The first attempt at a worldwide New Year's celebration was made via international radio when the United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year's greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York.
There was an effort in many locations in the US to rein in New Years celebrations, which if they were in compliance with the law, should be dry:
European flooding which had broken out on the 29th hit Belgium.
I tried listening to the book as an audio book once, but gave it up. I should either try that again, or read it.
The Association of College Honor Societies was formed by representatives of six organizations, Alpha Omega Alpha; the Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi. While nothing compared to the post World War Two boom in college attendance, the 1920s did see an increase in it, including an increase in female attendance.
Adding an item that would have properly been posted yesterday, but we were unaware of it, on December 28, 1925, this patent was granted:
We do not wish to be crude, but we do seek to track various developments on this blog. Indeed, that's one of its main purposes. This is a real development. This is a sanitary belt for menstruation, a very common, indeed the normal, method of addressing sanitary concerns until the tampon became common which wasn't really until the 1970s.
Anyhow, women in their current societal roles necessitated inventions such as this. Kotex, the primary brand, was not introduced until 1920.
Basil III (الأنبا باسيليوس, Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ) bebame the 17th Metropolitan of the Holy and Great City of Our Lord, Jerusalem (Holy Zion), and Archbishop of the Holy and Ancient Archdiocese of Jerusalem, all Palestine and the Near East.
A mine explosion killed 52 coal miners in Palaú, in the Mexican state of Coahuila.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, December 27, 1925
Italy brought to an end a rebellion in Italian Somaliland.
Turkey passed a law bringing in the Gregorian calendar as of January 1.
Richard "Pegleg" Lonergan, of New York City's White Hand Gang, was killed along with Aaron Hyams and Neal J. Perry, after arriving drunk at the Adonis Social Club in what was basically an armed bar fight. Al Capone was the hitman.
The Communist Party of India was organized.
The East-West Shrine Game, collegiate footballs first all start game, was played at Ewing Field in San Francisco.
It was a Saturday.
Leyendecker offered a Christmas theme for his Saturday Evening Post illustration.
And Liberty also went with a Christmas theme.
The New Yorker, however, went with a New Years theme which featured alcohol in spite of Prohibition.
Winnie the Pooh was first identified by that name in a Christmas story by A. A. Milne. Prior to that, his name had been Edward.
The Italian parliament passed Law No. 2263, "Decree on powers of the head of government", declaring that the decisions of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and his government were not subject to legislative review, and that Mussolini could only be overruled by order of the King.
Sort of like what Donald Trump would like to do now. . . but without the possibility of an interfering king.
Mrs. Coolidge distributes Christmas bags for Central Union Mission
Wario2, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Peace having been concluded, Nejd troops entered Jeddah.
This was the conclusion of a monumental event that had been decades in the making, recreating, with slightly larger boundaries, the former extent of the First Saudi State which had come to an end in 1818. It also demonstrated the tricky nature of British support, as both sides in the conflict had been supported by the British during World War One, although only the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz had been active supporters of the British backed Arab Revolt.
It took oil, of course, to make Saudi Arabia what it is today, and in part what it is, is a house of cards, still ruled by one family.
Henri de Jouvenel was appointed High Commissioner of the Levant, the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
The Battleship Potemkin premiered on this day in 1925. The highly regarded film was influential, with its Odessa steps scene the inspiration for a similar scene in The Untouchables.
Also in the USSR, the government declared that December 25 and 26 would be days of rest, acquiescing to public discontent about the Communist government forcing them to be work days.
The siege of Jeddah ended after 10 months as the city's defenders surrendered to the city to the Sultanate of Nejd. King Ali of Hejaz abdicated the throne and was allowed to safely depart. Saudi Arabia was basically born.
Reichstag President Paul Löbe spoke out in favour of partial prohibition in Germany.
Mitchell's backers in Congress weren't giving up.
At the Natrona Market:
I'm not sure what building the Natrona Market was in, but a little digging shows it was right downtown at 2nd and Durbin.
This comes as bit of a shock, as well as evidence of how slow news actually travels in our current age in which everything seems flash driven:
Giving some credit to the news, I'll note that this hit smaller news venues earlier, which I guess leads me to wonder a bit about how well Natrona County is served by the media.
This Romanesque church was built in 1912 after a protracted period of time in which efforts were made to build a church specifically for the Catholic Slavic population of Rock Springs, which was quite pronounced at the time. The church was named after brothers Cyril and Methodius who had been the evangelists to the Slavs. The first pastor was Austrian born Father Anton Schiffrer who was suited to the task given his knowledge of Slavic languages.
The news broke just before the celebration of the church's 100th anniversary, which isn't great timing, but no doubt that was simply coincidental.
To my surprise, there are three Catholic churches in Rock Springs. I was aware of there being two. The Catholic community seems to be served there in the same way the community in Casper is, as a Tri Parish, rather than three separate parishes.
Here's the announcement that was given by the Diocese:
Not too surprisingly, there has been some local opposition and the Bishop has suspended his order until February, when he will meet with the aggrieved parties. The suspension is on line, but I was not able to download it, in order to post it.
I'm not terribly optimistic, but the potential closure has drawn opposition from secular quarters as well:
In terms of timing, another interesting aspect of this is that it comes right as the Catholic parish in Rock Springs started undertaking an effort to build a community center for the parish, the brochure for which is partially set out here:
There's more to the brochure than that, but I can't think of something more likely to put a damper on this effort than to close a century old church while its ongoing.
I'd also note that one of the stated desires is exactly the opposite of what brought Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church about in the first place, that being the desire to "create unity and one Catholic identity". That's a common, and admirable, goal but in the real world, people don't like it. Individual ethnicities within the Catholic Church have always struggled against this, sometimes with pretty disastrous results. Indeed, Orthodoxy in the US got a big boost just from such an event when Bishop John Ireland disapproved of Eastern Catholicism remaining separate, causing Fr. Alexis Toth to lead a group of them into the Russian Orthodox Church. In the early 20th Century Catholic Diocese often responded just the way that the Diocese of Cheyenne did here, by simply creating additional churches that recognized the different identifies.
That won't happen here, and these are all Latin Rite churches. Moreover, the strong ethnic identities in Rock Springs from a century ago have no doubt dissipated considerably. But that doesn't mean that parishioners in a unique Church, or really any Church, like to have their church closed and be told they need to go elsewhere, even if it makes sense, which it very well might, given the antiquity of the building. Doing it while also undergoing a campaign that expresses the goal of unity is more than a little unfortunate.
Indeed, that's the case as even in this modern age, not everyone likes to be grouped into one big group. I'm one of those people. The Diocese here had an event several years ago where all the local Masses were cancelled so that one huge Mass could be held at Casper's David Street Station. Rather than do that, I drove to Glenrock and attended Mass there. . . and I noticed some other Casperites I recognized there as well.
The Milestone Mo-Tel, austensibly the first "motor hotel", i.e., motel, opened in San Luis Obispo. It closed in 1991, but is being restored.
The Iranian Parliament, the Majles-e Showrā-ye Mellī, declared Prime Minister, General Reza Khan Pahlavi, as the Shah of Iran and bringing an end to the Qajar dynasty that had ruled since 1789.
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