Utica Observer-Dispatch, Jan 9, 1929 (Evening), or, Ecclesiastes 1:9

[Hammock]

Some of the articles from the front page :

AFGHAN KING'S TROOPS LOSING TO REBEL BAND. Calcutta (U.P.) Dispatches from Peshwar today said serious fighting was going on 10 miles north of Kabul between King Anianullah's Afghan troops and rebels under the leadership of Bwtebalmakkao. The dispatches said that the rebels appeared to be gaining an advantage and had advanced over some territory.

MOTHER WHO KILLED LEPROUS CHILD WILL BE FREE FROM JAIL. Buenos Aires (U.P.) A mother who killed her leprous child has been ordered freed from prison on the grounds of temporary insanity. A court order was issued last night freeing Senora Juana Cotelia de Poretti whose trial attracted nationwide interest. The order followed a report by alienists that the woman's endocrine glands functioned irregularly and affected her mind.

DEATH WATCH RESUMED OVER DOOMED PAIR. Franklin, La (U.P.) The death watch was resumed today over Mrs. Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, scheduled to hang here Saturday unless a further stay of execution is granted. Both prisoners spent a restless night, Sheriff Charles Peacot said. Mrs. Leboeuf was especially agitated through fear that her attorneys would meet with reverses at the Supreme Court hearing at New Orleans Friday.

GUNMEN PUMP BULLETS INTO BODY OF HOST. CHICAGO GANG LEADER PUNCTURED 11 TIMES BY TRIO-POLICE SEEK EXPLANATION. Chicago (U.P.) At Pasqualino Lolordo's house late yesterday three smiling men raised glasses to drink to the health of their host; then they shot him dead. Eleven bullets from automatic pistols drilled into him. When he fell, in the fingers of his right hand still was clutched the stem of his wine glass. The bowl had been shattered by bullets. Lolordo's assassination was a sequel, as are all Chicago gang and Mafia slayings; but whether it was a sequel to the murder of Tony Lombardo last Fall, to blackhand operations of recent months, or to some unexplained gang hatred, police were not prepared to say. They are looking, however, for Joe Aiello, oldest of seven brothers whose participation in gang violence has come under police scrutiny several times in the past. [...]

WHALEN GIVES HIS CODE FOR PURGING CITY. New York (U.P.) Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen today announced his policy for purging New York of poison gin and public sin. The policy which consisted of four points, included the elimination of cabarets featuring "nude shows." His code:
"1-To maintain a speed in police activities that will keep the vicious criminals in jail where they belong or keep them broke paying for lawyers and bondsmen.
2-There will be no letup in the police activities against crime-breeding speakeasy dispensing poison liquor.
3-Every dive of this character will be put out of business and kept out of business.
4-This also applies to the so-called high class speakeasy, restaurants and cabarets that parade nude women for the edification of their patrons."
Eighty-two places were raided during the 24 hours ending at midnight, Whalen said.


In case there is any doubt, I am not making any of this up.

Hammock

[Richard]

Is there some point to your post beyond the patently obvious that human history is filled with repetitiously similar events?

Richard

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Richard

Is there some point to your post beyond the patently obvious that human history is filled with repetitiously similar events?

Richard

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Or KJ - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

[Sohei]

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

[Richard]

I know what Ecclesiastes says - and, gee, I wonder if that thought and any such similar patterns of circumstances existed before any particular religious group decided to give proprietary claim to it?

And so it goes...

Richard

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Richard

I know what Ecclesiastes says - and, gee, I wonder if that thought and any such similar patterns of circumstances existed before any particular religious group decided to give proprietary claim to it?

And so it goes...

Richard

Well, Cave Men didn't leave may written records but I'm sure said they said "Damn, here comes that Mastodon again."

[GratefulCitizen]

Originally Posted by Richard

I know what Ecclesiastes says - and, gee, I wonder if that thought and any such similar patterns of circumstances existed before any particular religious group decided to give proprietary claim to it?

And so it goes...

Richard

Not sure that any propietary claim to the thought was made in Ecclesiastes, or by any religious group.

The all-to-common idea is used by Solomon to support his sermon, in addition to personal experiences related and observations made with a poetic beauty preserved across millennia and translation.
Such thoughts tend to lead to a conclusion (Solomon explicitly states his) and when most people make an observation of this "common idea" they tend to pause and consider.

Selah.

[Don]

Originally Posted by Pete

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Or KJ - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Or Peter Pan and Battlestar Galactica (the new one)..."all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again."

...and so it goes.