Saturday, August 28, 1926

 

Last edition:

Monday, August 23, 1926. Rudolph Valentino passes, as does Dr. Charles William Eliot.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, actors and actresses, Cristero War, Education, Harvard University, Personalities, The Roaring Twenties, Theodore Roosevelt

Saturday, August 14, 1926. More killings in Mexico.

The Mexican Government arrested Father Luis Bátiz Sainz at a private house.  He and three members of the Mexican Association for Catholic Youth would be driven out of town, and then shot, the following day.

Before the closure of the churches, he had spoken at a gathering where the topic of armed resistance to suppression of the Church had been discussed.

He was later canonized.

The USSR claimed Wrangel Island.

An Ethel Hays' cartoon for the day.

It was a Saturday

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Tuesday, August 10, 1926. Executions in Mexico, Hurricane in Nova Scotia.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, boats and ships, Cartoons, Cristero War, Disaster, J.R. Williams, Mexico, Nova Scotia, Weather

Saturday, April 24, 1926. Neutral but hedging bets.

The Soviet Union and Weimar Germany pledged to remain neutral if either nation got into a war in the next five  years.

A Flapper Fanny cartoon for the day:

It was a Saturday.

The Saturday Evening Post had a Rockwell that would go on to be one of his favored illustrations.

Last edition:

Wednesday, April 21, 1926. The Day of Sorrow.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Islam, Monarchy, Saudi Arabia (Medina), United Kingdom

Saturday, March 27, 1926.

 

Last edition:

Friday, March 26, 1926. First tomb guard.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Army, Blog Mirror, Calvin Coolidge, Washington DC

Saturday, January 23, 2026. Saturday Art. Tramps and J. C. Leyendecker.

 

It was a Saturday, obviously.

A couple of comments.  The Saturday Evening Post featured a cover by J. C. Leyendecker.  This cover was cross posted over at Reddit's 100 Years Ago sub and immediately drew a comment about how Rockwell did the covers for the magazine.

That's a really common perception, but it's highly inaccurate.  A short search, whose accuracy I can't verify, indicates that Rockwell did 323 covers for the Saturday Evening Post during his career but Leyendecker did over 300. Joseph Kernan and Ruth Eastman did quite a few, but there were other illustrators as well. Both Rockwell and Leyendecker did them for Country Gentleman as well.

Rockwell's style is very close to Leyendecker's, and Rockwell openly credited Leyendecker with being his mentor.  Indeed, his style is so close that if these were illustrated today Rockwell would draw criticism for it.  

Leyendecker is not nearly as well recalled by the general public as Rockwell but he has an enormous number of fans to this day.  We've commented on his somewhat tragic life story several times.

The  Parasite is a written work by Tarkington that must have been reprised in he magazine i this issue. Tarkington also wrote The Magnificent Ambersons.  The story is unrelated to the illustration, but it's startling in this context.  The portrayal of what we'd regard as the homeless in this fashion was really common, and continued up until at least the early 60s.  Indeed, Buddy Ebsen portrayed essentially this sort of character, in an unsympathetic portrayal, in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

The New Yorker had a typical one of its illustrations.

Some people really love these, I'd note, but I don't.

Last edition:

Saturday, January 16, 1926.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art

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.

 

Last edition:

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.

Last edition:  

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.

Last edition:

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.

Last edition:

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

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