Monday, December 3, 1923. Congress Convenes In Spectacular Fight; Bitter Battle Marks Failure In Voting For House Speaker, a child actor, and a Napoleonic drama.

Headline ripped, um, right from yesterday?

Well, at least an orange haired tycoon associated with dubiousity wasn't involved.

Seven coal miners at the Nunnery Colliery in the United Kingdom were killed when a rope hauling a mine transport severed.

Interestingly, at least to me, an elevator cable severed in an elevator I was riding in last week. It was retroactively horrifying, but not like this.

Released on this date in 1923.  It was the first film to feature Peggy-Jean Montgomery, aka "Baby Peggy".

She died at age 101 in 2020, being the last person with a substantial career in the silent film industry.  She struggled in later years to disassociate herself from her childhood role, which brought her derision from other in the industry.  She became a successful author, and was a convert to Catholicism.

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It was, as noted, a Napoleonic era drama.