That really didn't work out the way predicted.
All the magazines had a Christmas theme that Saturday.
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Friday, December 20, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Friday, November 7, 1924. A balanced budget.
The Weimar Republic announced the first balanced German budget since the end of World War One.
The Soviet Union produced its first domestically manufactured motor vehicle, the AMO-15 truck.
The Alvarado Hot Springs was created when a natural gas exploratory well taped into a geothermal pool in Los Angeles County. It was operated commercially as a hot springs facility until at least 1961, following which it seem to have disappeared from history.
2BE began operating commercially, broadcasting twice a week, in Sydney. Australia's first commercial radio station would close in 1929.
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Thursday, November 6, 1924. The 100th Anniversary of Christopher Robin and Winey the Pooh.
Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 Election, Calvin Coolidge, Girl Scouts, Norman Rockwell, Teenagers, The written word, Women
Monday, October 21, 2024
Tuesday, October 21, 1924. Six Nations election.
The first Canadian elections under the Indian Act were held for the Six Nations Band of Indians Council.
And also elections were held for the Norwegian parliament, resulted in a continuation of the coalition government between the Conservatives and the liberal Venstre.
The German National People's Party issued a proclamation announcing itself in favor of restoring the monarchy and terminating the Treaty of Versailles and the Dawes Plan.
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From Reddit's 100 Years Ago Sub:
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Saturday, October 18, 1924. Ham achievement.
Labels: 1920s, 1924, Art, Calvin Coolidge, Communism, Espionage, football, German Weimar Republic, Radio, technology
Friday, October 18, 2024
Saturday, October 18, 1924. Ham achievement.
The first around the world wireless radio communication took place by Ham radio operators.
German police displayed evidence they had uncovered of a communist false passport operation used to insert spies in the US and other countries.
President Coolidge authorized the President's Cup to be awarded to the winner of the Army Navy Game.
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Friday, October 17, 1924. Media Event.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Thursday, October 16, 1924. See See Rider.
Incarcerated menace Adolf Hitler published a statement admitting that he was born in Austria, not Germany, but arguing that he had lost his Austrian citizenship after volunteering to serve in the German Army during World War I . He claimed that mentally, he'd always been a German.
He nonetheless did not renounce his Austrian citizenship until 1925, and didn't acquire German citizenship until 1932.
Ma Rainey recorded See See Rider, the first known recording of the blues standard which has an unknown origin and date of origin. It's at least a couple of decades older than the recording.
Ma Rainey.
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Wednesday, October 15, 1924. Airship and a proclamation.
Monday, September 16, 2024
Saturday, September 16, 1944. "Wacht am Rhein" approved.
Adolf Hitler approved the Ardennes Offensive "Wacht am Rhein", known in the west as the Battle of the Bulge.
Market Garden, the semi failed or wholly failed, hastily put together Allied invasion of The Netherlands hadn't even commenced yet and therefore makes for a remarkable contrast. The Germans were planning a mid winter offensive and it was still summer, showing planning foresight, but also an appreciate at some level of the inevitability of further retreats into the winter.
"Members of an American airborne unit (82nd Airborne Division) flock to an American Red Cross Clubmobile for coffee and donuts on the eve of their takeoff for the airborne invasion of Holland. 16 September, 1944. Cottesmore Airdrome, England." These troops are equipped with the then new M1943 Field Jacket and M1943 paratrooper field pants. This uniform was new and replaced the ones that had been used just a few months prior in Operation Overlord. The M1943 field jacket wa already becoming a universal issue item, although oddly the trousers were not.
The Red Army took Sofia, Bulgaria. They then turned west to attempt to block the Germans from retreating from Greece.
The fronts were drawing close.
A general strike broke out in Denmark over deportations by the Germans.
The Royal Navy raided Sigli in Northern Sumatra.
The Second Quebec Conference ended. The course of combat across the globe was ratified, wit there being an additional agreement for a campaign in Burma, and the British joining American forces in the Pacific in its final campaigns against the British, something the US would effectively recant on as the war drew to a close.
Gustav Bauer, German Chancellor in 1919 and 1920, and very briefly a prisoner of the early Third Reich, died.
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Friday, September 15, 1944. Landing at Peleliu.
Friday, August 30, 2024
Saturday, August 30, 1924. Late summer scenes.
The Dawes Plan went into effect.
Germany replaced paper marks with a coin, due to hyperinflation.
Clashes with the Ku Klux Klan resulted in six deaths in Herrin Illinois.
The French High Commission of the Levant created Lebanese citizenship.
Edwards, Prince of Wales, met with Calvin Coolidge.
Saturday magazines were out.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Wednesday, August 27, 1924. Color photos over the wire.
AT&T announced that a color photograph had been successfully transmitted from Chicago to New York via Wirephoto.
The German built, due to reparations, USS Los Angeles made its first flight.
The Lost Angeles over Berlin, 1924.
She was the longest serving rigid airship, serving, with interruptions, until 1939.
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Monday, August 25, 1924. Ratifying the Dawes Plan and questionable movies.
Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 at the Movies, Camping, Dawes Plan, Diplomacy, German Weimar Republic, Movies, Politics
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Monday, August 25, 1924. Ratifying the Dawes Plan and questionable movies.
Released on this day in 1924. It was banned in some cities, as was the novel which it was based upon.
Chancellor Wilhelm Marx informed the Reichstag that he would ratify the London agreement whether the Reichstag approved it or not and even if it meant a downfall of the government and new elections.
The Cheyenne paper pointed out that summer was drawing to a close.
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Saturday, August 23, 1924. Princess Petrolia. Refinery expansion in Glenrock.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Friday, August 22, 1924. Marxist harassing Marx.
Communists in the Reichstag filibustered Chancellor Wilhelm Marx by causing a loud disturbance of hoots and jeers when he tried to speak on the London conference ahead of a vote on the matter, thereby making it an unusual example of Marxist harassing Marx.
Democratic Presidential candidate John W. Davis condemned the Ku Klux Klan and called upon President Coolidge to do the same, thereby reviving an issue that had split the Democratic Convention.
Radio stations on Earth picked up radio transmissions that some attributed to Mars, although radio engineers dismissed this.
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Thursday, August 21, 1924. Making it to Greenland.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Friday, June 6, 1924. Coolidge speaks at Howard, the Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan.
The Reichstag approved the Dawes Plan.
President Coolidge spoke at the Howard graduation, stating:
It has come to be a legend, and I believe with more foundation of fact than most legends, that Howard University was the outgrowth of the inspiration of a prayer meeting. I hope it is true, and I shall choose to believe it, for it makes of this scene and this occasion a new testimony that prayers are answered. Here has been established a great university, a sort of educational laboratory for the production of intellectual and spiritual leadership among a people whose history, if you will examine it as it deserves, is one of the striking evidences of a soundness of our civilization.
The accomplishments of the colored people in the United States, in the brief historic period since they were brought here from the restrictions of their native continent, can not but make us realize that there is something essential in our civilization which gives it a special power. I think we shall be able to agree that this particular element is the Christian religion, whose influence always and everywhere has been a force for the illumination and advancement of the peoples who have come under its sway.
The progress of the colored people on this continent is one of the marvels of modern history. We are perhaps even yet too near to this phenomenon to be able fully to appreciate its significance. That can be impressed on us only as we study and contrast the rapid advancement of the colored people in America with the slow and painful upward movement of humanity as a whole throughout the long human story.
An occasion such as this which has brought us here can not but direct our consideration to these things. It has been a painful and difficult experience, this by which an other race has been recruited to the standard of civilization and enlightenment; for that is really what has been going on; and the episodes of Negro slavery in America, of civil war, and emancipation, and, following that, the rapid advancement of the American colored people both materially and spiritually, must be recognized as parts of a long evolution by which all mankind is gradually being led to higher levels, expanding its understanding of its mission here, approaching nearer and nearer to the realization of its full and perfected destiny.
In such a view of the history of the Negro race in America, we may find the evidences that the black man’s probation on this continent was a necessary part in a great plan by which the race was to be saved to the world for a service which we are now able to vision and, even if yet somewhat dimly, to appreciate. The destiny of the great African Continent, to be added at length, and in a future not now far beyond us, to the realms of the highest civilization, has become apparent within a very few decades. But for the strange and long inscrutable purpose which in the ordering of human affairs subjected a part of the black race to the ordeal of slavery, that race might have been assigned to the tragic fate which has befallen many aboriginal peoples when brought into conflict with more advanced communities.
Instead, we are able now to be confident that this race is to be preserved for a great and useful work. If some of its members have suffered, if some have been denied, if some have been sacrificed, we are able at last to realize that their sacrifices were borne in a great cause. They gave vicariously, that a vastly greater number might be preserved and benefited through them. The salvation of a race, the destiny of a continent, were bought at the price of these sacrifices.
Howard University is but one of the many institutions which have grown up in this country, dedicated to this purpose of preserving one of the races of men and fitting it for its largest usefulness. Here is a people adapted, as most people are not, to life in the tropics. They are capable of redeeming vast luxuriant areas of unexampled productivity, and of reclaiming them for the sustenance of mankind and the increasing security of the human community. It is a great destiny, to which we may now look forward with confidence that it will be fully realized.
Looking back only a few years, we appreciate how rapid has been the progress of the colored people on this continent. Emancipation brought them the opportunity of which they have availed themselves. It has been calculated that in the first year following the acceptance of their status as a free people, there were approximately 4,000,000 members of the race in this country, and that among these only 12,000 were the owners of their homes; only 20,000 among them conducted their own farms, and the aggregate wealth of these 4,000,000 people hardly exceeded $20,000,000. In a little over a half century since, the number of business enterprises operated by colored people had grown to near 50,000, while the wealth of the Negro community has grown to more than $1,100,000,000. And these figures convey a most inadequate suggestion of the material progress. The 2,000 business enterprises which were in the hands of colored people immediately following emancipation were almost without exception small and rudimentary. Among the 50,000 business operations now in the hands of colored people may be found every type of present day affairs. There are more than 70 banks conducted by thoroughly competent colored business men. More than 80 per cent of all American Negroes are now able to read and write. When they achieved their freedom not 10 per cent were literate. There are nearly 2,000,000 Negro pupils in the public schools; well nigh 40,000 Negro teachers are listed, more than 3,000 following their profession in normal schools and colleges. The list of educational institutions devoting themselves to the race includes 50 colleges, 13 colleges for women, 26 theological schools, a standard school of law, and 2 high-grade institutions of medicine. Through the work of these institutions the Negro race is equipping men and women from its own ranks to provide its leadership in business, the professions, in all relations of life.
This, of course, is the special field of usefulness for colored men and women who find the opportunity to get adequate education. Their own people need their help, guidance, leadership, and inspiration. Those of you who are fortunate enough to equip yourselves for these tasks have a special responsibility to make the best use of great opportunities. In a very special way it is incumbent upon those who are prepared to help their people to maintain the truest standards of character and unselfish purpose. The Negro community of America has already so far progressed that its members can be assured that their future is in their own hands. Racial hostility, ancient tradition, and social prejudice are not to be eliminated immediately or easily. But they will be lessened as the colored people by their own efforts and under their own leaders shall prove worthy of the fullest measure of opportunity.
The Nation has need of all that can be contributed to it through the best efforts of all its citizens. The colored people have repeatedly proved their devotion to the high ideals of our country. They gave their services in the war with the same patriotism and readiness that other citizens did. The records of the selective draft show that somewhat more than 2,250,000 colored men were registered. The records further prove that, far from seeking to avoid participation in the national defense, they showed that they wished to enlist before the selective service act was put into operation, and they did not attempt to evade that act afterwards. The propaganda of prejudice and hatred which sought to keep the colored men from supporting the national cause completely failed. The black man showed himself the same kind of citizen, moved by the same kind of patriotism, as the white man. They were tempted, but not one betrayed his country. Among well-nigh 400,000 colored men who were taken into the military service, about one half had overseas experience. They came home with many decorations and their conduct repeatedly won high commendation from both American and European commanders.
The armies in the field could not have done their part in the war if they had not been sustained and supported by the far greater civilian forces at home, which through unremitting toil made it possible to sustain our war effort. No part of the community responded more willingly, more generously, more unqualifiedly, to the demand for special extraordinary exertion, than did the members of the Negro race. Whether in the military service, or in the vast mobilization of industrial resources which the war required, the Negro did his part precisely as did the white man. He drew no color line when patriotism made its call upon him. He gave precisely as his white fellow citizens gave, to the limit of resources and abilities, to help the general cause. Thus the American Negro established his right to the gratitude and appreciation which the Nation has been glad to accord.
We are not all permitted the privilege of a university training. We can not all enter the professions. What is the great need of American citizenship? To my mind it is this, that each should take up the burden where he is. “Do the day’s work,” I have said, and it should be done, in the remembrance that all work is dignified. Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes in doing the work of the world.
There will be other crises in the national history which will make other demands for the fullest and most unselfish contribution to the national interest. No generation will be denied its opportunity, will be spared its duty, to put forth its best efforts. We devoutly hope that these contributions will not be demanded upon the field of battle. But they will be just as truly needed, just as urgently summoned, in the activities of peace, the efforts of industry, the performance of all the obligations of citizenship. We can not go out from this place and occasion without refreshment of faith and renewal of confidence that in every exigency our Negro fellow citizens will render the best and fullest measure of service whereof they are capable.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Wednesday, May 28, 1924. Border Patrol and Foreign Service.
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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, May 24, 1924. Foreign services.:Saturday, May 24, 1924. Foreign services.
President Coolidge signed the Foreign Service Act of 1924, creating the Foreign Serve and the Immigration Act of 1924, the National Origins Act.
The act reflected immigration by national origins, banned all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. It also authorized the creation of The Border Patrol.
And on this day, those agencies came into being.
Japan issued a formal protest over the Immigration Act of 1924.
President Coolidge issued a proclamation:
Max Wallraf was elected as the President of the Reichstag,
New York National Guardsman, Pvt. George Herman Ruth was photographed saluting Gen. Pershing.
Coolidge was photographed with cadet officers.
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Monday, May 26, 1924. The beginning of the end for Hejaz.
The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law.
Ikhwan fighters.
The Battle of Turubah was fought between the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Sultanate of Nejd. The defeat of Hajaz by the Saudi forces of Nejd paved the way for modern Saudi Arabia.
Wilhelm Marx resigned as Chancellor of Germany.
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Sunday, May 25, 1924. Coolidge at Arlington.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Monday, May 12, 1924. Final filly wins the Preakness.
Nellie Morse became the fourth, and last, filly to win the Preakness. She's the only horse to win the Preakness and the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.
Maryland's Nellie Morse Stakes, restricted to fillies and mares, is named after her.
The USSR began a boycott of Germany over the Bozenhardt Incident.
Prohibition came to an end in Alberta, with two government owned liquor stores opening.
Raymond Poincaré announced he would resign as French Prime Minister as soon as a new government was formed, following recent French elections.
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Friday, May 9, 1924. Scottish question results in chaos.
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