Daily Graphic dated Tuesday August 18th
1925
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It’s time to make up for my various ignorant (in the sense
of un-informed) comments on sport by posting a sport-themed front page.
The cricketer Jack Hobbs equalled W G Grace’s 126 centuries
in 1925 but went on to get 197 first-class cricket centuries before his
retirement in 1934, and this still stands as the record.
For those who, like me, didn’t know, W G Grace’s cricket
career ran from 1864 until 1908, he was 50 years old when he retired and he was
a qualified and practising medical doctor.
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King Feisal (now normally spelled Faisal) became
King of Iraq after a plebiscite ‘rigged’ by British business interests, in
1921. Alec Guinness played him in the 1962 film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
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Typical of 1920’s tabloids, several pages are taken up with
these short news items.
I presume the ‘manifesto’ distributed to the Limehouse
householders was created by a painting and decorating firm.
The first automated traffic lights at junctions didn’t appear
until 1927.
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This was the time when it was still seriously predicted that
many people would use aeroplanes to get around the country instead of cars,
buses or trains.
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Gertrude Ederle had been part of the US 4x100m Relay Gold
Medal winning team in 1924. This attempt to swim the Channel ended badly when
she was disqualified after a misunderstanding. Her support thought she was
drowning and pulled her out. She said she was resting by floating face-down.
She returned in 1926 and successfully completed a France to England crossing.
She died in 2003 at the age of 98.
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The British and the weather! If it’s hot then it’s too
blasted hot or they are worried its not going to last.
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Benito Mussolini’s National Fascist Party governed Italy
from 1922 until 1943 with Mussolini as Dictator from January 1st
1925. Soldiers with funny hats and bicycles may look like something out of a
Carry On film but the Abyssinians (Ethiopians) weren’t laughing when
Mussolini’s army and airforce invaded in 1936.
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I don’t know how this story panned out but I suspect it was
either suicide or an accidental overdose. Prussic acid is another name for
Hydrogen cyanide and is extremely poisonous to humans.
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Radio broadcasting for entertainment in Britain,
i.e. the BBC, was a little less than 3 years old in August 1925. The London
transmitter was known as 2LO and Daventry was 5XX. Exciting trivia fact – the
famous BBC Shipping Forecast began life on 5XX.
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This illustration accompanied the daily fiction
serial in the Graphic. Two things, pen and ink illustration and fiction
stories, which no longer enhance our tabloids.
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“By Gad, Sir! It may be cheap but it’s probably some damned
foreign chow. Gives the memsahib Delhi-belly just to look at it. Pass the HP
Sauce!”
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I never realised that we grew tobacco here in
England. This picture was probably taken on Mr Brandon's Church Crookham tobacco
farm, which was active from 1911 until 1937.
