Calvin Coolidge30th U.S. President

Served from Aug. 2, 1923 to March 4, 1929

begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak June 2.

• Scribner publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” on April 10.

• A 6.8 magnitude earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara on June 29.

• High school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution July 10 and fined $100 in Dayton, Tenn., on July 21.

• As many as 40,000 members of the Klu Klux Klan march down Penn-sylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 8.

• Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated Oct. 1 in South Dakota.

• Battleship Potemkin• The Lost World• The Pleasure Garden• Seven Chances• Eve’s Secret

Music• Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band, “Ah-

Ha!”• Ethel Waters, “Dinah”• The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks,

“Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now”• The Troubadours, “June Brought

the Roses”• Bessie Smith, “St. Louis Blues”• Eddie Cantor, “If You Knew Su-

sie (Like I Know Susie)”• Savoy Orpheans, “Let’s All Go To

Mary’s House”

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BORN THIS YEAR: Johnny Carson, talk show host (Oct. 25). Above left: Jack Lemmon, actor (Feb. 8); Tony Curtis, actor (June 3); Margaret Thatcher, Brit-ish politician (Oct. 13); Richard Burton, actor (Nov. 10).

• “The Grand Ole Opry” is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tenn., as “WSM Barn Dance” on Nov. 28.

Technology 1925• Calvin Coolidge’s in-

auguration as president is the first to be broadcast on radio March 4.

• Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Cor-poration on June 6.

• Charles Francis Jen-kins transmits a 10-min-ute film of a miniature

windmill in mo-tion across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C., June 13 — “the first public demon-stration of radiovi-sion.”

Movies• The Big Parade• The Gold Rush• The Phantom of the Opera

•  Income per year  ....... $3,078•  New house  ............... $2,500•  New car (Model T) ......... $300•  Gallon of gas  ..................... 9¢•  Dozen eggs  ................ 47.7¢•  Quart of milk  ................... 14¢•  Loaf of bread  ................. 9.9¢•  First-class stamp  .............. 2¢• Movie ticket  .................... 25¢

AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING

925Charles G. Dawes30th U.S. Vice PresidentServed from March 4, 1925 to March 4, 1929

remember when...

1“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”— Calvin Coolidge

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U.S. News• Nellie Taloe Ross becomes

the first female governor in the United States on Jan. 5, replac-ing her late husband as Gov-ernor of Wyoming. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes the first female governor of Texas.

• After operating the Sears catalog for nearly 40 years, Sears Robuck opens its first retail store in Chicago on Feb. 2.

• The first issue of “The New York-er” publishes Feb. 21.

• The Tri-State Tornado strikes Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, killing 695 and injuring 2,027. It’s the deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

• Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teach-ing of evolution in the state’s public schools March 21.

• New York Yankee Lou Gehrig

World events• On Jan. 3, Benito Mussolini

declares he is taking over Italy and turning it into a dictatorship ending free elections.

• Swain’s Island (near American Samoa) is annexed by the United States on March 4.

• “Pink’s War” between the British Royal Air Force and Mahsud tribes-ment in South Waziristan takes place March 9 – May 1.

• The World’s Fair opens in Chi-cago on April 18.

• Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain’s return to the gold standard April 28.

• Field Marshall Hindenburg is elect-ed president of Germany on May 12.

• Adolf Hitler publishes his per-sonal manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” on July 18.

• London’s first double-decker buses debut Oct. 2.

1925 Rolls Royce HD-20

1925 Dodge Tourer

1925 Studebaker Paddy Wagon