In 1925...

The Prime Minister of Canada
was
Mackenzie King 		The Premier of Manitoba
was
John Bracken 		The Mayor of the City of Winnipeg
was
Lt. Col. Ralph Humphreys Webb, D.S.O., M.C.

General Motors advertised that they had an automobile "for every purse and purpose". Even then, divisions of the company included Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and GMC but Pontiac did not yet exist. An Oakland division did.
Compare the "quality parts" used back then to what you know is available now!
Here is the top of General Motors line... a V-63 1925 Cadillac Coach with a "body by Fisher".
RCA Victor advertised a "Music Arts Library" which consisted of a set of six volumes representing "a great variety of achievement by the world's greatest artists".
A Steinway piano, advertised as the "Instrument of the Immortals" was $875 and up (plus transportation). Mischa Levitzki (pictured to the right) and other notable pianists of the time such as Paderewski and Hofmann were spokepersons for the piano company.
In its 156th year of existence, the Encyclopaedia Britannica "in the new form" of "large page, large type" was advertised at a price reduction of 46%!
Pocket watches such as the one on the right by Elgin remained popular.

What was happening in 1925?

  • Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan joined the Soviet Union

  • American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby".

  • Astronomer Edwin Hubble composed a scheme for classifying galaxies.

  • Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corporation.

  • Clarence Birdseye began marketing quick-frozen food packages.

  • Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directed "The Battleship Potemkin".

  • Charles Chaplin wrote and starred in "The Gold Rush".

  • The Locarno Pact finalized the treaties between the protagonists of World War I.

  • Friedrich Ebert died; Paul von Hindenburg became president of the German republic.

  • The all black revue, "Runnin' Wild" introduced the Charleston dance craze.

  • The "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes" in Paris gave the name "Art Deco" to the modern artistic style.

  • Fashion decreed "short" tubular skirts and dresses, long cigarette holders, cloche hats, bobbed hair, plucked eyebrows, bands of diamond bracelets from wrist to elbow, and long, hanging earrings. Socially, it was the age of the "Flapper", a young woman who went to parties without a chaperone, smoked cigarettes, used lipstick, drove cars, spoke in slang and even swore - all things previously unthinkable.

  • Jazz moved from New Orleans to Chicago and white musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke and Pee Wee Russell joined the black "greats". In 1925, trumpet player Louis Armstrong launched his band "The Hot Fives" which later became "The Hot Sevens". "Satchmo" had left New Orleans in 1922 to join King Oliver in Chicago. Duke Ellington started playing in the Cotton Club in New York during the same period. Other great of this time included Bessie Smith and pianist Jelly Roll Morton with his Red Hot Peppers.

  • At the other end of the music spectrum, Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony. The premiere performance was held the next year.

  • By 1925 the number of wireless licences issued had reached one and a half million.

  • In 1925, kitchen cabinets and pull out work surfaces were introduced. Houses were built with modern conveniences such as indoor lavatories, bathrooms, and up-to-date cookers.

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