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Quote from: Paper*Boy on September 24, 2016, 07:09:34 PM
This must be a forgery, because it's written so a person could read it.  I don't think they wrote legibly back then.

Ha, too right.  Thankfully a person with good penmanship occasionally falls through the cracks. 

Quote from: Value Of Pi on September 25, 2016, 03:46:40 PM
I would keep this idea for the day that BellGab expands into game shows. All that's missing is Vanna White (she'd be about the right age for it at this point).

Haha  When I was a kid in grade school I called vowels 'valves'.

I listened to part of a random Art show earlier, while shaving.  It's kind of fun to drop into one of the shows and then try to guess the year it was broadcast.  On this one, (an open lines show) Art was complaining about feminists going out of their way to join men's only institutions.  "I mean, how many men try to join women's only organizations?"  Art asked.

Another caller brought up the subject of braille buttons to push at ATM's.  "No," Art cut the guy off.  "I just don't believe that those are in use.  I think that that's an urban myth.  No such thing." 

Then a religious caller challenged Art's view on whether a person who has murdered should be spared the electric chair by finding God at the last minute.  The caller typically said that only God can judge by looking into the killer's heart to see if he really meant it or not.  And then the caller said, "By the way, I think that Clinton is going to loose."  Now this really set Art off and he gave a spirited description of Robert Doyle and listed many of his good quality's and all, but noted how Bill Clinton operated and that it would be an easy Clinton win.  Then he brought up the interesting fact that this would be the last chance to have a person who had been in World War II, be President. 

So when was it?  A commercial break came on and Ross said that the re-broadcast was from a show on August 14, 1996.  (At first I thought he said 1999 but that wouldn't have been correct.) 

 

The Battle of Morval was begun on September 25, 1916 and it would last for four days.  It was considered somewhat of a victory for the British and French armies.  The Germans had a difficult time with defense due to a weeks worth of rain from September 16th, to the 22nd. 

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

The Rock Island Argus, September 25, 1916.

The South Bend News Times, September 25, 1916.

The Chicago Day Book, September 25, 1916.

Everett True, September 25, 1916. 

https://youtu.be/fWR6FLnPack

Edna sent a postcard to  Nellie and Minnie.  March 24, 1910.

The second soldier is Max Gaillinger, the son of an Economist and a soldier with the First Bavarian Jäger (Hunter) Battalion.  The card simply states that Max was killed in France on September 23, 1916, but the German Graves Registration Office adds further information that he was killed at Chapitre Wald and that he was buried in Hautecourt les Broville, France.  He was 22 years old.   

I am a day late and a dollar short on the next two German soldiers.  That's all right.  They are free to dress me down via EVP.  I might just be able to understand them if they only throw one or two words at a time at me.

Karl Leitner was a Sergeant and holder of the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves.  Karl is wearing the medal in the photograph.  He's got it tucked inside his uniform.  Look at the third button down and you can see the ribbon sticking out.  Soldier Leitner was killed at the Third Battle of the Somme on September 23, 1916.  (He died on the same day and on the same battlefield that the above mentioned Sergeant Bellerby was shot down over.)  Karl had been hit by an exploding artillery shell.  He was 22 years old.     

I remember when Kynthea was first on Art's show.  It was back when NASA released the so called 'cat box' photo of the Face on Mars.  "Well, it was a great effort, Richard,"  I recall Art saying.  "But I guess the time has come for you to throw in the towel."

But Richard would have none of it and he had Kynthea on the line to help bolster his argument that the face was actually half human and half lion.  You see Kynthea had sculptured a piece that was based on tech info from NASA (or Richard, I can't remember which) and so voila!  The Face was real.  I mean, here's the damn sculpture.  Proof positive.

So Richard spends some time trying to convince Art not to give up on the Face but Art isn't buying it.  Richard introduces Kynthea by saying something like, "Well she's been waiting for some time now and I'm sure she has a lot to say about this, so...Kynthea?"

Kynthea says nothing but she laughs in an odd, slow motion way.  Over and over.  "Ahaw.  Ahaw.  Ahaw. Ahaw."

Art:  "Kynthea?"

Funny how certain things stick with you.

I think that there is only one photograph of Sergeant Herbert Bellerby.  He was kind of ruddy looking in the photo, but it's an old photo taken 100 years ago.  I'm sure he was less ruddy in real life.  Herbert lived with his folks at 49 Warren Road, Chingford, Essex, England back in 1915.  When war was declared, he joined the Royal Flying Corps. 

On September 23, 1916, he and five fellow pilots were part of a larger group (27 Squadron) that was headed for Cambrai on an Offensive Patrol.  The six were attacked by five German planes as they neared Cambrai.  Two of the British pilots made it back to base while another managed to ram his machine into a German plane.  (Second Lieutenant Leslie Forbes survived the ramming (the German pilot died) but he had trouble with his wrecked plane and injured himself when he hit a tree.) 

Three of the six Squadron 27 pilots were shot down, including Herbert Bellerby.  He was struck with 400 rounds from the guns of Manfred Von Richthofen and he didn't survive the encounter.  This would be the second victory for Richthofen, who payed the crash site a visit after returning to base.  He took as a souvenir, a piece of fabric from the crashed machine that had the plane's number on it.

A group of German soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division told Manfred that they had buried his opponent.  However, the war would eventually move over the burial spot and Bellerby's body would become forever lost.  His name was placed on the Arras Memorial to the Missing.  He was 28 years old.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bellerby

 
Bellerby was flying a  Martinsyde G.100 at the time of his death.

Quote from: albrecht on September 23, 2016, 01:18:26 PM
But a "custom made podium" is allowed? What features does that have? Grab bars? Stool to make her look taller? Even some kind of small seat, maybe like one sees on stand-up roller coasters? Completely surrounding her so she can't keel over or whatever braces she uses aren't seen? IVs for injection of certain drugs by handler observers? It is a tough job: standing up and talking, after all.

They could set the stage up like this, I suppose.  (Hopefully Hillary will be more upright for the debate.)

The Scott County Kicker, September 23, 1916.

The Tacoma Times, September 23, 1916.  (A more detailed account of that convict shooting.) 

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, September 23, 1916.

The Chicago Day Book, September 23, 1916.

Quote from: VoteQuimby on September 22, 2016, 08:12:38 AM
https://youtu.be/0EyoKB3ZHSc

I look for Hillary to act like this during the first debate.  The onus is on Donald to trip her up and if he can't, then Hillary will be proclaimed by the media as being the winner of the debate.

The Golden Valley Chronicle, September 22, 1916.

The Rock Island Argus, September 22, 1916.

The Daily Telegram, September 22, 1916.

I'll subscribe.  Can you put a tiny speaker on it and talk to the kids?

LMAO watching this vid.  The dude says, "Some people will say the reason her hands were behind her back was she's supposedly being arrested.  That's the biggest crock of you know what I've ever heard."  He then goes on to explain that it wasn't Hillary at all.  It was just a mannequin...when it comes down to it. 

https://youtu.be/1v9aonOZ0_g

Quote from: f burbeck on September 21, 2016, 10:31:01 PM
Please Art, Please return for the annual GHOST show this 2016 Halloween Monday.
I have patiently paid and checked every day for his appearance and but for Mar 11, nothing.
My favorite was his amazing voice and reverence for the spooky stories he would read and call-in stories.
If Halloween comes and goes with no Art, I will know he's never coming back.

Welcome to BellGab.  Looks like you joined up for the right reason.  Art used to post here every once in awhile but hasn't done so for over a month.  Still, there are a number of us who hope to hear from him.  Post often.

A nice cluster of sun ripened grapefruit ready to pick, peel and eat.  I wonder if they still grow lots of grapefruit in Florida?

This postcard goes back to the year 1925.  I'm guessing that Margaret sent the card to her mom in Dubuque, Iowa.  She wrote it in Tampa on December 14th and mailed it on the 16th. 

We can't talk to her of course, and ask her what life was like back then.  But we can go back to the year 1925 and see some things that she might have been aware of.  Such as...

Benito Mussolini gave a speech to the Chamber of Deputies, in which he dared them to remove him from power.  (Many historians think that this was the start of his dictatorship.)  He also took responsibility for the actions of his Blackshirts.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

There was a big earthquake up in Canada.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_Charlevoix%E2%80%93Kamouraska_earthquake

Baseball player Christopher "Christy" Mathewson passed away on October 7th.  (He had served in WWI in the Chemical Service, and was accidentally gassed.  He was dogged with tuberculosis for the rest of his life.)       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Mathewson

Also, there was a big parade in Washington DC, put on by 40,000 members of the KKK,  F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, Adolf Hitler published volume one of Mein Kampf, and The Grand Ole Opry radio program was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee. 

https://youtu.be/edoG3L6Qhx8

The Review, September 21, 1916.

The Whapeton Times, September 21, 1916.