Today -100: April 22, 1925: If you can’t trust a poet to forecast elections, who can you trust?

In the Montana trumped-up trial of Sen. Burton Wheeler, the government sprung a surprise witness yesterday, George B. Hayes – not to be confused with George “Gabby” Hayes – a lawyer who claims that Interior Dept solicitor E.S. Booth, acting for Wheeler, called him to ask him to meet Wheeler at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Wheeler asked him to intervene with the Land Office re oil & gas prospecting permits. Wheeler is calling a Bell Telephone employee to come from DC to Montana to testify that there was no such phone call.

The NYT goes to the experts for intel on the forthcoming German presidential elections: passengers on a ship arriving from Hamburg. Evidently, Hindenburg is gonna lose, at least according to a couple of bankers and the poet Christoph Kaergel.

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The Puerto Rican Legislature passed a bill legalizing cockfighting. The ASPCA is lobbying Gov. Horace Towner to veto it.

Some time earlier this month, The Lost World was shown on a plane flight between London & Paris, the first feature-length in-flight movie.

It is pointed out to NYC Mayor John Hylan that the reason people keep getting run over crossing the street to get to the 4th Street entrance to the subway in Brooklyn is that it’s IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING STREET.

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