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Today -100: August 12, 1926: Of property seizures and kloters

Mexico orders the seizure of property controlled by members of the Catholic clergy, some of it hidden under the names of private citizens.Texas Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson officially states that she’s n

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Today -100: August 11, 1926: Persecutive religious laws are the worst kind of religious laws

Headline of the Day -100:The Vatican’s Osservatore Romano says there will be no negotiations with Mexico unless it withdraws its “persecutive religious law” but will trust to the “invincible arms of p

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Today -100: August 10, 1926: Of quiet cities and sore losers

FACT CHECK! The Associated Press investigates rumors that Stalin is dead in a revolt and army mutiny and that Trotsky has fled Moscow. They find that “Moscow is as quiet as any American city on Sunday

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Today -100: August 9, 1926: Of power in the Philippines

Coolidge’s envoy to the Philippines, Col. Carmi Thompson, says the status of the Philippines should be settled – annexation, autonomy, whatever – for a long period during which there will be absolutel

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Today -100: August 8, 1926: Thousands of priests have come here to make our people fanatics and sink them in ignorance

Katherine Langley (not that you’d know “Mrs. John W. Langley”’s first name from the NYT) wins in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s 10th congressional district, the very seat her husband John resig

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Today -100: August 7, 1926: If it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it

Gertrude Ederle of New York, 20, who won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics, becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel. 5 men have previously done so, but none as quickly (14 hours, 31 minute

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Today -100: August 6, 1926: Anyone can do it

The Knights of Columbus asks Pres. Coolidge and the State Department to “put an end to this ignominious contempt that has been shown by President Calles for American appeal,” claiming that in its acti

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Today -100: August 5, 1926: No more wars for oil!

R.T. Haslam, MIT professor of chemical engineering, says new techniques to extract oil from coal will eliminate wars for oil, so that’s good.Montgomery Ward, hitherto solely a mail-order company, plan