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

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on December 24, 2017, 11:00:49 AM
Ha. Made a fortune in Japan and lost it all. Colorful character, it would seem.

Re: Cobweb. I was hoping some kind of underground betting criminal syndicate, maybe associated with the Black Hand or some Chinese Tong. Alas...

Actually the Cobweb was a liquor store, or a combination of the two, judging by this ad from the Dec. 24, 1917 Tonopah Bonanza.  They were involved in the betting business somewhat, so who knows?




albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 24, 2017, 11:15:42 AM
Actually the Cobweb was a liquor store, or a combination of the two, judging by this ad from the Dec. 24, 1917 Tonopah Bonanza.  They were involved in the betting business somewhat, so who knows?


Mr.Manion has quite a good business model. Cash your paycheck at a place that sells booze and cigars. And a place that receives wires on the latest sporting events., cough-cough. And, since it is located at the State Bank building, likely free or near free security. It is telling that folks would rather cash their paycheck at Mr.Mansion's place, even though there is a bank in same building!

I tried to find info about that whiskey but google and internet searches are so bad now. All I can find are references to some interesting decanters/bottles but no info on the actual drink or distiller.

Rix Gins

From the Europeana Collection.


Austrian soldiers celebrate Christmas in a shelter.  December 25, 1917.
(And a Merry Christmas to all readers of the 100 Years ago thread.)

WhiteCrow

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 25, 2017, 02:46:49 AM
From the Europeana Collection.


Austrian soldiers celebrate Christmas in a shelter.  December 25, 1917.
(And a Merry Christmas to all readers of the 100 Years ago thread.)

And Merry Christmas to you and Yours.
I love this thread.. Hope you can keep it going for many years to come.

For history buffs..connect the dots .. North Korea has nukes today because Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated 101 years ago.

Yeah this thread is relative today!

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 25, 2017, 02:46:49 AM
From the Europeana Collection.


Austrian soldiers celebrate Christmas in a shelter.  December 25, 1917.
(And a Merry Christmas to all readers of the 100 Years ago thread.)

Awaiting the result of the big match(es) today with bated breath!

albrecht

Quote from: WhiteCrow on December 25, 2017, 10:52:12 AM
And Merry Christmas to you and Yours.
I love this thread.. Hope you can keep it going for many years to come.

For history buffs..connect the dots .. North Korea has nukes today because Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated 101 years ago.

Yeah this thread is relative today!

This requires me to have some more eggnogg intake before I can solve this riddle. But I, only after a few cups and a Mimosa, think it is related because the Japs took Korea around then and held it until WWII?

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteItalian and British (41st Division) troops examining a destroyed DFW two-seat biplane, either German or Austro-Hungarian, one of three which fell on the British lines after a raid on Istrana aerodrome, 26 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205267964


QuoteDestroyed DFW two-seat biplane, either German or Austro-Hungarian, one of three which fell on the British lines after a raid on Istrana aerodrome, 26 December 1917. The soldier seated on the top of the plane is probably a serviceman of the 18th Battalion (Arts and Crafts), King's Royal Rifle Corps (122nd Brigade, 41st Division).
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205267959


QuoteTroops of the 41st Division examining a destroyed DFW two-seat biplane, either German or Austro-Hungarian, one of three which fell on the British lines after a raid on Istrana aerodrome, 26 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205267962

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 26, 1917.


WILLIAM BERNE BEATS MASKED MARVEL IN AN EXCITING MATCH

  William Berne, the husky Russian, proved himself not only a man of great strength, but of great cleverness, yesterday afternoon when he bested Ajax's "Masked Marvel" in their finish wrestling match at the Airdome. The first fall was won by Berne after 45 minutes and 15 seconds of struggle, starting at 2:30. The Russian was in some difficulty with his wind, the "Marvel" having an advantage there because he had trained in this high altitude, while Berne came direct from the coast just before the match.

  Ajax's man was clever enough, but no match in strength for Berne. Again and again he got Berne in a wicked scissor hold, but the Russian always broke it. After the 45 minutes of struggle in the first fall, Berne suddenly grasped his man with his hands clasped behind the back of his neck and threw him over his head and landed on him, quick as a cat and pinned his shoulders to the mat. 

  The "Marvel" several times got the Russian with a toe hold, but always lost it.

  In the second fall Berne, vividly demonstrating his superior strength, got the toe hold, and after a minute or two of pressure the "Marvel" slapped the mat with his hand and Berne was declared winner.

  The match, from first to last, was full of thrills and was well worth the price of admission, making up for the boxing flivver. In the second fall Berne pleased the big crowd by hoisting his man perpendicularly, head down, grasping him by his shins, and slapped the "Marvel's" gruesomely masked head a number of times on the floor. The "Marvel" earned some hoots by using his fists once or twice, seemingly very desirous of getting home a full swing upper cut.

  All ten rounds of the Carter Pappas go might have been done to the tune of a nice dreamy waltz. Both of the big men were slow on their feet, with their hands and their heads. When Referee Pierce raised Carter's arm at the end of the last round there was the usual hoot from two or three spectators and Pappas loudly declared it waan't fair. The decision was the only one possible, however. Carter won, but deserves no medal for It.

  In the first two rounds there was little pretense at fighting. Round by round the rest of the alleged battle went like this:

  Third- Pappas landed a left to the ribs. Both missed swings. Pappas tried an ambitious left to Carter's disgraceful embonpoint and they went into an embrace by mutual consent. Carter blocked all of Pappas' clumsy efforts except a light left to the neck.

  Fourth- Clinch clinch clinch. Carter blocked right swing. Carter landed right to head. Referee broke them. Then did it again. Carter landed left to head and one to Pappas' mouth. They were clinched at the gong.

  Fifth- Pappas landed two light ones to the black man's chicken coop. The referee broke them once again. Pappas was obviously chief culprit as to clinching. Carter shot his left to Pappas' face, then to the neck. Pappas missed a right swing by a mile. Carter swung right, left and right to head and Pappas went down to his knees and stayed there for a count of eight. Pappas got in with his left again. Clinch. Pappas was tired. Carter shot his left to the Greek's jaw and they clinched. Carter was swinging both mitts in the most exciting (?) second of the go at the gong.

  Sixth- Carter landed his right to the neck and they clinched. Carter got a left to Pappas' mouth and they clinched again. Pappas varied the monotony by landing a love tap on Carter's jaw. Carter returned the compliment with his left and missed with his right as usual. They clinched. Pappas got left to Carter's hard head and Carter landed with his right and left. Pappas reached the black boy's neck with his left.

  Seventh- Clinch. Carter's right got to Pappas' head and the black man, encouraged, swung his right and left to the same destination successfully. They clinched. Carter got a stiff right chop to Pappas' jaw. Carter missed some determined swings, then found the range and landed his right twice to the jaw. He roughed the tired Greek in a clinch. A left to his jaw sent Pappas down again. He jumped up and was trying when the gong sounded.

  Eighth- Pappas came out of his corner instructed to slam the negro where he was fattest. He tried to follow instruction, but with little success and no damage. They roughed it languidly in a clinch. Pappas got a right to Carter's jaw and they hugged each other until Carter got his left up to Pappas' jaw. The referee broke them.  Pappas was still more weary. 

  Ninth- Clinch. Pappas landed left to Carter's jaw. Clinch. Carter landed right to Pappas' jaw, one of the few clean punches of the "fight." They clinched. Pappas landed a light left to Carter's bean. 

  Tenth- They hugged each other. Carter landed with his left to jaw and then repeated. Clinch No. 863. Pappas got his left to Carter's head and did it again. Clinch. Pappas hit Carter in the mouth with his left, a punch that had hardly steam enough to keep it moving. Clinch. Carter landed on Pappas' mouth with his left. Clinch. Carter was swinging his right and left in a sad imitation of how the sixth-raters go in the four-round game on the coast, when the gong ended the agony.

  Both of the men are slow as Sunday in Manhattan. They might get by well in an esthetic dancing act. As fighters they're good piano movers.


CHIEF GRANT NOT OUT OF DANGER

  Chief of Police Jack Grant, whose condition was declared to be very dangerous yesterday, was this afternoon considerably improved, but not yet out of danger. His hiccoughing, a dangerous symptom, has not been stopped. Dr. McCarthy of Goldfield was yesterday called into consultation with Dr. McLeod.

  The chief's illness is the concern of all the people of Tonopah and many inquiries as to his chance for recovery were made all day yesterday and today. He was operated on for appendicitis last Friday.

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 26, 2017, 03:59:55 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 26, 1917.


WILLIAM BERNE BEATS MASKED MARVEL IN AN EXCITING MATCH

  William Berne, the husky Russian, proved himself not only a man of great strength, but of great cleverness, yesterday afternoon when he bested Ajax's "Masked Marvel" in their finish wrestling match at the Airdome. The first fall was won by Berne after 45 minutes and 15 seconds of struggle, starting at 2:30. The Russian was in some difficulty with his wind, the "Marvel" having an advantage there because he had trained in this high altitude, while Berne came direct from the coast just before the match.

  Ajax's man was clever enough, but no match in strength for Berne. Again and again he got Berne in a wicked scissor hold, but the Russian always broke it. After the 45 minutes of struggle in the first fall, Berne suddenly grasped his man with his hands clasped behind the back of his neck and threw him over his head and landed on him, quick as a cat and pinned his shoulders to the mat. 

  The "Marvel" several times got the Russian with a toe hold, but always lost it.

  In the second fall Berne, vividly demonstrating his superior strength, got the toe hold, and after a minute or two of pressure the "Marvel" slapped the mat with his hand and Berne was declared winner.

  The match, from first to last, was full of thrills and was well worth the price of admission, making up for the boxing flivver. In the second fall Berne pleased the big crowd by hoisting his man perpendicularly, head down, grasping him by his shins, and slapped the "Marvel's" gruesomely masked head a number of times on the floor. The "Marvel" earned some hoots by using his fists once or twice, seemingly very desirous of getting home a full swing upper cut.

  All ten rounds of the Carter Pappas go might have been done to the tune of a nice dreamy waltz. Both of the big men were slow on their feet, with their hands and their heads. When Referee Pierce raised Carter's arm at the end of the last round there was the usual hoot from two or three spectators and Pappas loudly declared it waan't fair. The decision was the only one possible, however. Carter won, but deserves no medal for It.

  In the first two rounds there was little pretense at fighting. Round by round the rest of the alleged battle went like this:

  Third- Pappas landed a left to the ribs. Both missed swings. Pappas tried an ambitious left to Carter's disgraceful embonpoint and they went into an embrace by mutual consent. Carter blocked all of Pappas' clumsy efforts except a light left to the neck.

  Fourth- Clinch clinch clinch. Carter blocked right swing. Carter landed right to head. Referee broke them. Then did it again. Carter landed left to head and one to Pappas' mouth. They were clinched at the gong.

  Fifth- Pappas landed two light ones to the black man's chicken coop. The referee broke them once again. Pappas was obviously chief culprit as to clinching. Carter shot his left to Pappas' face, then to the neck. Pappas missed a right swing by a mile. Carter swung right, left and right to head and Pappas went down to his knees and stayed there for a count of eight. Pappas got in with his left again. Clinch. Pappas was tired. Carter shot his left to the Greek's jaw and they clinched. Carter was swinging both mitts in the most exciting (?) second of the go at the gong.

  Sixth- Carter landed his right to the neck and they clinched. Carter got a left to Pappas' mouth and they clinched again. Pappas varied the monotony by landing a love tap on Carter's jaw. Carter returned the compliment with his left and missed with his right as usual. They clinched. Pappas got left to Carter's hard head and Carter landed with his right and left. Pappas reached the black boy's neck with his left.

  Seventh- Clinch. Carter's right got to Pappas' head and the black man, encouraged, swung his right and left to the same destination successfully. They clinched. Carter got a stiff right chop to Pappas' jaw. Carter missed some determined swings, then found the range and landed his right twice to the jaw. He roughed the tired Greek in a clinch. A left to his jaw sent Pappas down again. He jumped up and was trying when the gong sounded.

  Eighth- Pappas came out of his corner instructed to slam the negro where he was fattest. He tried to follow instruction, but with little success and no damage. They roughed it languidly in a clinch. Pappas got a right to Carter's jaw and they hugged each other until Carter got his left up to Pappas' jaw. The referee broke them.  Pappas was still more weary. 

  Ninth- Clinch. Pappas landed left to Carter's jaw. Clinch. Carter landed right to Pappas' jaw, one of the few clean punches of the "fight." They clinched. Pappas landed a light left to Carter's bean. 

  Tenth- They hugged each other. Carter landed with his left to jaw and then repeated. Clinch No. 863. Pappas got his left to Carter's head and did it again. Clinch. Pappas hit Carter in the mouth with his left, a punch that had hardly steam enough to keep it moving. Clinch. Carter landed on Pappas' mouth with his left. Clinch. Carter was swinging his right and left in a sad imitation of how the sixth-raters go in the four-round game on the coast, when the gong ended the agony.

  Both of the men are slow as Sunday in Manhattan. They might get by well in an esthetic dancing act. As fighters they're good piano movers.


CHIEF GRANT NOT OUT OF DANGER

  Chief of Police Jack Grant, whose condition was declared to be very dangerous yesterday, was this afternoon considerably improved, but not yet out of danger. His hiccoughing, a dangerous symptom, has not been stopped. Dr. McCarthy of Goldfield was yesterday called into consultation with Dr. McLeod.

  The chief's illness is the concern of all the people of Tonopah and many inquiries as to his chance for recovery were made all day yesterday and today. He was operated on for appendicitis last Friday.

The Slovakian miners are celebrating tonight! I think most here predicted the Rooskie would win but it sounds like an exciting match and Ajax training regimen of using altitude was a good one and was shown in the stamina in the "Masked Marvel."

The writer's description of the boxing was hilarious but sounds like a boring match.

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on December 26, 2017, 06:01:22 PM
The Slovakian miners are celebrating tonight! I think most here predicted the Rooskie would win but it sounds like an exciting match and Ajax training regimen of using altitude was a good one and was shown in the stamina in the "Masked Marvel."

The writer's description of the boxing was hilarious but sounds like a boring match.

I was glad the Slovs didn't have dates with rolling pins.  Also, was kind of amazed at the sportswriter's blow by blow boxing match descriptions without the use of any kind of video/smart phone appliance to fall back on.  I wonder if he used some type of abbreviation system like l t r j (left to right jaw.)  If so, he certainly used the letter 'c' a bunch.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteArtillery limbers passing through the snow-covered ruins of Ypres, 27 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245532


QuoteA squadron of Nieuport Scout biplanes lined up in the snow at Bailleul Aerodrome, 27 December 1917. It's possibly No. 1 Squadron RFC.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247505


QuotePilot (possibly Captain Wendell W. Rogers of No. 1 Squadron RFC) in the cockpit of a Nieuport Scout biplane at Bailleul Aerodrome, 27 December 1917. Note a Lewis machine gun on upper plane.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247506


QuoteFuselage of a German AEG G.IV (G.105) bomber, brought down by anti-aircraft gun fire at Achiet-le-Grand on 23 December 1917, being removed by RFC tender, 27th December 1917. Near Bapaume.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247667


Rix Gins

From The Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 27, 1917.


BERNE CRAVES MATCH WITH GOLDFIELD MAN

  It will be remembered that when Berne, the wrestler, first sought a match here he issued a challenge to Victor Ajax of Goldfield. Ajax told him that he (Berne) had given no evidence that he wasn't a dub and that Ajax would meet him when Berne had licked a man that Ajax would train. Well, Berne met Ajax's man and beat him handily. Now the Russian wants to know if Ajax still retains any shred of his original confidence that he could lick Berne. Yesterday he challenged Ajax, explaining that inasmuch as he hasn't the $500 to put up as a side bet he'll wrestle for the gross receipts, winner take all. That sounds fair enough.

  No one is betting that Ajax will accept the challenge. He was a mighty good man not so long ago, but quite like everyone else he gets older every day he lives, and Ajax has lived a multitude of days.


CHIEF POLICE GRANT RESTING EASY TODAY

  Chief of Polite Jack Grant slept several hours last night and is today resting easier, though he is still in danger. While he slept the wrenching hiccoughing that is so dangerous stopped, but started again today. If it can be stopped the chief might recover, it is said. The great popularity of the man is attested by the wide interest in his sickness and the universal hope that he will soon recover


"THE HAUNTED HOUSE" AT THE BUTLER

  Winifred Allen appears as Anne, an old-fashioned little girl living in a New England village where bigotry and prejudices still flourish, in the five-reel production, "The Haunted House," which will be shown at the Butler this evening.

  Anne is permitted none of the pleasures of the modern girl. She is quaint and somewhat queer, according to the superstitious villagers. She spends much of her time in the woods, where she hears fairies and spirits whispering to her from the stirring leaves.

  There is an old mansion near the village that has a reputation for being haunted by a ghost. No one dares live in it, and those who have had the courage to approach it at night have been frightened away by a ghost. When Jimmy, a young crook, played by Dick Rosson, robs the village bank he seeks to escape his pursuers by taking refuge in the "haunted house." The ghost comes out to meet him, but, finding him wounded, takes pity and conduct him inside.

  An old Vonkers mansion with a reputation for fifty-seven varieties of ghosts is being used as the actual setting for this production. This rambling old residence overlooking the Hudson bears testimony to a long life of usefulness in the past, but has been vacant for thirty-five years and has a fearful name among the superstitious townfolk.

(To clarify the above description, I looked the movie up and found that Anne was acting as the ghost in order to scare the townfolk away so that she could bring the young man inside and take care of him.  They would then cultivate a romance inside the haunted house.)



albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 27, 2017, 03:48:01 AM
From The Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 27, 1917.


BERNE CRAVES MATCH WITH GOLDFIELD MAN

  It will be remembered that when Berne, the wrestler, first sought a match here he issued a challenge to Victor Ajax of Goldfield. Ajax told him that he (Berne) had given no evidence that he wasn't a dub and that Ajax would meet him when Berne had licked a man that Ajax would train. Well, Berne met Ajax's man and beat him handily. Now the Russian wants to know if Ajax still retains any shred of his original confidence that he could lick Berne. Yesterday he challenged Ajax, explaining that inasmuch as he hasn't the $500 to put up as a side bet he'll wrestle for the gross receipts, winner take all. That sounds fair enough.

  No one is betting that Ajax will accept the challenge. He was a mighty good man not so long ago, but quite like everyone else he gets older every day he lives, and Ajax has lived a multitude of days.


CHIEF POLICE GRANT RESTING EASY TODAY

  Chief of Polite Jack Grant slept several hours last night and is today resting easier, though he is still in danger. While he slept the wrenching hiccoughing that is so dangerous stopped, but started again today. If it can be stopped the chief might recover, it is said. The great popularity of the man is attested by the wide interest in his sickness and the universal hope that he will soon recover


"THE HAUNTED HOUSE" AT THE BUTLER

  Winifred Allen appears as Anne, an old-fashioned little girl living in a New England village where bigotry and prejudices still flourish, in the five-reel production, "The Haunted House," which will be shown at the Butler this evening.

  Anne is permitted none of the pleasures of the modern girl. She is quaint and somewhat queer, according to the superstitious villagers. She spends much of her time in the woods, where she hears fairies and spirits whispering to her from the stirring leaves.

  There is an old mansion near the village that has a reputation for being haunted by a ghost. No one dares live in it, and those who have had the courage to approach it at night have been frightened away by a ghost. When Jimmy, a young crook, played by Dick Rosson, robs the village bank he seeks to escape his pursuers by taking refuge in the "haunted house." The ghost comes out to meet him, but, finding him wounded, takes pity and conduct him inside.

  An old Vonkers mansion with a reputation for fifty-seven varieties of ghosts is being used as the actual setting for this production. This rambling old residence overlooking the Hudson bears testimony to a long life of usefulness in the past, but has been vacant for thirty-five years and has a fearful name among the superstitious townfolk.

(To clarify the above description, I looked the movie up and found that Anne was acting as the ghost in order to scare the townfolk away so that she could bring the young man inside and take care of him.  They would then cultivate a romance inside the haunted house.)
1) I think it is time for Ajax to retire and on focus on training/manager of younger fighters.

2) Someone needs to "scare" the beloved Jack Grant or tell him to drink a glass of water upside-down. That will cure his hiccups.

3) That movie sounds interesting, especially because of the filming location- a supposed abandoned mansion overlooking the Hudson that was haunted "and has a fearful name among the superstitious townfolk." I'm guessing the location is "Yonkers" and the "Vonkers" was a misprint? I couldn't find a copy of the movie and many references to it on the interwebs.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008052/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on December 27, 2017, 11:38:08 AM
1) I think it is time for Ajax to retire and on focus on training/manager of younger fighters.

2) Someone needs to "scare" the beloved Jack Grant or tell him to drink a glass of water upside-down. That will cure his hiccups.

3) That movie sounds interesting, especially because of the filming location- a supposed abandoned mansion overlooking the Hudson that was haunted "and has a fearful name among the superstitious townfolk." I'm guessing the location is "Yonkers" and the "Vonkers" was a misprint? I couldn't find a copy of the movie and many references to it on the interwebs.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008052/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Ha, a spoonful of sugar and vinegar always make mine stop, and I get the kind that are earth shaking.  Yes, pretty sure it was Yonkers, NY.  I noticed a number of misspelled words in the Bonanza issue and tried to correct them but I missed that one.  I wonder if the proofreader was coming off the effects of too much holiday cheer 100 years back?

GravitySucks

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 27, 2017, 04:56:41 PM
Ha, a spoonful of sugar and vinegar always make mine stop, and I get the kind that are earth shaking.  Yes, pretty sure it was Yonkers, NY.  I noticed a number of misspelled words in the Bonanza issue and tried to correct them but I missed that one.  I wonder if the proofreader was coming off the effects of too much holiday cheer 100 years back?

I tended bar decades ago. The sure-fire cure for hiccups is a couple of drops of Angostura Bitters on a lemon wedge and take bite. Never seen it fail.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: albrecht on December 24, 2017, 11:23:53 AM
I tried to find info about that whiskey but google and internet searches are so bad now. All I can find are references to some interesting decanters/bottles but no info on the actual drink or distiller.

Do you think that will change now that some of the biggest offenders are going down?

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 27, 2017, 04:56:41 PM
Ha, a spoonful of sugar and vinegar always make mine stop, and I get the kind that are earth shaking.  Yes, pretty sure it was Yonkers, NY.  I noticed a number of misspelled words in the Bonanza issue and tried to correct them but I missed that one.  I wonder if the proofreader was coming off the effects of too much holiday cheer 100 years back?

Too much ether...or maybe it was the heroin syrup.  ;)

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteMobile anti-aircraft guns on Thornycroft lorries in action, Armentieres, 28 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244241


QuoteMen of the 15th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers in the snow-covered front line trenches at Fleurbaix, 28 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244238


QuoteMen of the 15th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (London Welsh) queuing for a meal in the trenches at Fleurbaix, 28 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244249

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 28, 1917.


CHIEF GRANT FAILING AND LITTLE HOPE IS HELD FOR HIS RECOVERY

  After days of suffering and a valiant battle to recover from an operation for appendicitis, Chief of Police Jack Grant was today reported to be failing. While hope for his recovery has not been abandoned, it is considered improbable. Abdominal conditions were reported to be excellent, but the hiccoughs continue and have weakened him. His heart action is weaker.


POSSE SEARCH HILLS FOR MAN WHO DISSAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE

  A posse of six left the sheriff's office this morning at 10 o'clock to search the hills and ravines for Frank McGuire, who disappeared Monday. Sheriff Thomas early in the week wired to Malley Springs, Goldfield, Blair, Mina and Manhattan in an effort to locate him, but received no clues as to McGuire's whereabouts.

  McGuire informed Thomas last week that he intended to leave Tonopah as soon as he was released from incarceration, and the sheriff scouts the theory that he has met with foul play. McGuire had about $300 with him when last seen.

  The posse consists of Louis Cromer, Vic Basdonovich, C. K. Jarvis, William Larry, Harry McHamilton and Sam Lutz.


AMUSEMENTS AT THE BUTLER.

  Dustin Farnum appears tonight in '"The Scarlet Pimpernel." The story has to do with the reign of terror that swept France at the end of the eighteenth century. In England are a band of notables headed by the Scarlet Pimpernel. (So called by a wayside flower that he uses.)
 
  This band is rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine. So successful is the work of this band that the Republicans send agents to England to discover the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.  The leader of these agents, Chauvelin (William Burgess), by a threat against her brother, compels sir Percy Blakeney's (Dustin Farnum) wife to help him. After she has informed Chauvelln that the Scarlet Pimpernel is her husband, who, because of her activities in behalf of the Republicans, had become cold toward her, she rushes to his aid and helps him thwart Chauvelin and his followers. Knowing his wife has been misled, Sir Percy forgives her.

  Scenically it is perhaps one of the best shown here in some time and through it runs a thrilling romance and some mystery.


Dustin Farnum  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Farnum
By Film World Publishing CoPermission (Reusing this file)See below. - Who's Who in the Film World: edited by Fred C. Justice, Tom R. Smith; 1919 pg. 1873, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18004620




albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 28, 2017, 03:42:55 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 28, 1917.


CHIEF GRANT FAILING AND LITTLE HOPE IS HELD FOR HIS RECOVERY

  After days of suffering and a valiant battle to recover from an operation for appendicitis, Chief of Police Jack Grant was today reported to be failing. While hope for his recovery has not been abandoned, it is considered improbable. Abdominal conditions were reported to be excellent, but the hiccoughs continue and have weakened him. His heart action is weaker.


POSSE SEARCH HILLS FOR MAN WHO DISSAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE

  A posse of six left the sheriff's office this morning at 10 o'clock to search the hills and ravines for Frank McGuire, who disappeared Monday. Sheriff Thomas early in the week wired to Malley Springs, Goldfield, Blair, Mina and Manhattan in an effort to locate him, but received no clues as to McGuire's whereabouts.

  McGuire informed Thomas last week that he intended to leave Tonopah as soon as he was released from incarceration, and the sheriff scouts the theory that he has met with foul play. McGuire had about $300 with him when last seen.

  The posse consists of Louis Cromer, Vic Basdonovich, C. K. Jarvis, William Larry, Harry McHamilton and Sam Lutz.


AMUSEMENTS AT THE BUTLER.

  Dustin Farnum appears tonight in '"The Scarlet Pimpernel." The story has to do with the reign of terror that swept France at the end of the eighteenth century. In England are a band of notables headed by the Scarlet Pimpernel. (So called by a wayside flower that he uses.)
 
  This band is rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine. So successful is the work of this band that the Republicans send agents to England to discover the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.  The leader of these agents, Chauvelin (William Burgess), by a threat against her brother, compels sir Percy Blakeney's (Dustin Farnum) wife to help him. After she has informed Chauvelln that the Scarlet Pimpernel is her husband, who, because of her activities in behalf of the Republicans, had become cold toward her, she rushes to his aid and helps him thwart Chauvelin and his followers. Knowing his wife has been misled, Sir Percy forgives her.

  Scenically it is perhaps one of the best shown here in some time and through it runs a thrilling romance and some mystery.


Dustin Farnum  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Farnum
By Film World Publishing CoPermission (Reusing this file)See below. - Who's Who in the Film World: edited by Fred C. Justice, Tom R. Smith; 1919 pg. 1873, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18004620
Beloved Chief really needs to use some of the advice given by BG'ers and cure those hiccups.

He needs to warn of spoilers when he does he reviews! (ps: Isn't it about the right time for another Hollywood remake of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"? The last one was in '82 and considering that all Hollywood does is remake. Or it could be good as a mini-series or series of made-for-tv movies by the right production company, BBC, etc?)

Rix Gins

Quote from: albrecht on December 28, 2017, 11:31:40 AM
Beloved Chief really needs to use some of the advice given by BG'ers and cure those hiccups.

He needs to warn of spoilers when he does he reviews! (ps: Isn't it about the right time for another Hollywood remake of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"? The last one was in '82 and considering that all Hollywood does is remake. Or it could be good as a mini-series or series of made-for-tv movies by the right production company, BBC, etc?)

I believe the cherished chief is going to die.  Just a guess on my part because I don't (can't) look ahead at Library of Congress newspapers.  A cursory, online search of death by hiccups shows that one simply doesn't die from excessive hiccupping but from other, extenuating circumstances. People have died from hiccupping while eating, causing them to choke to death, also (and I think this is true in the chief's case) deaths have been reported of people who died while hiccupping because they had weak, failing hearts to begin with.

Good point on the reviewer's need for a 'spoiler alert' notation.  (I wonder who was the first to actually use the words spoiler alert in their reviews?)  I guess I can edit in a modern day spoiler alert warning, especially if the actual movie/short is available to post via YouTube, at the bottom of the century old review. 

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 28, 2017, 03:00:44 PM
I believe the cherished chief is going to die.  Just a guess on my part because I don't (can't) look ahead at Library of Congress newspapers.  A cursory, online search of death by hiccups shows that one simply doesn't die from excessive hiccupping but from other, extenuating circumstances. People have died from hiccupping while eating, causing them to choke to death, also (and I think this is true in the chief's case) deaths have been reported of people who died while hiccupping because they had weak, failing hearts to begin with.

Good point on the reviewer's need for a 'spoiler alert' notation.  (I wonder who was the first to actually use the words spoiler alert in their reviews?)  I guess I can edit in a modern day spoiler alert warning, especially if the actual movie/short is available to post via YouTube, at the bottom of the century old review.

I hold out hope for the Chief.

Spoiler, according to quick interwebs, has been around since 15th century but applying to movies the two most sourced claims are "National Lampoon Magazine" in 1971 and the below about "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.movies/c09z1_ob--M/hTh1SpYoSa4J

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


Snow covered trenches as photographed from an airplane.  December 29, 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205377552


QuoteAn ammunition lorry which has skidded on ice and snow and ended up in a ditch, Bailleul, 29 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244245


QuoteRoyal Engineers replacing telephone wires brought down by the weight of the snow, near Ypres, 29 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244254


QuoteThe entrance hall of the Westgate House at Beckenham which was used as a hospital, 29 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287572


QuoteBilliard room at the Westgate House at Beckenham which was used as a hospital, 29 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287574

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 29, 1917.


CHIEF GRANT IS MUCH IMPROVED TODAY

  Police Chief Grant is today considerably improved. He is weak from loss of sleep, but the hiccoughing has ceased at last and attendants declare he has a good chance for recovery. (Good call, Mr. albrecht.)


AJAX AGREES TO MEET RUSSIAN

  William Berne yesterday talked business with Victor Ajax at Goldfield. Ajax declared his willingness to meet the big Russian some time in January in a Greco-Roman match. Berne desired to post a forfeit, but Ajax demurred, saying he would defer final arrangements until he had come to Tonopah on January 2.

  Ajax declared a 60-4O split of the receipts would please him more than the winner-take-all arrangements suggested by Berne. The Goldfield wrestler also announced that he may bring another good man from the coast to meet Berne. If final arrangements are made the men will put $500 each on themselves.

  Berne's demonstration of strength and agility in his match with the Masked Marvel won him a considerable following and it is thought that in the event of another match he would draw a large crowd. Ajax, who claims to be the undefeated lightweight champion wrestler of the world, is far from done with the mat game, according to his friends who saw him wrestle the "Masked Marvel" while that worthy was doing his training prior to the recent match here. The Greco-Roman rules bar all leg holds and make for a far more scientific brand of wrestling than the catch-as-catch-can. Ajax weighs but ten pounds less than the big Russian and claims to be in first-class condition.

  Ajax is undoubtedly willing to back up his challenge and meet Berne. All that is necessary now is the promoter.


NO TRACE OF MISSING MINER FOUND TODAY

  The search for Frank McGuire, the well-known miner, who disappeared Monday, was continued today without result. The posse of six is still searching the hills and flats for some trace of him. There were no traces of him found in Nevada cities wired to by Sheriff Thomas. The pair of shoes found in an old prospect hole near the Bonanza mine are not thought to have been his.
 
  McGuire is middle aged, smooth shaven and when last seen wore a long gray coat and brown suit. He had worked in Tonopah for 13 years. Friends declare that he was apparently ill and discouraged last week and fear that he killed himself.


AMUSEMENTS AT BUTLER THEATER

  As the personification of vanity, Louise Glaum makes her appearance in "Idolaters," a five-reel production which will be shown at the Butler this evening.
 
  Noted for the "spider gown," the peacock dress and the devil robe of "The Wolf Woman," Miss Glaum has become known as "the peacock woman of pictures," and the title will gain new emphasis when she appears in the startling costumes of "Idolaters," it is said.

  The most unusual setting ever constructed is the Egyptian bedroom of the woman in "Idolaters." A huge marble sphinx is the central figure. Before it is a bathing pool, depressed in the tile floor. Braziers of beaten copper smoke with burning incense before all peacock fans at either side of the sphinx image and at the foot of the dais on which stands a massive carved bed hung with embroidered draperies.

  Miss Glaum, whom a noted critic recently declared to be "the screen's most credible vampire," has a part particularly fitted to her abilities.

  In addition to the feature, a Triangle comedy, "A Foothill Folly," will be shown.


Louise Glaum  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Glaum
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louise_Glaum_-_Motion_Picture_Classic,_January_1916.jpg












Little Hater

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 29, 2017, 02:57:37 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 29, 1917.


AMUSEMENTS AT BUTLER THEATER

  Miss Glaum, whom a noted critic recently declared to be "the screen's most credible vampire," has a part particularly fitted to her abilities.


I think that should be 'vamp', not 'vampire'.

Rix Gins

Quote from: Little Hater on December 29, 2017, 05:39:59 AM
I think that should be 'vamp', not 'vampire'.

Yes, I think you are right.  The movie reviewer of the Bonanza did indeed write 'vampire,' so I had to reproduce it as written.   

albrecht

Quote from: Little Hater on December 29, 2017, 05:39:59 AM
I think that should be 'vamp', not 'vampire'.
The etymology of "vamp" comes from "vampire," so maybe it was still in use in that role back then?

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 29, 2017, 02:57:37 AM
From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, December 29, 1917.


CHIEF GRANT IS MUCH IMPROVED TODAY

  Police Chief Grant is today considerably improved. He is weak from loss of sleep, but the hiccoughing has ceased at last and attendants declare he has a good chance for recovery. (Good call, Mr. albrecht.)


AJAX AGREES TO MEET RUSSIAN

  William Berne yesterday talked business with Victor Ajax at Goldfield. Ajax declared his willingness to meet the big Russian some time in January in a Greco-Roman match. Berne desired to post a forfeit, but Ajax demurred, saying he would defer final arrangements until he had come to Tonopah on January 2.

  Ajax declared a 60-4O split of the receipts would please him more than the winner-take-all arrangements suggested by Berne. The Goldfield wrestler also announced that he may bring another good man from the coast to meet Berne. If final arrangements are made the men will put $500 each on themselves.

  Berne's demonstration of strength and agility in his match with the Masked Marvel won him a considerable following and it is thought that in the event of another match he would draw a large crowd. Ajax, who claims to be the undefeated lightweight champion wrestler of the world, is far from done with the mat game, according to his friends who saw him wrestle the "Masked Marvel" while that worthy was doing his training prior to the recent match here. The Greco-Roman rules bar all leg holds and make for a far more scientific brand of wrestling than the catch-as-catch-can. Ajax weighs but ten pounds less than the big Russian and claims to be in first-class condition.

  Ajax is undoubtedly willing to back up his challenge and meet Berne. All that is necessary now is the promoter.


NO TRACE OF MISSING MINER FOUND TODAY

  The search for Frank McGuire, the well-known miner, who disappeared Monday, was continued today without result. The posse of six is still searching the hills and flats for some trace of him. There were no traces of him found in Nevada cities wired to by Sheriff Thomas. The pair of shoes found in an old prospect hole near the Bonanza mine are not thought to have been his.
 
  McGuire is middle aged, smooth shaven and when last seen wore a long gray coat and brown suit. He had worked in Tonopah for 13 years. Friends declare that he was apparently ill and discouraged last week and fear that he killed himself.


AMUSEMENTS AT BUTLER THEATER

  As the personification of vanity, Louise Glaum makes her appearance in "Idolaters," a five-reel production which will be shown at the Butler this evening.
 
  Noted for the "spider gown," the peacock dress and the devil robe of "The Wolf Woman," Miss Glaum has become known as "the peacock woman of pictures," and the title will gain new emphasis when she appears in the startling costumes of "Idolaters," it is said.

  The most unusual setting ever constructed is the Egyptian bedroom of the woman in "Idolaters." A huge marble sphinx is the central figure. Before it is a bathing pool, depressed in the tile floor. Braziers of beaten copper smoke with burning incense before all peacock fans at either side of the sphinx image and at the foot of the dais on which stands a massive carved bed hung with embroidered draperies.

  Miss Glaum, whom a noted critic recently declared to be "the screen's most credible vampire," has a part particularly fitted to her abilities.

  In addition to the feature, a Triangle comedy, "A Foothill Folly," will be shown.


Louise Glaum  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Glaum
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louise_Glaum_-_Motion_Picture_Classic,_January_1916.jpg
Glad to see the beloved Chief seems to be healing now that the hiccups are past (alas we don't know which "cure" was used." Full recovery is hoped for by all.

Ajax and the Russian need to cut out the middle-man, stop relying on the promoters and they will get a bigger cut. Their fame should be able to draw crowds and proper facilities and purse without a promoter.

Is Hollywood remaking "The Wolf Woman?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7312054/?ref_=nv_sr_2

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

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteTroops marching back from the trenches through the ruins of Ypres, 30 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244239


QuoteA German Observer from an aeroplane who fell from a great height when the pilot was shot, guarded by the RFC servicemen. He was unhurt. Arras-Hesdin Road, 30 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247086


QuoteCaptured German submarine flying US flag in the Manchester Canal, 30 December 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205307754


QuoteLeading Seaman Joseph Ingham Battye. Service number: Tyneside Z/11314. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, SS Hercules. Death: 30 December 1917. Son of Willie and Edith Battye, of 49, Dewsbury Rd., Wakefield. Native of Pontefract. He was killed, aged 18, on 30 December 1917 whilst on his first voyage with SS Hercules, an Armed Merchant Ship. He was one of twelve killed when SS Hercules was torpedoed by a German submarine three miles off Whitby. Leading Seaman Battye is commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025971

WhiteCrow

Quote from: albrecht on December 29, 2017, 11:52:44 AM
Glad to see the beloved Chief seems to be healing now that the hiccups are past (alas we don't know which "cure" was used." Full recovery is hoped for by all.



Need more background bio information about the "Chief"  TIA

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