Today -100: July 13, 1921: With every breath you take

Éamon de Valera arrives in London with his party, to a large greeting by presumably Irish people at Euston Station.

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Save the type on this one, NYT, you’ll be using it again.

The Prince of Wales has a cold.

Harding’s call for disarmament talks has elicited positive responses from most foreign governments (well, France says it won’t be cutting its army no matter what). He now offers a tentative date: November 11, Armistice Day, in D.C. He also plans to bring up his stupid idea of an “association of nations” to replace the League of Nations.  

France threatens to continue the occupation of the Rhine until the German war crimes court in Leipzig starts punishing the Germans France thinks it should be punishing.

A Dr. Maingot of Paris is pushing phrenoscopy, which is the science of deducing a person’s character by seeing how they breathe. Sez Maingot, “With his first breath the infant shows the traits that will mark him for life, and with his last breath man shows what sort of person he was in his life.”

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