Irish American tenor John McCormack writing a
$75,000 check for his taxes as Mark Eisner, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Third New York District sits at table with him.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Today In Wyoming's History: Updates for March, 2018
Today In Wyoming's History: Updates for March, 2018: March 4: Photograph added for the outbreak of 1918 Flu at Camp Funston, Kansas . March 7: Newspapers added for 1918 .
The Jeep to receive competition from the Ghost of Jeeps Past?
Folks who stop in here from time to time know that I not only drive a Jeep, I'm on my third Jeep now and I use the Jeep I currently have, the best one I've ever had, as my daily driver. I love it.
Which hasn't stopped me from lamenting the sad abandonment of the 1/4 ton 4x4 truck by the automobile industry such that what were once a proud assortment of semi dangerous off road utility vehicles is down, now, to just the Jeep. Indeed, the SUV has gone from a collection of off road vehicles to a bunch of wimpy urban soccer transporters. Bleh. And Chrysler Fiat, having a really great product where it's the only one in the field, actually was pondering last year selling the product line to a Chinese fan, which might kill it with fickle Jeep owners.
Well, perhaps a slight turn of events has occurred as the Jeep is now getting competition from. . .itself.
Eh?
Yes, truly.
One of the oddities of the 4x4 around the world is that there are actually a fair collection of really rugged 4x4s made globally that never see the light of day in the US for a variety for reasons. As, contrary to what people in the Western World think, the entire globe isn't made up of a bunch of Hollywood influenced narcissists in touch with their feelings as long as that doesn't take them much past the city park and transporting sissypooh hounds with vegan dog treats, there's a real market in a lot of places. Toyota, fwiw, has a lot of that market sewed up globally with vehicles that it doesn't offer here, less it make the tight trouser crowed cry, but they aren't the only ones.
Indeed, one of the oddities of the 4x4 story around the world is that American military vehicles of the 40s, 50s, and 60s received a lot of local production and they still do. We just don't think of them here. Included in that production are Japanese and Indian versions of the Jeep.
Well, now Mahindra, an Indian company, has determined to open up a production line in the United States to sell the Mahindra Roxor. The Roxor is a diesel engined M38A1. . the early CJ5 to most of you.
Being sold as "off road only", it will only get up to 45 mph. . . but then early Jeeps were slow and the diesel Jeeps used by various armies were not speedy.
I hope it does well. It's taking on a titan. . even if a wounded one.
Which hasn't stopped me from lamenting the sad abandonment of the 1/4 ton 4x4 truck by the automobile industry such that what were once a proud assortment of semi dangerous off road utility vehicles is down, now, to just the Jeep. Indeed, the SUV has gone from a collection of off road vehicles to a bunch of wimpy urban soccer transporters. Bleh. And Chrysler Fiat, having a really great product where it's the only one in the field, actually was pondering last year selling the product line to a Chinese fan, which might kill it with fickle Jeep owners.
Well, perhaps a slight turn of events has occurred as the Jeep is now getting competition from. . .itself.
Eh?
Yes, truly.
One of the oddities of the 4x4 around the world is that there are actually a fair collection of really rugged 4x4s made globally that never see the light of day in the US for a variety for reasons. As, contrary to what people in the Western World think, the entire globe isn't made up of a bunch of Hollywood influenced narcissists in touch with their feelings as long as that doesn't take them much past the city park and transporting sissypooh hounds with vegan dog treats, there's a real market in a lot of places. Toyota, fwiw, has a lot of that market sewed up globally with vehicles that it doesn't offer here, less it make the tight trouser crowed cry, but they aren't the only ones.
Indeed, one of the oddities of the 4x4 story around the world is that American military vehicles of the 40s, 50s, and 60s received a lot of local production and they still do. We just don't think of them here. Included in that production are Japanese and Indian versions of the Jeep.
Well, now Mahindra, an Indian company, has determined to open up a production line in the United States to sell the Mahindra Roxor. The Roxor is a diesel engined M38A1. . the early CJ5 to most of you.
Being sold as "off road only", it will only get up to 45 mph. . . but then early Jeeps were slow and the diesel Jeeps used by various armies were not speedy.
I hope it does well. It's taking on a titan. . even if a wounded one.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The 1918 Flu Epidemic. How did it impact your family?
We noted the start of the 1918 Flu Epidemic yesterday, the date it broke forth at Camp Funston, Kansas.
If you do, let us know.
I know that it infected my mother's aunt Patricia, after whom she was named. Like a lot of the young victims of the flu, it didn't kill her right away. She "recovered", but never really recovered, and died a couple of years later. Her health destroyed by the event.
Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: March 4, 1918 The st...: Soldiers with the Flu, Camp Funston, 1918. Today In Wyoming's History: March 4 : 1918 Mess Sergeant Albert Gitchell reported ...Your family was impacted. Every family in the world was. Most pretty dramatically. Do you know how it impacted your own family?
If you do, let us know.
I know that it infected my mother's aunt Patricia, after whom she was named. Like a lot of the young victims of the flu, it didn't kill her right away. She "recovered", but never really recovered, and died a couple of years later. Her health destroyed by the event.
Lex Anteinternet: On being sick
Lex Anteinternet: On being sick: Influenza ward (it appears outdoors) Walter Reed Hospital. 1918. I have had, I'm pretty sure, the flu this past week. Taking ...I told myself yesterday that, as I felt much better on Sunday, I was fine yesterday, Monday.
But I'm still not feeling well at all.
I'm so tired it's not even funny. I could easily go to sleep at any hour of the day. And with that, comes a certain sense of despondency. It's hard to describe, but truly, right now, I'm struggling through. I have no choice, but that's not really a happy feeling.
As part of that, I've been ignoring everything I don't have to. The news, events, this blog. Everything. I know that there's talk of a trade war but I haven't mustered up enough interest to follow it. People keep resigning from the Administration. I don't know who they are or why, nor can I muster up enough interest to care. The Legislature can't resolve the budget and I'd dig into it. . . but I'm not going to.
A nap, however, would interest me greatly.
Monday, March 5, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Today In Wyoming's History: March 4, 1918 The start of the 1918 Flu Epidemic
Soldiers with the Flu, Camp Funston, 1918.
Today In Wyoming's History: March 4:
1918 Mess Sergeant Albert Gitchell reported sick at Sick Call on Monday, March 4, 1918. He was sent to the ward housing those suspected of carrying infectious diseases by the medical orderly at Hospital Building 91. The same orderly then saw the next man in line, Cpl. Lee W. Drake, a truck driver assigned to the Headquarters Transportation Detachment's First Battalion. He reported with the same symptoms as Gitchell. The duty medic sent him to the same ward. The orderly then saw Sgt. Adolph Hurby who if anything was sicker.The orderly was then alarmed and called Lt. Elizabeth Harding, the chief nurse. By the time she arrived at the hospital two more sick soldiers were present. She called Col. Edward R. Schreiner, a 45-year-old army surgeon, awakening him from bed. Schreiner was alarmed and was taken to the hospital in the sidecar of a motorcycle driven by his orderly.
By noon there were 107. By the week's end, 522 were sick.
Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rawlins Wyoming
Churches of the West: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rawlins Wyoming:
This is St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Rawlins, Wyoming. This downtown Rawlins Church appears to be of newer construction than the other downtown Rawlins Churches, but I don't know anything about it other than its downtown location.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
On being sick
Influenza ward (it appears outdoors) Walter Reed Hospital. 1918.
Taking my doing 1918 day by day, as it were, or as it's accidentally become, a bit too far.
Anyhow, I had thought I was being really lucky. I didn't take the flue shot as I used to be allergic to one of the constituents. A recent allergy test revealed that is no longer the case, but I still didn't get it. Anyhow, people were getting sick all around me, but I wasn't.
But I wasn't getting very much sleep either. Due to work pressures and stress I was down to about four hours a night for about two months running. Way less than you should be getting.
My partner who has the next office over from mine was taken out by some bug, perhaps the flu, for a couple of days about three weeks ago. He recovered pretty quickly. Our associated was in rough shape about the same time. My daughter came home with some really nasty virus. But I kept on keeping on.
I went down to Denver for a small one day trial. Opposing counsel had the flu and I spent part of the time holed up in a jury room with that counsel. He got sicker and sicker as the day went on.
We came back and I was still find.
A week ago today I went into our office.
The boiler was out, and it was really cold. I was shivering in my office and recovered a space heater from another office to heat mine, but that was probably too late.
I felt okay on Sunday, however.
On Monday I felt a little weird when I went into the office. My throat hurt a bit, but I told myself that I wasn't really sick. Probably had been snoring or something.
The heat was still out for most of they day.
By the time I got home it was undeniable. When I woke up the next day I was too sick to go in. I worked, however, from home. All day. I put as many hours as I would have as if I'd been there at work.
The next day I felt a little better and I worked all day and into the night, as I had a meeting that night. By the following morning I was hugely ill. I went into the office as I had no choice. The next day was even worse. I made it to noon and came home.
I feel a little better today. I've become so acclimated to working six days a week I'm struggling not to go down to my office, but I'm not going to. I think I'm getting the "you're sick, rest today" warning from my system.
A few observations that have occurred to me this past week.
When you are employed as a lawyer, it isn't really possible to have sick days. I don't think many folks outside the profession grasp that, but unless you are hospitalized, everything keeps moving, so you will too.
That's bad, as that's how other people get infected, and its how people get so run down they end up in the hospital or dead. But that's the way it is.
I can't stand perfume. Ever. But when you are sick, it's completely vile.
I really don't grasp why women wear perfume. It's horrid. It is a weird, weird, holdover from an earlier era when the entire world stank. That days is over.
The combined cigarette smoke, perfume smell is even worse. The perfume isn't going to cover the cigarette smell, it combines with it. The result is horrid.
You never really get over any significant injury that you've ever had. When you have something like this, you remember every bad injury you ever had. I hurt everywhere.
Best posts of the week of February 25, 2018
The best posts of the week of February 25, 2018
Report from Vietnam. February 27, 1968.
Tank Girl.
Miss Ray Slater is in the British tank Britannia which served on the Flanders front in World War I. The tank was exhibiting in New York City. March 1, 1918.
On being sick
Assassination of Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin, March 3, 1918.
Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin, a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
Killed, on this date, with 150 of his retainers by Ismail Agha Shikak in the Assyrian Genocide.
Lest we forget.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Executed
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was executed on this day in 1918, thereby officially ending Russia's participation in World War One.
And so Russia exited the war. The several week interlude between the treaty in final form being proposed and the signature of the treaty had been caused by Trotsky's walking out of the conference, which committed the Central Powers to a renewed offensive which took massive amounts of Russian territory. The pause was a Russian disaster, but it would be a German one too as they had to commit large numbers of troops to garrison what had been taken, and they committed themselves to a Eastern Front advance at the very time they should have used all available resources to built up in the West.
Friday, March 2, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Tank Girl.
Miss Ray Slater is in the British tank Britannia which served on the
Flanders front in World War I. The tank was exhibiting in New York City. March 1, 1918.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Today In Wyoming's History: February 28
Today In Wyoming's History: February 28: 1918 First train to arrive in Buffalo on the Wyoming Railway.
The Wyoming Railway was a shortline, running from nearby Clearmont to Buffalo, a distance of about 28 miles. At Clearmont passengers could carry on with the Burlington Northern.
Most of the traffic on the line was actually coal. The coal mines near Buffalo went out of business in the 1940s and the railroad filed for bankruptcy in 1948. The line was abandoned in 1952.
The Wyoming Railway was a shortline, running from nearby Clearmont to Buffalo, a distance of about 28 miles. At Clearmont passengers could carry on with the Burlington Northern.
Most of the traffic on the line was actually coal. The coal mines near Buffalo went out of business in the 1940s and the railroad filed for bankruptcy in 1948. The line was abandoned in 1952.
The Casper Daily Record for February 28, 1918. Four sleeping soldiers ordered shot.
Gen. George Patton famously got into piles of trouble, both with the public and the Army, for slapping two soldiers during World War Two.
Here we read about Pershing giving the go ahead to death sentences for four soldiers that fell asleep at their posts.
I don't know what Wilson did with the sentence, but I hope they weren't executed.
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