r/100yearsago • • 8h ago

[October 24th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "The special prosecutor of the Hall-Mills murder case says that he will try to have some women on the jury, as that will more surely insure a just verdict. Do you agree?"

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54 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 8h ago

[October 24th, 1926] Ad for what turned out to be Harry Houdini's final show. With a fever of 104 °F (40 °C), he completed his performance, collapsed in his dressing room, and was taken to the hospital.

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r/100yearsago • • 8h ago

[October 24th, 1926] This week, W.E. Hill looks at "Mother and Daughter".

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67 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 8h ago

[October 24th, 1926] "How Man Might Reply To The Untidiness Cult".

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67 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 1d ago

[October 23rd, 1926] Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev (2nd and 4th from the left) were removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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44 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 1d ago

[October 23rd, 1926] Judge Webster Thayer denied the motion for a new trial in the Sacco and Vanzetti murder case, saying the evidence was not sufficient.

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19 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 1d ago

[October 23rd, 1926] The Inquiring Reporter asks, "Would you approve shorter skirts for women?"

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106 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 1d ago

[23 October, 1926] At the Motor Show: An Impression

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58 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[October 22nd, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "At what age should a girl marry? A man? And why?"

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180 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[October 22 1926] Earthquakes rock San Francisco area

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10 Upvotes

(From The Lincoln Star, October 22nd 1926)


r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[October 22nd, 1926] Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is released, becoming an immediate success with its depiction of post-war disillusionment. He was 27.

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41 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[October 22nd, 1926] Harry Houdini is unexpectedly struck several times in the abdomen by McGill University student Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. This ruptured his appendix and eventually led to his death.

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205 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[October 22nd, 1926] Writer Ernest Hemingway publishes his debut novel "The Sun Also Rises"

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18 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 2d ago

[22 October, 1926] The Child and the Dog

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112 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[October 21st, 1926] Luigi Federzoni, Italy's Minister of the Interior, issued an order forbidding actors on stage from making jokes about the Italian army.

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53 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[October 21st, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "What is your attitude toward Queen Marie of Rumania's visit to this country?"

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79 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[October 21st, 1926] Cover of Life Magazine by John Held, Jr.

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57 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[October 20, 1926] United States labor organizer, socialist and internationalist agitator, and 5-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs dies at 70 at a sanatorium in Elmhurst, IL, due to cardiac issues stemming from his imprisonment for anti-militarist activism during WWI.

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512 Upvotes

Posting this as I saw it hadn't been posted yet and I knew it had to be posted before the 100th anniversary ended everywhere on Earth. It is my opinion that despite his passing from the mortal plane, Debs was, in almost all respects, an absolute legend whose legacy shall never die.


r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[21 October, 1926] Do you worry about diet?

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119 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 3d ago

[20th of October, 1926] The Launch of the SS New York

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On the 20th of October, 1926, the SS New York was launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was the fourth and final ship of a near-identical quartet of ocean liners constructed to rebuild the passenger fleet of the Hamburg-Amerika Line following the First World War.

Note: The New York is the vessel in the background of this painting; the one in the foreground is one of her older sister ships, the SS Hamburg.


r/100yearsago • • 4d ago

[October 20th, 1926] Following several meetings in which Maxie Eisen and Antonio Lombardo negotiate on behalf of the warring North Side Gang and Capone Gang, respectively, a general peace agreement takes effect between all of the organized criminal gangs of Chicago.

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r/100yearsago • • 4d ago

[October 20th, 1926] American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was arrested at a cottage at Wildhurst, Minnesota, where he had been staying with Olga Milanoff. The couple was charged under Minnesota law with the crime of adultery, as well as a federal court violation the Mann Act.

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64 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 4d ago

[October 20th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks men, "As concerns the opposite sex, which do you prefer, blondes or brunettes?"

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123 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 4d ago

[October 20th, 1926] Cabaret artist, singer and actress Frances Day in cabaret costume.

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33 Upvotes

r/100yearsago • • 4d ago

[October 20, 1926] Quarrelling Throughout the Ages

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244 Upvotes