The Carranza government loses control of another Mexican state, Juarez. Juarez is not joining the rebellion, just adopting an “attitude of neutrality” until there’s a stable government in Mexico City.
The Senate authorizes a two-cent Teddy Roosevelt coin.
The Dublin Corporation officially recognizes the authority of the Irish Republican Parliament.
Novelist Fannie Hurst (Imitation of Life, etc) announces her wedding to pianist Jacques Danielson, which actually happened 5 years ago but they’ve been keeping it a secret, even from most of their friends. They’ve kept separate apartments because she didn’t want marriage to “lessen my capacity for creative work or pull me down into a sedentary state of fat-mindedness”. She notes that 90% of marriages are “merely sordid endurance tests, overgrown with the fungi of familiarity and contempt [which] in a few months becomes as a breakfast cloth, stale with soft-boiled-egg stains”. They have kept their own friends and meet by appointment.
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