Cigarettes and Corn in 1944

From the Nov. 20, 2019, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."

1944, 75 Years Ago.

"Remember way back when City Clerk Bill Wallmark always had a pack of cigarettes on the counter for the convenience of callers?  It is probably now that Bill has an extra smoke  now for anyone if they ask for it, but he has eliminated the 'help yourself' plan."

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"Fairdale neighbors with tractors and corn huskers husked and shelled the crop of corn for Mrs. Eunice White  Monday.  Mr. White had been ill for several weeks and unable to husk his corn before he passed away Wednesday."

Mighty Neighborly in Fairdale.

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Hey, Bud.  Got a Smoke?   --Cooter

Closed Due to Confederadication

That's as in Confederate eradication.  CONFEDERA DICATION.

Certain groups today are bent on destroying the last vestiges of the Lost Cause with a vengeance and I feel that I need to keep up with that at this time.

And, so much is happening that I need to write about three blog entries a day to keep up with it in my Civil War II:  The Continuing Attack on the Confederacy blog.  Right now I am about two weeks behind and would like to get it where I am no more than a day or two behind.

So, in keeping with this, I will not be writing in this blog for awhile until that happens.

So, Until That Time I Will be Suspending This Blog.  --Cooter

Crispus Attucks (A Black Man) Killed By British Troops at the Boston Massacre in 1770 Has Similarities With Floyd's Death-- Part 1

From the June 7, 2020, Chicago Tribune "After Floyd's death, a slaying from 1770 evokes similarities" by William J. Kole, AP.

Like George Floyd, he was black, in his mid-40s and died at the hands of a white man.  And, like Floyd, he may have helped touch off a revolution.

Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking the name of Crispus Attucks -- a black American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770 -- as a symbol of entrenched white-on-black violence and oppression.

Attucks is widely seen as the first casualty of the American Revolution and 250 years after his death, he's becoming a rallying figure for a nation battling old demons.

Sad to say, though, I don't think many of those you black and white people out there marching, protesting and, in all too many cases looting and destroying Confederate monuments have a clue who Crispus Attucks is.

--Cooter

No Shooting Allowed at Annie's Woods in 1920, Big Fine

From the May 6, 2020, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1920, 100 Years Ago.

"Anybody caught shooting firearms at Annie's Woods or anywhere else in  the city limits, is liable to feel the effects of the law's  penalty, which is a fine of from $1 to $200."

Annie's Woods is located by the Kishwaukee River just to the east of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.  At one point this was considered a major place to go for couples to make out.  Hopefully it didn't lead to the shootings.

Don't Shoot Me.  --CootBang

Happy 244th Birthday United States, Born on the 4th of July

Born today, 244 years ago.

From the June 28, 2020, Parade Magazine.

These people were also born on the 4th of July:

Neil Simon (1927), Playwright

Stephen Foster  (1826)  Composer

Eva Marie Saint  (1924)  Actress

Gina Lollobrigida  (1927)  Actress

Geraldo Rivera  (1943)  TV Personality

Bill Withers  (1938)  Singer-Songwriter

Nathaniel Hawthorne  (1804)  Author

Malia Obama  (1998)  Daughter of former President Obama.

Happy Birthday All.  --CootHap

No Fun (and Little Pay) At the Sycamore Preserve Works in 1883

From the June 3, 2020, MidWeek  (DeKalb County, Illinois)  "Looking Back."

1883,   Many, many years a go.

"There was some commotion  at the Sycamore Preserve Works last Monday over the double discovery that, under the new superintendent,  the hundred women and girls at work must stick to their posts and not talk; also , that their wages were cut down some thirty percent from last year's rates.

"From thirty to sixty cents a day is all they earn at present prices.  Last year they had a kind of picnic there and lots of fun;  this year they say it is serious work and pretty poor pay.

"Quite a number quit work at noon and other at night.  Next day there was a slight advance in wages.

Sounds Like A Strike About to Happen.  --CootStrike

Free Doctoring and Getting Rid of That Cat in 1878

From the June 3, 2020, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1878, Many, Many Years Ago.

"Drs. Nesbitt and& brown have taken the contract to doctor the poor of Sycamore next year.  That includes pretty much all of us, don't it/  What's the use of paying any more doctor bills?

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"You can sell your cat for ten dollars in the Black Hills.  It will cost you eighty-five dollars to get out there with the cat and get home but you will be rid of the cat and that is worth  one hundred and twenty-five dollars to anyone."


Cat Lovers, Obviously.  "Don't It."  --Cooter