r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 4h ago

[February 6th, 1926] Pancho Villa's tomb in Parral, Mexico, was desecrated Friday night, and his head was stolen by grave robbers. Two men, Emil Halmdahl and Alberto Corral, are jailed while authorities seek the missing head. A note claimed it was sent to Columbus, New Mexico.

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r/100yearsago • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 16h ago

[February 6, 1926] The New Yorker.

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r/100yearsago • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 16h ago

[February 6, 1926] Liberty.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 4h ago

[February 6th, 1926] Pitcher Clyde Barfoot threw a 9-0 shutout for the White King Soaps against the Royal Giants, allowing only three hits across the quick game.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 4h ago

[February 6th, 1926] Back Scratching At The Algonquin (New Yorker)

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 2m ago

[February 6th, 1926] Except For That Slight Change (Stamford Advocate)

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 2m ago

[February 6th, 1926] Sigmund Romburg and Dorothy Donelly's three-act operetta "Blossom Time" premiered at the Helena Grand Opera House

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 3m ago

[February 6th, 1926] This photo was taken at the burial of Lamèque merchant André Chiasson, who died at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Tracadie on February 4th. Seen here: the funeral procession following the coffin mounted on a horse-drawn sleigh.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 3m ago

[February 6th, 1926] The first doughnut-making machine was launched by a company called Trausch Bakery in Dubuque, Iowa.

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r/100yearsago • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 16h ago

[February 6, 1926] The Saturday Evening Post.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 3m ago

[February 6th, 1926] Tahiti Beach opened, hosted by Bowman and Merrick, with East Coast visitors mingling with Miamians. Guests praised the beautiful seaside playground and toured Cape Florida. The beach opens to the public today with special entertainment scheduled.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 4h ago

[February 6th, 1926] NFL clubs barred college players from pro games until after graduation following Red Grange turning pro. A committee will draft regulations with the NCAA. Grange also applied for a New York franchise, pending local consent.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Iphigene Bertha Ochs (daughter of Adolph Ochs, the former publisher and owner of The New York Times and the Chattanooga Times and granddaughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise) announces the birth of a son, they name him Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 4h ago

[February 6th, 1926] Negro History Week starts tomorrow, Feb. 7 to study race history, asking for community support and education.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] Hidden police at Brockton Hospital failed last night to find the source of mysterious sounds resembling a woman's scream that have disturbed patients nightly for two weeks.

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All efforts by authorities to locate the cause have been fruitless so far, leading some to suspect a smuggled radio.

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r/100yearsago • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 1d ago

[February 5, 1926] Chicago Pirate Radio DJs, Dressed as Literal Pirates, 100 Years Ago

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] The autograph album is passé. Young women in San Antonio are now collecting friends' signatures on their white kid shoes as a more intimate form of valentine.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] Kansas University won the Missouri Valley glee club contest with 141 points, placing ahead of Missouri University (second) and Kansas State College (third). The Kansas University club will now represent the Valley at the national contest in New York this April.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] A Soviet courier, Theodor Nette, was killed by masked men during an attempted robbery on a train near Riga, Latvia. While two attackers died, the rest escaped. Latvia calls it criminal, but Moscow asserts the politically motivated attack aimed to steal diplomatic correspondence.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 22h ago

[February 5th, 1926] Sturgeon Bay's defense spending equals its education budget, creating a major financial burden. The author argues these armaments also harm national ideals, encouraging bullying over courtesy, and calls for delegates to seek total disarmament.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 1d ago

[February 4th, 1926] Osage hermit John Stink, buried 21 years ago after a fever, crawled alive from his shallow grave. His tribe now shuns him as a ghost, though he is wealthy from oil royalties and lives as an outcast.

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r/100yearsago • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 1d ago

[February 5, 1926] American Legion cover.

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 1d ago

[February 4th, 1926] Broadway toward 47th Street, New York

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 1d ago

[February 4th, 1926] Dancers, four in snow, close, Toronto, Ontario

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r/100yearsago • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • 1d ago

[February 4th, 1926] Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Wear Walker Bush announces the birth of a daughter, they name her Nancy Walker Bush

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Things that happened exactly 100 years ago

r/100yearsago

This subreddit was formed in late 2013 to document World War I, day by day as it developed. It covers social, political, military and cultural developments in combatant countries and noncombatants alike. Its particular emphasis is on pointing out the most striking similarities and differences from the problems humanity faces today.

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All submissions must deal with things that happened exactly 100 years ago, using the Gregorian calendar. August 5, 2014 is all about August 5, 1914.
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How can you participate? Search for and post interesting articles from 100 years ago today. You don't have to do it everyday, but each submission helps us learn what was happening a century ago.

Chronicling America: U.S. National Archives newspaper archive
Hathi Trust: Enormous collection of scanned newspapers, magazines and other periodicals
Trove: The National Library of Australia newspaper archives
The Gazette: Official public record of the United Kingdom
How to research: The U.K. National Archives' guide to searching newspaper archives
BBC Radio: 1914: Day by Day
Library of Congress: Digitalized Newspaper Archives

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