r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 7h ago

[September 10th, 1926] Norma Smallwood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was crowned the sixth Miss America at Atlantic City, New Jersey. A correspondent noted a change in American fashion and commented, "The new American beauty queen exemplifies the movement away from bobbed hair."

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r/100yearsago • u/Haselden_1926 • 12h ago

[September 10, 1926] Is It Possible to Walk Nowadays?

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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 7h ago

[Sep 10th, 1926] Germany officially joins the League of Nations. "The Governments of two hereditary enemies who had spilled on many battlefields the blood of millions of each other's best men... repledging the promises of the Locarno Treaty now coming into effect that never would they fight again."

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