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One Hundred Years Ago

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

albrecht

Quote from: pate on January 23, 2016, 09:51:15 PM
Nab-Daggit, alby!  Now my thyme masheen is about 200yr-ish out of calibration!

11ish Day of January in the Year of Our Lord 1818, AD (published, written?):

I am doing serious damage to this thread, Prohibition cannot come to my town soon enough!
Me thinks prohibition would make it worse and that you jest. Good reference poem. Any time I turn on CNN/FOX/C2C I thank that, at least back when, we were smart to seize stuff. British Museum is amazing and everyone should go there. Many times. And still not enough. And there are many others to visit. But to me with limited funds or time? Go there. Man, the Assyrian stuff alone!! Scarier than any Hollywood crap.

Rix Gins

The Persia was sunk back in 1915 and The Bismark, Dakota Tribune noted that it was still not clear who sank her.  If you don't want to wait to find out who sank her, click here. 

http://onetuberadio.com/2015/12/30/sinking-of-the-ss-persia-1915/

 

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 23, 2016, 10:42:14 PM
The Persia was sunk back in 1915 and The Bismark, Dakota Tribune noted that it was still not clear who sank her.  If you don't want to wait to find out who sank her, click here. 

http://onetuberadio.com/2015/12/30/sinking-of-the-ss-persia-1915/



The Elanor Thornton angle is interesting:



Not what I had in mind when I think of the Rolls-Royce hood ornament

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 23, 2016, 10:42:14 PM
The Persia was sunk back in 1915 and The Bismark, Dakota Tribune noted that it was still not clear who sank her.  If you don't want to wait to find out who sank her, click here. 

http://onetuberadio.com/2015/12/30/sinking-of-the-ss-persia-1915/


I'm betting on the longshot here.  :D


Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 23, 2016, 10:56:31 PM
Here's a hint


Cartoon swordfish A U-boat was my second guess, although the pennant reminded me of this classic you may recall as well.



pate

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 23, 2016, 10:56:31 PM
Here's a hint


Ah, the ancient language of the sea, I have studied and studied that AlphaZulu, but can never recall all of them.

Although one, and as a lone flyer on the main-mast has always Kahnfused me:

I simply must learn to embed images in a post, instead of appending them to the end.  I tend to Ramble On (love the Zeppelin), when did Raidio (sp) finally overtake semaphore as a means of long distance communique?  I imagine 'twas a hundred yarns ago, give or take?

I am not sure if I have three or fore sheets to the wind and which was is abaft, Noor a Beam... 

Again I apologize for being sullen and sullying up the yarn (warp & weft?) of this thread.




Rix Gins

Well, after reading this clipping, the issue of whether pate is a time traveler or not, is settled.  God bless you man...I'm laughing with you, not at you.  (From when pate was writing for The Ottumwa.  Jan. 23, 1916.)




Rix Gins

Here are some news oddities from the Evening World.  (New York, NY.)  January 24, 1916.


Rix Gins

Here is an interesting story - upper right, about Dr. Frederick A. Cook.  Use the zoom and scroll feature to read about his discovery of The Wild Men of Borneo.  Oh yeah, he says he discovered the North Pole too.  From the Evening World, January 24, 1916.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-01-24/ed-1/seq-3/

For more info on the doctor, here is a Wikipedia article on him. 

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


trostol

January 24
In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to -48.8 °C (44 °F to -56 °F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.

Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax.

Births

Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
Marvin Creamer, American sailor
Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor (d. 2014)

Rix Gins

From The Sun (New York, NY) January 24, 1916.  (The news item was pretty degraded so I have retyped it for clarity.)

LONDON, Jan. 23.
From the War Office:
   
   Taking advantage of the bright moonlight, a hostile aeroplane visited the east coast of Kent at 1 o'clock
this morning.  After dropping nine bombs in rapid succession it made off seaward.  No naval or military damage was done, but damage was caused to private property.  Incendiary bombs caused fires, which were extinguished by 2 A.M.  It is regretted that, according to reports, the following civilian casualties occurred:  One man killed, two men, one woman and three children slightly injured.

   Following the aerial attack on the east coast of Kent in the early hours of the morning, two hostile aeroplanes made a second attack on the same locality soon after noon today.  After coming under heavy fire the raiders disappeared, pursued by our naval and military machines.  The enemy effected no damage and no casualties are reported.     



Quote from: Rix Gins on January 24, 2016, 03:24:52 AM
Here are some news oddities from the Evening World.  (New York, NY.)  January 24, 1916.

It's likely that the "Woody Tiger" (which would be a great porn star name  ;D) in the first item refers to Woodrow Wilson, who was president of Princeton University whose sports teams are the Tigers, before becoming POTUS.  It sounds like it was meant as a little dig at TR's fading political fortunes.

Rix Gins

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on January 24, 2016, 09:21:01 PM
It's likely that the "Woody Tiger" (which would be a great porn star name  ;D) in the first item refers to Woodrow Wilson, who was president of Princeton University whose sports teams are the Tigers, before becoming POTUS.  It sounds like it was meant as a little dig at TR's fading political fortunes.

Thanks, Robert.  I was wondering what that meant.  I think you are right.

Rix Gins

From the Honolulu Star - Bulletin, January 24, 1916.


Rix Gins

And all of this for one dollar's worth of postage stamps.  The Evening Star, January 24, 1916.


Quote from: Rix Gins on January 25, 2016, 01:15:44 AM
From the Honolulu Star - Bulletin, January 24, 1916.

The Hearst property was Babicora Ranch, a modest spread of just less than a million acres owned by William Randolph Hearst's mother, and originally acquired by his father in a series of shady land deals. Needless to say, seizing and looting it didn't do Pancho Villa's public image in the U.S. any good.

On January 25th, 1918  [going to bend the 100 years ago today a wee little bit]  Ernie Harwell was born in Georgia.

Ernie holds a special place in the heart of Detroiter's as he called games for the Tigers for many decades.   Even now I can
close my eyes and here him make the call on Trammell to Whitaker double play.

Here is Ernie's take on the great game of baseball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogwXI_jdTE

Here is his call on Gibson taking Goose Goosage yard in the '84 series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xvxaPCPet8

Some proud Papa had a little bit of fun here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhkdK5HBJA

Some classic Ernie here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vGEcx4RSZU

and finally discussing Al Kaline - the clip is cool because you can watch Kaline shut Lou Brock down  in the '68 Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_y8EJeOac



Rix Gins

This piece by the Guthrie Daily Leader, January 25, 1916 (Guthrie, Oklahoma) adds a bit more info to a post that appeared earlier in this thread.  Retyped for clarity.

Whatever else the Federal League did in its short career it managed to develope $40,000 worth of baseball players in three clubs, and the New York Giants of the National League have just proved this by paying that sum for Benny Kauff, outfielder in the Brooklyn Federal club; Bill Raridon, catcher in the Newark Feds, and Fred Anderson, pitcher in the Buffalo club of the Federal League.  Perhaps only one other baseball sale required so much cash.  That was the purchase by President Comiskey of the Chicago American League club of Eddie Collins from Philadelphia.


Rix Gins

The latest news from down Mexico way.  Courtesy of The Day Book.  (Chicago, Illinois.)

Rix Gins

Everett True was annoyed by everybody.  His comic strip appeared throughout WWI and if any of the men in town didn't support the war or buy war bonds, he would literally tear into them, much  as  he is doing in today's comic from The Day Book.  PS...he was horribly hen pecked by his wife. 

Ciardelo

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 25, 2016, 09:24:32 PM
The latest news from down Mexico way.  Courtesy of The Day Book.  (Chicago, Illinois.)
Interesting!

Here is the Swine Record from 1/25/1916 in Iowa.

Looks like one G.H. Tigges of Vancleve, IA picked up Flossie III.

On January 25th, 1916 Village Marshal John Phipps of  Wood River, Illinois succumbed to rabies as a result of being bitten by a rabid dog.

The dog had bitten a young girl and, as Marshal Phipps attempted to intervene he was also bitten.  He passed away at
St. Joseph's Hospital and left a wife and twelve children.





Perhaps some one should send this to Coast to Coast.   George could get a good "Garsh" moment after reading it on air

The folks in this vid own a Model T that was built on 1/24/1916 and took her out for a spin on it's 100th birthday!


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

Rix Gins

So is this how they did things back then?  Just ask?  (From The Day Book.)

Rix Gins

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 25, 2016, 10:04:33 PM
The folks in this vid own a Model T that was built on 1/24/1916 and took her out for a spin on it's birthday!


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

Wow.  Now that's a cool vid!

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 25, 2016, 10:06:52 PM
So is this how they did things back then?  Just ask?  (From The Day Book.)

Still doing it to this day I suspect.   Tons of Sugar Beet farms in that part of the state.


Rix Gins

And another Item from The Day Book, 100 years ago.

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