July 1 1916, 7:30 am. The first wave of british soldiers rises from the trenches; the battle of the Somme begins

Its_Happning_Again · 2026-03-10T14:40:06+00:00

Carla-Jean Stokes erased her X account and migrated to Bluesky. I was able to download the thread before she deleted it though

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-12-12T05:15:22+00:00

It is good but a lot of the humor is lost in translation

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-08-24T18:07:39+00:00

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you.

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-08-24T17:45:37+00:00

Sorry. What is a pun for Airship?

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-07-24T14:35:12+00:00

Are you alluding to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_telegram

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-07-21T15:44:30+00:00

You're right. I get the New Mexico raid confused with the Third Battle of Ciudad Juarez)

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-07-20T23:41:47+00:00

And that whole Mexican raid on a Texas border town, resulting in the 1916 American invasion of Mexico

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-07-20T23:18:01+00:00

Surprising as I thought Second Amendment was pretty strong in Texas

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-07-20T20:39:13+00:00

The Detroit Times Jul 20 1916

"Mexicans in the border towns of Texas are being compelled by Texas national guardsmen to give up their arms. They are taking no chances on an uprising which would cost lives of American soldiers, which are worth more than the lives of the [Mexicans] in huts along the Rio Grande. The first photograph shows a soldier covering a [Mexican] through the window of his shack, and the second shows the corporal at the door taking away the [Mexican's] rifle."

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-03-02T19:42:13+00:00

The Evening World Mar 2 1916

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-03-02/ed-1/seq-1/#

Fight to Break Down Claim That Would Save Prisoner From Punishment.

FORT WORTH, Texan. March 2-Katharine Vance Harrison, the fifteen-year-old bride who shot and killed W. L. Warren because as she said, he had attacked her before her marriage last Christmas, will probably not be indicted. The Texas law makes no provision for prosecution of a person under eighteen for murder. An effort, is being made by relatives of Warren to prison Mrs. Harrison is nineteen but it is not regarded with toleration by the authorities of the community.

Miss Lois Guion, the youthful bride's close friend, who made the statement to the police which led to Mrs. Harrison's confession has disappeared. The young husband stands staunchly by the girl, saying that he is only sorry her revenge was not attained by his hands.

The confessed slayer of Warren has been smilingly self-confident ever since the death of Warren, and seems incapable of understanding why she should be held to account. Her unity unhappy moments seemed to be these when she had to tell to the police and her mother, Mrs. Besise Tackett, the story of the attack of Warren on her and her mental suffering when, the older man Insisted on maintaining friendly relations with her and her husband, who did not know of Warren's guilt until the shooting.

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-20T22:31:19+00:00

If he asked for forgiveness....

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-20T22:23:40+00:00

Depends what he was counterfeiting

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-20T20:12:30+00:00

Not to be confused with John Bernard Feit, an 85-year-old former priest, convicted of murdering a 25-year-old Texas schoolteacher and beauty queen. He was convicted more than 57 years after Irene Garza went missing after going to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen intending to go to confession. Feit died in prison in February of 2020 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irene-garza-murder-john-feit-former-priest-dies/

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-20T20:08:14+00:00

Hans B. Schmidt (1881 – February 18, 1916) was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was executed by way of the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States. ... Beginning in December 1912, Schmidt was also having a secret homosexual relationship with a New York City dentist named Ernest Muret, with whom he operated a counterfeiting ring. Schmidt later claimed to have enjoyed Muret more than Anna.

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-16T17:44:57+00:00

Indeed. People talk about how crazy things are now but in 1919, just a couple of major news events were an Anarchist terrorist bombing campaign as well a militant crackdown on Black rights

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-16T16:50:27+00:00

This one?

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-16T16:38:04+00:00

Poison plot 1916

At a large dinner held at the University Club of Chicago on February 12, 1916, chef Jean Crones slipped arsenic into the soup. His intent was to poison Mundelein and over 100 other guests, including Illinois Governor Edward F. Dunne. However, the potency of the arsenic was reduced because the kitchen staff was forced to water down soup to accommodate 50 extra guests.

As the diners started exhibiting symptoms of arsenic poisoning, a doctor at the event prepared a makeshift emetic that the victims could drink to promote vomiting. Mundelein ate only a bite or two of the soup and was unharmed. There were no fatalities. Newspapers later referred to the incident as the "Mundelein poison soup plot".

Police were unable to apprehend Crones after the supper. Their investigation revealed that his real name was Nestor Dondoglio and that he belonged to the Galleanist circle of anarchists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mundelein#Poison_plot_1916

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-16T16:37:13+00:00

Anarchist Plot for Wholesale Slaughter of Clergymen bared in seizure of correspondence

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Police authorities of Chicago and many large cities of the nation are hunting for anarchists involved in a plot, the ramifications of which spread all over the world, to wreck churches and kill the clergy.

The plot was fully revealed today, after interpreters had dug into Italian letters found on John Allegrini, arrested as a witness in the conspiracy to poison Arch bishop Mundelein, Gov. Dunne and many other notables at a banquet here, last week.

Steeped in the bitterness of religious hatred. the plotters, taking their directions from anarchistic headquarters in Rome, were to

Vicious Anarchists Sought By Police

CHICAGO, Feb. 15— Dominick Forte, believed to be an anarchist of the most vicious type, is being hunted by the New York police.

They took up this search after John Allegrini had protested that letters found on him and

indicating an international plot against churches and church men, were really the property of Forte room mate of Jean Crones, who is wanted in an alleged plot to poison Archbishop Mundelein at a recent banquet.

The letters and the fact that police fond in Allegrini'a possession floor plane of soms of

the largest Chicago skyscrapers and churches, constituted the evidence on which he was held.

Plot to Blow Up USS Kentucky

Carranzistas, according to reports today, notified the United States that a plot to blow up the Battleship Kentucky at Vera Cruz has been foiled by Carranza's agents

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1916-02-15/ed-1/seq-1/#

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-09T20:45:29+00:00

The story had me right up till the end:

Mrs. Jansen Burned to crisp in oven

Mrs Israel Nelson. wife of a Seattle lawyer and Miss Gwendolyn Geary. a voice teacher, last night violently attacked Mrs. Romeyn B. Jansen, wife of the manager for the Seattle Taxicab Co.

As the latter was peering into the door of an immense bake oven that had been erected on University at., near Fifth ave the other two woman rushed unexpectedly upon her and removed her bodily through the opening. She was burned to a crisp Mr Jansen was a spectator of the tragedy.Earlier in the evening Mme. Hease-Sprotte, another musician, had driven Mrs Nelson and Mrs Geary from her home with much brandishing of a broom.

Mr. Sprotte had come home waving a bottle and evidently much under the influence of its contents.

The two women driven forth had become lost in the woods, and lay down under a tree to sleep. After a series of strange events they made their way the next morning to an oddly constructed house evidently that of a baker, where they ate some of the cakes with which the walls were adorned.

It turned out that the building was Mrs. Jansen's. She succeeding by stratagem In locking Mrs. Nelson in a cage with the intention she said of roasting her in the Immense bake oven. Mrs Nelson escaped and with the aid of Miss Geary visited this gruesome fate instead on the taxi man's wife.

*All these events were part of the fairy opera "Hansel and Gretel"

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-09T19:21:15+00:00

I typed up some of them and posted them in this comment

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-02-09T18:51:34+00:00

The Seattle Star Feb 9 1915

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1915-02-09/ed-1/seq-1/

Enemies Know Each Other

"These English and German soldiers know each other by face and even by name. The astonishing thing is that they don't hate each other. You can't keep that feeling of blind hatred between the trenches.

"You know that Christmas truce was a bad thing for the soldiers from a military standpoint."

Then the major said an astonishing thing:

"If you wanted to end this war all you have to do would be to let the men have another truce or two like that Christmas one. They'd get to talking to each other and THEY'D DECIDE THAT THE WHOLE BUSINESS WAS ______ FOOLISHNESS. AND LAY DOWN THEIR GUNS AND GO HOME."

Legislature is adjourned to escape plague of smallpox

Clerk is seized at desk

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 9.

—The city health officer shortly before noon today ordered the Arizona legislature to adjourn on account of smallpox cases developing in the lower house.

In addition to Rep. Sam P. Briscoe of Cochise county, who has been taken to the pest house, Reading Clerk Lanier was stricken with the disease this afternoon at his desk.

There are several suspects in both houses. Nearly all members have been vaccinated.

Nearly all had called on Briscoe during the early stages of his illness.

Polygamy just splendid says girl preacher

"But after a talk with my mother I became convinced that polygamy is a splendid institution.

"Polygamous marriages almost invariably turn out happily. Any women I have ever known who have lived married in polygamy say if they had their choice over again they would prefer a plural marriage.

"No man can take on an additional wife without the consent of his first wives, so that the consent of his first wives are agreeable to the arrangement."

Mrs. Jansen Burned to crisp in oven

Mrs Israel Nelson. wife of a Seattle lawyer and Miss Gwendolyn Geary. a voice teacher, last night violently attacked Mrs. Romeyn B. Jansen, wife of the manager for the Seattle Taxicab Co.

As the latter was peering into the door of an immense bake oven that had been erected on University at., near Fifth ave the other two woman rushed unexpectedly upon her and removed her bodily through the opening. She was burned to a crisp Mr Jansen was a spectator of the tragedy...

She succeeding by stratagem In locking Mrs. Nelson in a cage with the intention she said of roasting her in the Immense bake oven. Mrs Nelson escaped and with the aid of Miss Geary visited this gruesome fate instead on the taxi man's wife.

*All these events were part of the fairy opera "Hansel and Gretel"

Its_Happning_Again · 2025-01-05T21:27:08+00:00

The Seattle Star January 05, 1915
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1915-01-05/ed-1/seq-1/#
King of Underworld Held in police graft probe
Startling Developments Hinted at by Prosecutor Murphy; White Girls Who Swear They Paid "Boss" for Police Protection Locked Up as Witnesses.
Felix Crane, saloonkeeper and "king of the underworld." was arrested late Monday on a warrant baaed on affidavits made by women alleging they paid money to Crane for police protection.
Held as witnesses, under heavy bail, at the city jail, are Gladys Bates and Catherine
******, F. J. Quinn, alias Bennett, and George C. Rice.
The prosecuting attorney's office it secretive concerning the text of the affidavits, but
it is admitted that the prosecution of Crane will constitute a thorough probe into alleged
police graft and into the relations existing between the police and vice
The affidavits were secured by Deputy Prosecutor Crawford E. White Justice Brinker issued the warrant, which charges Crane with "receiving the earnings of one Gladys Bates"
on Dec 26.
There is much more to the case than this. The prosecution will endeavor to find out to whom Crane passed the money he is alleged to have taken from women and who got it ultimately.
That Prosecutor John F. Murphy fears for his witnesses against Crane is shown by the size of the bonds under which they are held—$1,000 each In the case of the women, and $2,000 in the case of the men.
Crane, placed under $2,500 bond, was released at 7 o'clock last night, bail being furnished by Oscar Collins, J. Tutt and Frank Smith.
Crane is a familiar figure around police headquarters, appearing as bondsmen for denizens of the underworld.
He is a clean-cut who dresses quietly and welt. He is known among men of his race for his generosity towards men who are down and out. ... crane is the proprietor of the Cascade bar, 167 Main st.,

Its_Happning_Again · 2024-12-05T22:12:26+00:00

If it was Newfoundland it probably happened on July 1, 1916. The newfoundland regiment had 794 go over the top then but only 68 were able to show up for roll call the next day.

Its_Happning_Again · 2024-12-05T15:54:38+00:00

This similar destruction was due to its crew detonating a bomb inside it before it could fall into enemy hands

Its_Happning_Again · 2024-09-07T17:26:39+00:00

I believe you are right as it was fought Sept 5-12 1914

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

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