Monday February 9, 1920 saw Guy Spiker marry Emily Knowles, seemingly resolving the drama over the illicit, and as the paper notes illegal, relationship between Pearly Spiker and Miss Knowles and the fate of their son. Time would prove that settlement less certain.
Another settlement that would prove to be uncertain was that reflected in the Treaty of Versailles, which the U.S. Senate was agreeing to take a second look at.
Railroaders were threatening to go on strike again in the U.S. and the National Guard stopped an attempted lynch mob in Kentucky through the use of violent force, showing that the events of the Red Summer of 1919 weren't quite fully behind the country yet, and wouldn't be for some time.
Herbert Hoover, whose name had been circulated as a potential Republican candidate for President in the 1920 race declined to run. A person has to wonder if he later wished he had run in 1920, instead of eight years later when he did.
Elsewhere, the landmark treaty regarding the joint use of the Arctic island of Svalbard, a Norwegian territorial possession but used by several nations for hunting and economic activities, was signed by those principally interested in the island.
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