Locarno Treaties Crown Western Europe Peace Effort
1925 saw the Locarno pacts hailed as a landmark restoring security in western Europe with Germany reentering the family of nations and hopes for broader Soviet engagement. The League of Nations managed disputes in the Mosul and Greek Bulgaria front, while conflicts in Morocco China and Syria tested diplomacy and force.
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Family of Nations
Soviet
Russia
Locarno
Austen Chamberlain
Aristide Briand
Finns Luther
Herr Stresemann
Jelam
Riff
France
Spain
Abd-el-Krim
Syria
Turkey
Mosul
Great Britain
Egypt
China
Peking
United States
Global politics and economy in 1920s postwar Europe
A sweeping survey of international affairs notes Britain moving back to gold with Australia New Zealand and South Africa. France Germany Italy and Spain face cabinet crises revolts and reforms. Soviet Russia pursues foreign tricks while tightening domestic control. Prohibition enforcement rises amid graft trials and Smugglers in the United States.
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Great Britain
Liberal Party
Herbert Asquith
Earl of
Oxford
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Baldwin
Laborites
Communist Party
Glasgow
Great Sictuan
Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Canada
France
Morocca
Seria
Verriot
Paul Palnleve
Joseph Calliaux
Aristide Briand
Calliaux
Painleve
Briand
Louis Loucheur
Paul Doumer
Syria
Damascus
Aneintory
Lebanon
Germany
Reichstag
Policy Aims to Stop Illicit Liquor and Aviation Controversy
The piece notes a policy to curb illicit liquor imports and details a year of aviation strife involving Col. William Mitchell. It mentions his court-martial and five year suspension, a failed independent aviation department, and the Shenandoah disaster plus a failed nonstop Hawaii flight.
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Army
Navy
Col
William Mitchell
Department of Aviation
Shenandoah
Hawaii
Locarno Treaties Forge European Security Pact
Prompted by Britain, talks in Locarno led to a security pact among France Germany Belgium and others. The accord binds the major powers to respect Versailles frontiers and avoid aggression, with arbitration and League mechanisms planned. Plans for a land disarmament conference followed as the League prepared a commission and invited US and Soviet reps.
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Great Britain
Briand
Luther
Stresemann
France
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Locarno
London
Permanent Court of International Justice
Council of the League
Cologne
Rhineland
Coolidge
Washington
Europe
League of Nations
League
United States
Soviet Russia
Ancient Juniper in Logan Canyon Wins Reverence
A veteran juniper in Logan Canyon Utah has lived for about 3000 years and stands 7300 feet high soaking nourishment from a limestone cliff. It towers forty four feet tall and its roots push rock away as winds storms and drought test its life. The National Forest Service is asked to fence it to shield it from souvenir hunters.
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Logan Canyon
Utah
Men of Science
King Solomon
Utah Agricultural College
National Forest Service
Electors Cast Votes for President and Vice President
Presidential electors in the states met on January 1 and completed the formal balloting for the nation’s top offices, affirming the chosen President and Vice President with official votes.
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United States
Holly Holiday Decor Sparks Sacred Wordplay
A playful note on Christmas decorations contrasts the common spelling Holly with Holy, highlighting a pun that treats Holly as sacred. It references wordplay around Christmas decor and language.
Year of Labor Strife Highlights 1920s U S
In the United States a major year of strikes marked by coal miners demanding higher wages and union check off with a seasonal halt on September 1. The AFL met in Atlantic City and rejected Soviet recognition while other labor actions occurred in textiles garments and plastering. Supreme Court rulings and antitrust actions shaped arbitration and mergers as price swings alarmed farmers and led to new Board of Trade rules in October.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Mascisti
Aventine
Uetator
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Mussolini
Freemasons
Trimo de Rivera
Spain
Portugal
Belgium
Poland
Skrzynski
Pangalos
Greece
Egypt
Great Britain
Lee Stack
Sudan
Ahmad Mirza
Persia
Ife
Paris
Riza Khan
Pahlavi
A. C. Millspaugh
Arabia
Hedjaz
Ibn Saud
Nejd
Ibn
Mecca
Jeddah
Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Pole
Sularzane
Nicaragua
Barahous
Henmdurng
Bolivia
Jose Villaneuva
Percy
Saavedra
Congress
Elecion
Ole Stotunderg
United States
Coolidge
Commerce and Labor
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
Green
New York
Nova Scotia
Supreme Court of the
Kansas Industrial Court Act
Arizona
Specral
Federal Court of Equity
International Harvester Company of Trust
Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine
Armour and Morris
Chicago Board of Trade
Year of disasters rocks nation with ships, mines and quakes
A year of calamities across the globe and United States. The Shenandoah airship crashed over Ohio killing Commander Zachary Lansdowne and 13 crewmen. The submarine 8 51 Wahog wrecked near Rhode Island with 33 dead. Dozens of mine disasters, earthquakes, floods, and fires caused heavy losses from Dortmund to New Orleans.
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Great Navy
Ohio
Middle West
Zachary Lansdowne
Navy
Rhode
Japan
North Carolna
Sturgis
New Jersey
Santa Barbara
Cal
Boston
Newport
R. 1
Corea
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
Florida
Birmingham
Ala
Year in Sport Clashes Across Baseball Tennis and Golf
The Washington club won the American League pennant and the Pittsburgh club led the National League. In the World Series the Pirates took four games to claim the championship. In tennis the French team earned the right to challenge the Americans.
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Washington Baseball Club
Pittsburgh Club
Pirates
Davis Cup and Sports Highlights of the Year
William Tilden retained the men's national tennis title while Helen Wills won the women's. Golf titles included Joyce Wethered, Robert Harris, Glenna Collett, Jim Barnes, MacDonald Smith, Keefe Carter, Elaine Reinhardt, and Glenna Collett again. College football crowned Dartmouth's dominance, Michigan western champs, Washington on the coast. Red Grange's star season boosted pro moves and a $300,000 film contract. Schaefer won the 18-2 billiard title, then lost to Horemans. Derby winners Flying Ebony and Manna.
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William’ Tilden
Helen Wills
Joyce, Wethered
Robert Harris
Williem MacFarlane
Glenna Collett
America
Jim Barnes
MacDonald Smith
Keefe Carter
Oklahoma
Elaine Reinhardt
Robert T. Jones
Walter Hagen
Dartmouth
University of Michigan
University of Washington
Moving Picture
Take Schaefer
Willie Hoppe
Edouard Horemans
Belgium
Bob Winnefax
Notable deaths listed across months in a 1926 necrology
The list records prominent figures claimed by death in 1926 spanning January to December. It names Arch bishop Moeller. George Bellows. Sun Yat Sen. John Lane. Thomas W. Lawson. William Jennings Bryan. Christy Mathewson. James B. Duke. Rama VI. Alexandra. and many others, including politicians, writers, scientists, magnates, and artists, with nationalities and roles.
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Henry Moeller
Cincinnati
Guernsey Moore
George Bellows
Norman Bridge
Chicago
Harry Furniss
D. G. Reid
John C. Eastman
Chicago Journal
Field Marshal
Baron Grenfell
George W. Cable
John Lane
Julius Fleiachmann
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Clio Bracken
Fred W. Upham
M. H. DeYoung
San Francisco Chronicle
Marion Burton
University of Michigan
James Lane Allen
Hjalmar Branting
Sweden
Medill McCormick
U. S
Illinois
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
William A. Clark
W. A. Quayle
Kansas
Sun Yat-Sen
Marquis Curzon
Kedleston
Lord Rawlinson
India
Jean de Reszke
Christie
Oregon
Elwood Haynes
First Automobile
John S. Sargent
Ralph D. Paine
Nelson A. Miles
S. P
Spencer
Missouri
Marshal French
Ypres
Ernest D. W. Burton
University of Chicago
Louis Falk
Thomas R. Marshall
Camille, Flammarion
Pierre Louys
Vance Thompson
Warren’ 8. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Julius Kruttschnoitt
Edmund J. James
R. M. LaFollette
United States
Wisconsin
E. F. Ladd
North Dakota
D. W. Tryon
G. W. Wii Iktims
Cardinal Begin
Quebec
A. J. Ochsner
William Jennings Bryan
Helen H. Gardner
Edgar A. Bancroft
Japa
George Gray
Delaware
John Temple Graves
Georgina
Victor F.lawson
Chicago News
George Goldie
Nigeria
New York
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Irene Viviani
Paul Bartlett
H., J. Waters
Job Harriman
M. B. Alles
Washington
Gen
Felix Agnus
Baltimore American
P. A. Lannon
Salt Lake City
Khal Dinh
Annam
Eldridge G. Snow
Domicio da Gama
A. J. Earling
Wall Street
John R Booth
Harry L. Rogers
C. Wicks
Western Newspaper Union
Birds See No Color Says Bavarian Study
Bavarian scientists assert birds are insensible to color and indifferent to plumage. They claim daytime birds perceive only red orange light with limited color sensitivity, night flyers less so, due to oil droplets in retinas acting as color screens.
New England States Lead Christmas Tree Production
The New England states and New York are leading producers of Christmas trees with spruce firs and pines commonly used. The Norway spruce is perhaps the favorite among buyers and growers.
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New England
New York
Hero Dogs Of Today Surpass Movie Stunts In Real Life
In a garden on Vine street, Hero dogs liken to movie stars inspire stories from Marcy children. Negley recounts real canine heroics including a bull terrier who smashed through glass to save his master during a theft, and a collie guarding calves from a mountain lion.
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Marcy
Marcy Garden
Vine Street
Mr. Negley
Blanche
Marty
Harris Marcy
Negley
Little Blanche
Coalinga
Collie
Harry
Alps
Barry
Tony
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Pleased With Herself On Street Car Gum Samplers Spotted
Two well dressed women on a street car discussed men handing out gum samplers in front of drugstore stores. One noted she walked along Pennsylvania Street and Washington Street and passed four stores where she received four pieces of gum.
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Pennsylvania Street
Washington Street
Horses and Lightning Protection Facts
Horses rarely attract lightning more than other animals. The sight implies horses seek shelter from rain under trees and near fences, which increases their chances of being struck.
Hard on the Fireflies
A sympathetic character Amy laments fireflies losing their light as wind blows out their lamps, expressing concern for the struggling insects. The scene portrays gentle care and natural fragility in a brief decorative vignette.
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Sympathetiettle
Amy
Ancient Egg Incubation by Artificial Means Revealed
Ancient Egyptians built large brick ovens with central egg passages and side vaults for hatching. Fires fuel vents and heat escapes through a roof hole while eggs breathe and shells grow brittle enabling chicks to emerge when hatched.
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Europe
Egypt
In Her Father's Footsteps Claire Stinnes Builds German Auto business
Claire Stinnes, the favored daughter of a late German magnate, runs a West Berlin store selling automobiles and industrial machinery. At 26 she aims to expand, states she is happiest among cars and machines, and credits her upbringing for self-reliance. Previously she represented her father in negotiations in South America.
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Claire Stinnes
Berlin
West End
South America
Woman's Quiet Smile Indicates Approval
Short item notes a woman smiling in a way that signals she is pleased, as reported by the Indianapolis News. The phrasing suggests a simple, generic social moment without further details or context.
Cane for Health
A Chicago specialist advises using a walking cane to improve mood and mental focus. He says carrying a cane diverts the mind from business concerns and helps avoid profit or loss thoughts while promoting a happier disposition.
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Chicago
Wong
Growing Old Gracefully Homes and People
A thoughtful piece encourages aging with grace and charm for both people and their houses. It urges building a durable home to endure time's challenges as a conqueror, not a slave, framing aging as an empowerment.
Plaster Aids Strain Relief Cited by Chienzo News
A porous plaster is said to lessen a strain’s effects when used with a wrench. The piece notes keeping the wrench handy to help remove the porous plasters and cites Chienzo News as the source.
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Chienzo News
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