Very Normal Headline of the Day -100:
Fritz Haarmann, the serial killer known as the Butcher of Hanover, had an accomplice (lover, I think) in the used-clothing business, Hans Grans, which is a fun name, I guess. Grans was in it for the used clothes (best not to think about Haarmann being a literal butcher, who illicitly sold mystery ground “beef”).
NY General Sessions Judge George Washington Olvany is the new head of Tammany Hall.
The Brazilian army is shelling São Paulo, which is still occupied by rebel troops.
H.L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Evening Sun: “There is something about a national convention that makes it as fascinating as a revival or a hanging. It is vulgar, it is ugly, it is stupid, it is tedious, it is hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus, and yet it is somehow charming. One sits through long sessions wishing heartily that all the delegates and alternates were dead and in hell—and then suddenly there comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour.”
Wow! Remind me to read more of H.L. Mencken!
ReplyDeleteI'll try to slip more in, though there doesn't seem to be a complete collection of his Evening Sun columns online. There will certainly be more when we get to the Scopes Monkey Trial next year.
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