1927

My great Uncle

11 December 1927 was a Sunday ...

Hugganstown GAA were to merge with in 1928 in commemoration of the Battle of Carrickshock in December 1831. Carrickshock won the All-Ireland Inter Club Hurling Championships in 2017.

Just noticed the date of this photo was seemingly at the end of the year before the amalgamation in 1928, this piece seems to give some background to events in December 1927.

Google streetmap to Carrickshock GAA in Hugginstown (Baile Hugúin (roadsign) / Baile hUgúin (WP) ).

The "suspenders" remind me of the adverts for Threadgolds Thoroughgrip Garterettes which were a feature of the newspaper columns of Beachcomber (no relation?) and the radio and TV programs they inspired

A dustman was emptying dustbins
In the heart of a horrible slum,
Where no Viscount's white foot had e'er trodden
And no Marquess would venture to come.

How taut were the socks of that dustman
Would show that he didn't forget
The people's best friend in all troubles
Threadgold's Thoroughgrip Garterette.

More here.

In April 1927, according to the [Washington DC] Evening Star., April 17, 1927, Image 97 (with picture of same ruins) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1927-04-17/ed-... under a concession by the Panama government, an English and American group was hunting for treasure in the ruins of the San Jose Church, where gold and other treasure was supposed to have been buried when the British buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, plundered the city in 1671. Evening star. March 12, 1927, Page 14 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1927-03-12/ed-... identified George Williams, an Englishman, as one of the team that had discovered "golden ornaments and chains tarnished by long burial and precious stones, including emeralds, rubies, diamonds and sapphires."

Another contemporary account: "Lieut. George Williams and Fred Kelley, Englishmen, and Wallace Bain, and American, recently uncovered valuable gold relics and gems beneath the ruins of the San Jose Convent. " msgw.org/tishomingo/BelmontTimesApr151927.pdf

Williams is further identified as British Naval Reserve in this 1927 Popular Radio article about the search, which focuses on radio equipment used in the treasure hunt: "Some months ago there came to Pan-ama Lieutenant George Williams of the British Naval Reserves; with him are Commander David Blair and Lieutenant F. W. Really. both of England, and Mr. Wallace Bain, of the United States. Another member of the expedition is a piece of radio apparatus, said to be the invention of Mr. Thomas Fahie, of Colchester, England. Using this radio apparatus, Lieutenant Williams is attempting to locate some of the buried hoards of precious metal. " www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Popular-Radio/Popula... pp. 224-226

Thanks swanq and Art Siegel. We'll add this information to the catalog record. I wonder if Wallace Bain was related to George Grantham Bain?