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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
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The Saturday Evening Post went to press with what would have been a gender bending cover, women being an enduringly popular illustration topic then and now.
The Country Gentleman chose children as the theme, which they often did.
President Harding traveled to Gettysburg.
A group of Miners and Operators visited Harding at the White House.
Herbert Lord was sworn in as Director of the United States Agency of the Budget.
Lord had served in similar roles in the U.S. Army, from which he had just retired, and had proven very adept at it.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 commenced, with any major railroad strike being a national disaster at the time. It would run into August.
In Wexford, the IRA derailed a train, that somehow being a revolutionary act that made sense, somehow.
Construction commenced on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. It was the first planned regional shopping center. It is still in operation.
On this date in 1920, John Lloyd Wright was given a patent for what would become Lincoln Logs.
Wright had been marketing the toy logs since 1918, and had based them upon his observations of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel's foundation, designed by his father, Frankly Lloyd Wright. The foundation featured an interlocking log structure to give it flexibility during earthquakes.
An election held on this date in Hannibal Missouri was the first to be conducted following the 19th Amendment going into effect. Marie Ruoff Byrum was the first woman voter to cast a ballot to have been given the right to vote under the amendment.
Of course, women had been voting for some time in states that had adopted universal suffrage on their own, including Wyoming's female voters.
Mrs Byrum lived until age 73. She had been involved in politics and had retired to Florida in her later years.
Tennessee, which had been the 36th state to vote to add the 19th Amendment, on this day voted to rescind their ratification in an effort to reverse course on it. The effort came too late as retroactive post ratification rescissions are not allowable, assuming recessions are at all, which itself isn't clear.
It's odd that it was attempted in this context. If the vote had preceded the adoption of the Amendment that would have raised a Constitutional question, but doing it after the ratification would fairly obviously do nothing.
French Genera Henri Gouraud issued a decree that set Lebanon's borders in anticipation of creating a separate Lebanese territory the following day.
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.