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

(Indianapolis Star)

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Samuel Ralston, a popular Indiana governor (1913-17) and senator since 1923, dies at 67 in Indianapolis. Although he had a liberal record on boosting education, public utilities and worker's compensation, he drew criticism for refusing to condemn the Klan.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 26m

(Washington Daily News)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 26m

Oct. 14, 1925: John G. Murray, a conservative Episcopal bishop of Maryland, is named bishop of the national church at a session in New Orleans. This is the first time the Episcopalians have chosen a leader by election, rather than the seniormost bishop assuming the title.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 48m

(Buffalo News)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 48m

Oct. 14, 1925: Congo, the first female gorilla to be brought alive to the U.S., arrives in New York from the Belgian Congo. Her captor, Florida hunter Benjamin Burbridge, speaks reassuringly to the ape on the deck on the liner Homeric.

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

(Chicago Tribune)

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Peter Hoffman, a longtime Republican powerbroker in Chicago as the sheriff of Cook County, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt over his role in granting jail privileges to a notorious gangster. A police captain gets 4 months in jail in the scandal.

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Vaudeville dancer Justine Johnstone demonstrates her non-football kicking technique to Creighton College halfback and punter Red Fitzgibbon during a workout. The former Ziegfeld Follies girl is performing later in the day in Omaha, Neb.

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

(St. Petersburg, Fla., Times)

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Retired Adm. William Sims charges that the Navy is "violating every fundamental principle of military command" by neglecting aviation in favor of capital ships. He is testifying to a presidential commission in support of Billy Mitchell's criticisms of U.S. policy.

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

(Portland Oregonian)

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Rubber magnate Harvey Firestone signs a contract with Liberia to set up what will be the world's largest rubber plantation in the West African republic. The Firestone farm will provide Liberia with vast earnings but stir criticism for abuses, including child labor.

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

"The Spinster and the Prophet," a 2002 book by A.B. McKillop, argues from textual clues that Wells did in fact plagiarize from Deeks, although without offering hard evidence: www.amazon.com/Spinster-Pro...

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

For their part, the best-selling British writer Wells denies ever knowing before the lawsuit who Deeks was, and MacMillan denies that it let him see her manuscript. The British Empire's highest court turns down Deeks' appeal in 1932. 4/4

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

The Canadian has no direct evidence of Wells' plagiarism, other than a similar structure, and the fact that Wells only began working on his book after she had finished hers. Three expert witnesses testify that from their analyses, Wells relied on her writing to guide his own. 3/4

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

Deeks, 61, an Ontario teacher, had sent her world history, "The Web of the World's Romance," to MacMillan, which held onto it for six months before rejecting it. She later comes across Wells' "Outline" and sees similarities to her own work, even repeating some of her errors. 2/4

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

Oct. 14, 1925: H.G. Wells and his publisher, MacMillan, are sued by a Canadian woman who says the author's best-selling "Outline of History" is a plagiarism of her unpublished manuscript. Florence Deeks' action in Toronto will turn into a seven-year legal battle. 1/4

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

Oct. 14, 1925: In Hollywood, Universal Studios player Marian Warren introduces "the one-tube leg-odyne, which was made according to plans and specifications originated by the actress. She used it to get the results of the World's Series games." (International News Service)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h

Oct. 14, 1925: Dwight Davis is sworn in as secretary of war. He appears (center, first photo) in his new office with his predecessor John Weeks (left) and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who swore him in. Second photo, with his family.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h

(Manchester Guardian)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h

Oct. 14, 1925: Harold Maxwell Lefroy, a leading British entomologist, dies at 48 after being sickened in a laboratory accident. He was experimenting with gases that could be used to kill fly larvae without harming humans, when he inhaled poison that killed him.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h

Oct. 14, 1925: Bert Huntoon in his automobile after he came to the end of Mount Baker Highway in Washington state. Mount Table is in the distance.

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

(Muskogee, Okla., Daily News)

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

Oct. 14, 1925: Eugen Sandow, a German exponent of "physical culture" who became the most famous strongman of his age and pioneered bodybuilding as a sport, dies at 58 of an aneurysm in London. He founded the earliest bodybuilding competitions and wrote best-selling fitness books.

Sandow sold a line of physical fitness products, including this chest expander

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