Today -100: July 29, 1918: And where’s your proof that New Zealanders aren’t cannibals?

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Also by yarn. Germans are weird.

A race riot erupts in South Philly. A black woman, Elsie Bond, a city probation worker, bought a home in a white neighborhood and her new neighbors made her welcome by gathering and throwing rocks through all her windows, as was the custom. She defended herself with a gun, all hell broke loose. Two cops are dead and 60 black people and presumably 0 white people are arrested.

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