Friday, December 1, 1922. Environment.

Protesters took advantage of the Thanksgiving Holiday to picket the White House regarding those held under sedition charges.

At the Conference of Lausanne, the Turks informed European delegates that Greeks remaining in Eastern Thrace had two weeks to leave.  They numbered 1,000,000.

Monica Cobb appeared at the Birmingham Assizes, acting in the role of a prosecutor.  It was the first appearance by a woman solicitor in court in the United Kingdom. The defendant was charged with bigamy.

A safety parade took place in Washington, D.C., viewed by President Harding.

 

Environment, a silet move about the trials of a female ex con, was released:

Sunday, November 26, 1922. Peanuts, Colorado's, and Gallipoli.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Schultz, the great cartoonist.

Schultz was born in Minneapolis and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He was an only child that loved drawing from the beginning.  He was conscripted in 1943 and served as an infantryman, narrowly avoiding killing a German soldier towards the end of t he war as he fogot to load the  M2HB machine gun he was assigned to.

After the war, he first worked for the Catholic comic magazine Timeless Topix.  Peanuts had its first appearance, of sorts, in 1947.

I don't have a clue what this photograph is supposed to depict, and only know that it was taken on this day in 1922.

Opera singer Beniamino Gigli and Paul Longone, general manager of the Chicago City Opera Company.

The first popular election for the position of President of Uruguay was held.  José Serrato of the Colorado (Red) Party won.

Red would indicate, of course, it's left wing ideology, which it holds.  That's because red is the color of the left everywhere in the world, except the US.

Well, it wasn't always that way.  When John Birchers used to state "better dead than red" they didn't mean "better dead than a member of the Republican Party".  But later, some pinhead reversed the colors in the US as an example of moronic American Exceptionalism.  That individual should be sentenced to read Mao's Little Red Book every day for the rest of his life.

Anyhow. . . 

The United Kingdom turned control of the Gallipoli peninsula over to the Turks.

Dr. Jack premiered.

It was one of the most popular films of 1922.

Monday, November 6, 1922. Appointment Clerks.

A group of Federal appointment clerks.

This, obviously all male, occupation was exactly what it sounded like.  Clerks who took appointments and handled the same.  Sort of the equivalent of a secretary/receptionist.

As late as the Second World War, in government service this occupation was a male one.  And, as the fine clothing in the photo demonstrates, one that paid a decent living to its occupants.

Indeed, every man here is wearing a three-piece suit of good quality.

Also of note, at least two are smoking cigars, not even taking time out from tobacco consumption to appear without one. When was the last time you were in an office and somebody was smoking a cigar?

A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pennsylvania, killed 79 miners.

Ali Kemal, age 53, who we mentioned the other day, was lynched on his ways to the gallows by a mob.

By the way, in the long odds category, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a direct descendant of Ali Kemal.  I.e, not a cousin, Kamal is BoJo's Great Grandfather.

Released this day in 1922.

Sunday, November 5, 1922. The Kaiser remarries.

 

The silent Will Rogers version of The Headless Horseman was released on this date in 1922.

Former German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, a widower of 63 years of age, married Hermaine Reusse of Greiz, a widow of 35 years of age.  Very few guests came to the private wedding and town officials from Doom, Netherlands, where the wedding occurred, were booed by a crowed that had gathered.

The American Weekly went to press with a lush illustration.  It was a Sunday news supplement for the Hearst newspapers.

Wednesday October 18, 1922. BBCs.

The British Broadcasting Company, Ltd, a short lived commercial radio company which is unrelated to the Beeb, was incorporated.  It'd go into bankruptcy in 1926 and this trademark be taken over by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

It gets confused, even today, with the other BBC.

Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell set a new flight speed record flying a Curtiss R-6.

Curtis R-6.

Released on this day in 1922:

Monday, October 9, 1922. Permission granted and rehearing sought.

Hairy Moccasin, Esh-sup-pee-me-shish, one of Custer's Crow Scouts, died on this day.  He was 68 years old.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 9: 

1922  A petition for rehearing was granted by the United States Supreme Court in Wyoming v. Colorado, a suit seeking to adjudicate the distribution of water from the Laramie River.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles Burke telegrammed Superintendent of the Wind River Reservation's Shoshone Agency R. P. Haas at Fort Washakie, giving him permission to work with actor Tim McCoy and film producers in the movie The Thundering Herd.

The Girl Who Ran Wild was released.

Like most films of this era, it was melodramatic, featuring a plot in which Melissa Bummer declares her independence from the world after the death of her father.  She ends up in school and her teacher falls in love with her, and vice versa, and she reforms accordingly.

Some of these plots are, we'd note, a bit icky.

Thursday, September 14, 1922.

Released on this day in 1922.

Photographed on this day in 1922.

Sunday, September 10, 1922. The Murder of Bishop Chrysostomos.

The very first Our Gang, an episode entitled One Terrible Day, was released.

I reported on this event earlier, but I apparently had the wrong event for the terrible occurrence.

As these photos show, the Red Cross reported to assist at the mine.

Greek Orthodox Bishop Chrysostomos of Smyrna was lynched by a mob after the Turks took the city.  What exactly occurred is not known, but the Bishop, who was a Greek nationalist, refused to evacuate and reported to congratulate the Turks on their victory.  He was horribly murdered and is regarded as a Saint by the Greek Orthodox.

Not sure how that happened, but the Bishop was murdered on this day.

The USGS expedition on the Colorado, which we featured yesterday, was still in progress.

Tuesday, August 15, 1922. Germany defaults.

Germany defaulted on its reparations payments.

Released this day with an absurd plot involving vying for the hand of a wealthy Mexican señorita, a virtuous lass back home threatened by the KKK, and a major issue to be determined by a jumping bean contest.

The Casper Daily Tribune ran a cartoon attacking Governor Carey on the front page.

Frankly, even now, I’m shocked.

As can be seen, Casper was expanding in 1922 and the stresses that involved were apparently getting to people.  

Friday, August 5, 1922. Blood and Sand.

 

Blood and Sand released on this day in 1922.  I've never seen it, but it's a well known turgid drama about an aspiring bullfighter.

The Saturday magazines were out.

The Saturday Evening Post went with an Arctic theme, perhaps because it was August and people were hoping for cooler things in those pre air conditioning days.

Judge went to the beach, with an illustration entitled "Dear Tracks".

The Country Gentleman chose a radio listening baby.

The Ladies Home Journal chose an 18th Century theme, "Salt Water Taffey".

Colliers went with an oddly uniformed motorcycle policeman.

Sunday, June 11, 1922. Nanook of the North.

Nanook of the North, a docudrama, was released. It was one of the first of its kind.

It followed the lives of a native family in far northern Quebec.

Monday, February 13, 1922. The last stand of the Russian Whites, Viktorin Molchanov, Vasily Blyukher, Gloria Swanson and Harrison Ford.

The Battle of Volochayevka in the Russian far east came to an end with the withdrawal of Russian White Forces.  While it was a Red victory, the withdrawal was a White tactical success, but more or less a Pyrrhic one, save for the men that it saved from being taken by the Reds.  Following this, the Whites would come apart and remaining White forces and the Japanese occupation force in the area would be withdrawn.  It was, effectively, the last battle of the Russian Civil War.

The drama was played out in the odd context of the final days of the Whites in Russia.  In November 1921 the Whites, organized as the Far Eastern White Army, launched an offensive against the Soviet peudo state, the Far Eastern Republic. They were supported in this endeavor by the Japanese.    They had experienced initial success, but suffered setbacks in December and thereafter lost ground.  On October 25, 1922, their remnants and that of the Japanese forces were withdrawn.

The victorious Vasily Blyukher, servant of Red butchery, who would go on to be beaten to death by Red butchers.

The White commander, Viktorin Molchanov, relocated first to China, and then to the United States, dying in San Francisco at age 88 in 1975.  The Red commander, who was technically in the army of the Far Eastern Republic, Vasily Blyukher went on to become an advisor to the Chinese in from 1924 to 1927.  He was beaten to death in Stalin's purges in 1938, the same reward that a vast number of effective Red Army commanders received from their leader in the same time period.

To make this a bit odder, this region today is in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a remnant of the Soviet Union.  Created to be an "independent" region for Russia's Jewish population by the USSR, at its peak 25% of its population was Jewish.  Today, only .2% of the population is.

The movie Smilin' Through was released.  It featured Norma Talmadge and Harrison Ford in a melodrama.

No, not that Harrison Ford, this Harrison Ford:

Ford was a silent movie actor, making his last picture, and his only "talkie" in 1932.  He toured with the USO during World War Two.  He was hit as a pedestrian by a car in 1951, and would spend the rest of his life an invalid, dying in 1957 at age 73.