probably Niels Juul an Illinois state senator at the time and later a us representative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Juul
might also have been on the mind of Briggs because his son Herb Juul was a Major League baseball player around this time. He's actually higher ranked in relevant internet searches around 'chicago' 'Illinois' 'juul' '1913' despite having a Major League career only slightly longer than Doc Moonlight Graham's
When I was a kid, you still had to keep scores manually at all the lanes we went to, but there were usually lights at the end of the lane to indicate which pins were up and which were down. Scoring was usually on a transparency that projected over the scoring table /ball return where most lanes now have their flat screens with the score and the strike spare gutter ball animations.
I’m almost finished with the other big not Office Michael Schur hit, Brooklyn 99 , so I think I will check this one out next.
(I’m in the last season and finished the first post Covid lockdown episode, and that has aged…interestingly. I will probably not like it if the final season is all like that though.)
so Briggs was on the side of midwest progressives during the Progressive Era. The cartoons when he moves to Westchester County New York, to the extent that they are political at all, read as more in line with the standard Republican thought of that era.
Eta - though of midwest progressive Republicans were still a substantial force in their party and in the country, at least until Fighting Bob in Wisconsin for instance passed away.
Trying to figure out the 'Arabella Cinch' reference, came across this Briggs comic from two years previous (1914). Still not sure of the reference. Cinch is almost certainly being used in the same context as clinch but Arabella is just an Italian name? keeping with the Rialto (a famous part of Venice) theme?
Every hotel we’ve stayed in has a shoe brush (like the kind to polish your shoes) and a shoe horn. The shoe horn has been very useful for the style of accommodation where one shouldn’t walk on the tatami mats.
You could tell there’s still a few ‘old timers’ still working at the Washington Post, as well as how truly great Willie Mays was, because even a paper with little geographic overlap with his career, nonetheless had three straight days of stories and columns about him.
My grandmother's rowhouse, built in the late 1800s, in the NYC metro area, was originally built with coal heat. It was probably converted to oil heat sometime in the mid 20th century. When she passed away in the mid 1980s, there was still a significant pile of coal in the basement coal bin (which itself was hidden under and behind stacks of stuff). Very early teenage me shoveled out all that coal into plastic shopping bags, and carried them up to the alley for the trash collection. Ultimately it made a pile (one bag deep) about three feet high and the length of the car. (a 1980s car)
So coal, plastic waste, child labor, no breathing mask - I think I hit all the high points for environmental and labor regs.
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/
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.xml
Most interestingly, (considering it's 1909) the Cuban player pitching an extra-inning no-hitter against the Tigers was Afro-Cuban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustaquio_Pedroso
(i.e. this wasn't a case of a white Hispanic player 'passing', here we have a game in the very early 20th century in which a black man played against US major league white players)
"The Six Brown Brothers, later known as the Five Brown Brothers, were a Canadian vaudeville era saxophone sextet consisting of six brothers.[1] They were known for their comedic musical acts as well as their many recordings.[2] They performed as clowns with white makeup and one in blackface. Their performances included ragtime and minstrel group acts. They were instrumental in popularizing the saxophone in America: "During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Six Brown Brothers were arguably the musical act most responsible for introducing the saxophone into American music.""
This comic should vex George Will, as his preference for baseball over football iirc, is partly based on how football was more readily a 'war' analogy.
10 cents in the 1920s is about $1.75 today and the internet says a typical price for a new but not fancy golf ball these days is around a dollar. fancier golf balls can be close to 5 dollars apiece at current prices
On “When a Maiden Needs a Friend”
probably Niels Juul an Illinois state senator at the time and later a us representative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Juul
might also have been on the mind of Briggs because his son Herb Juul was a Major League baseball player around this time. He's actually higher ranked in relevant internet searches around 'chicago' 'Illinois' 'juul' '1913' despite having a Major League career only slightly longer than Doc Moonlight Graham's
On “Bowling — Balling Up the Score”
When I was a kid, you still had to keep scores manually at all the lanes we went to, but there were usually lights at the end of the lane to indicate which pins were up and which were down. Scoring was usually on a transparency that projected over the scoring table /ball return where most lanes now have their flat screens with the score and the strike spare gutter ball animations.
On “A Man on the Inside”
I’m almost finished with the other big not Office Michael Schur hit, Brooklyn 99 , so I think I will check this one out next.
(I’m in the last season and finished the first post Covid lockdown episode, and that has aged…interestingly. I will probably not like it if the final season is all like that though.)
On “When a Feller Needs a Friend”
so Briggs was on the side of midwest progressives during the Progressive Era. The cartoons when he moves to Westchester County New York, to the extent that they are political at all, read as more in line with the standard Republican thought of that era.
Eta - though of midwest progressive Republicans were still a substantial force in their party and in the country, at least until Fighting Bob in Wisconsin for instance passed away.
On “The Baseball Rialto”
Trying to figure out the 'Arabella Cinch' reference, came across this Briggs comic from two years previous (1914). Still not sure of the reference. Cinch is almost certainly being used in the same context as clinch but Arabella is just an Italian name? keeping with the Rialto (a famous part of Venice) theme?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/195459897343
On “The Joy Of Opening Time Capsules: 2024 Special Edition”
(other parts of the prediction are still holding, but gotta say, it was a close call for one of them)
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Darn, should have went with the chalk pick for VP.
On “Why Is The Fourth of July?”
“Some will stand around the fight ticker” - century ago version of ‘some people need to log off and touch grass’
On “The Dare Devil”
And your great grandpa didn’t even have Johnny Knoxville to inspire him
On “Can’t Have No Fun For Nothin’”
Random but related observation from Japan.
Every hotel we’ve stayed in has a shoe brush (like the kind to polish your shoes) and a shoe horn. The shoe horn has been very useful for the style of accommodation where one shouldn’t walk on the tatami mats.
On “The Joy Of Opening Time Capsules: 2024 Special Edition”
The main contest in Nov will still be Biden Harris vs Trump / x
X is going to be Doug Burgum
Electoral college will be 287 251 - everything will be the same as 2020, except Georgia will switch to Trump
Senate will be 52 48 GOP Dem (dems will lose Mt and Oh)
House will be 218 gop to 217 Dem
On “Say Hey!”
You could tell there’s still a few ‘old timers’ still working at the Washington Post, as well as how truly great Willie Mays was, because even a paper with little geographic overlap with his career, nonetheless had three straight days of stories and columns about him.
On “Long Distance Call”
‘Buffering’ as it manifested 100 years ago.
On “Nick Altrock, Demon Batter”
Tom Brady would still be playing if he had access to prohibition era moonshine.
On “Coalgetter”
My grandmother's rowhouse, built in the late 1800s, in the NYC metro area, was originally built with coal heat. It was probably converted to oil heat sometime in the mid 20th century. When she passed away in the mid 1980s, there was still a significant pile of coal in the basement coal bin (which itself was hidden under and behind stacks of stuff). Very early teenage me shoveled out all that coal into plastic shopping bags, and carried them up to the alley for the trash collection. Ultimately it made a pile (one bag deep) about three feet high and the length of the car. (a 1980s car)
So coal, plastic waste, child labor, no breathing mask - I think I hit all the high points for environmental and labor regs.
On “Curiosities: Welcome To Our Midst”
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/
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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.xml
On “The Little Flirt”
Ah, federal league sighting again, the 1980s USFL of baseball.
On “Pulling Off a Six Round Go In Chicago”
The first panel indicated the cops were in on it, but they either didn't pay the right cops, or didn't pay them enough (or both).
On “The Snow Flake”
This one is timeless
On “Faithful Fido”
Most interestingly, (considering it's 1909) the Cuban player pitching an extra-inning no-hitter against the Tigers was Afro-Cuban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustaquio_Pedroso
(i.e. this wasn't a case of a white Hispanic player 'passing', here we have a game in the very early 20th century in which a black man played against US major league white players)
On “The Dancer Returns”
"The Six Brown Brothers, later known as the Five Brown Brothers, were a Canadian vaudeville era saxophone sextet consisting of six brothers.[1] They were known for their comedic musical acts as well as their many recordings.[2] They performed as clowns with white makeup and one in blackface. Their performances included ragtime and minstrel group acts. They were instrumental in popularizing the saxophone in America: "During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Six Brown Brothers were arguably the musical act most responsible for introducing the saxophone into American music.""
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Brown_Brothers
On “Terrific Bombardment Begins”
This comic should vex George Will, as his preference for baseball over football iirc, is partly based on how football was more readily a 'war' analogy.
On “Adventures of a Little Golf Ball”
10 cents in the 1920s is about $1.75 today and the internet says a typical price for a new but not fancy golf ball these days is around a dollar. fancier golf balls can be close to 5 dollars apiece at current prices
On “Game No. 6”
more on the City Series.
https://sabr.org/journal/article/history-of-the-chicago-city-series/
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