Today -100: June 28, 1920: Of crown princes, cuthberts, and snoring landlords

Ohio Gov. James Cox’s wimpy stance on prohibition loses him the support of the Tammany Hall machine. Boss Murphy knows that a wet plank in the platform is important for Democrats in local New York elections. The NY delegates now shift their support to William Gibbs McAdoo (whose friends say he would accept the nomination if offered. They suggest that the presidential son-in-law is trying to avoid being seen as a “crown prince” – a common Jared Kushner, if you will – by not openly soliciting the nomination).

Vice President Whatsisname  is evidently a candidate after all.

Gov. Cox’s enemies have been spreading the story of his 1911 divorce from Mayme Simpson Harding (no relation). He remarried in 1917.

Sinn Féin kidnaps a brigadier general, one Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas. He is being held as a prisoner of war. The Daily Chronicle suggests that going fishing was maybe not the smartest move on the general’s part.

Inmates of the new Death Row in Sing Sing are complaining about the lack of soundproofing in general, and the snoring of Sam “The Landlord” Michalow in particular.

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