Today -100: November 15, 1924: Of flowers and duels

Dion O’Banion’s funeral in Chicago is attended by over 10,000 people and features 26 truck loads of flowers, which is what happens when you’re both a mob boss and a florist.

Gen. Italo Balbo, commander of the Fascist National Militia (Italy, of course), “owing to the impossibility of a duel” with Gen. Peppino Garibaldi, who accused the Blackshirts of attacking unarmed veterans, submits the case of his challenge to the Permanent Court of Honor in Florence, whatever that might be. Duels are weird. Another duel, evidently not impossible, takes place between a Fascist deputy and a Liberal one. Whether guns or swords is not mentioned, but the Lib wounds the Fascist 6 times. Good.

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