Boeing wing room, August 26, 1922.
On this day in 1922, Dixie Parker, catcher for the Denver Bears, caught a baseball dropped from the top of the May D&F Tower in downtown Denver.
On the same day, the Turkish Great Offensive was commenced, which would bring about the end of the war in a Turkish victory in the Greco Turkish War.
The Japanese cruiser Nitaka was driven aground off of the Kamchatka Peninsula in a storm, resulting in the loss of all but seven of its 301-man crew.
Ford Motors announced that it was closing down all of its plants due to the ongoing industrial crisis in the country.
The ammunition ship USS Nitro was photographed in port. She was commissioned in 1919 and would serve all the way through World War Two.
Perhaps ironically, his desire to establish an American Orthodoxy that was separate of the national churches of other regions was ahead of its time, with some of the Orthodox churches in the country now seeking to distance themselves from their national origins. His church, however, effectively collapsed following his removal.
The Country Gentleman came out, as it was of course a Saturday.
The Saturday Evening Post had a cover by Leyendecker which they could not run today.
Judge came out with one of its supposedly humous photos showing an act of stupidity.
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