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Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
The Aerodrome: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925. The Douglas C-1
The Aerodrome: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925. The Douglas C-1: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Sunday, April 26, 1925. Hindenburg wins.
Aging German war hero Paul von Hindenburg won the runoff of the German presidential election.
The Berlin Mosque, designed by architect K. A. Hermann, was opened to German Muslims.
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Saturday, April 25, 1925.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Blog Mirror: 1925 Description of Electric Stoves
Really interesting. I hadn't given much thought to when electric stoves really entered the scene, but I would not have guessed it was this early.
The conversation that follows is really interesting too, especially the item noting that electricity wasn't common for rural homes until the 1930s when rural electrification came in as a Depression Era project.
1925 Description of Electric Stoves
Saturday, April 25, 1925.
Germany was turning to an ancient leader. . . what could go wrong?
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Thursday, April 23, 1925.. My mother.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Wednesday, April 22, 1925. Thought police.
The Peace Preservation Law was enacted in Japan allowing the Special Higher Police (Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu or Tokkō) of the Home Ministry to arrest "anyone who has formed an association with the aim of altering the kokutai" (the "national essence" of Japan) or having "joined such an association with full knowledge of its object".
Criticism of the government could be considered an attempt to alter the national essence.
This is exactly the way the Republican Party is acting today.
A "Thought Section" of the Tokubetsu was created to monitor "dangerous thoughts" or "thought crime" within Japan and its territories.
The Saltair pavilion, in Saltair, Utah at the Great Salt Lake in the United States, was destroyed by fire.
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Tuesday, April 21, 1925. The loss of the SS Raifuku Maru. Saudi Arabia wipes out the gravesites of members of the family Muhammad.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, boats and ships, Calvin Coolidge, Disaster, Islam, Kingdom of Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, technology
Monday, April 21, 2025
Tuesday, April 21, 1925. The loss of the SS Raifuku Maru. Saudi Arabia wipes out the gravesites of members of the family Muhammad.
The Japanese sank in a storm with all 38 hands on board. She was transporting wheat from the U.S. to Germany, showing the international nature of trade a century ago (King Donny, are you awake?).
The ships telegrapher sent out a final message Now very danger! Come quick!". Two British ocean liners, RMS Homeric and SS King Alexander reached the vessel off the coast of Nova Scotia but were unable to get close enough for a rescue because of the heavy seas.
RMS Homeric sent the message "Observed steamer Rafuku Maru sink in Lat 4143N Long 6139W Regret unable to save any lives..
In Saudi Arabia the mausoleums and domes at Al-Baqi Cemetery at Medina were torn down, along with markers of the family of Muhammed as part of an effort by the Wahhabi Muslim led government to eradicate shrines associated with the Hejaz Muslims.
Hmmm. . . .
Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. president to talk on film as he delivered a four-minute address on a film that was captured in Phonofilm.
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Monday, April 20, 1925. Route shields
Labels: 1920s, 1925, Automobiles, Highways, Interstate Highways, pornography, The relationship between men and women, The Roaring Twenties, Transportation, Women
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Monday, April 20, 1925. Route shields
The US adopted the shield symbol for highway routes.
New York police raided Minsky's Burlesque for featuring striptease acts. Not really newsworthy at the time, the event was later made famous due to a 1960 novel that was turned into a film.
Burlesque shows are mostly a thing of the past, although there are odd efforts to reenact them. Sort of remembered in a cutesy fashion, they were really much raunchier in some ways than recalled, and indeed many stage shows in general featuring women through the 1920s were fairly pornographic.
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Saturday, April 18, 1925.
Friday, April 18, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Wednesday, April 15 1925: The Introduction of a Trailblazing Highways Map Guide
Ford introduced the first factory assembled pickup truck.
1924: The Introduction of a Trailblazing Highways Map Guide
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Sunday, April 13, 2025
Monday, April 13, 1925. Renewed Riffian War, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Abd el-Krim of the Riffians attacked French forces in Morocco renewing the Riffian War.
Newfoundland granted women the right to vote. It was not yet part of Canada.
Ford Air Transport Service, the first dedicated cargo airline, began operations with a Stout 2-AT Pullman airplane transporting 1,000 pounds of freight from Detroit to Chicago.
The Larry Semon-directed version of the film The Wizard of Oz was released. Semon himself starred as the Scarecrow, Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, and comedian Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man.
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Easter Sunday, April 12, 1925. Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy (Pyotr Fyodorovich Polyansky) installed as the Patriarch of Moscow.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Easter Sunday, April 12, 1925. Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy (Pyotr Fyodorovich Polyansky) installed as the Patriarch of Moscow.
Portable radio?
Radio in the Canadian Rockies, 1925
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Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy (Pyotr Fyodorovich Polyansky) was installed as the Patriarch of Moscow on the same day as the funeral for his predecessor, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.
Peter had been identified in Tikhon's will as one of his three potential successors. He was selected by the council of 59 bishops because "the first two were already in prison." Peter would later suffer imprisonment himself and was executed by the barbarous Soviet state in 1937. The Russian Orthodox Church has declared him to be a Hieromartyr.
Tikhon's funeral in Moscow was the last major public Russian Orthodox Church event and the last major religious event in the Soviet Union for over 60 years.
It should be noted that in the Orthodox East, it was not Easter Sunday, like it was in the west. Easter for the Orthodox would fall on April 19.
France, following the UK's example, agreed that its indemnities for the Boxer Rebellion should go to railway construction in China.
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Holy Saturday, April 11, 1925. East of the Sun, West of the Moon.Labels: 1920s, 1925, Central Asia, Easter, Exploration, Holy Week, hunting, James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition, Roosevelt
Friday, April 11, 2025
Holy Saturday, April 11, 1925. East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
The James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition, sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and organized by Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Roosevelt Jr., departed from New York City for Central Asia. The expedition would return with over 2,000 specimens of small mammals, birds and reptiles, and 70 large mammals, including the Ovis Poli, the great wild sheep and result in the great book East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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Saturday, April 4, 1925. Recalling Lexington and Concord.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Saturday, April 4, 1925. Recalling Lexington and Concord.
It was Saturday.
Issued on this day in 1925.
Retired Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg agreed to run in the second round of the German presidential election in the place of Karl Jarres, who had won the first round. He was 77, and would be enfeebled by the time Hitler was ready to push him aside a few years later.
Western Australia rejected prohibition at the polls.
The Nazi Party founded the SS as a bodyguard for Hitler.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Thursday, April 2, 1925. Oklahoma.
Oklahoma adopted its current flag.
The prior flag:
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France and Turkey agreed on the autonomy of Alexandretta, which is today party of Syria.
The Police Forces Amalgamation Act 1925 went into effect in the Republic of Ireland consolidating the Garda Síochána and the Dublin Metropolitan Police into a single national police force.
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
Monday, March 30, 1925. Cougars win the Stanley Cup.
Newly ordained St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás celebrated his first Mass in the Chapel of Our Lady of Pilar in the Saragossa Cathedral.
He would found Opus Dei in 1928.
The Victoria Cougars of the WCHL beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1 to become the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup.
Bringing Up Father On Broadway premiered.
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Saturday, March 28, 1925. Society Number.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Wednesday, March 25, 1925. Flannery O'Connor born.
Southern Gothic and Catholic novelist Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah Georgia.
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Saturday, March 21, 1925.
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