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Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Friday, May 23, 2025
Saturday, May 23, 1925. Memorial Day Weekend.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Tuesday, May 19, 1925. Birthdays and a last game.
This is the birthday of Malcolm Little, known to history as Malcolm X.
I've discussed him to some extent here on this blog before, but I had neglected to enter him as a topic category until today. An extremely intelligent man and the son of a Baptist lay minister, he had undergone a continuing religious evolution and was a Muslim at the time of his murder. I suspect that, had he lived, he would have returned to Christianity.
It is also the birthday of Pol Pot
Pol Pot has featured on this blog a lot recently. Born Saloth Sâr the Cambodian Communist leader would go down in history as one of the greatest mass murderers of all time. Quite well educated, he became a Communist while studying in France after World War Two. He died in exile in 1998.
Casey Stengel played his last major league game.
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Sunday, May 17, 1925. The canonization of Thérèse of Lisieux
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Sunday, May 17, 1925. The canonization of Thérèse of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux was canonized. She had died in 1897, making her canonization remarkably quick.
Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians became the fifth baseball player to accomplish the feat of making 3,000 hits in his career.
Baseball pitcher Buster Ross of the Boston Red Sox set a still standing record, of committing four errors in a single game.
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Saturday, May 16, 1925.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Friday, May 15, 1925. Coolidge decides the Navy isn't a police force.
President Coolidge rejected prohibitionist Wayne Wheeler's plan to use the U.S. Navy to enforce the Volstead Act.
Coolidge believed the Navy was for national defense, not police duty.
Japanese editorials decried American plans to strengthen the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, famous for his role in the Indian Wars, and whose name was given to Miles City, Montana, died at age 85.
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Tuesday, May 12, 1925. President Hindenburg and Prosecutor Bryan.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
Tuesday, May 12, 1925. President Hindenburg and Prosecutor Bryan.
Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Germany.
William Jennings Bryan agreed to participate in the prosecution of John Scopes.
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Monday, May 11, 1925. The Tables are turned. (The Palm Beach Post, May 11, 1925).
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
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.
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.
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