Tag: May 1925
Levee Board Members Accused of Obstruction, East St. Louis IL, 1925.
In a heated dispute, state highway engineers clashed with members of the East Side Levee Board over the construction of a concrete culvert on the proposed highway route to Granite City from the Ninth Street subway. The $6,000 culvert was deemed necessary to connect two dead ends of a ditch in the levee board system.…
Poja Negri, Contraband Smuggling, New York 1926
In a shocking turn of events, Poja Negri, a stunning motion picture actress, has found herself in hot water with the authorities. On May 5, 1926, Negri, accompanied by her attorney William Chadbourne and several press agents, faced off against Philip Biting, collector of the port of New York, in a tense conference at the…
Coolidge’s Council Conundrum: A Glimpse into Public Corruption in 1920s Washington D.C.
On a sweltering spring morning in 1925, Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, the mastermind behind the city council idea, confidently declared that the election of the new citizens advisory council marked the first step towards a bold experiment in self-governance for the District of Columbia. The ambitious plan aimed to empower local residents and grant them…
