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Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 9, 1918.


TEACHERS VISIT MINE

  Through the courtesy of Captain Case, superintendent of the Extension Mining company's properties, Miss Sears, a member of the University of Nevada faculty, and a party of Tonopah instructors were taken for a trip through the Victor Mine last evening.


JACK D. GRANT, chief of police, returned last evening from Los Angeles and San Diego, much improved in health. The chief reports a splendid outing in the southland.


MOONEY'S CAFE

SPECIAL SUNDAY DIMMER     PRICE 75 CENTS     MARCH 10, 1918

MENUE

SOUP
Consommé Clear
Cream of Chicken with Rice

RELISHES
Spiced Red Beets
Green Onions

SALAD
Head Lettuce with French Dressing

FISH
Lobster Newberg

ENTREE
Scallops of Veal with Paprika Sauce
Sweetbread Patties

ROAST
Young Fallon Turkey, Stuffed 
Roast Young Pork with Apple Sauce
Spring Lamb with Green Peas

VEGETABLES
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Potatoes (5 p.m.)
Stewed Tomatoes

DESSERT
Assorted Pies
Chocolate Pudding

Black Coffee

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 09, 2018, 04:26:58 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 9, 1918.


TEACHERS VISIT MINE

  Through the courtesy of Captain Case, superintendent of the Extension Mining company's properties, Miss Sears, a member of the University of Nevada faculty, and a party of Tonopah instructors were taken for a trip through the Victor Mine last evening.


JACK D. GRANT, chief of police, returned last evening from Los Angeles and San Diego, much improved in health. The chief reports a splendid outing in the southland.


MOONEY'S CAFE

SPECIAL SUNDAY DIMMER     PRICE 75 CENTS     MARCH 10, 1918

MENUE

SOUP
Consommé Clear
Cream of Chicken with Rice

RELISHES
Spiced Red Beets
Green Onions

SALAD
Head Lettuce with French Dressing

FISH
Lobster Newberg

ENTREE
Scallops of Veal with Paprika Sauce
Sweetbread Patties

ROAST
Young Fallon Turkey, Stuffed 
Roast Young Pork with Apple Sauce
Spring Lamb with Green Peas

VEGETABLES
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Potatoes (5 p.m.)
Stewed Tomatoes

DESSERT
Assorted Pies
Chocolate Pudding

Black Coffee
Consommé Clear? Ha. Some warmed up water in a previously used pot used to make some chicken soup?

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

Lord Grantham

Quote from: albrecht on March 09, 2018, 10:49:27 AM
Consommé Clear? Ha. Some warmed up water in a previously used pot used to make some chicken soup?

Has food rationing gone TOO FAR?


Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 11, 1918.


QuoteSopwith 7F.1 Snipe single seat fighter biplane. Two bay version.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205129170 © IWM (Q 67483)


QuoteUnder supervision of Canadian railway troops, Chinese Labourers fill light railway tip-wagons with earth during the construction of a broad gauge railway at Lapugnoy (near Bethune), 11 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246405 © IWM (Q 10735)


QuoteCanadian railway troops creating a cutting during construction of a broad-gauge railway at Lapugnoy (near Bethune), 11 March 1918. Tipping earth from light railway trucks to form the raised embankment.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246404 © IWM (Q 10734)

Rix Gins

The first confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas on March 11, 1918.

Info: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic


Soldiers from Fort Riley ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918.
By U.S. Army photographer - Army.mil http://www.army.mil/-images/2008/09/24/22729/army.mil-2008-09-25-103608.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9913432

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 11, 2018, 03:44:43 AM
The first confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas on March 11, 1918.

Info: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic


Soldiers from Fort Riley ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918.
By U.S. Army photographer - Army.mil http://www.army.mil/-images/2008/09/24/22729/army.mil-2008-09-25-103608.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9913432
I await future news but I'm thinking this will end up not being a big deal. Soldiers probably just have a case of the 'cocktail flu' after a night out on leave, no big deal some rest and a few aspirin won't solve.  ;)

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 11, 1918.


QuoteThe River Auja at El Mirr, the foundation walls of an old fortress still remain. On the 54th Division front from the Battle of Jaffa till the Battle of Sharon. It became part of the front line of the Essex regiment, 6th Battalion, on 12th March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247840 © IWM (Q 12317)


QuoteSoldiers, probably from the Army Service Corps, pushing a truck of ammunition along a light railway track from the shell dump to the guns at St. Julien, 12 March 1918. The detritus from the Third Battle of Ypres litters the shell-worn landscape.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246388 © IWM (Q 10718)

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 12, 1918.


GREASEWEED VALUABLE

  JUAREZ. Mexico. March 12. Greaseweed, which grows wild on the deserts of Northern Mexico, has been found to contain properties which make it valuable as a wartime drug, according to Major Gomez Tagle of the Juarez garrison, who is an expert chemist. Major Tagle has been conducting a series of experiments with the greaseweed and says he has discovered a substitute for iodoform which is contained in the plant.  It is especially valuable in medicine for treating wounds. A liniment for the relief of rheumatic pains has also been obtained from the desert plant, according to the military chemist.


HIS CABIN IS ROBBED

  Evangelos Haralambos, a Greek miner, who expects to leave on the next draft, reported to the police this morning that his cabin had been robbed during the night and $680 in postal deposit certificates taken from a bureau drawer.


MINGLED EMOTIONS IN THIS SCENARIO - A ROMANCE OF TWO CONTINENTS TO BE READ IN THIS STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS.

  An action in divorce that possesses rare heart interest because of the affection and faith of the defendant and the unusual features of it being a part of the romance of two continents, together with the added point of an illegal marriage, will come to trial before Judge Mark Averill in the Fifth judicial district court Thursday.  District Attorney H.H. Atkinson will represent the  plaintiff and Attorney Leo Harrington the defendant.

  Philip Gendal who, according to a story published years ago in the Los Angeles Times, is an admitted bigamist, came to Nevada and established a residence for the purpose of securing divorce from Celia Gendal, both Russians. She bore three children to him and two are alleged to have died of starvation when he deserted her and came to this coast to illicitly marry another woman with whom he had become infatuated and who also bore him a child.

  For years and years Mrs. Gendal toiled to support her remaining child and always felt that her husband would come back to her, unless he had been killed to obtain the $1700 of their community money with which he departed. When she heard of his being in Nevada and applying for a divorce, she borrowed the necessary funds from people of her nationality and hurried here to contest the case, asking only to have her husband back again, but to protect the legitimacy of the child born of the bigamous marriage, the application for divorce will also be hard pressed. At all events, no matter how the merits of the case may lie, whether the facts narrated above are correct in detail or not, the story is one that would provide a splendid scenario, for it is one of conflicting emotions and possessed of settings in far distant places.


NO GROUND GLASS IN THE LOGANBERRY JAR

  Tests were made last evening by M. A. Rex, United States food and drug inspector, of the substance found in a can of Teagarden loganberry jam, and it was pronounced by him to not be glass, but whether it was crystallized sugar or not, he did not state. His investigation may alleviate fear that any one, alien enemy or otherwise, has been tampering with the Teagarden products, which are put out under a pure food serial number and are renowned for their excellent quality.


NOW PLAYING AT THE BUTLER THEATRE


By Fox Films - source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57456997

Some info on Cupid's Roundup: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008985/



Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 13, 1918.


QuoteLieutenant Colonel J. Kennedy DSO & Bar MC DCM with Captain J. Boulton MC of the 13th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (38th Division) walking through the ruins of Houplines. The ruins of the church are seen in the background. 13 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246413 © IWM (Q 10747)


QuoteTwo officers of the Royal Engineers (29th Division) with a French interpreter attached to the Division outside their quarters in a lock on the Yser-Lys canal at Ypres, 13 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247147 © IWM (Q 11561)


QuoteQuarters of the Royal Engineers of the 29th Division in a lock of the Yser-Lys Canal. Ypres, 13 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247146 © IWM (Q 11560)


QuoteTwo 13 pounder (13pdr), 9 Hundredweight (9cwt) anti-aircraft guns on a Mark IV Motor Lorry Mounting and Peerless Lorries seen in action at Cambrin, 13 March, 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244409 © IWM (Q 8559)


QuoteViews of the battlefield after the third Battle of Ypres, 1917. A salvage dump on the St. Julien road, near Ypres, 13 March 1918. Shell cases, petrol tin, trench pumps etc collected together for dispoal.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246387 © IWM (Q 10717)



Rix Gins

American architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh died on March 13, 1918.  He designed a number of buildings in New York among them the Waldorf-Astoria and the Dakota Apartments.  Lots of well known people lived in the Dakota over the years.  Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, Connie Chung, Rosemary Clooney, José Ferrer, Roberta Flack, Judy Garland, Lillian Gish, Boris Karloff, John Madden, Albert Maysles, Joe Namath, Rudolf Nureyev, Rosie O'Donnell, Patrick O'Neal, Jack Palance, Gilda Radner, Rex Reed, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, and John Lennon, just to mention a few.

Info on Henry Janeway Hardenbergh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Janeway_Hardenbergh


Photo of architect Henry Hardenbergh.
By Moses King, New York-author and publisher. - page 392 King's Notable New Yorkers, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58024900


The Dakota Building, so far uptown when it was built that it was said it might as well be in the Dakota Territory.
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=370704




albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 12, 2018, 03:31:00 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 12, 1918.


GREASEWEED VALUABLE

  JUAREZ. Mexico. March 12. Greaseweed, which grows wild on the deserts of Northern Mexico, has been found to contain properties which make it valuable as a wartime drug, according to Major Gomez Tagle of the Juarez garrison, who is an expert chemist. Major Tagle has been conducting a series of experiments with the greaseweed and says he has discovered a substitute for iodoform which is contained in the plant.  It is especially valuable in medicine for treating wounds. A liniment for the relief of rheumatic pains has also been obtained from the desert plant, according to the military chemist.


HIS CABIN IS ROBBED

  Evangelos Haralambos, a Greek miner, who expects to leave on the next draft, reported to the police this morning that his cabin had been robbed during the night and $680 in postal deposit certificates taken from a bureau drawer.


MINGLED EMOTIONS IN THIS SCENARIO - A ROMANCE OF TWO CONTINENTS TO BE READ IN THIS STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS.

  An action in divorce that possesses rare heart interest because of the affection and faith of the defendant and the unusual features of it being a part of the romance of two continents, together with the added point of an illegal marriage, will come to trial before Judge Mark Averill in the Fifth judicial district court Thursday.  District Attorney H.H. Atkinson will represent the  plaintiff and Attorney Leo Harrington the defendant.

  Philip Gendal who, according to a story published years ago in the Los Angeles Times, is an admitted bigamist, came to Nevada and established a residence for the purpose of securing divorce from Celia Gendal, both Russians. She bore three children to him and two are alleged to have died of starvation when he deserted her and came to this coast to illicitly marry another woman with whom he had become infatuated and who also bore him a child.

  For years and years Mrs. Gendal toiled to support her remaining child and always felt that her husband would come back to her, unless he had been killed to obtain the $1700 of their community money with which he departed. When she heard of his being in Nevada and applying for a divorce, she borrowed the necessary funds from people of her nationality and hurried here to contest the case, asking only to have her husband back again, but to protect the legitimacy of the child born of the bigamous marriage, the application for divorce will also be hard pressed. At all events, no matter how the merits of the case may lie, whether the facts narrated above are correct in detail or not, the story is one that would provide a splendid scenario, for it is one of conflicting emotions and possessed of settings in far distant places.


NO GROUND GLASS IN THE LOGANBERRY JAR

  Tests were made last evening by M. A. Rex, United States food and drug inspector, of the substance found in a can of Teagarden loganberry jam, and it was pronounced by him to not be glass, but whether it was crystallized sugar or not, he did not state. His investigation may alleviate fear that any one, alien enemy or otherwise, has been tampering with the Teagarden products, which are put out under a pure food serial number and are renowned for their excellent quality.


NOW PLAYING AT THE BUTLER THEATRE


By Fox Films - source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57456997

Some info on Cupid's Roundup: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008985/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccharis_sarothroides
"The Seri refer to desert broom as cascol caaco, and make a decoction by cooking the twigs. This tea is used to treat colds, sinus headache, and general sore achey ailments. The same tea is also used as a rub for sore muscles.[4] Studies done on plant extracts show that desert broom is rich in leutolin, a flavonoid that has demonstrated anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and cholesterol lowering capabilities. Desert broom also has quercetin, a proven antioxidant, and apigenin a chemical which binds to the same brain receptor sites that Valium does"

I will be interested on the outcome of the tragic multi-continental divorce proceeding!

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 14, 1918.


QuoteA French soldier by a barricade in the ruined street of Saint-Agnant-sous-les-Cotes, 14 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323742 © IWM (Q 78982)


QuoteA German Army transport depot on the Western Front, 14 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205080606 © IWM (Q 87594)

Rix Gins

Actor Dennis Patrick was born 100 years ago.  He worked in television mostly but did appear in the movies Joe, and The Secret of Nikola Tesla with Orson Welles.  He guest starred in television shows like Perry Mason, Dallas, Eight Is Enough, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Twilight Zone, The Jack Benny Show, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wanted Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, Laramie, Dobie Gillis, The Fugitive, Lost in Space, The Big Valley, Ironside, Fantasy Island and Hawaii Five-O, just to mention a few.  He played several different characters in the afternoon soap opera Dark Shadows.

Dennis and his pet poodle Josh lost their lives when their Hollywood Hills home burned down.  Their ashes were scattered into the ocean, joining the ashes of Dennis' wife Barbara, who had died a couple of years earlier.   

Info and pics: https://dennispatrickfansite.weebly.com/

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 14, 2018, 03:17:26 AM
Actor Dennis Patrick was born 100 years ago.  He worked in television mostly but did appear in the movies Joe, and The Secret of Nikola Tesla with Orson Welles.  He guest starred in television shows like Perry Mason, Dallas, Eight Is Enough, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Twilight Zone, The Jack Benny Show, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wanted Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, Laramie, Dobie Gillis, The Fugitive, Lost in Space, The Big Valley, Ironside, Fantasy Island and Hawaii Five-O, just to mention a few.  He played several different characters in the afternoon soap opera Dark Shadows.

Dennis and his pet poodle Josh lost their lives when their Hollywood Hills home burned down.  Their ashes were scattered into the ocean, joining the ashes of Dennis' wife Barbara, who had died a couple of years earlier.   

Info and pics: https://dennispatrickfansite.weebly.com/
Ha, I was unaware of this show. Fits. There was a weird time in which Orson Welles did some odd programming. I recall a hippie friend of mine who INSISTED we all watch Orson's special on Nostradamus. He thought it was amazing and would make people watch it. Even though we all laughed and pointed out how Orson always couched his commentary with questions, not statements of fact. For example, "did the French prophet predict Hitler and WWII?" etc.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 15, 1918.


QuoteRoyal Engineers on a bridge over the Avre river at Roye, destroyed by the Germans before they abandoned the town to the French in March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245052 © IWM (Q 9279)


QuoteBritish soldiers inspect a captured German concrete gun emplacement which has been damaged by shell fire at Roye, 15 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244419 © IWM (Q 8569)


QuoteBritish soldiers inspect a captured German concrete gun emplacement at Roye, 15 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244417 © IWM (Q 8567)

Rix Gins

German flying ace Adolf Ritter von Tutschek was killed in aerial combat on March 15, 1918.  He had compiled 27 victories before dying at the age of 26.

Bio of Adolf von Tutschek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ritter_von_Tutschek

Color of Von Tutschek's plane:
QuoteHis personal aircraft color scheme was ink black overall with a white propeller spinner and a square white background for the Maltese cross tail markings.


World War One German Aviator Obltn. Adolf von Tutschek.
PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37592721

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 15, 2018, 01:07:35 AM
From the Imperial War Museum, March 15, 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245052 © IWM (Q 9279)
"Bit of a sticky wicket here, wot." "No problem, sir, it will buff out. Spot of tea?"

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on March 15, 2018, 10:41:04 AM
"Bit of a sticky wicket here, wot." "No problem, sir, it will buff out. Spot of tea?"

Ha!  You should write screenplays, mr. a.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 16, 1918.


QuoteBritish troops resting among the ruins of Terguier, 16 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244425 © IWM (Q 8575)


QuoteHorse drawn transport passing a German motor body on the roadside which is used as a rest hut near Chauny, 16 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244422 © IWM (Q 8572)


QuoteBritish soldiers inspect piles of large vessels outside a pottery factory at Chauny, destroyed by the enemy, 16 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244420 © IWM (Q 8570)


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 16, 1918.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, March 16, 1918.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 17, 1918.


QuoteA Royal Engineer working party being conveyed by a light railway which passed through a ruined building in Arras, 8 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244428 © IWM (Q 8578)


Quote6 inch 26 cwt howitzers of the 5th Brigade (Royal Garrison Artillery) in the Grande Place, Peronne, 17 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245559 © IWM (Q 9834)


QuoteAmerican assault troops going into action near Badonviller, 17 March 1918. Note their bags filled with hand grenades.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308796 © IWM (Q 61343)


Rix Gins


Karl Kellerbaur

Economist's son from Strass, Bavaria, Germany.

Member Pioneer Company.

Died from wounds in a Strasbourg, France fortress hospital on February 18, 1918.  https://wikitravel.org/en/Strasbourg

He was 31 years old.


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Evening Star, March 17, 1918.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 18, 1918.


QuoteBritish Army soldiers knocking down shell-shattered trees for fire-wood at Feuchy, 18 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246415 © IWM (Q 10750)


QuoteA gunner of the Royal Garrison Artillery fires a Lewis gun which has been mounted on a wheel at the top of a post for use as an anti-aircraft gun, Monchy-le-Preux, 18 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205196063 © IWM (Q 10748)


QuoteDestroyed offices at Fosse 11, facing east, at Bully-Grenay, 18 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323431 © IWM (Q 78671)

Rix Gins



Joseph Schneider

Stonemason's son from Furstenstein, Bavaria, Germany.  https://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/35261182.jpg

Soldier with a machine gun company.

Died on February 23, 1918, after 23 months of faithful soldierly service.

He was 25 years old.


Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 19, 1918.


QuotePreparations for the Spring Offensive. German troops concentrating in the wrecked streets of St. Quentin, immediately prior to the Spring Offensive, 19 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205080547 © IWM (Q 55479)


QuotePreparations for the Spring Offensive. German troops concentrating in the wrecked streets of St. Quentin, immediately prior to the Spring Offensive, 19 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205080848 © IWM (Q 55480)


QuoteShort Type 320 two-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber seaplane. Serial number N1393. Photograph taken at Calshot.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205357061 © IWM (Q 68225)


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