1926 News

[March 10th, 1926] Advertisements: Friday March 12th the Savoy ballroom opens at Lenox Ave & 140th St for chaperoned social dancing. Royal Furniture Co. offers a $99 living room suite with easy credit terms at Harlem and Bronx stores.

[March 10th, 1926] Bush fires threaten Warburton, Forster in Gippsland, and Ballarat, where firefighters and volunteers contain them. An acute water shortage forces Loch township residents to cart water, while railway water trains serve Northern Victoria and the Mallee.

[March 10th, 1926] The very first Book of the Month Club selection, Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published and distributed to the club's 4,000 charter members.

[March 10th, 1926] The construction of the new highway bridge over the Missouri River

[March 10th, 1926] A Junkers F 13 flying mail near Helsinki made an emergency landing on the frozen Gulf of Finland due to engine failure. The damaged aircraft was dismantled, shipped to Junkers in Germany, restored, and returned as D-202.

[March 10th, 1926] Amazing Stories, the world's first magazine dedicated entirely to science fiction, released its premiere issue

[March 9th, 1926] The Winnipeg Toilers basketball team became the first team from Manitoba to win the Canadian Senior "A" Men's Championship.

Although he never officially set foot on land during his two-month stay, he was so moved by the hospitality of the local people and the beauty of the coast that he left nearly £1 million (roughly BZD 1.8 million) to the country in a trust fund.

[March 9th, 1926] Baron Bliss, a British-born philanthropist who became the greatest benefactor of Belize (then British Honduras), dies at 57.

[March 9th, 1926] M. G. Tennent defeated 80-year-old incumbent A. V. Fawcett by more than 5,000 votes to become Tacoma's mayor. Police Captain H. Dyment and A. S. Walters won seats on the city council.

[March 9th, 1926] Mrs. Bertha K. Landes defeats Mayor Brown to become Seattle's first woman mayor, but voters also abolished the position in favor of a city manager plan.

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[March 9th, 1926] The watch brand "The Tudor" was registered by Swiss watchmaker Philippe Hüther’s widow on behalf of Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex. This registration in Geneva marked the birth of the Tudor brand, which Wilsdorf created to offer dependable watches at a more accessible price

[March 9th, 1926] Mikao Usui, the founder of the spiritual practice known as Reiki, passed away at the age of 60 or 62 of a stroke (specifically a cerebral hemorrhage) while staying at an inn in Fukuyama, Japan.

The contest drew the highest voter turnout in school history with 39,401 ballots cast.

[March 9th, 1926] Mrs. S.E. Lincoln and Mrs. W.P. Bair defeated the Ku Klux Klan opposition in a Fort Des Moines school election, winning by a majority of 14,876 votes and delivering what observers called a decisive rebuke to the Klan.

[March 9th, 1926] The Caltech Associates (originally known as the California Institute Associates) held their first formal meeting. This organization was founded to provide a base of financial support and community engagement for the California Institute of Technology.

Holmes remains active despite Civil War wounds and health issues, even playfully poking former Justice McKenna with umbrellas on the street.

[March 8th, 1926] Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his 85th birthday by working and shows no signs of retirement. He may break the record for longest-serving justice.

[March 8th, 1926] Francis Picabia's artwork "Chariot" (circa 1922-1923) was featured as Lot 66 in a seminal auction of the artist's work held at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris

[March 8th, 1926] Silas Brown, a 25-year veteran fireman, was killed Monday when he fell from an aerial truck responding to a minor kitchen fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished with no damage. Associates suspected a heart attack caused the fall.

[March 8th, 1926] Secretary of the Navy Wilbur accepted 400 acres near Seattle for a naval air base, where American fliers began and ended their round-the-world flight. The government already constructed buildings there.

[March 8th, 1926] Herman Hartwich, a German-American painter known for his landscapes and genre scenes, dies at 72. Here are some of his works:

[March 8th, 1926] Federal rescue workers arrived at a West Virginia mine where 28 miners were trapped by an explosion. Forty miners were rescued alive while 28 others were believed dead in the blast.

[March 8th, 1926] The silent film Eyes of the Totem begins filming in Tacoma, Washington.

[March 8th, 1926] View north on Vermont from 22nd Street prior to grading. The street would be paved with 5 switchbacks starting at about the house with the witch's cap at the upper right.

[March 8th, 1926] Lot sales officially began for the new townsite of Borger, Texas, which rapidly earned the notorious nickname "Booger Town".

[March 8th, 1926] In his speech to the German Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on March 8, 1926, Joseph Stalin addressed the internal factionalism of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the relationship between Soviet interests and international communist movements.

[March 8th, 1926] Walter Bracken, VP of the Las Vegas Land & Water Co, wrote to E E Calvin, President of the same company recommending that the company turn the remaining 1800 acre Las Vegas Ranch into a demonstration ranch to protect their water rights.

[March 8th, 1926] Prominent religious leaders dedicated the new Bay Ridge Jewish Center for cultural and religious life, with speakers urging harmony within the congregation and warning that America risks losing its civilization to materialism.