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Jim, based on your recommendation I got a copy from the library. I'm about 80 pgs in & enjoying it so far.
Hope you keep enjoying it. I found it a good read.
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Jim, based on your recommendation I got a copy from the library. I'm about 80 pgs in & enjoying it so far.
When Holmes built what was to be his hotel he served as his own General Contractor. No architects or structural engineers were involved. Construction projects always shut down during the winter months; they had not yet learned how to work thru the winter. It was during the winter months in Chicago of 1889-1891 that the Ripper murders took place. So far this book only speculates that Holmes could have disappeared for the winter & committed the murders in Whitehall.They say he could have been Jack the Ripper.
It's officially Halloween season. And these kinds of things get me all giddy right now.When Holmes built what was to be his hotel he served as his own General Contractor. No architects or structural engineers were involved. Construction projects always shut down during the winter months; they had not yet learned how to work thru the winter. It was during the winter months in Chicago of 1889-1891 that the Ripper murders took place. So far this book only speculates that Holmes could have disappeared for the winter & committed the murders in Whitehall.
It's a good read!
Paul Solman, PBS Reporter
Paul Solman, PBS Reporter
Mr. Randolph has style and verve! Timeless.Asa Philip Randolph,labor & civil rights leader (1911)
Charles Fletcher Lummis,Native American Indian activist, journalist, (c1897)
I agree. He somehow has a contemporary look. A bit off putting.Never heard that...interesting. And I agree on the stache. I've always thought he looks like someone in our modern times, but I've never been able to put a name to it.
He may have killed simply to cover up his schemes as a con artist of the day. I'll definitely be looking to read, "H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil".It's officially Halloween season. And these kinds of things get me all giddy right now.
Great stitching on that second hat of Georges.Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Georges Simenon (1903-1989)
He does look like a modern actor, one who (without the mustache) would resemble a chipmunk. But I can't think who, either.Never heard that...interesting. And I agree on the stache. I've always thought he looks like someone in our modern times, but I've never been able to put a name to it.
He does look like a modern actor, one who (without the mustache) would resemble a chipmunk. But I can't think who, either.
The conservative pundit and ghost story writer?Russell Kirk, (1918 - 1994) RIP
c1961