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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 10m

Oct. 8, 1925: The Old Trail Drivers Parade in San Antonio includes some Old West relics and a modern-day cowgirl, Ella June Wurzbach.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 33m

Oct. 8, 1925: Vicenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the “Mona Lisa,” dies of a heart attack on his 44th birthday outside Paris. The Italian worker at the Louvre walked off with the masterwork in 1911 and kept it two years, claiming he wanted to return it to Leonardo’s home country.

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

(Hattiesburg, Miss., American)

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

Oct. 8, 1925: The Army Air Service’s maverick Col. Billy Mitchell refuses superiors’ orders to testify to the board investigating the crash of the Navy airship Shenandoah. Mitchell has charged the War Dept. with incompetence in the disaster and is certain to face a court martial.

Mitchell before the panel; standing behind him is his lawyer, Rep. Frank Reid (R-Ill.)

The board of inquiry, photographed today

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

Oct. 8, 1925: The funeral in Newark, N.J., for William Teschmacher, one of the 33 who drowned in the sinking of the Navy submarine S-51 last month. His coffin is accompanied by an honor guard as it’s borne from the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.

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

Oct. 8, 1925: Former Washington, D.C., newspaperman turned Hollywood movie director Monta Bell is welcomed in style to Union Station as he returns to the capital city for a visit.

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

Oct. 8, 1925: The dedication of a Buddhist temple and memorial to Indochinese soldiers who died fighting for France in WWI, in Nogent-sur-Marne.

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

(Baltimore Evening Sun)

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

Oct. 8, 1925: A plane crashes at an air race being held above Mitchel Field on Long Island, N.Y., killing a passenger and seriously injuring pilot Clarence Chamberlin. The aviator survives, and goes on to be the second man, after Lindbergh, to make a New York-to-Europe flight.

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

(Philadelphia Tribune)

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Oct. 8, 1925: The Hilldale Club of Darby, Pa., wins the Colored World Series with a 2-1 win over the Kansas City Monarchs. Rube Currie pitches a complete-game, 12-inning gem for the victory. Although this fifth game is the clincher, the teams play 2 more for the gate receipts.

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

Oct. 8, 1925: A woman fishes for trout in a stream near Chicago.

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

Oct. 7, 1925: Members of the New York Cocoa Exchange donate more than $1,000, in the form of $1 bills strung together like a ribbon, to the Broad Street Hospital.

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

Oct. 7, 1925: Sri Lankan writer Anagarika Dharmapala, the director of the Buddhist Mission of India, has arrived in Britain and is planning a U.S. tour in which he seeks to spread the message, "May all be happy."

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

Oct. 7, 1925: President Coolidge and the first lady visit the St. Louis Zoo and take a look at the bear pit. Their brief stop in the city comes on the way back to Washington from Omaha, Neb., where Coolidge addressed the American Legion yesterday.

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

(San Francisco Examiner)

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

Oct. 7, 1925: Mrs. E. de Bitt McLellan, just shy of her 52nd birthday, poses in a bathing suit to show she compares favorably to Miss America Fay Lanphier. "Wouldn't it be a fine idea," the Oakland woman says, "to encourage women of middle age to retain their youthful figures?"

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

(London Daily Telegraph)

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

Oct. 7, 1925: Lord Willingdon, the former British governor of Bombay, warns a council of the Church of England that ideas of "color superiority" are damaging to the West. "The white races must realize the necessity of treating all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality."

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

Oct. 7, 1925: The Lutheran Church refuses to endorse blue laws to restrict recreation and business activity on Sundays. It adds: "No ecclesiastical body worthy of the name Christian has the right to call on the state for assistance in carrying out the mission of the church."

Cartoon by Reginald Marsh: "Hey, take your arm down, don't you know today is a Sunday?"

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

Oct. 7, 1925: The housewives of America should be put on a salary considering the heavy workload they carry, says W.A. Johnson, president of the Laundry Owners’ National Association. If they all drew pay, they would earn $17 billion and make for more efficient home economics.

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

(Boston Globe)

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

Oct. 7, 1925: American Federation of Labor chief William Green is cheered by delegates after pledging that the U.S. labor movement will never ally with Communism. He makes the vow after British visitor Arthur Purcell gave a speech saying unions "have much to learn from Russia."

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

Oct. 7, 1925: The 37th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Meridian, Miss.

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

(Buffalo News)

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