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Great reporting there, K.  Your flow of info and illustrations were seamless from top to bottom.  My knowledge of this particular happening is scant to say the least, so I am really enjoying your history lesson.  Can hardly wait to see what happens after this initial grab at control by the Irish rebels.  Well done.

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 24, 1916.

The Day Book, April 24, 1916.

Any idea what this story is about?

Everett True, April 24, 1916.

                  Vickers Gunbus (Wikimedia)

On April 23, 1916, Lieutenant William Charles Mortimer-Phelan (11 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) flew his Vickers Gunbus across enemy lines to meet up with his assigned escort above the town of Arras.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arras 
The escort showed up at the designated spot, alright, but he couldn't find Phelan's plane anywhere so he turned around and returned to his home base.

Unguarded, the Gunbus continued on it's way to a certain Anti Aircraft Battery so that they could take pictures of it.  After a little while though, the pilot and his photographer, Second Lieutenant William A. Scott-Brown (6/Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders And 11 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) were attacked from above by two gun blazing German planes.  Max Immelmann was in the second plane and he followed his fellow pilot, Max Ritter von Mulzer in a diving attack on the hapless Gunboat.  Immelmann himself was able to pour 120 rounds into the enemy plane before it managed to land just outside of Arras.  The two airmen were still behind enemy lines however, so they knew that they would be captured in minutes.  The Gunbus's petrol tank was riddled with bullet holes and leaking gas all over the place.  It was a simple matter to touch a match to it and the plane was quickly reduced to ashes.  (This was SOP standard operating procedure for all pilots on both sides, when brought down behind enemy lines.)  The pair was quickly captured and were even told the names of the two pilots who had brought them down.  Phelan and Brown would spend most of the war as POWs but both were released before the war ended by being exchanged with German prisoners through neutral Holland.  (Phelan, on April 30, 1918 and Brown, on November 18, 1918)...yes, one day before the war ended.  And their respective reports on the last mission flown by the two?  Oh, they dutifully reported that they met up with the assigned escort at the right place and the right time, but for some unexpected reason, the escort left them to continue with their mission unguarded.  Phelan was bitter over the whole proceedings and maintained that if they had been guarded, the two German planes wouldn't have attacked them.  (Phelan was injured in another crash after the war.  See below.)

This was Immelmann's 14th victory and darn near his last.  Two days later he was literally shot down in pieces during a humongous dogfight yet still managed to land what was left of his plane.  He even admitted that he had been beat and was lucky to be alive. 

Here is the other pilot that aided Immelman with the victory on the 23rd.


  Max Ritter von Mulzer (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ritter_von_Mulzer






     

https://youtu.be/iDX0PByBaLo

The card above tickles me.  The German soldiers should have checked the field mushrooms out a little closer before throwing them into the pot of stew.  Great Easter stuff, everybody!

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 23, 2016, 12:43:52 PM
Today was Easter:

The New York Tribune showed, among other images, growing Easter lilies, and Easter eggs decorated with caricatures of the Allies:

People were very creative with their Easter eggs back then.   

From the Sunday Telegram for April 23, 1916.

Quote from: trostol on April 23, 2016, 02:49:42 AM
i bet you dont have that big an audience

and ya know what i hear at dawn...birds ..lots of annoying chirping birds

But those were the pterodactyls.  Yeah, I was fooled too. Thought they would have had deeper voices.

Quote from: norland2424 on April 23, 2016, 02:23:47 AM
have any of you read hoagies books?

I checked Monuments out of the library years ago and while the first half was fairly good what with the Face and all, the second half was barely readable and he lost me on equating the Martians with the Sumerians.   I did enjoy the pics of the Face, etc.   

Cool review 21st, thanks.  So what did you think of Gilbert's voice?  Was it a bit on the weak side?  I read somewhere that when he went from silents to talkies, that his voice didn't translate well and he couldn't get acting work.  Just wondering if you noticed it in this particular movie.

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on April 22, 2016, 10:16:17 AM
Everett sure hated billboards!  He was raging about them just a few days ago.  Can't argue with that!

I noticed that too.  I almost get the impression that Everett started the fire.

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza for April 22, 1916 was a bust.  Oh, there might have been a couple of mildly interesting pieces on page four, but the person who copied the original newspaper moved the page as the camera clicked and almost everything on that page is too blurry to download.  But fear not, I will not leave you empty handed because I found this neat video (part one of four parts) that shows the mining side of Tonopah, 100 years ago.  Enjoy.


https://youtu.be/_5jez2VpBiU

The Day Book, April 22, 1916.

Try to guess what this story is about.

Everett True, April 22, 1916.

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on April 21, 2016, 09:34:00 PM
Damn if they couldn't put up some impressive buildings in the past.  What a piece of art.

Utterly beautiful. 

Ema Destinnová did some recordings exactly 100 years ago, today.  Here is one of them.
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700002491/B-17461-Wiegenlied

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 21, 2016, 11:11:05 AM
From the Seattle Star today: a front-page editorial on the war, and a continuation of the unsolved-murder series that doesn't quite live up to its predecessors.

That's a sad one, for sure.  Bloody hand prints on the fence post and yet they led nowhere.  Vicious attack, too...almost like a cow mutilation...speaking of which, did they find the lost cow?  Or was it a victim too?  Calling Linda Moulton Howe!

Quote from: GravitySucks on April 21, 2016, 04:28:47 AM
And if you don't behave I will put you there right next to your father.

Haha, that's a great one, G.S.!  Kind of like a 100 year ago horror movie.

Quote from: akwilly on April 21, 2016, 03:37:00 AM
watching a mothers heart grow?

Good one, akwilly!  I haven't thought of one yet, still working on it.  lol

Quote from: akwilly on April 21, 2016, 12:58:39 AM
damn 21 you are pretty damn good at these reviews. Even though these are movies I doubt I'll ever see I sure enjoy the reviews.

In case you missed it, here is a review from a couple pages back.  http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,615.msg769543.html#msg769543 Like so many of 21'st's reviews, this one was absolutely superlative.

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 21, 1916.

The Day Book, April 21, 1916.

Make up a caption for this...

Everett True, April 21, 1916.

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 20, 2016, 01:28:02 PM
Wow, what a biography!  They don't make them like that any more.

Nice monocle, too!

Indeed.  I especially liked the facts that Al was louder and more gregarious than his quieter law partner, that he 'had fun' at his testimonial dinner, and that he loved to sing.

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 20, 2016, 12:31:35 PM
From the Seattle Star today:






670 Weller St:

Fascinating.  I just love the thought of all those secret passageways.  I wonder if anybody  has made a present day search for any remnants of them?  That is of course, if that is the original building.  It does look old.