Alex Johnston Injury Could Halt His Chance To Break The All-Time NRL Try Scoring Record
South Sydney winger Alex Johnston suffered a rupture to his Achilles last night, an injury that will end his 2024 season and be hard to come back from, especially for a winger.
Johnston has scored 195 tries in just 227 games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and at just 29 years of age he is well within striking distance of the Australian first grade record for tries scored in a career which…
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RBM I and his inventory: a story continued
In a later post, I'll discuss RBM II and his probate, noting that journals are not currently online. For RBM I, there are many journals cited. [1] This post will look at inventory record books. in order to determine his inventory. Once again, the Hamilton County Probate Court is very helpful here.
The first page of RBM I's inventory shows he has over $8,000 in shares of the American Laundry Machinery Company, which is still around today, manufacturing "commercial laundry, dry cleaning, and textile processing machinery":
Inventory Record Book 281, p 157
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The next page shows he has stock in AT&T, an auto club, automobile insurance agency, a gas & electric company, DuPont, the First National Bank of Cincinnati, General Motors, and the Grand Hotel company, to name a few:
Inventory Record Book 281, p 158
The next pages lists him as a stockholder in Kroger, Proctor & Gamble, and Standard Oil of Chicago:
Inventory Record Book 281, p 159
On the final page it is noted that he has stock in the United States Playing Card Company and varied savings bonds, along with mutual assurance, a bank account at First National Bank of Cincinnati (with over $4,000 in it), $100 worth of household goods, $50 worth of silverware, and $50 worth of 2 gold men's watches, the same ones he gave to RBM II and RBM III:
Inventory Record Book 281, p 160
The next page only has a short notice saying the inventory will be filed:
Inventory Record Book 281, p 161
And that's it. This definitely says something about RBM I: that he was a businessman of some sort, which isn't a surprise due to his involvement in the hotel business until the 1930s, at least.
But there are than just the pages above listed! In another volume, his $40,000 in stock in varied companies is listed:
Inventory Record Book 306, p 291
The last page lists that a small piece of land, in February 1956, became a new asset of RBM I's estate due to the moving of a road, with nothing else noted.
Inventory Record Book 319, p 517
There are two other record books which have information on RBM I, but they do not seem to fit any of the archive categories at the present time. [2]
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[1] Specifically vol 618, p 433; vol 619, p 578, 621; vol 620, p 637; vol 621, p 421; vol 622, p 95, 204; vol 623, p 218; vol 628, p 328; vol 629, p 359; vol 631, p 379; vol 644, p 840; vol 647, p 67; vol 658, p 335; vol 661, p 427; vol 662, p 536; vol 674, p 360; vol 675, p 395, 546 (or 846). Vol 40, p 384 of the account record books has not been digitized as of May 16, 2018.
[2] Specifically Record Book 406 [1950], p 126 and Record Book 431 [1953], p 389.
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Me: Zuko's scar is kind of shaped like a flame.
Me: I mean, no shit, it's a burn scar.
Me: But it has the three little pointy bits at the back, which kind of make it look like the Fire Nation's flame emblem, but turned sideways.
Me: ...
Me, scribbling furiously: The resistance movement in the Fire Nation comes to see Zuko as the symbolic leader of their movement toward the end of the war, and because voicing support for the traitor prince isn't tolerated, the resistance needs a subtler way to make their position known. All across the Fire Nation, banners are stolen and re-hung sideways, official seals on documents are deliberately printed crooked, and disillusioned soldiers deface their uniforms by tearing the flame emblems away and reattaching them sideways. What most people know but no one will say is that the sideways flames represent Zuko's scar, and that the symbol indicates support for him as a leader and for his mission to bring an end to the war.
Me: ...
Me: Am I gonna have to start another fic just for this idea?
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Buy physical media. Buy CDs. Buy records. Buy tapes. Buy books. Buy physical artwork or prints. Take photos of yourself and get them developed at a photo processing booth. Write your thoughts down in a journal. Why? Because as this world get more digital, what's physical will slowly but surely disappear. There will be less things you can touch and feel, and more things that you can see and not touch. You can post all the digital pics you want on social media...nothing is assured and those pics and those platforms could be gone in an instant. An album on streaming platforms will never be the same as the original album in your hand with the liner notes, as versions of that album can get removed, and/or replaced with re-recorded material (since the artist doesn't own their masters). Books go out of print. And staring at a jpeg (no matter how much you paid for it *cough cough* NFTs) of an artwork will never be the same as owning the actual artwork or a print of it.
Preserve these things. If not for yourself, then for future generations.
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