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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25m

Oct. 13, 1925: Spanish veteran troops of the Moroccan war line up in Madrid to receive King Alfonso XIII's thanks for their bravery in a recent siege.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 59m

Oct. 13, 1925: Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon signs a debt refunding agreement with Czechoslovakia, with the negotiating teams from that country and the U.S. behind him in Washington.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 1h

Oct. 13, 1925: Lenny Bruce, the standup comedian whose daring, irreverent and expletive-laced commentary brought him numerous arrests, is born (as Leonard Schneider) in Mineola, N.Y. After his death at age 40 his esteem as a social satirist and free-speech fighter grew.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 1h

Oct. 13, 1925: The Pittsburgh Pirates even the World Series at three wins each with a 3-2 home-park win over the Washington Senators. The championship of baseball will come down to a winner-take-all seventh game.

Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in a photo taken today

Eddie Moore crosses home plate after hitting a go-ahead home run for the Pirates in the fifth innning

Firefighters in San Antonio listen to the World Series from radio sets rigged to their truck

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2h

Oct. 13, 1925: U.S. soldiers who yesterday occupied Panama City fire on crowds throwing bottles and rocks at them, killing one and wounding two. The Panamanian government that requested the troops is meanwhile moving to calm protesters' anger by asking landlords to lower rents.

U.S. troops in Santa Ana Park in Panama City

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2h

Oct. 13, 1925: Charles J. Bell, a director of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. in Washington, holds the first telephone that was invented by his cousin, Alexander Graham Bell, in the 1870s.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2h

(Springfield, Mass., Republican )

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2h

The president promptly names Dwight Davis, the acting secretary of war since Weeks' illness, to the post permanently. The 46-year-old Missourian is also notable as the creator and namesake of the Davis Cup international tennis tournament. 2/2

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2h

Oct. 13, 1925: Secretary of War John Weeks resigns, citing ill health since he suffered a stroke in April. The 65-year-old Republican ex-senator from Massachusetts had served since the start of the Harding presidency in 1921 and attends a last Cabinet meeting under Coolidge. 1/2

Outside the White House, top row from left: Harry New (Postmaster General); Herbert Hoover (Commerce); William Jardine (Agriculture); Hubert Work (Interior); Curtis Wilbur (Navy). Bottom row: James J. Davis (Labor); Weeks; Frank Kellogg (State); President Coolidge; Andrew Mellon (Treasury); John Sargent (Attorney General)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3h

Oct. 13, 1925: Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who pulled British politics to the right as the first female prime minister, is born (as Roberts) in Grantham. Her polarizing record included breaking unions, waging the Falklands War and backing Reagan's hawkish Cold War stance.

In 1979 with husband Denis outside 10 Downing St., after her election

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 17h

Oct. 12, 1925: The S.H. Kress five-and-dime store in Knoxville, Tenn.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 17h

Oct. 12, 1925: Rescuers hoist a workhorse back to dry land after it fell off a downtown New York dock and into the East River.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 18h

Oct. 12, 1925: Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the secret daughter of 22-year-old Strom Thurmond with the 16-year-old Black maid who worked for his parents, is born (as Butler) in Edgefield, S.C. She pursued a career in education and came forward as his child after his death.

Her memoir, "Dear Senator," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 18h

Oct. 12, 1925: The beach at Carmel, Calif.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 19h

Oct. 12, 1925: Mexico’s University of Guadalajara is reopened as an expanded state university, with education officials touring the facilities before a grand ceremony.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 19h

Oct. 12, 1925: Charles Gordone, a playwright whose searing, race-conscious first work, “No Place to Be Somebody,” made him the first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, is born in Cleveland.

Gordone in 1970, the year “No Place to Be Somebody” premiered (died 1995)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 19h

The exhibitors avoid trouble and make the movie “fit for the police of Chicago to see” by agreeing to delete one scene and six subtitles that the censors objected to. 2/2

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 19h

Oct. 12, 1925: The Chicago police chief threatens to arrest the owners of a theater for showing “Her Sister From Paris,” a film starring Constance Talmadge as a dancer named Lola. City censors “think Connie is ‘indecent and immoral’ in the way she does her hot mama stuff.” 1/2

Talmadge and John Gilbert in a scene from “Her Sister From Paris;” she also played Lola’s twin, a frumpy housewife

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 20h

(Huddersfield, England, Examiner)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 20h

Oct. 12, 1925: Japanese aviators Hiroshi Abe and Kazuhiko Kawachi complete the first Japan-to-England flight in unplanned fashion when engine trouble causes a forced landing outside Farnsborough. Spectators wave Japanese flags, and the fliers are later honored in London.

From left: Philip Sassoon, Abe, Kawachi and the Duke of Sutherland at the Royal Aero Club

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 20h

(Omaha, Neb., World-Herald)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 20h

Oct. 12, 1925: A unit of American volunteers flying bombing missions for France in its Morocco war will disband. The French call them “worthy of their great reputations” after their raids on towns brought wide condemnation and warnings from the U.S. on violating neutrality laws.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 21h

Oct. 12, 1925: Bride Agnes and bridesmaids Nea and Glad pose for wedding photographs at the Tassie Deazeley photographic studio in Brisbane, Australia.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 21h

Oct. 12, 1925: C.L. Collenette, the entomologist for a British expedition to the Pacific that recently returned on the yacht St. George, looks over some of the specimens he collected.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 22h

Oct. 12, 1925: An Arctic exploration voyage led by Navy Cmdr. Donald MacMillan (center, under the name of his ship, Peary) returns to Wiscasset, Maine, after four months. The officer waving is Lt. Cmdr. Richard Byrd, who will go on to greater fame as a polar explorer.

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