One Hundred Years Ago

[Metron2267]

One of the few threads it occasionally regularly posts on-topic in. What's not to like?

FIFY

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Grants Pass Daily Courier, January 27, 1919.

[albrecht]

From the Library of Congress.  The Grants Pass Daily Courier, January 27, 1919.

Likely local lads upset with the imported cheaper Irish labor? But still, bizarre, and funny article (not funny to the folks that were awoken and whipped though!)

[Jackstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckmK-ZCpAU

[Jackstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckmK-ZCpAU

When I found out he could count to ten, I said, 'That's the boy for me!'"

[Rix Gins]

World Featherweight Boxing Champion Edward M. "Eddie" Santry, died on January 28, 1919 after a year long bout with emotional distress and illness.

Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Santry

 
Black and white photo of Eddie Santry in boxing pose with front view facing right, shirtless in dark trunks, socks, and shoes.
By Source: BoxRec boxing websiteSource URL: http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/File:EddieSantry.jpeg, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51245727

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, January 29, 1919.

Ruined Rue de Termonde in Hazebrouck, France, 29 January 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205307613 © IWM (Q 58400)

[WOTR]

Sometimes you see pictures like this after WWI and realize the structure was likely rebuilt.  I often times wonder if there are pictures of the same building after WWII and how they match up.

[Jackstar]

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[stevesh]

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They had The Onion back then?

[WOTR]

They had The Onion back then?

The illusion that many people have the journalists and papers "back when" were honest, sober and not at all interested in sensationalism to sell papers sometimes does not hold up to closer examination. 

[Rix Gins]

[Rix Gins]

Oooops, sorry about that.  Thought this was the Postcard thread!

[WOTR]

Oooops, sorry about that.  Thought this was the Postcard thread!

It is (for today.) 

[albrecht]

The illusion that many people have the journalists and papers "back when" were honest, sober and not at all interested in sensationalism to sell papers sometimes does not hold up to closer examination. 

Yep. "Fake News," is nothing new. And competition was fierce back then so papers would compete with each other for lurid or bizarre stories, often made-up or unverified. Lots of C2C guests use them as proof of everything from Bigfeet, various conspiracies, giants, and thunderbirds.  Not saying that some stuff might, or might have, existed but relying on old tabloids is not "proof."
More recent piece about tanning human skin, also in the Chicago Tribune! 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-03-31-8701240856-story.html

[Rix Gins]

It is (for today.) 

Yes, and the card will be totally on-topic in just 34 more years.

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., January 31, 1919.

[K_Dubb]

From the Library of Congress.  The Grants Pass Daily Courier, January 27, 1919.

Oh that is cool.  Someone a hundred years ago was doing the same thing, sort of.  I don't believe the writing sample is at all representative, though.  Someone who does not know "banditti" is plural is just an insulated yokel.

[Rix Gins]

Oh that is cool.  Someone a hundred years ago was doing the same thing, sort of.  I don't believe the writing sample is at all representative, though.  Someone who does not know "banditti" is plural is just an insulated yokel.

"There is no more mercy in them,'' said another of the banditti, ``than in an unbribed sheriffs officer.''
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Thankfully Mr. Shakespeare used the word correctly.

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, February 2, 1919.

Freikorps mortar and and its crew brought to Dusseldorf to suppress the Spartacists outside their headquarters. Dusseldorf, 2 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239242 © IWM (Q 7422)

Troops of the Freikorps brought to Dusseldorf to suppress the Spartacists outside their headquarters. A pile of rifles taken from the Spartacists. Dusseldorf, 2 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239239 © IWM (Q 7419)

Troops of the Freikorps bringing in defeated Spartacists to their headquarters. Dusseldorf, 2 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239244 © IWM (Q 7424)

Info on the Spartacist uprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising 

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., February 03, 1919.

[starrmtn001]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., February 03, 1919.

Keep up the great work, Rix!

[Rix Gins]

Keep up the great work, Rix!

Thank you, Starr.

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, February 4, 1919.

[Rix Gins]

Actor Tim Holt was born on February 5, 1919.

Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Holt


Studio photo of Tim Holt.
By Jack Holt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8944170

[WOTR]

Info on the Spartacist uprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising

I mildly recall reading / hearing / watching something about that years ago- so I refreshed my memory.  Interesting that Rosa's body was tossed into a canal while Karl was delivered to a morgue.  I wonder why the additional (apparent) hate of Rosa?

[Rix Gins]

There was a major strike by union workers in Seattle, Washington.  They walked away from their jobs on February 6, 1919 and the strike lasted for one week.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike


Seattle shipyard workers leave the shipyard after going on strike, 1919.
By Webster & Stevens - http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/imlsmohai/id/11087/rec/16, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72402734

[Rix Gins]

Sergeant Alvin C. York, 328th Infantry, who with aid of 17 men, captured 132 German prisoners; shows hill on which raid took place [October 8, 1918]. Argonne Forest, near Cornay, France.  Photo was taken on February 7, 1919.
By Pfc. F.C. Phillips - High resolution download from http://www.defenseimagery.mil/assetDetails.action?guid=a8726fa80ddc6e0d161cc818b098284e915b214d, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3973229

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York 

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, February 8, 1919.

Expeditionary Force Canteen British Officers Club at the Ewige Lampe Hotel at Cologne, 8 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239183 © IWM (Q 7363)

Poster announcing lecture by Captain Arthur Bles, Town Major of Cologne, on "The Causes of the German Defeat". The building was used by the retain branch of the City Food Supply Authority. Cologne, 8 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239182 © IWM (Q 7362)

Soldier of the Royal Scots reading poster of the "Iddy-Umpties", 2nd Army Signal Company Concert Party, in Cologne, 8 February 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239181 © IWM (Q 7361)

[WOTR]

From the Imperial War Museum, February 8, 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239183 © IWM (Q 7363)

Look at that architecture! (And the nice, clean look of the streets.)

*Maybe due to the lack of automobiles or even horses (look at the poor guy pulling the cart.)