Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Thursday, December 3, 1925. Spain, Ulster and Romania.

Spain's Prime Minister Miguel Primo de Rivera, in  power since 1923 when he was installed following  a military coup, made the first step toward transition to a civilian government.

I note this as the common belief that Spain went from a democratic government into a fascist one with the Spanish Civil War is quite incorrect.  Spain's government was extremely unstable prior to the war and indeed the 20th Century, prior to Franco's death, was largely non democratic.  

The Northern Irish Border Agreement was signed by representatives of Northern Ireland (Sir James Craig), the Irish Free State (W. T. Cosgrave) and the United Kingdom (Stanley Baldwin), delineating the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

The Romanian Army court-martialed and convicted 84 participants in the 1924 Tatarbunary Uprising.  Most of those convicted were Moldavians.

Last edition:

Tuesday, December 1, 1925. Hoping to avoid war and hedging the bets.

Monday, December 1, 2025

Tuesday, December 1, 1925. Hoping to avoid war and hedging the bets.

The Locarno Treaties were formally signed in London.

France concluded treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia pledging mutual assistance in the event of an attack by Germany on any of the signatories.

Last edition:

Friday, November 28, 2025

Saturday, November 28, 1925. Grand Old Opry premiers.

Nashville's WSM radio premiered the WSM Barn Dance which became the Grand Ole Opry.

It was a Saturday.



The French government reigned after failing to reach a settlement with the US over war debt.

Last edition:

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Friday, November 27, 1925. Hill Packing.

The Casper Tribune reported on major events of the day, but what drew my attention was the horse packing plant.  I was completely unaware that Casper had every had one.


A little digging shows the company was still in business in February 1928, and doing well enough to have a full page ad.


By that time it was then packing everything, including poultry.  Horses were still noted, however, with the reference to wild horses, "outlaws of the range".  The company advertised into the 1930s, and there were newspaper reports of it taking in huge numbers of horses.

What happened to it?

Of interest on this story, the plant was owned by Hill Milling Company, which still exists.  It's Hill's Pet Nutrition today.  Apparently in the 1930s it was a major supplier of horse meat to Europe.

The Soviet Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.established Gostrudsberkassy, the savings bank for workers in the Soviet Union.

On the same day, the USSR and the Emirate of Afghanistan went to war over control of the island of Urta Tagay.  

The small war over the island resulted from Imperial Russian troops having to abandon the island in 1920 in order to aid the White cause, with the island, long claimed by Afghanistan, then occupied.  The fight drew the attention of western nations, and amazingly Afghanistan won.

The Reichstag approved the Locarno Treaties.

Last edition:

Thursday, November 26, 1925. Thanksgiving Day.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Thursday, November 26, 1925. Thanksgiving Day.

Edgerton dodged a bullet.


Remembering what hte day is for, there were church services.

Some were attended by the famous.



As well as the not so famous.

Pan American Mass, New York City.


Georgetown played a Marine Corps football team:


Other news:
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: November 26, 1925: I don’t give a damn...: France: Paul Doumer, like Briand, fails  to form a cabinet, so Édouard Herriot, who was last prime minister in April, will try next. Texas G...

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 25, 1925. Hats.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Wednesday, November 25, 1925. Hats.

The Turkish Hat Law, banning non Western headgear, took effect.

Beijing's Forbidden City was opened to the public for the first time.

Last edition:

Tuesday, November 24, 1925. William F. Buckley born

Monday, November 24, 2025

Tuesday, November 24, 1925. William F. Buckley born


William F. Buckley was born in New York City.  He'd grown up all over the Western World, notably in the United Kingdom, due to his father's business interests.

He was essentially the founder of modern conservatism, a movement that's been destroyed by Trump's populism.  He died in 2007 at the age of 82.

Last edition:

Monday,November 23, 1925. USS Wyoming commences an overhaul.

Wednesday, November 24, 1915. Withdrawals at Ctesiphon.

Both sides withdrew in the Battle of Ctesiphon.

Pristina fell to the Bulgarians.

William Joseph Simmons, inspired Birth of a Nation, founded the second variant of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.  The event included the burning of a cross, something the original Klan did not do, but which the film had depicted.

Simmons would run the organization until 1922, at which point he'd be removed from power  The organization reached its peak membership in 1925, and declined thereafter due to scandal.

Last edition:

Tuesday, November 23, 1915. Turned back at Ctesiphon.

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Monday, November 23, 1925. USS Wyoming commences an overhaul.

Today In Wyoming's History: November 231925   The USS Wyoming commences an overhaul at the New York Navy Yard.

Not wanting that to be the only item for the day, we offer the following (note, this was in error, this is a paper from 1923):


The paper noted that it was for the whole family, clean, and unbiased.  It might have been all of those things, but what a bunch of horrible news.

Note the big collection of drug charges.

A surplus store in Casper was going out of business.


The building that business occupied is still there.  It's an office building today, right between the Rib & Chop House and the Ugly Bug Fly Shop, both of which occupy old buildings that were also there, but neither of which were in operation at the time.

Rib & Chop is going out of business with the conclusion of the year.  The most famous occupant of that building was The Wonder Bar which opened in 1937 and which was a Casper institution, with ups and downs, for decades.

Last edition:  

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Thursday, November 19, 1925. First lighted high school football game.

 The first nighttime lighted football game in the US was played between Midwest and Casper.

Let There Be Light!: 1st Prep Football Night Game

Midwest was a football titan at the time.

Out Our Way for the day:

That cartoon hits hard, in a way.

Footnotes:

Yes, this was published a day late.

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Thursday, November 12, 1925. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five.


Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (Lous, his then wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on piano, Edward "Kid" Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet and Johnny St. Cyr on guitar and banjo) recorded their first songs for Okeh Records.

The British submarine HMS M1 was hit by the SS Vidar and sank in the English Channel with the loss of all 69 hands.

Last edition:

Sunday, November 8, 1925. The Eagle.

Friday, November 7, 2025

Saturday, November 7, 1925. Crabby Coolidge.

It was Saturday.




Coolidge delivered a crabby press  conference.

Press Conference, November 7, 1925

Date: November 7, 1925

Location: Washington, DC

I keep having inquiries about the coal strike. I don’t know just why I keep having them. I suppose the press would like something to write about. There isn’t anything that I can say about that, and I don’t know of anything at the present time that I can do about it. Now, if you will just keep that in mind perhaps it will be in an indication of what slant you ought to take when you hear rumors.

I don’t know of anything about Commissioner Haynes’ connection with the Government other than what I have seen in the press. I have indicated, I think a good many times, to the conference, that I had a very high regard for Major Haynes. I think he was a very good officer holding a very difficult situation. I am sure that he can be very helpful by continuing. Now whether it is going to be thought best by General Andrews and Secretary Mellon and Mr. Blair to continue him in office, I don’t know. From all I know, I suppose they are going to do so and receive the benefit of the vary vast knowledge he has of the situation and use him in a great many ways.

I haven’t in contemplation any action in regard to Commissioner of Immigration, Curran, of New York. I don’t know what his views are about immigration. I know that he has extensive views that he has voiced in the press, but if there is a difference between him and the Immigration Department, I don’t know just what the nature of the difference is. The only rumor that has ever come to me seemed in a way a reflection of Mr. Curran, and I don’t know that that was warranted, was the fact that he seemed to be making a good deal of criticism of his superior officers. He may have a very good plan of running his office over there that is better than the Department has. Of course, it is always unfortunate when a subordinate starts out publicly to criticize his superiors. I have understood that Mr. Curran was a first-rate public officer. He is a man of intelligence. I think he is a graduate of Yale some time back. It looks as though he was well trained to administer that office. Now I imagine that there have been rumors about it, but that the facts are rather inconsequential.

Press: The matter hasn’t been referred to you by the Labor Department?

President: Not that I know of. I heard something to the effect that a letter of reference had come over here, but I have never seen it and don’t think it has come.

Here is another veteran rumor about my position on the World Court. If you want to know what my position is in relation to it, read the two or three statements that I have made. The first one in my message of 1923, next in my message of 1924, and in an address I made at Arlington the 30th of May, 1924. I haven’t changed my position at all. Nobody has suggested that there should be any compromise. What I want is some practical resolution that will carry out the necessary purpose.

Senator Borah didn’t mention and I didn’t mention the Italian debt or the foreign debts, when he was in here. I sent for him to consult with him as I am consulting with a great many now, to find out if anything had occurred to him in his experience or his studies that would be something that I ought to touch on in my message. I learned from Senator Smoot and Secretary Mellon, who was in here just now, that they seemed to be making very good progress. I haven’t any details. If I did have them, I wouldn’t want to disclose them. But they are making progress. There is every indication I think that an agreement can be reached. That is the general impression I get from my conference with those who are on the debt commission. There seems to be a disposition on both sides to try to make a settlement and I think from such information that comes to me that both sides are approaching the problem with the utmost candor. When that is the case we usually expect that candid minds can meet and agree.

I think that is all for the day.

(Newspaper men called back within a few minutes)

**** between the depression of the franc and the debt settlement failure. The suggestion is that the so-called Morgan credits to France have been held up at the instance of the Government. I don’t think there is any foundation whatever for any rumor of that kind. I don’t know of any proposal by France to get the credits here, and I am sure that our Government has not put anything in the way of any credit of that kind. I am very certain that no suggestion has been made for an additional credit.

Press: That was made a long time ago, Mr. President.

President: Yes. A credit of I think $100,000,000 was extended in the late spring.

Press: Has the administration any plans for a possible debt conference in Europe

President; no.

Theater in Berkeley, California showing the film "The Midshipman" (1925)

Movies were a big deal.

So was football.


Last edition:

Thursday, November 5, 1925. The Big Parade.