Does You Good in 1925. And the Goose Woman.

            The Postcard

An A & H Unique Series postcard that was published by the Art & Humour Publishing Co. Ltd. of Chancery Lane, London WC2. The artwork was by Fred Spurgin, and the card was printed in Great Britain.

The card was posted using a 1d. stamp on Monday the 3rd. August 1925 to:

A. J. Smale Esq.,
29a, Eynham Road,
Wood Lane,
London.

The pencilled message on the divided back was as follows:

"Yes! When you've left
the wife at home.
M. 
xxx"

Elections in Sicily

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 3rd. August 1925, the Fascists won local elections in Sicily. Blackshirts were stationed intimidatingly at every voting booth.

The Goose Woman

Also on that day, the film The Goose Woman, starring Louise Dresser and Jack Pickford as her son, was released by Universal Pictures. 

The Goose Woman is an American silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Louise Dresser with Jack Pickford as her son.

The plot of the film was based in part on the already sensational Hall-Mills murder case in which a woman named Jane Gibson was described as a pig woman because of the pigs that she raised on her property.

The Hall–Mills murder case involved Edward Wheeler Hall, an Episcopal priest, and Eleanor Mills, a member of his choir with whom he was having an affair. Both were shot in the head on the 14th. September 1922, in Somerset, New Jersey. 

Hall's wife and her brothers were accused of committing the murders, but were acquitted in a 1926 trial. The case is largely remembered for the vast extent of newspaper coverage it received nationwide; it was an early example of a media circus. 

It took the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in the 1930's to eclipse the high profile of the Hall-Mills case.

Dom Um Romão

The 3rd. August 1925 also marked the birth in Rio de Janeiro of the Brazilian jazz drummer Dom Um Romão. He died in 2005.

Taken on: May 7, 2023

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