Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

On March 12, 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, owner of a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, became the first person to serve Coca-Cola in Hutchinson stoppered glass bottles.

Misconceptions about Coca-Cola Hutch Bottles and the Full Depth Case

These first bottling companies (with a couple of exceptions) used the Hutchinson stoppered bottle to distribute the drink. The Hutchinson bottle dated from 1879 and used a primitive looping wire apparatus and rubber gasket to seal the bottle. This bottle was stored upside down to keep pressure on the fastener, thus maintaining a tight seal between the glass and the rubber gasket. The Hutchinson bottle was costly, hard to fill, and unsanitary. Bottlers needed a better option and found one with the crown, cork and seal bottle.

The bottle crown with a cork seal inside was patented in 1892 to William Painter. In 1898 the first foot-powered crowner that could cap 24 bottles a minute was introduced. But this new crowner was of limited usefulness until the Owen's Automatic Bottle Machine was introduced to bottle manufacturers in 1903. This bottle machine allowed for the production of highly standardized bottles with highly standardized lips. These new standardized bottles made the crown closure easy to use and very economical. They were soon widely accepted and its is thought that all new Coca-Cola bottlers after 1904 purchased only crown top bottles.

Early bottlers and the first bottles they used:
(H) - Hutchinson Bottle    (SS) - Straight Sided Bottle

1894 - Biedenharn Candy Company (H)
1897 - Valdosta Electric Bottling Works (H)
1899 - Chattanooga, Tennessee (H)
1900 - Atlanta, Georgia (H)
1900 - Nashville, Tennessee (SS)
1901 - Chicago, Illinois (SS)
1901 - Cincinnati, Ohio (SS)
1901 - Louisville, Kentucky (SS)
1901 - Shelbyville, Kentucky (SS)
1901 - Campblesville, Kentucky (SS)
1901 - Elizabethtown, Kentucky (SS)
1902 - Jasper, Alabama (H)
1902 - Birmingham, Alabama (H)

After declaring war on Germany in 1917, the U.S. seized all German ships in American ports including SS Kaiser Wilhelm II. Keeping the original name as was the practice of the time, the ocean liner was commissioned as USS Kaiser Wilhelm II but quickly changed to USS Agamemnon because U.S. sailors kept getting into fights in bars for wearing hat bands emblazoned with the name of the enemy's leader. Renamed as U.S. Army Transport Monticello in 1927 with Troop capacity 3,516. Sold for scrap at Baltimore, MD in 1940, which I assume went toward building warships.


Seizing of ships in American ports might happen again, this time Chinese.


March 12, 1951: the comic strip Dennis the Menace debuted. Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, who served in the Navy as a chief photographer's mate during WWII, based the character on his own son. Dennis Ketcham served a tour of duty in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine. By sheer coincidence, a different Dennis the Menace debuted in the British comic book The Beano on the same day. Cartoonist Davey Law based his Dennis on a family friend's son who grew up to be a merchant navy officer.


Jay North who played Dennis on the TV show (1959–1963) joined the Navy in 1977. He was assigned to the USS Iwo Jima, stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, as a seaman recruit boatswain's mate, the Navy's lowest rank. He received good evaluations for his work, but was unprepared for the harsh treatment he received from his shipmates and superiors for being a former child star. Within a year, he wanted out of the Navy and began his administrative process and was temporarily assigned on board the destroyer tender USS Dixie stationed in Long Beach, California. On August 10, 1979, he left the Dixie and the Navy with an honorable discharge and returned to Los Angeles.

Ironically, Jay North, who played a rascal and a mischievous child character in the series, has served in recent years as a correctional officer and administrator working in particular with troubled youths within Florida's juvenile justice system.


March 12, 1971: 'The Andromeda Strain' premiered in theaters.




March 12, 1975: The seventh and final “draft lottery” to conscript 18-year-old American men takes place. Men born on December 8, 1956 would have been drafted first. No new draft orders were issued after 1972.  On 29 March 1975, President Gerald Ford, whose own son, Steven, had earlier failed to register for the draft as required, signed Proclamation 4360 (Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act), eliminating the registration requirement for all 18 to 25-year-old male citizens.




March 12, 1989: computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project that would lead to the creation of the World Wide Web.




March 12, 2002: the George W. Bush Administration unveiled a color-coded warning system to help Americans identify the risk of a terrorist attack. The color-coded terror alert system was discarded in 2011. Threat levels Green (Low Risk) and Blue (Guarded Risk) were never used.




Last of His Kind...Maj. Billy Hall fought in WWII, Korea & Vietnam—one of the last to enlist before Pearl Harbor (Aug. 18, 1941) and serve in all three. At 15, he joined the Marine Corps.
Semper Fi, Billy!


High-flying Tribute: Honoring Major Billy Hall’s 82 years of being a Marine

ABC 7 News



Buy a Tesla to beat those damn Commies, says Lily Tang Williams.
What is going on here...


https://x.com/Lily4Liberty/status/1899179929679306984


Mid-week words...

Blame Thor’s dad for the ‘d’ in ‘Wednesday.’

The day was named after Odin, also known as ‘Woden’ --> ‘Woden’s Day.’

Woden is the Norse equivalent of the Roman god Mercury.

Mercury can be seen in the French/Spanish/Italian words for Wednesday: mercredi/miércoles/mercoledì.

Beware of multifarious politicians. Choose wisely.



In ancient Greece, when travelers would come to a fork in the road, they would find a statue of Hecate, Goddess of the crossroads. Hecate had three faces which symbolized her ability to see three directions at once.

Guardian Queen of the crossroads, doorways, dimensions who holds the keys to time and moving through time because her triple Crossroad is the the past, present, and future. She stands at that intersection of your past your present and your possible future.


The Old English word 'sibb' meant "related by blood."

This is where we get the 'sibling.'

And 'godsibb' essentially meant "godparent."

Over time, it came to mean "close friend."

Now it is something we share with close friends...

'gossip.'