Sept. 22, 1925: Wounded and disabled Belgian soldiers of WWI help dedicate a monument to their comrades at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Sept. 22, 1925: The writer Somerset Maugham compares actor Henry Ainsley’s makeup with a print of Paul Gauguin at the New Theatre in London, where a stage adaptation of Maugham’s novel “The Moon and Sixpence” will be shown. Ainsley portrays an artist similar to Gauguin.

Sept. 21, 1925: Demolition of a foundation during street work in Philadelphia.

Sept. 21, 1925: Soccer is about to pass bullfighting as Spain’s most popular spectator sport, boasts Enrique Alcaraz, captain of the Real Madrid club now touring England. “He predicted that in two years the leading clubs would be made up of professionals” in place of amateurs.

Sept. 21, 1925: Henry “Hickory Slim” Belford, who operates one of Chicago’s biggest bookie rings from Chicago’s Cooper-Carlton Hotel, is kidnapped by four men while driving with his wife. He is freed just as mysteriously the following day, reputedly after paying $4,000 ransom.

Sept. 21, 1925: A meeting of Catholic Church leaders in Brittany, France, including Cardinal Francis Bourne (marked by “2”), the archbishop of Westminster.

Sept. 21, 1925: Charlie Irwin, a baseball third baseman who played nine seasons, highlighted by three years with Cap Anson’s Chicago Colts of the 1890s, is killed at 56 when he’s struck by a bus in Chicago.

Sept. 21, 1925: The sheriff of Marshall County, Ill., and the night police chief of the town of Toluca are shot to death by a man they are attempting to arrest for abuse of his wife. The killer, Joseph Stemas, 60, flees barefoot and in his underwear; air patrols fail to spot him.

Sept. 21, 1925: Rosa Julian of Bridgehampton, N.Y., is fined one cent for violation of Prohibition law by having bootleg liquor at home. It’s the smallest penalty ever assessed in Brooklyn federal court.

Sept. 21, 1925: Troubled model and movie actress Julia Bruns is arrested in New York after admitting she stole $4,000 in jewelry from a tenant to feed a drug habit. The 30-year-old is allowed to take her dogs, Babe and Von Hindenburg, to the jail cell with her.

Sept. 21, 1925: Fashion photography by the Seeberger brothers in Paris: a pullover with a pleated skirt, and an embroidered dress by Paul Poiret.

Sept. 21, 1925: Former British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, the Earl of Oxford, and his wife, Emma, at their country home, the Wharf, in Sutton Courtenay.

Sept. 21, 1925: James Deering, an heir to the International Harvester fortune and an art and antiquities collector, dies at 65 aboard the liner Paris a day before it docks in New York. He built the landmark Villa Vizcaya in Miami, which is now a public museum and gardens.

Sept. 21, 1925: Rémy Leclercq, Paris’ “famous bearded police officer,” draws a crowd as he directs traffic and writes a ticket.

Sept. 21, 1925: The War Memorial Auditorium is dedicated in Nashville next to the Tennessee state Capitol, in honor of those who served in WWI. An American Legion convention is the first event to take place there. From 1939-43 it will be the home of the Grand Ole Opry.

Sept. 21, 1925: A.C. Bedford, the chief business lieutenant of John D. Rockefeller and operator of his energy empire as board chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, dies at 61 of heart failure in Norwich, N.Y.

Sept. 21, 1925: Mickey Walker (left) retains his welterweight boxing championship after defeating Dave Shade in a 15-round decision at Yankee Stadium.

Sept. 21, 1925: Japanese aviators Hiroshi Abe and Kazuhiko Kawachi stop in Berlin as they near completion of the first Tokyo-to-London flight in their Breguet 19 biplane.

Sept. 21, 1925: Col. Billy Mitchell, a gadfly critic of U.S. military aviation, is relieved of his command of the 8th Army Air Service Corps at San Antonio. He is expected to head to Washington to testify to a commission studying air policy even as he faces court martial. 1/2

Sept. 21, 1925: Pupils in the Layton School Art in Milwaukee sketch copies of artworks in a museum gallery where they were taken by their teacher, Charlotte Partridge.

Sept. 21, 1925: Construction of a cross to be burned at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Rutherford, N.J. “It is probably the only posed photo of the entire demonstration,” International News Service reports. “The parade was omitted because the police prohibited the wearing of masks.”

Sept. 21, 1925: A Navy court of inquiry begins in Washington into the cause of the disaster in which the airship Shenandoah wrecked in Ohio on Sept. 3, killing 14. A scale model of the dirigible looms over the officers and witnesses.

Sept. 21, 1925: Ernest Hemingway completes the first draft of “The Sun Also Rises” in Paris. The last line is “It’s nice as hell to think so.” He has second thoughts and jots underneath that: “Ain't it nice to think so.” The published version: “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

Sept. 20, 1925: Lee Marmon, a photographer who captured the activities and culture of fellow Laguna Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, among many other subjects, is born in Laguna.

Sept. 20, 1925: Arrested as a Prohibition violator for selling homebrew, Clara Srocka said she was forced to become a bootlegger to support her invalid husband and eight children. She is photographed at home in Wallington, N.J., after a court released her.

Sept. 20, 1925: The Bijou Theatre in Trenton, N.J., is decked out like a big top for a showing of the movie serial “The Great Circus Mystery.”

Sept. 20, 1925: The death of a Parisian architect while hiking in the French Alps with his fiancée is dramatized on a magazine cover. Christian Benoit slid down a cliff; Andrée Duviod, unwilling to abandon her dying lover, stayed with him until they were found the next day.

Sept. 20, 1925: French aviator Dieudonné Costes, who survived a crash in Germany's Black Forest Sept. 13 that killed his co-pilot, is being detained for having flown over the country without permission. Costes will have to pay a 25,000-mark fine for his freedom.

Sept. 20, 1925: The Chicago Cardinals win the National Football League season opener, 14-6, star halfback Paddy Driscoll seen carrying the ball for an end run. They beat a non-NFL team from tiny Harvey, Ill., one of several odd matchups that will beef up their record at season’s end to 11-2-1.

Sept. 20, 1925: An etiquette tip from the Chicago Tribune.

Sept. 20, 1925: Al Walters (left) on his way to winning the 100-mile dirt track national championship at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Ill.

Sept. 20, 1925: The Women's Christian Temperance Union raises objections to the American Legion's plans to re-create a WWI French atmosphere for their meeting in Omaha, Neb., as some posters "show Frenchy girls and labelled bottles with teasing invitations to drink."

Sept. 20, 1925: Paul Wayland Barrett, a U.S. sculptor in the Beaux Arts realism tradition whose monumental works include “The Apotheosis of Democracy” on the pediment of the House of Representatives, dies at 60 in Paris. He succumbs to blood poisoning after a fishing accident.

Sept. 20, 1925: President Coolidge is taking a stroll in Washington, D.C., when an automobile nearly runs him down crossing H Street. His Secret Service detail arrests motorist Nathan Smith, who protests that he was driving safely and "my record is clean." He is fined $35.

Sept. 20, 1925: The AT&T-owned New York radio station WEAF signs 25 opera singers and classical musicians to perfom a series of Sunday night concerts on the airwaves. Contralto Louise Homer and baritone Reinald Werrenrath will be part of the lineup.

Sept. 20, 1925: The freighter San Antonio, carrying a cargo of sugar, is reported to be the first American ship to dock in the port of Leningrad since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The U.S. and Soviet Union still have no diplomatic or formal trade relations.

Sept. 20, 1925: A man wears a mask designed by Polish artist Wladyslaw Benda.

Sept. 20, 1925: A Black man is lynched in Georgia after he allegedly beat a white nurse to death at a mental hospital. Willie Dixon, aka Sims, had attacked the staffer, Amy Oxford, with a pick handle at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville on Sept. 15. 1/2

Sept. 20, 1925: A girl with pets both stuffed and real outside a dog show at Alexandra Palace in London.

Sept. 20, 1925: Charles Cottet, a French post-Impressionist artist who was at the center of an 1890s circle known as the "Dark Band," dies at 62 in Paris. His painting "The Burial" with its somber color palette set a path for other works that similarly blended drama and realism.

Sept. 20, 1925: Harold Lloyd's comedy "The Freshman" premieres in New York. This will be the most financially successful of the actor's silent-era movies, and one that places his everyman, go-getter character in the very 1920s setting of a sports-mad college campus. 1/3

Sept. 20, 1925: Royal Marines from the visiting British fleet are treated to good hospitality at a picnic in Los Angeles sponsored by the American Order of Sons of St. George.

Sept. 20, 1925: A 17-year-old Black boy is lynched by being burned at the stake in Mississippi. L.Q. “Jim” Ivy suffers his grisly fate at the hands of a mob of 600 people in the town of Rocky Ford after he was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman two days earlier. 1/9

Sept. 20, 1925: Minnie Wolbert of New York City prepares to throw the javelin at the Girls National Amateur Athletic Union meet in Pittsburgh.

Sept. 19, 1925: Mary Miller wins the 50-yard dash at a women's track meet in New York's Lewisohn Stadium.

Sept. 19, 1925: French inventor Marius Gallee riding his combined bicycle-boat on a voyage from Paris to Amsterdam.

Sept. 19, 1925: Bernard Garrett, a banker who built a multimillion-dollar real-estate empire, is born in Willis, Texas. To overcome bias he used white front people to help him acquire properties while he operated behind the scenes; his story is told in a 2020 film, "The Banker."

Sept. 19, 1925: Manuel Herrick, a former Oklahoma congressman whose time in office was marked by numerous scandals, is arrested in Washington on charges brought by his new employer, a detective agency. The 48-year-old Republican allegedly stole files dealing with beauty pageants.

Sept. 19, 1925: The wedding of Peter and Mary Panagos in Lynn, Mass.

Sept. 19, 1925: Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin who became a scientist in his own right, as a botanist, and edited his father's autobiography and collected papers, dies at 77 in Cambridge.