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Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Came across this searching for “chicago basketball 1911” – what’s notable to me is that most of the players have a ‘C’ on the uniform in the same style of the Chicago Cubs, but three have it styled like the C in the masthead of the Chicago Tribune.
https://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf5-02985.xmlReport
Pretty sure the last is just a riff on an elementary school writing exercise.
There was also, (probably not directly related) what seems to be a fairly large flying race in spring 1912 in Chicago
https://chicagology.com/transportation/1912gordonbennett/Report
Not much was known about Mars back then, apparently.Report
The rings are obviously a confusion with Saturn. OTOH, in 1912 the question of canals on Mars was still being hotly debated by real astronomers. In the space of about a century, we went from ground-based telescopes that weren’t good enough to resolve the question and sending machinery to land on the surface and take a close look.Report