Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
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June 10, 1926: Members of the Marietta, Ga., Chamber of Commerce visit the White House.
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June 10, 1926: A fire whipped by strong winds destroys eight houses in a newly built development where no one has yet moved in Jamaica, N.Y.
June 10, 1926: A raft made from 80 million feet of logs is floated down Oregon's Columbia River for transshipment down the Pacific Coast. Five such mammoth rafts are planned to be sent to San Diego this summer, the Vancouver Province reports today.
June 10, 1926: June Haver, a glamorous presence in 1940s musicals who was groomed to be the “next Betty Grable,” is born (as Beverly June Stovenour) in Rock Island, Ill. She gave up her film career in the early ‘50s, briefly became a nun and married Fred MacMurray.
June 10, 1926: The fencer Raffali before France’s national epee championship at Magic City in Paris.
June 10, 1926: A car modified as a covered wagon will be the conveyance for Maurice Veronda, superintendent of the Southwestern Military Academy in Los Angeles, to take the young cadets on a summer-long tour of California.
June 10, 1926: Elaine Hammerstein, a movie actress and a cousin of Broadway songwriter Oscar Hammerstein, is married in Los Angeles to J. Walter Kays, the city fire commissioner.
June 10, 1926: The employees of the Bradenton Laundry in Florida.
June 10, 1926: Antoni Gaudí, the dazzlingly imaginative Catalan architect who helped shaped the look of Barcelona with his organic, voluptuous and colorful buildings, dies at 73 of injuries from being struck by a streetcar. His masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, is unfinished on his death. 1/2
