Saturday, January 9, 1926. A different train attack.

Oddly enough, given the events that had happened ten years prior, Mexican rebels, under Colonel Manuel Núñez, opened fire on board a train  traveling from Guadalajara to Mexico City, ultimately destroying it and making away with 300,000 pesos. Eleven people were killed.

The Navy League of the United States released a report finding the United States Navy to be unprepared for war and short of the tonnage limitation set by the Washington Naval Treaty.

It was a Saturday.

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Friday, January 8, 1926. Crownings.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud, Bảo Đại, French Indochina, Kingdom of Hejaz, Mecca, Monarchy, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Vietnam (Huế)

Saturday, December 5, 1925.

 

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

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Ireland, Moldova, Northern Ireland, Romania, Spain, Spanish Civil War

Saturday, October 17, 1925: When two ride one horse.

Hasan al-Kharrat' rebels entered Damascus.

Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 17, 1925: When two ride one ho...: French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand says the Locarno Conference lays the foundations for the United States of Europe. Hurrah! In Locarn...

This item contains an interesting one one regarding modification of the wedding vows in the Episcopal service. 

"What a Protection Electric Light is" advertisement for Edison Mazda . The Saturday Evening Post, October 17, 1925.

 

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Friday, October 16, 1925. The Locarno conference ended with several agreements in place and an atmosphere of optimism.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Diplomacy, Europe, Locarno Conference

Saturday, September 19, 1925.

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Friday, September 18, 1925. American Education Week.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, American Education Week, Calvin Coolidge, Morocco, Rif War

Saturday, July 11, 1925. Spain and Morocco agree to cooperate.

France and Spain, each occupying different portions of Morocco, agreed to cooperate in the Rif War against their common enemy, the Riffians.

It was, of course, a Saturday.

Seventeen year old Phyllis Green of London's Peckham High School for Girls broke the world record for the women's high jump, becoming the first female competitor to jump higher than five feet.

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Friday, July 10, 1925. Echoes.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Court, Evolutionary Biology, law, Tennessee, The Press, USSR, Zeitgeist

Saturday, June 27, 1925. An earthquake in Montana.

 

 A 6.6 magnitude occurred near Townsend Montana.

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Friday, June 26, 1925. The Gold Rush.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 at the movies, Communications, Lodging, Montana, Movies, Native Americans, telephone

Saturday, May 26, 1945. The Homecoming.

The Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was transferred from Rheims to Frankfurt-am-Main.

The Saturday Evening Post featured Norman Rockwell's "GI Homecoming" illustration that was soon used for a war bond poster.  It features in one of Sarah Sundin's articles on her blog site, and this is directly linked into that:

Extremely poignant, there's a lot going on in the illustration, from the "girl next door" peeking around the corner, to the fact that the returning soldier is returning to an extremely urban, and not very attractive apartment building, something very common of urban life at the time.

The Berlin Philharmonic gave its first performance since the end of the war in Europe.

" Soldiers of the 77th Inf. Div. walk past mud-clogged tanks parked by the side of the road on Okinawa. 26 May, 1945. 77th Infantry Division."

Allied forces occupied Bassein, Burma.

Aerial photograph of Tokyo burning after B-29 fire bombing mission, May 26, 1945.

It was my father's 16th birthday.

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Friday, May 25, 1945. The Clock.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, 1945 at the movies, Army, Artillery, Battle of Odžak, Croatia, Kamikaze, Marriage, Movies, Operation Downfall, Operation Olympic, Operation Ten-Go, U.S. Navy, World War Two, Yugoslavia

Saturday, May 16, 1925.

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Friday, May 15, 1925. Coolidge decides the Navy isn't a police force.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Army, Calvin Coolidge, Indian Wars, Japan, Miles City Montana, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Personalities, Prohibition, The Press, U.S. Navy

Saturday, April 18, 1925.

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Wednesday, April 15 1925: The Introduction of a Trailblazing Highways Map Guide

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Automobiles, Blog Mirror, Maps, Transportation, Trucks

Thursday, November 6, 1924. The 100th Anniversary of Christopher Robin and Winey the Pooh.

Winston Churchill was named Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Nikola Pašić became Prime Minister of Yugoslavia for the second time.

Published on this date:

Calvin Coolidge issued a statement regarding his election:

November 05, 1924

It does not seem possible to me to make an adequate expression concerning the Presidency of the United States. No other honor equals it; no other responsibility approaches it. When it is conferred by an overwhelming choice of the American people and vote of the Electoral College, these are made all the greater.

I can only express my simple thanks to all those who have contributed to this result and plainly acknowledge that it has been brought to pass through the work of a Divine Providence, of which I am but one instrument. Such powers as I have I dedicate to the service of all my country and of all my countrymen.

In the performance of the duties of my office I cannot ask for anything more than the sympathetic consideration which my fellow-Americans have always bestowed upon me. I have no appeal, except to the common sense of all the people. I have no pledge except to serve them. I have no object except to promote their welfare.

Life Magazine came out with a cover featuring a Girl Scout.

The Irish Boundary Commission held its first meeting to come to an agreement of the dividing line between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom.

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

Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 Election, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Calvin Coolidge, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Manchukuo, Monarchy, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Thanksgiving, World War Two

Saturday, September 27, 1924. Politicin'

 

John W. Davis (standing center with white hair), candidate for president in 1924, with Clem L. Shaver, Democratic National Committee Chairman standing to his right.

Pres. Coolidge with Natl. Laundry Owner's Assn., 9/27/24

Pres. Coolidge with Natl. Assn. of Retail Druggists,

Coolidge with Natl. Assn. of Local Preachers of Methodist Episcopal Church, 9/27/24

"Bonus bar".

The Saturday magazines were out.  The Saturday Evening Post pictured a Rockwell of a downtrodden man and a dog.

County Gentleman featured a duck hunter freshening up his decoys.

Colliers featured a woman working on her car.

Governor Zheng Shiqi of China's Anhui province telegraphed China's President Cao Kun for military aid to resist the Fengtian troops.

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Thursday, September 25, 1924. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the New York Governor's Race.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1924 Election, Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, New York, Politics, Republican Party, Socialism

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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Friday, August 29, 1924. The start of the Second Saudi-Hashemite War.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Dawes Plan, It was because of World War One, Kingdom of Hejaz, Monarchy, Saudi Arabia, Second Saudi-Hashemite War, Sultanate of Nejd