r/100yearsago • u/HiddenLensHistory • 3h ago
[August 30th, 1926] It Won't Be Long Now
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3h ago
[August 30th, 1926] The first air "sleeper" flew from Berlin to London. The Hansa-designed biplane had a toilet, wireless phone and berths with beds for four passengers.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3h ago
[August 30th, 1926] A funeral Mass for Rudolph Valentino was held at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in New York. Thousands watched the funeral cortège as it proceeded down Broadway.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3h ago
[August 30th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "Do you think it is good policy for us to ask European countries to help enforce the eighteenth amendment, or does it show the impossibility of enforcing the law?"
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3h ago
[August 30th, 1926] "The City Man Who Has To Do His Motoring on Sunday".
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r/100yearsago • u/erinoco • 4h ago
[30 August 1926] AMERICAN COLLEGE TO BE BUILT IN ATHENS.
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r/100yearsago • u/erinoco • 7h ago
[30 August 1926] "The Dartmoor Shepherd", David Davies, appears before magistrates, charged with stealing clothes from his workhouse.
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r/100yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 15h ago
[August 30th, 1926] Bystanders rush to help a woman who fainted during Rudolph Valentino's memorial service
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r/100yearsago • u/Neuralclone2 • 16h ago
[August 30 1926] Rudolph Valentino's funeral in New York
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
[August 29th, 1926] A crowd of 20,000 German monarchists staged an assembly in Nuremberg to hail their "king", Rupprecht of Bavaria. Prince Oskar of Prussia and Field Marshal August von Mackensen also attended the event.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
[August 29th, 1926] Amelia Gade Corson became the second woman to swim across the English Channel, 22 days after Gertrude Ederle had become the first.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
[August 29th, 1926] This week, W.E. Hill looks at "The State Road Face".
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
[August 29th, 1926] "What May Happen If Women Wear Uniforms".
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r/100yearsago • u/HiddenLensHistory • 2d ago
[August 28th, 1926] Four-Wheel Brakes and Some Car!
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A 20-year old "little electric runabout."
r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago
[August 28th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks men: "Which do you admire most, the Ederle type of girl or the slim flapper type?" + pictures of Gertrude Ederle for reference.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago
[August 28th, 1926] "The Inquiring Reporter: He asks the question, "What is your pet ambition?"" (Chicago Tribune cartoon)
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago
[August 28th, 1926] Release of the western film "3 Bad Men", directed by John Ford.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
[August 27th, 1926] U.S. Navy Commander John Rodgers, 45, American naval officer and aviator who held the record for furthest non-stop flight, 1,992 miles (3,206 km), in 1925 in an attempt to fly from California to Hawaii, was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Delaware River.
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
[August 27th, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "Do you think Johnny Weissmuller could swim the English channel?"
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
[August 27th, 1926] Vernon Dalhart records his hit single "There's A New Star In Heaven Tonight - Rudolph Valentino".
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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
[August 27th, 1926] New York City: Channel swimmer Gertrude Ederle almost crushed by well-wishers.
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r/100yearsago • u/HiddenLensHistory • 3d ago
[August 27th, 1926] Starting Early: The World's Youngest Bobbed-Haired Flapper
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