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.
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.
