In which I skim through The Times from a hundred years ago, pick out some of the articles and comment on the ones I find interesting.
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Oct 31, 2024
Oct 31, 2024
17 min
In this episode – the week ending 9 November 1924 – Calvin Coolidge wins a landslide in the US presidential election. Winston Churchill gets a promotion - one that he and everybody else will live to regret. The government picks some airship winners. It’s not going well for the Emperor of China and we find out why London up until recently had so few tall buildings. And poverty, the workhouse and the K.O. Club.
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