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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 6h

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

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

(Huddersfield, England, Examiner)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

(Omaha, Neb., World-Herald)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 11h

Oct. 12, 1925: An updated variant of the sailor suit for women, with black velvet skirt and jacket and a fur stole, is modeled in Paris.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 11h

Oct. 12, 1925: Soviet diplomat Maxim Litvinov and German Ambassador Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau shake hands in Moscow after signing a trade treaty. Berlin is seeking to establish a partnership with the USSR while reaching a security deal at Locarno with its old WWI enemies.

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

(Cleveland Plain Dealer)

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

Oct. 12, 1925: Two people are killed in clashes in Paris’ suburbs between police and radicals protesting France’s war in Morocco. The protesters are dispersed after trying to throw up barricades. Among the 30 injured are Communist Deputy Jacques Doriot, who is also arrested.

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

Oct. 12, 1925: British writers Osbert Sitwell and his sister, Edith Sitwell (both in center), at the wedding of their brother Sacheverell Sitwell at St. George's Anglican Church in Paris. With them are the parents of the bride, Georgia Doble.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13h

Oct. 12, 1925: Math prodigy James Barrett, 9, demonstrates how to extract the cube root of 1 quintillion to his parents and students of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13h

(Pittsburgh Post)

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13h

Oct. 12, 1925: The Pittsburgh Pirates win Game 5 of the World Series, 6-3, with a flurry of hits against the Washington Senators in the late innings. The series now heads to Pittsburgh where the Senators, ahead 3-2 in games, need just one more win for back-to-back championships.

Pirates manager Bill McKechnie and Giants skipper John McGraw before the game

The Pirates’ Max Carey scores a third-inning run

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13h

Oct. 12, 1925: Movie idol Rudolph Valentino waves to spectators as he attends the Columbus Day Parade in New York. At left, partially out of the frame, is future Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 14h

Boston Globe. Flashback: bsky.app/profile/100y...

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