Sunday, October 11, 1925. The line of duty.

The China Zhi Gong Party as founded in the United States in San Francisco by a pair of exiled former warlords who opposed the the Kuomintang.  It remains today as one of the eight minor Chinese political parties currently permitted to exist as flunkies.

M'eh.

FBI agent Edwin C. Shanahan, was fatally shot after following a suspected car thief, Martin James Durkin, to a garage.  He was the first FBI agent to die in the line of duty.

It was a bit of an immigrants take.  Dunkin was an Irish American, and so was Shanahan.  Cop, and cop killer, both of recent immigrant stock, a story that was not uncommon.

Dunkin was convicted and remained in prison until 1954.  He died in 1981.

The Senators beat the Pirates 6 to 3 in game four of the 1925 World Series.

At Locarno delegates agreed that due consideration would be given to Germany's special military status until such time as a general arms reduction plan could be implemented across Europe. This was thought to secure Germany's entry into the League of Nations.

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Saturday, October 10, 1925. The Chinese Imperial Collection.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 World Series, 1930s, 1937, Art, Chinese Civil War, Clothing, Edgar Franklin Wittmack, Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, Second Sino-Japanese War

Thursday, August 20, 1925. Thrills, frills and stills.

From Reddit's 100 Years Ago Sub.

The Republic of China's finance minister, Liao Zhongkai, was assassinated as he stepped out of his limousine for a meeting of the Kuomintang's Executive Committee.   The Kuomintang had barred British and Japanese ships from entering or leaving Canton's harbor the day prior.

At the time, the Kuomintang was heavily left wing, with right wing elements, and veered towards a sort of Communism.  It was backed by the USSR.  It was also not fully in control of the country, and in fact, it never would be.  

It's choice of allies and backers over the years would evolve enormously. After the right wing deposed the Communists, and the Chinese Civil War started, it continued to receive support, oddly, from the USSR, but also did from Germany, that support starting during the Weimar period and lasting right up until the Sino Japanese War, at which time the Germans withdrew it due to Japanese protests with some reluctance.  It'd continue to be a friend of the Soviet Union's all the way through World War Two, but during the war itself, the United States became its major supporter.

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Sunday, August 16, 1925. Cuban Communists, Big Beer Haul, Dainty Ankles.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, actors and actresses, Alcohol, Communism, Cuba, fashion, Prohibition, Women

Wednesday, August 19, 1945. Bataan I and Bataan 2.

Japanese officials arrived in Manila to conclude the surrender there.  They flew in two Mitsubishi G6M1- with green crosses rather than Japanese roundels.

Bataan 1 and Bataan 2 on Ie Shima., where they stopped for refueling.

The planes were assigned the flight names Bataan 1 and Bataan 2.

The Red Army kept on with its war against Japan, landing at Maoka on South Sakhalin. 

Chiang Kai-shek forbid Japanese forces from surrendering to the Red Chinese forces and demanded of the Communists that they not advance.

The Chinese Communist prevailed at Yongjiazhen.  1300 Warlord/Nationalist and twentyone Japanese troops were killed on the Nationalist side.. Ninety-eight Nationalist troops and twenty-one Japanese troops were captured.

The Red Army took Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain and linked up with Chinese Communist forces in the region.

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Saturday, August 18, 1945. The last American KIA of World War Two. Anthony J. Marchione.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, Battle of Shumshu, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, India, Kuril Islands, Red Army, U.S. Air Force, World War Two

Wednesday, July 1, 1925. The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.

The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.

Ford Australia produced its first Model T.

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Sunday, June 28, 1925. Executing the Kurdish rebels.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Animals, Cats, Classical Music, Kurds, Music, Turkey, USSR

Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China.  It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.

It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.

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Saturday, June 20, 1925. La battaglia del grano.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Autarky, Food, Heroes, Italy, Mussolini, Texas, Ukraine

Tuesday, June 2, 1925. A headache becomes history, Marines in Shanghai, and Amundsen lost

A headache becomes history

Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.

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Monday, June 1, 1925. Lou Gehrig's Streak Begins

Labels: 1920s, 1925, baseball, Blog Mirror, Catholic, Education, Lou Gehrig, Oregon, religion

Wednesday, March 18, 1925. The Tri State Tornado.

The deadliest tornado in U.S. History, the Tri State Tornado, swept across the states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana killing 751 people.

The Yunnan–Guangxi War began in China's Yunnan province over succession of leadership in the Kuomintang.

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Saturday, March 14, 1925. Spring.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Bears, Diplomacy, France, Germany, League of Nations, Vatican City

Monday, February 23, 1925. Puyi moves.

Deposed Chinese Emperor Puyi accepted a Japanese offer of projection and moved to the  moved to the Japanese concession of Tianjin.

An item from Reddit's 100 Years Ago Today sub:

Truly awful.

It's really the early 1920s, not the 1970s, that gave rise to a really powerful "women's liberation" movement, although you can find it building in the decades prior to that.  The 20s, however, saw it really blossom in much the same way that it would later, with much of the same goals.  As with the movement in the 70s, it met with some pretty nasty counter reactions.

Coeds themselves, meaning women in college, was a fairly new thing in this form.  It wasn't really until the post war economic boom of the 1920s that a lot of women began to leave home to attend college for a secondary education.  

I'm not a feminist, of course, but part of the horror of the Trump years is watching these sorts of attitudes creep back in and begin to be expressed openly.

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Saturday, February 21, 1925. A Republican President declares American Forest Week.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Calvin Coolidge, Cartoons, Clothing, Conservation, Daily Living, Movies, Teenagers, United States Forest Service, Women

Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.

About 20 people were killed when  representatives of the Fengtian Clique met resistance attempting to disarm about 1,000 defeated Jiangsu troops, who apparently weren't quite as defeated as thought.

Flapper Fanny Says was on day three of its new syndicated run.  The cartoon would run until 1940, during which time Fanny ceased being a flapper.  It had two different cartoonist illustrate it, both of them women.

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Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries

Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, It was because of the Russian Revolution, Mercenaries, Shanghais in Shanghai.

Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries in Shanghai.

Russian mercenaries captured Shanghai for the Fengtian clique.

Displaced Russian military forces were a menace in China for some time.  The refugee population was relatively large, and there's still a population of Russians in China.

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Tuesday, January 27, 1925. The 1925 Serum Run.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 Serum Run, Alaska, Animals, Chile, Disease, Dogs, Heroes, Iditarod, Medicine

Tuesday, January 1, 1925. Marines in China.

Christiania, Norway, was renamed Oslo, it's old and original name.

Marines landed at Nanjing to patrol near the university and to protect Americans in the vicinity.

Costa Rica, unhappy with the League of Nations failure to address regional issues, withdrew form the body.

The French mandate states of Aleppo and Damascus were united in the State of Syria.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1924. Final Home Edition.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Casper Wyoming, Crime, New Year, press, Prohibition

Monday, November 24, 1924. Australopithecus africanus

The first remains of an Australopithecus africanus were found in a quarry in South Africa.  The skull was that of a child, perhaps five or six years of age, who was killed by a bird of prey.

The anti Japanese Korean independence organization, and military government the Righteous Government (정의부) organized in West Jiandao, Korea.

Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui) was installed by General Feng Yuxiang as the acting President of the Republic of China.

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Friday, November 21, 1924. Florence Harding passes.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Aircraft, boats and ships, Personalities, U.S. Navy, Warren G. Harding

Monday, November 10, 1924. Henry Cabot Lodge passes.

He was a giant of American politics.

The Tientsin Conference opened in China between warlords Zhang Zuolin, Feng Yuxiang, and Lu Yongxiang.   Former president Sun Yat-sen, the ongoing head of the Kuomintang and the government sitting in Canton, organized the meeting to discuss the ongoing civil war.

Ranch property belonging to Mexican president elect Plutarco Elías Calles was expropriated by the state in accordance with Mexican agrarian laws.

Chicago mobster Dean O'Banion, leader of Chicago's North Side Gang, was gunned down in his florist shop, making the cover of The Casper Herald.  His murder was nearly inevitable as he'd grown crosswise with one of the Italian mob families in Chicago.

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Saturday, November 8, 1924. Declaration from Honolulu.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Honolulu Hawaii, Japanese Empire, Korea, Syngman Rhee

Wednesday, November 5, 1924. Expelled from the Forbidden City.

The news of the election hit the papers.

The former Emperor of China, Puyi, was expelled from the Forbidden City by Gen. Feng Yuxiang who unilaterally revoked the Articles of Favourable Treatment of the Great Qing Emperor after His Abdication

Puyi lived a tragic life, having been born into the anachronism of the Chinese Empire at a time it was collapsing.  He'd go on to be Emperor of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, a prisoner of the Soviet Union, a prisoner of the Red Chinese, and finally, a gardener.  He died in 1967 at age 61.

President Coolidge made a Thanksgiving proclamation:

We approach that season of the year when it has been the custom for the American people to give thanks for the good fortune which the bounty of Providence, through the generosity of nature, has visited upon them. It is altogether a good custom. It has the sanction of antiquity and the approbation of our religious convictions. In acknowledging the receipt of Divine favor, in contemplating the blessings which have been bestowed upon us, we shall reveal the spiritual strength of the nation.

The year has been marked by a continuation of peace whereby our country has entered into a relationship of better understanding with all the other nations of the earth. Ways have been revealed to us by which we could perform very great service through the giving of friendly counsel, through the extension of financial assistance, and through the exercise of a spirit of neighborly kindliness to less favored peoples. We should give thanks for the power which has been given into our keeping, with which we have been able to render these services to the rest of mankind.

At home we have continually had an improving state of the public health. The production of our industries has been large and our harvests have been bountiful. We have been remarkably free from disorder and remarkably successful in all those pursuits which flourish during a state of domestic peace. An abundant prosperity has overspread the land. We shall do well to accept all these favors and bounties with a becoming humility, and dedicate them to the service of the righteous cause of the Giver of all good and perfect gifts. As the nation has prospered let all the people show that they are worthy to prosper by rededicating America to the service of God and man.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, hereby proclaim and fix Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of November, as a day for National Thanksgiving. I recommend that the people gather in their places of worship, and at the family altars, and offer up their thanks for the goodness which has been shown to them in such a multitude of ways. Especially I urge them to supplicate the Throne of Grace that they may gather strength from their tribulations, that they may gain humility from their victories, that they may bear without complaining the burdens that shall be placed upon them, and that they may be increasingly worthy in all ways of the blessings that shall come to them.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE at the city of Washington this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth.

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Tuesday, November 4, 1924. Ross and Coolidge win.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 Election, Blog Mirror, Calvin Coolidge, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Politics, Women, Wyoming

Sunday, November 2, 1924. Huang Fu became the acting President of the Republic of China.

Huang Fu became the acting President of the Republic of China.

Flying boats, Culebra, Puerto Rico, November 2, 1924.

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Saturday, November 1, 1924. Political, and real, warfare.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 Election, Art, Crime, Disease, Ireland, J. F. Kernan, Ku Klux Klan, Oklahoma, Personalities, police, Politics, Royal Air Force, Ulster, United Arab Emirates, Weather

Thursday, October 30, 1924. King maker.

Gen. Feng Yxiang broke with the Zhilli clique and allied with  the Fengtian clique led by Zhang Zuolin, inviting Zhang to form a new, pro-Japanese, government just a week after he overthrew the government in a coup.

He's oppose the Japanese in World War Two, but was sympathetic to the Communists, in spite of being a Christian, after the war.

Irish Free State parliamentarians Francis Cahill, Thomas Carter, Henry Finlay, Seán Gibbons, Alexander McCabe, Daniel McCarthy, Seán McGarry and Seán Milroy resigned in protest of the government's response in the Irish Army Mutiny.

Henry Ford endorsed Calvin Coolidge for President.

The Coolidge's voted by mail.

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Thursday, October 23, 1924. Beijing Coup.

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Sunday, October 24, 1924. A glimpse of Natrona County.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Casper Wyoming, fishing, hunting, Introspection, Wyoming (Casper)