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

Rix Gins

The visiting Chicago White Sox spanked the Boston Red Sox 7 to 1 at Fenway Park on August 2, 1917.  Dave Danforth hit a triple that cleared a loaded three bases in the ninth inning, putting the game away for Chicago.
QuoteAfter the 7-1 win the 63-37 White Sox rushed to the train station to catch the train to Philadelphia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/6r56lt/august_2_1917_white_sox_extend_their_lead_with_71/?st=j5vf0lu7&sh=4facda6b


Dave Danforth.  By American Tobacco Company.  Public Domain.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Danforth.jpg 


Rix Gins

Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning became the first pilot to land an airplane onto a moving ship, on August 2, 1917.  He tried it again five days later which was a big mistake because an updraft caught his Sopwith Pup as he tried to land, tossing him and the aircraft into the sea.  Dunning was knocked out on impact and drowned.

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


QuoteSquadron Commander E H Dunning climbs out of his aircraft on the flying-off deck of HMS FURIOUS after the first successful landing on an aircraft carrier underway.
By Photographer not identified. - This is photograph Q 110613 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 7909-36), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8815406



Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.


QuotePhotograph shows American tennis player Charles Stedman "Chuck" Garland (1898-1971). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)  1917 August 2 (date created or published later by Bain)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000544/

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museums.

QuoteBattle of Pilckem Ridge. Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery jacking and hauling a field gun out of the mud. North of Ypres, 2 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205087449

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Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery jacking and hauling a field gun out of the mud. North of Ypres, 2 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205092584


QuoteSecond Lieutenant Alan Ferrier Gates. Unit: "B" Battery, 307th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 2 August 1917, Flanders, Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205295290

Rix Gins

From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteMangartgruppe.Stpkt: villous head. (2/8.1917)
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073605032.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15801931. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Rix Gins

   
Front of single page memorial card.             Back of card.

Karl Moll

Building owner's son from the town of Vieth.

Sargent in the Land Storm Battalion.

Holder of the Iron Cross.

Killed August 2, 1917 by Kotriescheb in Galizia.

Twenty nine years old.


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.


QuoteAlma Gluck cutting grass with a scythe, Aug. 3, 1917.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002713387/


QuotePhotograph shows Romanian-born American soprano opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1939) with her husband, Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. and their daughter Maria, under a beach umbrella, vacationing possibly on Fishers Island, New York, August, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000461/


QuotePhotograph shows Romanian-born American soprano opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1939) with her husband, Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. and their daughter Maria, vacationing possibly on Fishers Island, New York, August, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000450/

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteRamming home a shell in a 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting. Brielen, 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239629


QuoteA 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting of the 104th Siege Battery, R.G.A, near Salvation Corner, just north of Ypres, 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239627


Quote12-inch Mark 1 Howitzer on a railway mounting of the 104 Siege Battery, RGA at Salvation Corner, 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238400

Quote
Firing a 220 mm howitzer. 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239626


QuoteGunners of the Royal Garrison Artillery unloading shells from a light railway train at Brielen, 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215632


QuoteRoyal Engineers bridging the Yser Canal north of Ypres, 3 August 1917. The foundation consists of two barges at right angles.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215493


QuoteInfantry crossing the Yser Canal at Brielen by a foot bridge on the way to the line, 3 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238036


QuoteSon of Aaron and Minnie Blashki, of Sydney, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney and was studying law when war broke out in 1914. He enlisted with 10th Battery, Australian Field Artillery and received a commission shortly before leaving Australia on board RMS Persia on 10 August 1915. After a period in Egypt, Lt Blashki was posted to the Western Front in June 1916. There he was Mentioned in Despatches for his success in mounting an artillery barrage at great personal risk in November 1916, and also mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch of 6 October 1917. Blashki was promoted to Captain on 1 August 1917 but killed in action on the Menin Road at Ypres just two days later, aged 23. He is buried at Vlamertinghe New Military cemetery.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205026075



Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  Newspaper cartoons from August 4, 1917.


The Bismarck Tribune


The Daily Commonwealth


The Evening Star


The Tacoma Times


Rix Gins

The Chicago White Sox entered the Philadelphia A's Shibe Park and blanked the home team 4 to 0, one hundred years ago yesterday.  White Sox pitcher Jim Scott pitched a shutout.  Sox player Chick Gandil accounted for two runs batted in while Shoeless Joe Jackson and Swede Risberg had one apiece.     
QuoteThe news from Washington DC is that President Wilson strongly encourages baseball to continue playing in spite of the war and the World Series is not to be cancelled as some have suggested. This is good news for the White Sox who came into Philadelphia today looking to increase their first place lead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/6rgz1k/august_3_1917_jim_scott_pitches_a_shutout_white/?st=j5y7pfgp&sh=db6e0efd


Photograph of shortstop Swede Risberg.
By Chicago Historical Society - http://www.chicagohs.org/history/blacksox/blk7.html, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29329527






Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.


Quote10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers," 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tob. Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 yrs., and only 24 girls and women of 16 and over. The leaf-boys get $1.50 a day and some of the stringers of 10 and 12 make $1.20 a day, according to the Supt. Location: S[outh] Windsor, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.
https://www.loc.gov/item/ncl2004005016/PP/


QuotePhotograph shows Walter Hines Page (1855-1918), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain during World War I, giving a speech at Plymouth England on August 4, 1917 on the third anniversary of the start of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006000640/

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteBritish troops on barges on the Furnes-Dunkerque Canal and a line of lorries on the road alongside.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205236393


QuoteTroops being transported by barge along the Canal de Furnes, 4 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235805


QuoteBritish airmen bathing; Dunkirk-Furnes Canal, 4th August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205079678


QuoteCaptain Edward Malcolm Cunningham MC. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, attached to 2nd Battalion, and then to 9th Battalion, West Riding Regiment. Death: 04 August 1917 Killed in action Western Front.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205293056


QuoteHelen Garvine, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 04 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380398

Rix Gins

From the Europeana Collections.


QuoteBuilding and 3 Armee kommandos in Bolechòw.
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073596004.html. K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/TELRequest.aspx?p_ImageID=15653459. Public Domain - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on August 04, 2017, 01:49:25 PM
From the Imperial War Museums.


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380398

At first I thought someone was having a little joke (let the veteran cop who sees the dead mobster with a chest full of bullet holes and says "lead poisoning") but TNT poisoning was rampant during that time effecting workers often women.
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/causes-prevention-tri-nitro-toluene-tnt-poisoning/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11611323

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on August 04, 2017, 02:34:21 PM
At first I thought someone was having a little joke (let the veteran cop who sees the dead mobster with a chest full of bullet holes and says "lead poisoning") but TNT poisoning was rampant during that time effecting workers often women.
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/causes-prevention-tri-nitro-toluene-tnt-poisoning/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11611323

Nice links.  I remember those women got jaundice and were called yellow something or others.  Oh yeah, (I just looked it up) they were called Canary Girls.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_girls


QuoteWomen workers with shells in Chilwell filling factory.
By British official photographer : Nicholls, Horace - This is photograph Q 30040 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17641099

albrecht

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/
Church built out of tobacco tins! Was inspired by a crazed Dietrich show talking about the Japanese land seizures and internment later during the Second World War. But people forget the First and stuff then.

WhiteCrow

Thank you guys for keeping this thread going!

I always feel a bit guilty reading it and not contributing. 

I'll try to make a post at least once per month.

Uncle Duke

Quote from: Rix Gins on August 04, 2017, 04:24:45 PM
Nice links.  I remember those women got jaundice and were called yellow something or others.  Oh yeah, (I just looked it up) they were called Canary Girls.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_girls

By British official photographer : Nicholls, Horace - This is photograph Q 30040 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17641099

As crazy as it seems, munitions factories in those days were sometimes built in populated areas.  Several years ago I was in London when a colleague, who knew I was a military history guy, asked if I'd like to visit the site of the Silvertown explosion.  I had to admit I was not familiar with the event, so he explained it was a TNT plant not far from central London that blew up one night in 1917.  Because the blast occurred during the night, the plant was nearly deserted, but a number of people in neighboring homes died as a result.  If I remember correctly, the cause of the explosion was never determined.

albrecht

Quote from: Uncle Duke on August 06, 2017, 10:41:03 PM
As crazy as it seems, munitions factories in those days were sometimes built in populated areas.  Several years ago I was in London when a colleague, who knew I was a military history guy, asked if I'd like to visit the site of the Silvertown explosion.  I had to admit I was not familiar with the event, so he explained it was a TNT plant not far from central London that blew up one night in 1917.  Because the blast occurred during the night, the plant was nearly deserted, but a number of people in neighboring homes died as a result.  If I remember correctly, the cause of the explosion was never determined.
Even today in Ol' Mex there are towns known for making fireworks. One section blew up a while back. But tradition etc they are still doing it. They rebuild. Had fireworks to celebrate even I heard. I knew some guy who said "oh yeah, that explains him" (cause the guy he was talking about was from town in Arkansas.) Apparently there was some chem n munitions storage area and folks all think "those" from around there "weren't right in head." These are anecdotally but I did some news stories.

pate

I know there is a war on and all;  as a soldier I am worried that when I'm home by Christmas that I won't legally be able to forget the horrors of that ever advancing front-line?

Wait a tick, it seems Gerry has some sort of inebriating substance behind his lines and these continental types know how to get at them!


I might be wrong but I'd, well dear the whistle (for me to up an die) has been sounded...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPB7r0UpNIE

not quite Gallipoli, but who chooses>

albrecht

Get run over by a train and mangled on your way to a hearing about being a "slacker" didn't cut you any breaks 100 years ago.
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/article/ND/20170810/NEWS/170819993

albrecht

1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany summoned his principal political and military leaders to a crown council at Spa, Belgium. The purpose was to assess the status of the German war effort during war.

My second favorite carbonated mineral water,  that's  Gerolsteiner, but not for the taste or price but for a weird phenomena that happened to me- twice. Somehow my small fridge I had set fairly cold (couldn't understand the markings- I think some gray-market Russian knock-off,  or even how the damn thing worked- another story(s) about the washer/dryer situation or hot-water heater- but I had some litre bottles of Spa Red (high carbonation) in PED plastic bottle and an interesting thing happened....when I opened it INSTANTLY (almost) froze. Was totally liquid in taking out but upon releasing the gas, froze up into a slushy mixture. Didn't explode...or spray everywhere, that can happen with high CO2 mineral waters, cokes, beers, champagne, etc when shaken or under-pressure and released but instead froze up. Was very interesting phenomena that is explained by science. But was still weird. Happened twice, both after I was away a bit and hadn't opened fridge. I found adjustments and problem was over.


albrecht

100 years ago China declared war on Germany (they previously were neutral.)

"When China declared war on Germany [and on the Austria-Hungary] on August 14, 1917, its major aim was to earn itself a place at the post-war bargaining table. Above all, China sought to regain control over the vital Shantung Peninsula and to reassert its strength before Japan, its most important adversary and rival for control in the region. At the Versailles Peace Conference following the armistice, Japan and China struggled bitterly to convince the Allied Supreme Councilâ€"dominated by the United States, France and Britainâ€"of their respective claims on the Shantung Peninsula. A bargain was eventually struck in favor of Japan, who backed down from their demand for a racial-equality clause in the treaty in return for control over Germany’s considerable economic possessions in Shantung, including railways, mines and the port at Tsingtao." [Some German banks and vessels in the area were also seized.]

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/china-declares-war-on-germany
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1917/8/14/china-declares-war-on-austria-hungary

"‘Some women have no sense of what is decent’, opined one newspaper editor."
https://www.jerseyheritage.org/ww1-blog/14-august-1917

albrecht

http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/date/browse/1917-08-21
Georgy Andreyevich Baklanoff  recorded "The Hymn of a Free Russia." He was married to Lydia Lipkowska a soprano who also fled the Soviet Union (and has an interesting story about her and a gangster.) I would like to imagine they communicated by singing to each other. "Honey, did you remember to take out the trash." "I told you. After this inning is over."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Baklanoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Lipkowska

Rix Gins

Television announcer and game show host Dennis James was born 100 years ago.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James


Dennis James, American television host and sports announcer, hosting an episode of Okay, Mother.
By DuMont Television Network - A copy of the series Okay, Mother as published on the Internet Archive., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33154864

(Proteeyun?)
https://youtu.be/5LbQpuCu3SI

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museums.


QuoteInfantry Officers observing Oosttaveme, 25 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237977


QuoteA cook preparing fresh greens in a camp at Oosttaveme, 25 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237975


QuoteA soldier in his dug-out at Oosttaveme, 25 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237976


QuoteE Anderson, Munitions work. Killed on duty 25 August 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205379844


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