13 Facts About the 13 Colonies-- Part 2

Again, go to the site for more information.

7.  New Hampshire offered parcels of land in exchange  for one ear of corn each year.  (Sounds like a deal to me.)

8.  Georgia was founded as a new haven for debtors and impoverished people.

9.  New York became  the first target of British trade restrictions -- for exporting fur hats.

10.  South Carolina benefited from the demand for blue dye.

11.  North Carolina was sold back to the British Crown.

12.  Rhode Island played a big role in the slave trade.  (By 1775, slaves made up 11.5% of its population.)

13.  Delaware really wasn't  formed until 1776.

--CootCol

Proper Etiquette in 1918: Gentlemen, Remove Your Hat When You Eat

From the October 17, 2018, MidWeek  "Looking Bacl."

1918, 100 Years Ago.

"The old-fashioned man who is used to running into the house at meal time, sitting down to the table without removing his hat, consuming the meal before him and again rushing out, only to spend the time doing nothing.  In a local restaurant an elderly man accompanied by a woman stopped for dinner, and the man calmly sat at the table, did not remove his hat and hurriedly ate his food.

"There were others in the dining room at the time but the man cared not,  for he did not remove his hat all the time he was in the place.   It is not often that such people are seen nowadays, as nearly everyone knows that when he sits at a table in a restaurant he is expected to have respect enough for other women, if not for the one he is with, to remove his hat."

If you ate your food in front of my mom and left your baseball cap on, you'd sure hear about it.

And, We Are Not Talking About Baseball Caps.  --Coothat

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Chicago Taverns-- Part 4: Of Bad Behavior and Hats

7.  Plenty of BAD BEHAVIOR has taken place at Chicago bars.  Al Capone shot and killed rival "Ragtime Joe" Howard at Hymie Jacobs' bar on South Wabash in 1924.  Attorney W.W. O'Brien, who helped inspire the character Billy Flynn in the play and movie "Chicago," was shot in 1921 at Ryan & Novak's saloon on South State but refused to name his attacker.  He won plenty of business from mobsters after that.

In 1903, a saloon owner allowed his establishment at Dearborn and Randolph streets to be used as a temporary morgue after the Iroquois Theater fire.  The barkeep was caught stealing about $200 from a body.

8.  In 1941, the Ratcliffe family threw a party at its Rogers Park bar, the Ranger Inn, for a relative who was going into the Army.  That GI left his civilian HAT at the bar, saying he would reclaim it when he was out of the service.

For the next four years, more than 400 people hung their hats there as they went off to war.  When peace came, the bar held a hat-reclaiming party.  Those that went unclaimed were disposed of at a bonfire.  The American Legion held a memorial service for three hat owners who never returned from the fighting.

--DaCooy