Today -100: July 12, 1921: And now I want an ice cream soda again

Éamon de Valera will meet Lloyd George Thursday, just the two of them.

Wisconsin is the first state to enact full legal equality for women. This includes sitting on juries, care & custody of children, holding office, property, and – the only specific rights mentioned in the article – the right to wear trousers and chew tobacco.

Daniel O’Callaghan, the Lord Mayor of Cork who arrived in the US as a stowaway 6 months ago, sneaks back into Ireland, evidently as a stowaway again, since US immigration officials have no record of him leaving the country.

The Bronx Confectioners’ Association caves and will reduce the price of ice cream sodas from 15 to 10¢ (plus the 1¢ war tax). Whether that will appease the children who have been marching for 5¢, we shall see.

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