Today -100: November 14, 1924: Numerous convolutions

Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Hymans suggests a new Entente between France, Britain and, of course, Belgium.

Rep. John Philip Hill (R-Maryland) is acquitted of making cider and wine from fruit grown on his “farm,” which he did to challenge the Volstead Act’s distinction between what “farmers” and regular urbanites are allowed to do. The Baltimore jury decides it was not intoxicating, which it certainly was – 12% alcohol. It is not clear if the jury came to this conclusion following a taste test.

The Catholic Church refuses Chicago “slain florist and gang leader” Dion O’Banion a church service but will allow him and his $10,000 silver coffin to be buried in consecrated ground. Science was performed on Mr. O’Banion by the coroner’s physician: “The fissures [in his brain] were not deep, which would indicate O’Banion was not deeply intellectual, but there were numerous convolutions, which showed his mind was shrewd.”

Socialite Leonard Kip Rhinelander marries Alice Beatrice Jones, the daughter of a cab driver. They are 22 and 23, respectively, and white. There will be more about this.

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