Today -100: September 21, 1925: I expect an uninteresting and meaningless campaign

Parisians are pissed off at a new tax on horsemeat.

Fiorello LaGuardia declines to launch a 3rd-party campaign for NYC mayor. He says the primaries so confused the issues that he would have no practical road to victory. “I expect an uninteresting and meaningless campaign,” he says. He predicts that Walker will be a crap mayor.

Coolidge has been taking walks around DC accompanied by a few Secret Service agents, unrecognized by the public. Including Nathan Smith of Baltimore, driving a car that almost hits him a block from the White House. He’ll be fined $35, though he claims he was a good 20 feet from Coolidge and was going 8 mph.

In New Albany, Mississippi, a mob burns a black man at the stake after seizing him from the sheriffs and forcing a confession out of him for attacking a farmer’s daughter.

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