Tuesday, October 27, 1925. Ethel: Then and Now.

 

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Monday, October 26, 1925. Doolittle wins the Schneider Trophy.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Air Racing, Aircraft, Jimmy Doolittle, U.S. Air Force

Monday, October 12, 1925. Rent.

U.S. troops landed in Panama to put down a renter's strike at the request of President Rodolfo Chiari, which seems like complete BS, frankly.

The Ethel Hays cartoon for today:

The era was one in which Dude Ranches were particularly popular.

Large scale protests and strikes broke out in France, heavily influenced by the French left, against the Rif War.

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

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 World Series, 1950s, 1954, 1980s, 1981, baseball, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Ethnicities, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Locarno Conference, The Wild Geese

Saturday, September 5, 1925. Picnic Etiquette

The Saturday Evening Post anticipated the start of school in most localities the following Tuesday.

Ethel Hays portrayed a still familiar type.

Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation.

Proclamation, September 5, 1925

Purpose: To commemorate the cross erected and dedicated at Fort Niagara by Father Millett on Good Friday, 1688

Date: September 5, 1925

WHEREAS, by section 2 of an Act of Congress approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), the President was authorized “in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected”;

AND WHEREAS, Father Millett, a French Jesuit Priest, who came to Canada – then known as New France – in 1667, and who served about fifteen years as a missionary among the Onondaga and Oneida Indians within what is now the State of New York, and subsequently became a chaplain in the French Colonial Forces, first at Fort Frontenac and later at Fort Niagara, did, on Good Friday, 1688, erect and dedicate a cross on what is now the Fort Niagara Military Reservation; and the Knights of Columbus of the Sixth New York District have requested that a suitable site be set apart thereon for the erection of another cross commemorative of the cross erected and blessed by Father Millett;

NOW THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, under authority of the said Act of Congress do hereby reserve as a site for the said monument, the following described parcel of land situated within the limits of the military reservation of Fort Niagara, New York, and do hereby declare and proclaim the same to be a national monument to commemorate the cross erected and dedicated at Fort Niagara by Father Millett on Good Friday, 1688, viz:

Beginning at an iron pipe on the northerly line of old stone block house (building No. 33) produced, and seventy-four (74) feet westerly from the northwest corner of said block house, running thence eighteen (18) feet westerly along said northerly line produced to an iron pipe; thence northerly at right angles to above line eighteen (18) feet to an iron pipe; thence easterly on a line parallel to the north line of block house produced and eighteen (18) feet distant northerly therefrom, eighteen (18) feet to another iron pipe; thence southerly at right angles to said northerly line of block house eighteen feet to the point of beginning; containing 0.0074 acres more or less.

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 5th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five and the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.

Centerville, Arkansas hit a still standing record of 112F.

The New Yorker celebrated tennis.

And Colliers discussed Picnic etiquette.

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Monday, August 31, 1925. Bombing Ajdir.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Aircraft, French Navy, Hawaii, Morocco, Peru, Rif War, South America, Spanish Navy, U.S. Navy

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

Sunday, August 2, 1925. A Date

The great Ethel Hays depicted a sad event. 

Dating was actually a fairly new thing.  Up until just after World War One, men had called upon the household of girls they were interested in. They did not "take them out", save in quite controlled circumstances.  The increated entry of women into the workplace and higher education, however, began to change that.

Perhaps oddly, the term "date" or "dating" came from the underclass, and it came from prostitution.  This shows that at first the practice of dating wasn't completely accepted as respectable, but by the mid 1920s it had really entered its own.  As a cultural institution, it really picked up about that time and remained very strong through the 1950s, when it began to change, although it still was a mainstay of relationships in its traditional sense well into the 1990s.  One big change during that time is that it actually became more conservative as an institution for quite awhile, as early on, in the period depicted in this cartoon, there was no expectation of exclusivity in a dating relationship.

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Saturday, August 1, 1925. Wet

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Swimming

Monday, May 11, 1925. The Tables are turned. (The Palm Beach Post, May 11, 1925).

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Saturday, May 9, 1945.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art

Monday, March 9, 1925. Try this in your happy home.

Hitler was banned from speaking to crowds in Bavaria.

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Sunday, March 8, 1925. Fédération Nationale Catholique

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Catholic, Catholic Lay Organizations, France, Politics, religion

Tuesday, February 24, 1925. Lake of the Woods Convention and Protocol

The United States and Canada signed the Lake of the Woods Convention and Protocol, defining the lake's boundary line more accurately, regulating its water level, and arranging for the settlement of port damages caused by overflowing that arose from work done on the Canadian side. 

This, obviously, before our currently demented occupant of the Oval Office decided that throwing rocks at Canada was fun.

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Monday, February 23, 1925. Puyi moves.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Japan

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

Fapper Fanny for this day in 1925.

There used to be an era when Republicans cared about conservation.

Declaring American Forest Week

Date: February 21, 1925 

In proclaiming American Forest Week, I desire to bring to the attention of all our people the danger that comes from the neglect of our forests.

For several years the Nation has observed Forest Protection Week. It is fitting that this observance be enlarged. We have too freely spent the rich and magnificent gift that nature bestowed on us. In our eagerness to use that gift we have stripped our forests; we have permitted fires to lay waste and devour them; we have all too often destroyed the young growth and the seed from which new forests might spring. And though we already feel the first grip of timber shortage, we have barely begun to save and restore.

We have passed the pioneer stage and are no longer excusable for continuing this unwise dissipation of a great resource. To the Nation it means the lack of an elemental necessity and the waste of keeping idle or only partly productive nearly one-fourth of our soil. To our forest-using industries it means unstable investments, the depletion of forest capital, the disbanding of established enterprises, and the decline of one of our most important industrial groups.

Our forests ought to be put to work and kept at work. I do not minimize the obstacles that have to be met, nor the difficulty of changing old ideas and practices. We must all put our hands to this common task. It is not enough that the Federal, State, and local governments take the lead. There must be a change in our national attitude. Our industries, our landowners, our farmers, all our citizens must learn to treat our forests as crops, to be used but also to be renewed. We must learn to tend our woodlands as carefully as we tend our farms.

Let us apply to this creative task the boundless energy and skill we have so long spent in harvesting the free gifts of nature. The forests of the future must be started to-day. Our children are dependent on our course. We are bound by a solemn obligation from which no evasion and no subterfuge will relieve us. Unless we fulfill our sacred responsibility to unborn generations, unless we use with gratitude and with restraint the generous and kindly gifts of Divine Providence, we shall prove ourselves unworthy guardians of a heritage we hold in trust.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do recommend to the Governors of the various States to designate and set apart the week of April 27 – May 3, inclusive, 1925, as American Forest Week, and, wherever practicable and not in conflict with State law or accepted customs, to celebrate Arbor Day within that week. And I urge public officials, public and business associations, industrial leaders, forest owners, editors, educators, and all patriotic citizens to unite in the common task of forest conservation and renewal.

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 twenty-first day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth.

The New Yorker premiered.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Tsankov declared that an internal state of war existed in the country.

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was born in Fresno, California.  Growing up in a family that had strong rural Californian roots, he was haunted in some ways by passing eras, which shows itself in his films.  He was a film making genius whose works were nonetheless flawed by his wreckless demeanor and drug and alcohol abuse.

It was, of course, a Saturday.

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Wednesday, February 18, 1925. Mayflower Hotel opens.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, actors and actresses, Lodging, Washington DC

Saturday, February 14, 1925. The Berries.

Kurdish rebels declared Diyarbekir as the capital of Kurdistan.

From the Reading Times, February 14, 1925.

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Friday, February 13, 1925. The Sheikh Said Rebellion

 1920s, 1925, Court, Kurds, law, Turkey

Friday, January 30, 1925. Antitoxin runs out in Nome.

Diphtheria antitoxin ran out in Nome. The serum run had reached Kaltag.

Turkey exiled Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Constantine VI to Greece

The Khost Rebellion in Afghanistan ended with the reign of King Amanullah Khan intact.

A national news media frenzy started when Cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky.  The story went on for days, but did not conclude happily.

High winds blew a train off of a viaduct in County Donegal, Ireland, killing four people.

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

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1930s, 1940s, Cartoons, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Shanghai, The Roaring Twenties, 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.