Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia. He was the first US president to be born in a hospital. World War I had ended several years before Carter was born, Prohibition was the law of the land, and the life expectancy of American men was 58 years old. As Carter turns 100 this morning – the first former president to do so – here’s what it means to Washington Post Archives, happened in the DC area at the time of his birth.

It was an election year

A previously “lackluster campaign” began to defuse, according to the statement post reported. President Calvin Coolidge, a Republican who had taken office a year earlier after Warren Harding’s death, faced Democratic challenger John W. Davis and Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette. Democrats, the post reported hoped the race would end in a tie because they thought Congress would anoint Davis. Tariffs were a big issue at the time – Democrats wanted to lower them. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa called for Republican vice presidential nominee Charles G. Dawes to drop out of the race, complaining in a letter to the National Party that the Ohioan “started like a bold ‘Plutogog,’ but. His rudeness and impolite language reduced him to a mere “pee-pee plutogog” in his own vocabulary. “Arlington’s Republican club—yes, that’s right—announced a rally in Cherrydale with the invigorating slogan, “Coolidge or Chaos.”

The Nats were in the World Series

The Washington Nationals were scheduled to face the New York Giants in a few days. Seats at Griffith Stadium were hard to come by: “Hundreds of ticket applications continued to arrive at the baseball club office yesterday,” it said post reported. Many people from Coffeyville, Kansas, planned to travel to Washington to see hometown hero Walter Johnson pitch. Saks & Co. donated shoes to the players; The Raleigh Haberdashers announced they would provide hats. “All of Washington, most of Maryland, Virginia and other parts of the South want to see the Nationals battle the Giants,” baseball commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis told the newspaper. The Nats ended their regular season with a comical 13-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox. The scandal occurred on October 1: Landis banned a Giants player and coach from the series after it was revealed that they had unsuccessfully tried to bribe a player from the opposing Philadelphia Phillies to throw a game during the championship series.

Local News

• Three Montgomery County police officers were suspended after they handcuffed a suspect to an iron pipe and beat him with a rubber hose.

• Naval Academy midshipman Edward J. Triebe was expelled after attempting to smuggle “30 liters of alcohol” aboard the battleship new York while visiting Gibraltar.

• Elizabeth Hummer took office at Franklin School and was “welcomed with floral gifts.”

• The post noted that the insurance policy it offered readers—a $2,500 collision policy—cost just $1.50 a year, “such an insignificant sum.”

The lifestyle pages

• Cecil B. DeMille’s film The Ten Commandments caused “queues that stretched along E Street in the afternoon and the length of the long block at night” near the National Theater where it played. “At each of the performances so far there have been loud applause for the spectacular scenes,” the newspaper reported, “just like the big volleys of hand claps that favorite flesh-and-blood stars receive.”

• Alcohol in the Mexican town of Tia Juana is not trustworthy, the newspaper reported. Meanwhile, to the north, Canada was hoping for a deal with the U.S. that would allow it to ship liquor through Alaska in exchange for ratting out Americans who were buying large quantities of liquor north of the border.

• Martin Weber, 922 K Street, Northeast, filed for a temporary divorce from his wife, Mary E. Weber, from the Department of Labor, who he said “unfurnished her home” when she moved to “a location unknown to him.” ” He demanded that the court return his furniture.

• The day after Carter’s birth, the newspaper offered advice to older people – people between the ages of 45 and 64 – who feared they would keel over if they continued to work after being diagnosed with heart disease. “In fact, very few people with heart disease drop dead,” advised Dr. WA Evans.

Senior Editor

Andrew Beaujon has joined Washingtonian Late 2014. He previously worked at the Poynter Institute, TBD.com and Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.