Good morning.
Valentine’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy, with a chance of afternoon snow, and a high of thirty-seven.
Whitewater’s Police & Fire Commission meets at 6 PM tonight.
On this day in 1929, a shocking Prohibition-related crime:
7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms
Chicago, Feb. 14 — Chicago gangland leaders observed Valentine’s Day with machine guns and a stream of bullets and as a result seven members of the George (Bugs) Moran-Dean O’Banion, North Side Gang are dead in the most cold-blooded gang massacre in the history of this city’s underworld.
The seven gang warriors were trapped in a beer-distributors’ rendezvous at 2,122 North Clark Street, lined up against the wall by four men, two of whom were in police uniforms, and executed with the precision of a firing squad.
The killings have stunned the citizenry of Chicago as well as the Police Department, and while tonight there was no solution, the one outstanding cause was illicit liquor traffic.
On this day in 1819, a famous inventor and longtime Wisconsin resident was born:
1819 – Typewriter Inventor Born
On this date the inventor of the modern typewriter, C. Latham Sholes, was born. Sholes moved to Wisconsin as a child and lived in Green Bay, Kenosha, and Milwaukee. In 1867, in Milwaukee, he presented his first model for the modern typewriter and patents for the device were taken out in 1868. Sholes took the advice of many mechanical experts, including Thomas Edison, and so claims that he was the sole inventor of the typewriter have often been disputed. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners by Fred L. Homes, pg 316-328]
Google-a-Day asks about art: What was the profession of the father of the artist who created the portrait entitled “A Young Hare”?