Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!
People really do steal your porch?!?
People used to go way harder on Halloween pranks, apparently.
Oh boy did they ever. Tearing up fences and burning them, stealing produce out of fields and throwing it at houses, barricading all the adults inside their houses so they couldn’t ruin the fun…
Tasting History did a pretty interesting video on it, actually.
Can’t have shit in Tacoma
I love the answers by Cynthia grey section of the newspaper. Ig that’s how ppl googled in the early 20th century.
Does anyone understand the punchline of the racist caricature panel?
Which part are you struggling with?
If it’s the panel itself, it seems to be a Chinese person with a queue braid operating a telephone switchboard. It seems to be connected to the line below where they provide some fortune-cookie wisdom in broken english about pessimism. I could be wrong, but I think the only funny there is racism.
If it’s the story below about the couple in the park, I think where it reads “- punch” might be to indicate that was the punchline, the joke is rather dry so it’s telling the reader that “yes, this was a joke.” The joke there is that the man is on a date with a woman, but is more preoccupied with looking like a good citizen to a veteran / recruiter
It was the panel itself that I was confused about. Thanks for the explanation.
this time we’re reading the damn newspaper
KILLS 75 TURKS BEFORE HE DIES LONDON, Oct. 30.—Sergeant Martin O’Connor of the Sixth Lancashire regiment Is declared to have killed 75 Turks, before meeting his own death from a bomb at Galllpoli
Nice try O’Connor, but “Operation get behind the Aussies” is sure to fail.
Wow I hadn’t looked too closely. I think I need to read up on Gallipoli again.
Elsewhere on the page, this is sus:
Q. — I am a girl of 20 and have been going with a man much older than myself. We were very fond of each other, but now he has stopped coming and does not tell me the reason. Shouldn’t he tell me why he doesn’t come? How am I to treat him when he does come, for he is a friend of the family and they like him very much?
someone got got by an old dude
EDIT: Source : turk that met people from Aus, NZ, and did some digging in the past.
Basically, in ww1, the Ottoman/Turkish republic forces (the forces that would go on to create the turkish republic) had a hill surrounded by water. The british wanted to get that strategic outpost, and decided to just slam wave after wave of expendable colonials (Aus-NZ, probably others) into the machine gun nest on top of that hill.
It did not go well. At all. So bad that this made the Aus/NZ people reconsider being part of the empire.
The Turks kept the hill. Ataturk declared that the ANZAC troops were buried at home, because they were our sons as well, so the Turkish and ANZAC troops are buried in the same place. There are ceremonies there on ANZAC day, special biscuits are baked , at least in Oceania, probably turkey as well.
EDIT 2: The song “And the band played waltzing matilda” is an emotive retelling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlpxviu8PY
EDIT3 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign
turns out loads of british and french soldiers were used and died in the gallipoli campaign.
I remember watching the 1981 movie Gallipoli – it focuses on a couple soldiers leading up to the campaign, it’s pretty depressing (as WWI movies tend to be) but pretty good.
Cohen’s “Military Misfortunes” has a chapter on how badly the Suvla Bay landings were handled. To be fair, amphibious landings are challenging.
Wait, I think I also read a case study on how well the final withdrawal was done. I think it was in Barton Whaley’s “Stratagem”. As I recall, they withdrew everyone and even all heavy equipment without the Ottoman soldiers noticing, leaving behind only one pack animal that refused to budge.
Fumbled some tabs and thought this was about Primus’s drummer.
