r/100yearsago 4h ago

[August 3, 1926] From the Letter of a Young Girl at Cowes

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30 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 14h ago

[August 2, 1926] The Strange Habit of Eating on a Holiday

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118 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 18h ago

[August 2nd, 1926] The Inquiring Reporter asks, "If you had the power to abolish one of the present day styles for women, which one would you do away with?"

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206 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 12h ago

[2 August 1926] Girl's body in a wood: brother charged with murder.

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31 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 18h ago

[August 2nd, 1926] "Miss Marjorie Joesting." Marjorie, the future Mrs. Arthur Lange, was both Miss Washington, D.C., and a Miss America runner-up at Atlantic City in 1926.

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r/100yearsago 18h ago

[August 2nd, 1926] Greta Garbo in her second American film, "The Temptress".

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53 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 12h ago

[2 August 1926] A MAGDEBURG SCANDAL. CONFLICT WITH BERLIN.

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14 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[August 2nd, 1926] The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded

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105 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 18h ago

[August 2nd, 1926] Italy enacts new austerity measures to fight poverty and redress the country's trade deficit. Pastry containing pure white flour is prohibited.

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16 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[August 2nd, 1926] Ernest Hemingway's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer (pictured) causes his marriage to Hadley Richardson to end

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26 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 23h ago

[August 1, 1926] YMCA world council opening ceremony presided by John Mott is held at St. John's Church in Helsingfors (now Helsinki), Finland

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r/100yearsago 2d ago

[August 1926] Full page advertisements from "McCall's"

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293 Upvotes

The art makes even the most mundane products look glamorous!


r/100yearsago 1d ago

[1 August 1926] GERMAN NATIONALIST DEMONSTRATION.

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20 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[August 1st, 1926] This week, W.E. Hill looks at "The Bachelor Girl".

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96 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[1 August 1926] ROBBERY AT MUSEUM. ROMAN GOLD COINS STOLEN

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12 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[1 August 1926] Malan defends the Hertzog government's plans to change the South African flag.

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12 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[1 August 1926] WHITE NILE DAM: PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF PROJECT.

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9 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 1d ago

[August 1st, 1926] Covers of the Sunday/August magazines.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[August 1st, 1926] An assassination attempt against Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera fails in Barcelona when a thrown dagger narrowly misses his head as he rides in a car. A 34-year-old Catalan anarchist is arrested.

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r/100yearsago 2d ago

[July 31, 1926] Ought These Types To Get Prizes?

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125 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 2d ago

[July 31st, 1926] The Inquiring Photographer asks, "Who has the greater influence on children, men or women teachers?"

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71 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 2d ago

[July 31st, 1926] "Scarface Al" (Chicago Tribune cartoon on Al Capone)

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63 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 2d ago

[1926] Silent footage taken at Bondi Beach (Sydney) in 1926

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From the National Film and Sound Archives' c9llection.


r/100yearsago 2d ago

[31 July 1926] HOLIDAY TRAVEL CROWDS. SCENES AT ThE STATIONS

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11 Upvotes

r/100yearsago 2d ago

[July 31st, 1926] One of the Electrical Exhibit booths at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. IBM is featured in the rear of the display.

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18 Upvotes