One Hundred Years Ago

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Looks like nobody has annoyed Everett True yet today.  Hope he's feeling okay!

[Walks_At_Night]

Looks like nobody has annoyed Everett True yet today.  Hope he's feeling okay!

hate to admit it but I'm hooked! :

[Meister_000]

Meister and Walks, you guys find some tremendous photos! 

The sidecar stretcher was a brilliant idea, and I really want to know how they taught the little dog to operate a machine gun.

Thanks. I had to limit it 10 pics per post so I left this one out -- a double- decker Indian Ambulance!

Ice cream! -- a dog trainers secret weapon! 

[Rix Gins]

Looks like nobody has annoyed Everett True yet today.  Hope he's feeling okay!

He's fine.  He, or rather his cartoonist, didn't produce a strip on Sunday.  That's a guess on my part, but I did notice an absence of one day, a week ago too.   

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Ice cream! -- a dog trainers secret weapon! 

"However, if you are going to give a dog a machine gun, you must first make him completely understand that you are the pack leader."

[ShayP]

Methinks Jell-O doth protest to much. 

"The famous Jello-O desserts cannot be made with anything but Jell-O."

Hmmmm....

[Walks_At_Night]

We now leave the B's and move on to the C's of Michigan based automobile companies that were active in 1916.  The subject for this post is one of the giants of the time - the Chalmers Motor Car Company of Detroit:



Hugh Chalmers was the president of National Cash Register who would decide to get into the automobile business.   In 1908 he would purchase the Thomas-Detroit company and rename it to the Chalmers Motor Car Company.    The company would build expensive cars for the day but they would be pretty successful  - producing as many as 20,000 units a year.   After WW I the company would merge with the Maxwell Automobile company - so it's DNA lives on in modern day Chrysler.

Chalmers would build  a Coupe, a Roadster, a Touring and a really sweet looking rig they called a Torpedo:





Here is a Touring:


and a Chalmers Roadster:


Many Chalmers autos still exist and are even up for sale.   You can be the proud owner of one if you have the means:
http://www.collectioncar.com/detailed.php?ad=18377&category_id=1

Hugh Chalmers:


As of February, 2015 Hugh Chalmers' Manse on 1455 Iroquois Street in the Indian Village neighborhood of Detroit was up for sale for roughly $330k

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/unbelievable-11bedroom-foreclosure-mansion-asks-328k.php


The Chalmers factory would be located on East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.  It would have a long run - automobiles would be produced there from 1909 up through 1991 when Chrysler would replace it with a new plant across the street. 




Postcard from 1914 of the Chalmers Jefferson Ave plant:


Chalmers news letter from 1909:



As mentioned above the factory would be active up until February 3rd, 1990.  The last products built there would be Dodge Omni's and
Plymouth Horizons.    It would be replaced by the new Jefferson North Assembly Plant where Jeeps are built.   It is the last automobile
factory located entirely in the city of Detroit - GM has a plant that is located in both Detroit and Hamtramck.   In August, 2013 the
plant would produce it's 5 millionth vehicle - a  2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee WK2 Overland.   

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Those are some beautiful automobiles!

That reminds me of a famous bit of old baseball controversy involving a Chalmers auto.  In 1910, Hugh Chalmers created the Chalmers Award as a promotional gimmick, and promised a new auto to the winners of the major league batting titles.  In tha AL, the race came down to the last day with Ty Cobb holding a slight lead over Nap Lajoie. Allegedly in order to deny the unpopular Cobb the batting title, the opposing team's manager had his third baseman play deep which let Lajoie beat out several bunts and wind up in a near statistical tie with Cobb.  An uproar ensued, with many calling foul, so Chalmers gave autos to both players to make everybody happy.  The award was discontinued after the 1914 season.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Chalmers_Award

http://www.thisgreatgame.com/1910-baseball-history.html

[ShayP]

The genius of James L. Kraft, the Canadian-born founder of Kraft Foods, lay not in artisanal cheesemaking but in taking a milk-based product and making it long-lasting, consistent in quality and easy to slice. In 1916, after a series of experiments at his Chicago boardinghouse, the former grocery clerk received a patent for “process cheese”: a sterilized product made by heating Cheddar at 175 degrees for 15 minutes while whisking it continuously. The invention helped turn cheese into a shippable commodity with a longer shelf life â€" and transform Kraft’s company into a cheese empire.

[Meister_000]

"However, if you are going to give a dog a machine gun, you must first make him completely understand that you are the pack leader."

I've seen some of his shows on YouTube 

[Meister_000]

Methinks Jell-O doth protest to much. 

"The famous Jello-O desserts cannot be made with anything but Jell-O."

Hmmmm....

Love it!   The Kraft "Cheese-Food" too. 

[Rix Gins]

A war news item from the February 6, 1916 Daily Gate City.  (Keokuk, Iowa.)  Photo of Guynemer from Wikimedia. 

[Walks_At_Night]

A war news item from the February 6, 1916 Daily Gate City.  (Keokuk, Iowa.)  Photo of Guynemer from Wikimedia. 

Guynemer looks like LeBeau from Hogan's Heros

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Methinks Jell-O doth protest to much. 

"The famous Jello-O desserts cannot be made with anything but Jell-O."

Hmmmm....

They weren't giving it away, either. Ten cents for a 3 1/4 oz. box of Jell-o seems pretty high for 1916.

[Rix Gins]

Guynemer looks like LeBeau from Hogan's Heros

Good eye, Walks.  LOL!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Love it!   The Kraft "Cheese-Food" too. 

It's no even "Cheese Food" which is bad enough.  It's "Cheese Product"!   

[Meister_000]

It's not even "Cheese Food" which is bad enough.  It's "Cheese Product"!   

I thought the two terms were basically synonymous. I'm not alone!

http://mobile.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/nutrition_news_information/is_it_still_cheese

"Is It Still Cheese?

Leave a slice of American cheese on a windowsill and after weeks it will dry, darken in color and curl. But rarely will it mold. Individually wrapped orange cheese slices melt smoothly on burgers and taste great straight from the package, but in most cases these soft slivers of heaven aren’t technically “cheese” at all. More likely, they fall under the title of “pasteurized process cheese,” “pasteurized process cheese product” or “pasteurized process cheese food.”

[Rix Gins]

Well I'll be darned.  Everett does have a job.

[Walks_At_Night]

Well I'll be darned.  Everett does have a job.

That one was awesome - Change the word book to google and it's still relevant today.

[Rix Gins]

That one was awesome - Change the word book to google and it's still relevant today.

Yeah, I was really hoping to see what Everett had in his desk, but wrong angle. lol

[Rix Gins]

Chicago news from the February 7, 1916 Day Book.  Remind me not to park our time machine in the ally behind the Bensinger Bowling establishment.  Even the pinsetters are gunning each other down!

[Rix Gins]

More news of the day (February 7, 1916) from the Day Book. 

[Rix Gins]

Here is a cool song about a Mexican dude who was prominent in The Mexican Revolution of 1916.  Beyond that, I don't know much, but the tune definitely makes me want to order a taquitos combination plate at my local Mexican eatery.

https://youtu.be/9wEB3hdm8oI

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Chicago news from the February 7, 1916 Day Book.  Remind me not to park our time machine in the ally behind the Bensinger Bowling establishment.  Even the pinsetters are gunning each other down!

I'm staying away from South Bend and those Notre Dame rioters, too, not that I had any interest in going there in the first place.

I like the blurb about the policeman finding a dollar on the floor of City Hall! I wonder if that might have been a little joke about political corruption and so much money being passed around it was falling on the floor.

[Rix Gins]

February 8, 1916.  This one is actually kind of funny.

[K_Dubb]

February 8, 1916.  This one is actually kind of funny.

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Assuming the subject of the cartoon is what is now called 'office politics', it's depressing to learn they have a long history.

[K_Dubb]

Landslides like this are still a regular occurrence around here as the glacial deposits that form many of our hillsides are unstable and subject to erosion.  Occasionally they expose mammoth and mastodon teeth and tusks, though!  Interesting that Magnolia is the "extreme northwestern part"; it's now considered pretty central.

[Rix Gins]

Landslides like this are still a regular occurrence around here as the glacial deposits that form many of our hillsides are unstable and subject to erosion.  Occasionally they expose mammoth and mastodon teeth and tusks, though!  Interesting that Magnolia is the "extreme northwestern part"; it's now considered pretty central.

Great to have you back, K. D.  Missed you.

[Rix Gins]

Some items from Chicago's Feb. 8, 1916 Day Book.

[K_Dubb]

Some items from Chicago's Feb. 8, 1916 Day Book.

That Day Book of yours is a treasure!  Can it be we're leading up to Jutland?  The torpedo-bombing Zeppelins!  What an image!

Thanks Rix, it's good to be back.