Monday, August 3, 1925. Black Shirts at polling stations.

Fascists won local Sicilian elections, helped in part by the staging of Blackshirts at polling stations.

Here, locally, MAGA loyalist hung around the courthouse where early voting was occuring.  Protecting the polls, was their claim.  One independent dude wondered around commenting on homosexuals.

Maybe they could spring for cap badges:

Emblem of the Black Shirts.

Mussolini was very successful in suppressing the Mafia during his rule, using strong arm tactics himself.

Released this day:

The plot involves a woman who loses her voice after giving birth to a son, causing her to hate him.  She becomes an alcoholic who raises geese. And there's a love story.  And a murder. And the mother's love returns.

It sounds pretty bad.

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Sunday, August 2, 1925. A Date

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Cartoons, Ethel Hays, The relationship between men and women, trends

Friday, June 26, 1925. The Gold Rush.

 

Released on this date in 1925.

The hotel in Browning, Montana, is still in business.

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Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1929, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Communism, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1930s, 1937, Apostolic Christianity, Boxer Rebellion, China, Christianity, France, Greek Orthodox Church, Railroads, Russian Orthodox Church, United Kingdom, USSR

Sunday, February 8, 1925. The Lost World.

The Lost World premiered.

Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with the People's Radical Party (Narodna radikalna stranka or NRS), led by Prime Minister Nikola Pašić gaining 15 seats. The populist party had evolved from a radical populist socialist party into a conservative one.

Actor Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator in Newton, Massachusetts.

Lemmon was a great actor, but personally highly insecure, something that perhaps reflects itself in his portrayal of worried characters, of which there are some very notable performances.  He died in 2001 at age 76.

Radical environmentalist Alice Mabel Gray died at age 43.

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Monday, February 2, 1915. Serum run concludes.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 Serum Run, actors and actresses, Aircraft, Calvin Coolidge, Mail, Retail, Work

Monday, October 9, 1922. Permission granted and rehearing sought.

Hairy Moccasin, Esh-sup-pee-me-shish, one of Custer's Crow Scouts, died on this day.  He was 68 years old.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 9: 

1922  A petition for rehearing was granted by the United States Supreme Court in Wyoming v. Colorado, a suit seeking to adjudicate the distribution of water from the Laramie River.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles Burke telegrammed Superintendent of the Wind River Reservation's Shoshone Agency R. P. Haas at Fort Washakie, giving him permission to work with actor Tim McCoy and film producers in the movie The Thundering Herd.

The Girl Who Ran Wild was released.

Like most films of this era, it was melodramatic, featuring a plot in which Melissa Bummer declares her independence from the world after the death of her father.  She ends up in school and her teacher falls in love with her, and vice versa, and she reforms accordingly.

Some of these plots are, we'd note, a bit icky.