Saturday, September 25, 2021

Today -100: September 25, 1921: Of kluxers, tainted aliens, and tarzans


Headline of the Day -100:  



Ku Klux Klan Imperial Kleagle E.Y. Clarke resigns, taking his aide/girlfriend Mrs Elizabeth Tyler with him. The police records of their 1919 arrest on morals charge seem to have mysteriously disappeared. (Cute “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” ref in that headline, btw).

Headline of the Day -100:  



17-year-old John Weismuller, the future Tarzan, breaks the world 100-yard swimming record.

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