One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

More items from the February 23, 1916 Day Book.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

More items from the February 23, 1916 Day Book.

DeWolf Hopper, Jr., the baby in the picture is actually William DeWolf Hopper who is best known today for playing private detective Paul Drake on the Perry Mason TV series.  His mother was famed gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper.  Hopper Sr. was a popular stage actor and comic who gained fame for melodramatically reciting "Casey At the Bat" on stage over 10,000 times, and is reported to have done it so often he got to the point where he could consistently do it in the same amount of time down to the second.  There's an old phonograph recording of him doing it on YouTube as well as an early film clip featuring him.

[Rix Gins]

Sample of above listed movie.  Couldn't find the Tapper Wires episode.  (No sound.)


https://youtu.be/oAJc3yhjtX0

[Rix Gins]

DeWolf Hopper, Jr., the baby in the picture is actually William DeWolf Hopper who is best known today for playing private detective Paul Drake on the Perry Mason TV series.  His mother was famed gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper.  Hopper Sr. was a popular stage actor and comic who gained fame for melodramatically reciting "Casey At the Bat" on stage over 10,000 times, and is reported to have done it so often he got to the point where he could consistently do it in the same amount of time down to the second.  There's an old phonograph recording of him doing it on YouTube as well as an early film clip featuring him.

Great follow up, Robert.  I'm a big Perry Mason fan and I was wondering if that was Paul.

[K_Dubb]

More items from the February 23, 1916 Day Book.

Cool!  "Fox trotteries" is a new one on me.

[pate]

Some WWI stuff in this modern flim-flammery youTube


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

I found it interesting.  I'd rather have this stuff than the leftovers from my modern kit for some reason...

[Rix Gins]

Great info vid. pate, thanks. I tried buying WWI items years ago but even back then they were expensive.  Full uniforms now command hundreds of dollars.  I did manage to get a 'Montana Peak' hat though.  It's in great shape and actually fits my head. 

[K_Dubb]

Some WWI stuff in this modern flim-flammery youTube


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

I found it interesting.  I'd rather have this stuff than the leftovers from my modern kit for some reason...

I love how uniforms still had some reference to history in WWI -- the US's western-style hat, the crested French helmet like Napoleonic cuirassiers, the British tin hat like medieval archers' kettle helmets, and of course the infamous pickelhaube.

[Rix Gins]

Tonopah Daily Bonanza items from February 23, 1916.  (A bit late, sorry Art.)

[K_Dubb]

Tonopah Daily Bonanza items from February 23, 1916.  (A bit late, sorry Art.)

That list of prizes is wonderful!  Silver butter spreader?  A sack of flour?  Two bottles of Old Crow?

I'd love to have that smoking set, though.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Tonopah Daily Bonanza items from February 23, 1916.  (A bit late, sorry Art.)

Any idea what the libel case involving the Bonanza's editor/publisher was all about, Rix?  Thanks!

[Rix Gins]

Any idea what the libel case involving the Bonanza's editor/publisher was all about, Rix?  Thanks!

I had noticed the trial as it was ongoing, Robert but I must confess that the write ups for it were too large for me to format into a readable size.  That, plus I automatically assumed that the Bonanza would take a one sided view of the trial.  So I took a look back to January 20th and found this piece that hopefully explains things a little better. 

[Walks_At_Night]

Thanks Walks.
I just stumbled upon these . . .

Sequence of aerial shots showing progressive destruction (leveling) of Verdun citadel (Fort Douaumont) by German shelling bombardment, over the course of two days, Feb 1916 -- in preparation for the assult on French lines.

from Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun#R.C3.A9gion_Fortifi.C3.A9e_de_Verdun

- Day One -

On February 21,1916,  a 10-hour artillery bombardment by 808 guns begins. German artillery fired c. 1,000,000 shells along a front about 30 km (19 mi) long by 5 km (3.1 mi) wide. The main concentration of fire was on the right (east) bank of the Meuse river. Twenty-six super-heavy, long-range guns, up to 420 mm (16.5 in), fired on the forts and the city of Verdun; a rumble could be heard 160 km (99 mi) away.

The bombardment was paused at midday, as a ruse to prompt French survivors to reveal themselves and German artillery-observation aircraft were able to fly over the battlefield unmolested by French aircraft. The 3rd, 7th and 18th corps attacked at 4:00 p.m.; the Germans used flamethrowers for the first time and storm troops followed closely with rifles slung, to use hand grenades to kill the remaining defenders. . .

Even if the shelling didn't kill you it could sure mess ya up big time:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS1dO0JC2EE

[Meister_000]

Even if the shelling didn't kill you it could sure mess ya up big time:
[video of shell-shock victims]

Ya, it's just sickening, upsetting, disturbing. It makes my heart race with panic, my face whince, and my stomach knot-up, just having to watch them from afar and the effects of their experience.

I posted this about a month ago in a slightly different context, but as long as we're at it I'll re-play it here . . .

Shell Shock -- Documentary  (14 mins, Part 1 of 4)
Lots of WWI stock footage (of the effects)


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7ehb8agWY

[NefariousBanana]

On the subject of WWI, here's a cool short film I found a while back.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcEX3dYn3s

[GravitySucks]

On the subject of WWI, here's a cool short film I found a while back.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcEX3dYn3s

Thanks NB. Good to see you back.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

I had noticed the trial as it was ongoing, Robert but I must confess that the write ups for it were too large for me to format into a readable size.  That, plus I automatically assumed that the Bonanza would take a one sided view of the trial.  So I took a look back to January 20th and found this piece that hopefully explains things a little better.

Thanks, Rixster!  I looked up Booth and he already had a long and no doubt colorful career as an editor of several mining town papers going back to the 1880s.  He seems to have been highly regarded, which explains the strong support from those other papers.  I looked back at your post with the Bonanza's promise to uphold the highest standards and principles no matter who go hurt, and it sounds like Booth stepped on the wrong toes. It's satisfying to see that he was vindicated!

[gabrielle]

Please indulge this use poetry though it was written by T. S. Eliot after the First World War.

[Walks_At_Night]

Neat picture of the Hotel Pontchartrain located at 660 Woodward Ave in Detroit.   The Hotel Pontchartrain was opened in 1907 but was never profitable.  It was closed and torn down in 1920.

[K_Dubb]

From today's Rogue River, Oregon Courier:



Vignettes of Portland's Chinatown, though from 1886:



Undated Portland street scenes, but, from the pigtails, probably earlier:









Some appropriate music:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBHDjuVd4U

[pate]

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Undated Portland street scenes, but, from the pigtails, probably earlier:

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I just want to point out that in these modern racially-sensitive times the term for that hairstyle is a queue.  Off the top of my head I cannot remember what the exact significance of "cutting the queue" was but it meant something either in support of or opposition to some leadership type change in China?

Ah, trusty google comes to rescue me from my ignorance: http://www.xiao-en.org/cultural/academic.asp?cat=68&loc=zh&id=1362 & http://gwulo.com/atom/19394 , for those interested.  This was a big deal, apparently, 100 or so years ago in the Chinese community and quite controversial.  I knew there was a reason I wanted to comment on this.

I am continually amazed by things that I was once aware of and have now forgotten.  I love this thread!

[Rix Gins]

Good find there, pate.  I'll read it when I get some spare moments.  I love this thread too.

[Rix Gins]

K__Dubb, I so enjoyed the above article about the Tong war opponents coming together to hopefully bury the hatchet.  And done with such flair, with long speeches (no doubt aided by the prohibition liquor) and with solemn pomp and circumstance.  Then the D.A. gets up at the end and curtly tells them, "Anymore trouble from you guys and it's jail or the pen."  Priceless!

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, February 24, 1916.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

K__Dubb, I so enjoyed the above article about the Tong war opponents coming together to hopefully bury the hatchet.  And done with such flair, with long speeches (no doubt aided by the prohibition liquor) and with solemn pomp and circumstance.  Then the D.A. gets up at the end and curtly tells them, "Anymore trouble from you guys and it's jail or the pen."  Priceless!

Agreed!  I like the pic of the "Hung Far Low" Chop Suey restaurant, too!

[Rix Gins]

Some items from the February 24, 1916 Chicago Day Book.  Also note the two part letter to the editor written by our own albrech.  Yup, he went back there and penned it under his time traveler cover name of R.H. Sloan.

[K_Dubb]

I just want to point out that in these modern racially-sensitive times the term for that hairstyle is a queue.

Of course you are right, my dear pate; I knew that and had clumsily forgotten.  It is, perhaps, a hazard of time travel that one may imbue some of the carefree spirit of the times and return reeking of privilege.

[Rix Gins]

Ooops, I cut Tom's article short.  Here's the full clipping.

[Rix Gins]

Of course you are right, my dear pate; I knew that and had clumsily forgotten.  It is, perhaps, a hazard of time travel that one may imbue some of the carefree spirit of the times and return reeking of privilege.

Now that is one well written reply, K.  LOL

[K_Dubb]

Agreed!  I like the pic of the "Hung Far Low" Chop Suey restaurant, too!

Haha I regretfully remember an encounter with "scorpion bowl" cocktails at just such an establishment in Oregon.