded the  Navy Cross posthumously and would have the destroyer escort USS Henry R. Kenyon (DE-683) named after him.


Squadron photo of VT-8 [Kenyon - front row, 2nd from left]:


Jonathon Waldron - Commander of VT8


Ensign George Gay - the only survivor


Douglas TBD Devastator:



USS Hornet  CV-12


USS Kenyon DE-683

[Walks_At_Night]

The squadron patch for VT-8:



Looks like I had a bad image link in the post above.  Here are the 15 pilots of VT-8 [Kenyon front row, 2nd from left]

[Walks_At_Night]

In 1916, Hugo Ball would release the Dada Manifesto and write the poem Karawane.

Hugo Ball



Karawane:


Marie Osmond of all people gives us the scoop and recites Karawane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G69O7fvM3BI

The Dada Manifesto:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dada_Manifesto_(1916,_Hugo_Ball)

[GravitySucks]

2/5/16 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

http://youtu.be/t_ybjI6KIcs

[Meister_000]

In 1916, Hugo Ball would release the Dada Manifesto and write the poem Karawane.

The Dada Manifesto [Permalink]:
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Dada_Manifesto_(1916,_Hugo_Ball)&oldid=4737172

Nice one Walks !

[Rix Gins]

2-05-1916.  Remind me not to play cards with Everett.

[Rix Gins]

Chicago news items from the Day Book.  Note the possible UFO sighting. 

[Rix Gins]

Some more items from the Day Book, 100 years ago.

[Meister_000]

Chicago news items from the Day Book.  Note the possible UFO sighting.

"Village of Clyde saw mysterious blue, white and orange light floating over town. Believe it was airship."

also this:
"Capt. Smith, South Chicago station, received second delegation of citizens who protest against snoring horse."

[Rix Gins]

2/5/16 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

http://youtu.be/t_ybjI6KIcs

What a voice.  Caruso died in 1921 and my dad was in New York back in the early forties.  He said he could walk down the hall of his hotel and hear people in a room playing Caruso records and crying.

[Meister_000]

2/5/16 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

http://youtu.be/t_ybjI6KIcs

(Thanks Gravity)

Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 â€" August 2, 1921) was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous tenors in history. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. He is best known as the leading male singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for seventeen years. Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who conducted some of the operas that Caruso sang in at the Met, considered him one of the greatest artists he had ever worked with.

Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the first twenty years of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music. During his career, Enrico Caruso made nearly 260 recordings and made millions of dollars from the sale of his 78 rpm records.

[GravitySucks]

Chicago news items from the Day Book.  Note the possible UFO sighting.

How times of changed. My eye caught the one about "involuntary proceedings of bankruptcy"/"assets exceed liabilities". Damn... Sounds like a forced liquidation sale.

[Rix Gins]

A first hand account of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake from Enrico Caruso.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/ew19.html

[Meister_000]

Enrico Caruso, 1916: "O Solo Mio"

http://youtu.be/t_ybjI6KIcs



Elvis Presley, 1960: "It's Now or Never"

Elvis' version of  "O Solo Mio" sold over ten million copies, making it the most sold song of his career.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tyQwx-mzyk

[Walks_At_Night]

Continuing with Enrico Caruso:

For $250 you can be the proud owner of a "Souvenir placemat for a dinner held in the distinguished tenor's honour at the Lotos Club in New York on February 5, 1916 printed as a gravure after a design by T. Sindelar and incorporating "photos by Mishkin." "



http://www.lubranomusic.com/cgi-bin/lubrano/24768.html

[Meister_000]

Continuing with Enrico Caruso:
For $250 you can be the proud owner of a "Souvenir placemat for a dinner held in the distinguished tenor's honour at the Lotos Club in New York on February 5, 1916 . . .

Inflation Calculator says:
$250 USD in 1916  =  $5,740  in 2016 !!

[Walks_At_Night]

On 5 February 1916, Hereditary Prince--later Duke--Wilhelm Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein and bride Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg were wed in Coburg, Germany.

Here is a picture of the happy couple on their big day!!!!!!!!!

[Rix Gins]

From the February 5, 1916 flight report of Captain J. A. Cunningham, flying a DH2 (#5916) for Squadron 18.  "10:35 am  at 11,000 feet, over SALOME near LA BASSEE.  Combat with "new Albatros" +? (+? means he's not quite sure if he can claim the enemy aircraft as being shot down) tracers hit nose then black smoke & nosedive.  Landing east of Carvin, but OK?"

Then a second combat at 10:45:  "Combat with Aviatik over LOOS at 10,000 feet.  Flying (he means the enemy aircraft) downhill and moving very fast." 

And a third: "Inconclusive, third combat with Aviatik over PONT A VENDIN @ 11:00 am."

Here is a link to a photo of Cunningham.  https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c5/22/85/c52285e06f41dbb0305b2086a07c69d0.jpg

And here is the type of plane he flew.  (Wikimedia)