Today -100: September 10, 1923: Of destroyer pileups and city managers

Seven US Navy destroyers are destroyed near Santa Barbara, with 23 sailors drowned. Some idiot ordered full steam ahead during a heavy fog and they full steam aheaded into the rocks, each one ramming into the one before it.

The Ku Klux Klan enters the Portland, Maine election to fight for... the city-manager form of municipal government. 

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