Saturday, February 4, 1922. Ford buys Lincoln.

An illustration by Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle graced the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on this day in 1922.

Ford Motors announced it had purchased the financially distressed Lincoln Motor Company.  The purchase out of receivership was for $8,000,000.

Japan agreed to withdraw troops from Shandong, restore German interests, surprisingly, in Qingdao, and given the Jinan railway back to China.

A mob in British India burned down a police station in Chauri Chaura killing 22 policemen. The action had been sparked by police killing protesters some time earlier.

The family of newly elected Congressman John. L. Cable posed for this photograph:

Sailor suits for boys remained popular at the time, as this photo demonstrates.

Saturday, January 21, 1922. The Irish Race Conference of 1922 convenes.

On this day in 1922, Pope Benedict XV was so near death, that some newspapers were reporting that he had in fact passed away.

The Saturday journals hit the newsstands. 

The Saturday Evening Post featured an illustration by Ellen Bernard Thompson Plyle, a noted illustrator whose career had been interrupted by her role as a mother during part of it. Born in 1876, she retured to illustrations in the late 1910s and had a substantial carrier until her death in the 1930s.

The New York Evening Post experimented with a full color, full page, Krazy Kat.

On the same day, the Irish Race Conference of 1922 commenced in Paris. The conferences, of which there have been several, sought to bring representatives of all of the "Irish Race" together to confer on topics, with the 1922 topic being the treaty with the UK.

While the treaty was largely supported by the Irish, the conference rejected it in favor of a united Ireland with "full" independence.