Peace talks opened in London between the British government and representatives of the Irish Dail looking for a means of setting the dispute between the two on the departure of Ireland from the United Kingdom.
In Game Six of the 1921 World Series, the New York Giants beat the Yankees 8 to 5. The 21 series was a good one.
The House Committee on Rules was conducting hearings on the Ku Klux Klan and subpoenaed Col. William J. Simmons to testify.
Simmons had founded the modern, i.e., the second Ku Klux Klan after being badly injuried in a car accident. His inspiration for the organization was the film Birth Of A Nation, D. W. Griffith's silent, racist film with a Lost Cause version of Reconstruction.
Simmons had wanted to be a physician but was not able to afford the costs. He served in the Spanish American War and thereafter became a teacher for a branch of the Methodist Church, which at that time was the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was suspended from that in 1912 for inefficiency and did a variety of things. His title "Colonel" came not from military service, but his rank in the Woodmen of the World.
He ceased to lead the organization in 1922 but remained in it. He died in 1945.
In Appalachia, a region where the old conditions of the old South had some ongoing influence, Hines took these photographs of living conditions.
The "home" of S.R. Reed.
Frank Burditt and family in rented home. He farmed on rented ground nearby.
The Tate School. Next to the school is the home of the Tate family, occupied by these farmers who are said to be of some means. Charleston West Virginia.
Slip Hill School - tiny one-room school in the country near Charleston; note the shacks on the hillside. Location: Charleston, West Virginia.
The British newspaper The Guardian ran an article about famine on the Volga.
A photographer took a picture of a subject probably in the news, but not known to us know.
Margaret Cheatham, October 11, 1921.
The Department of Agriculture warned about coyotes.
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