Today -100: September 10, 1925: Of convincing resemblances and executions

Britain rejects Turkey’s demand for a plebiscite in Mosul over whether it joins Iraq or Turkey.

The International Spiritualist Congress in Paris considers developing a wireless device to communicate with the spirit world, putting hard-working mediums out of work. Members of the Psychical Research Society of New York show off a photograph of a ghost. “The ghost looked like a wreath of smoke escaping from a cigarette, but delegates found it contained a very convincing resemblance to a soul.”

Glaswegians petition for the reprieve of convicted murderer John Keen, not so much out of sympathy for him as for the two junior magistrates who’d be required to attend the execution and who are women. (Update: They will attend the execution and one will even shake the condemned man’s hand, at his request.)

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