Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Today -100: August 3, 1921: Of tenors, black sox, trinkles, smugglers, and big-ass watermelons


Enrico Caruso dies.

The White Sox players who threw the 1919 World Series are all acquitted by a Chicago jury, perhaps because of the mysterious disappearance of the confessions of three of them.

Elbert Lee Trinkle wins the Democratic primary for governor of Virginia, which means he’ll be the next governor. Did I mention his name is “Elbert Lee Trinkle”? Governor Trinkle.

The feds seize a British-registered schooner they claim was smuggling rum, but they do so in international waters, 4 miles outside Atlantic City, where it’s perfectly legal to sell alcohol. They claim they can do that because they have evidence of a conspiracy. No one will be very convinced by this argument.

Someone’s sending Pres. Harding a 76-pound watermelon.

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