Good morning, Whitewater.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
How ’bout some hand-made chocolate:
It’s a cold day in Whitewater, with an expected high of ten degrees. Sunrise is 6:52 and sunset 5:25, for 10h 33m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 25.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Not everyone has embraced the romantic themes of the modern-day Valentine’s traditions. Among those who took a decidedly different approach were the organized criminals of late 1920s Chicago:
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.
Best to stick with chocolate-making, for all concerned.