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(Sacramento Bee)

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 12m

Oct. 11, 1925: A bomb blows up the basement entrance of the Sacramento County Courthouse in California early on a Sunday when no one is there. Police have no idea of the culprit or motive in the blast that follows a similar attack at the home of a local real estate agent.

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Oct. 11, 1925: American dancer Grace Christie poses for sculptor Antoine Bourdelle in his Paris studio.

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(Hartford, Conn., Courant)

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Oct. 11, 1925: The New York Giants play their first National Football League game, a week after they beat a non-league team in New Britain, Conn. The Providence Steamroller blanks the New Yorkers, 14-0, in a game that includes a 92-yard kickoff return by Cy Wentworth.

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

(San Francisco Examiner)

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Oct. 11, 1925: “The Charleston, recently scorned by French dancing masters as ‘barbarian,’ is taking Paris by storm.” A key reason is Josephine Baker’s knockout performance in “La Revue Nègre.”

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

(Detroit Free Press)

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Oct. 11, 1925: A race car catapults over a fence and into the crowd watching the 150-mile event at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit. The crash kills driver Al Waters and seriously injures 12 spectators.

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

Also bad - the fact that the lying about how it never happened is widely believed

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Oct. 11, 1925: The China Zhi Gong Party is founded in San Francisco. The party led by two exiled warlords supports Chinese unity and multiparty democracy. It is today one of eight non-Communist parties that supports and is tolerated by the Chinese state.

Members at the founding meeting photographed today

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

Oct. 11, 1925: Elmore Leonard, a master of the crime genre known for terse prose, gritty realism and crisp dialogue, is born in New Orleans. Among his many novels were “Get Shorty,” “Glitz,” and “Rum Punch;” his writings were also the basis for “3:10 to Yuma” and “Justified.”

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

(Great Falls, Mont., Leader)

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Oct. 11, 1925: The Washington Senators win the fourth game of the World Series with their ace Walter Johnson pitching another gem—a 4-0 shutout. The Pittsburgh Pirates are now behind, 3 games to 1, a hole from which no other team has come back in series history.

The Senators’ Bucky Harris about to be tagged out at home on an attempted double steal

Early-arriving fans fill the temporary bleachers at Griffith Stadium in Washington

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

(Miami Daily News; the name of the boat is wrong in this account)

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Oct. 11, 1925: Fourteen people are killed when a motorboat capsizes in rough sea off Melbourne, Fla. Most of the victims aboard the 40-foot Clara A. are visitors from Kansas being taken on a pleasure tour as they scout real estate opportunities. Nine survive.

The Clara A. before and after the disaster

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

Fatefully, the city officers leave for a shift change just before suspect Martin Durkin arrives, and Shanahan is alone to face him. Durkin sweeps a revolver from the front seat and guns the 31-year-old agent down. Agency chief J. Edgar Hoover will direct a monthslong manhunt. 2/2

Chicago Tribune (Shanahan’s first name is wrong in this account)

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

Oct. 11, 1925: An agent of the U.S. Bureau of Investigation (later FBI) is killed in the line of duty for the first time. Edwin Shanahan is helping Chicago police stake out a garage where a tipster has told them to expect a car thief wanted for shooting several city officers. 1/2

The gun that Shanahan was too late to draw is on display at FBI offices in Chicago

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Oct. 11, 1925: “Mud guards” on the ankle are the newest fashion accessory in London. Women wear them to protect their silk stockings in sloppy fall weather.

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in Niederlehme, outside Berlin, the dedication of a WWI memorial. 2/2

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Oct. 11, 1925: A war memorial to the German Army's 4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers is dedicated at the garrison cemetery in the Hasenheide, Berlin. Presider Paul von Hindenburg attends, wearing his general's uniform and carrying a sword. 1/2

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July 24, 1925: The "isolator," a combination helmet and oxygen tank that allows you to work noise-free even if at the expense of comfort, is demonstrated in New York by its inventor, Hugo Gernsbach.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 5h

Oct. 11, 1925: The sloop A. Godfrey wrecks off Montauk, N.Y.

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Oct. 10, 1925: Johnny Stompanato, a bodyguard and enforcer for Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, is born in Woodstock, Ill. His killing by Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, who was defending her movie-star mother, was a sensation of 1958.

Turner, Stompanato and Crane, in a photo taken 16 days before Stompanato's death

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Oct. 10, 1925: Wilson Pierce, George Higgenbotham and Joe Hardie represent Alabama at the National Dairy Show in Indianapolis.

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