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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #675 on: April 28, 2019, 06:57:34 AM »
Dear Aunt Polly,
A hundred years later, the question remains unanswered. What does a spirit look like?
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Yet the question remains unanswered. Why is that Aunt Polly?

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #676 on: April 28, 2019, 04:11:03 PM »
Dear Aunt Polly,
A hundred years later, the question remains unanswered. What does a spirit look like?
We now have the Ghost Hunt Kit - Spirit Box - 822A & MEL EMF Meters - Recorder - Case & More for $899.99 plus shipping on Amazon.
Yet the question remains unanswered. Why is that Aunt Polly?


Haha, well said, Fish.  Let us know if she answers.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #677 on: April 28, 2019, 04:23:58 PM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram., April 28, 1919.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #678 on: April 29, 2019, 01:05:00 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, April 29, 1919.

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Soldiers waiting for a steamer to take them on a pleasure trip on the Rhine. In the distance some of the Motor Launch Flotilla can be seen moored to the Clubhouse of the Cologne Water Sports Club. 29 April 1919.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #679 on: April 29, 2019, 07:41:31 PM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram., April 29, 1919.

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« Reply #680 on: April 29, 2019, 08:30:14 PM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram., April 29, 1919.

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Oh my this is an outstanding collection!
There was a little girl,
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Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

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« Reply #681 on: April 29, 2019, 08:42:06 PM »
Oh my this is an outstanding collection!

Glad you like it, PolkaDot.  This newspaper has some good content.  Similar to one called the Chicago Day Book, but they went out of business in 1917 or 1918, I can't remember which.  Of course there are a number of other newspapers in the Library of Congress database, but many of them are not very interesting or are too faded to use as clippings.  But I keep perusing them, looking for something special.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #682 on: April 30, 2019, 01:08:05 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, April 30, 1919.

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Barges converted into sleeping quarters for demobilized men awaiting the Rotterdam steamer. Cologne, 30 April 1919.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #683 on: April 30, 2019, 04:45:42 PM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram., April 30, 1919.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #684 on: April 30, 2019, 06:07:16 PM »
A table cloth was tied to Benjamin Martin? Not a good day for the Smoot family and Benjamin. ::)

Sounds like lots of whiskey and some bottles could be found on the roads back in the day. ???

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #685 on: April 30, 2019, 08:03:02 PM »
One of my favorite stories from my Great Aunt was regarding her older brother bootlegging whisky. At one point the cops where chasing them down and he veered off the dirt road straight into the cornfields- speeding and bouncing like crazy while mowing down the corn with their car. She was 10 or 11 at the time with no idea what was going on and scared to death! She would chuckle when she told it with the memory and would always say something to the effect of "I should have known something was up when he offered to drive me in the first place!".
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Right in the middle of her forehead.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #686 on: April 30, 2019, 11:38:43 PM »
I had a great uncle who was a bootlegger back in the day.  One of the stories about him is that he collected a pile of money in advance of a ship coming in from somewhere with a cargo of fine aged scotch.  After several delays in delivering the scotch, he declared that the ship had sunk and the money couldn't be recovered from the foreign source by any legal means due to the 18th Amendment prohibition against the sale and consumption of alcohol.  He was a big Irishman with a reputation and nobody argued the point. It seems that most every family history includes some horse thieves and some heroes.   

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #687 on: May 01, 2019, 12:07:47 AM »
PolkaDot and Kid, very cool family history snippets there.  Thank you for sharing.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #688 on: May 01, 2019, 12:25:15 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, May 1, 1919.

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Admiral David Beatty on the day of his promotion to Admiral of the Fleet, on the quarter deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth of the 5th Battle Squadron (Grand Fleet).
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #689 on: May 01, 2019, 05:12:50 AM »
PolkaDot and Kid, very cool family history snippets there.  Thank you for sharing.
YES! Great family stories. I hope someone is working on your family trees and saving "the stories" and saving the nicknames.
@Kidnostad yes, you are correct every family tree has some horse thieves and some heroes. Most of my ancestors came from Ireland. In addition to collecting the family stories, I had to learn their legal first names.
A child is born. The baby is given the first name after one of the elders in the family. However, the legal given name is only used on the birth certificate. The baby is raised with a different name but not with an endearing nickname. For example: my Aunt Mildred's legal first name is "Frances" and not "Mildred". I had to force my Mom to tell me the legal first names of her brothers and sisters for me to complete our family tree.
Recently, my dear "Aunt Deanie" passed over at the age of 94 years old. Long story short, I had to open an estate account after her passing over. First order of business was going to City Hall and file a legal "also known as" to open an estate account. Aunt Deanie had 3 different given names in addition to her nickname "Deanie".

In retrospect, I am not sure if the habit of having different first names is an Irish tradition, a Southern Tradition or just my family's tradition.