Today -100: August 2, 1921: Oh Boy

Izvestia, the official newspaper of the Russian government, says 6 million starving peasants are marching on Moscow, whether looking for revolution or food or both is not clear. The NYT correspondent says “At a conservative estimate 20,000,000 people seem doomed to death,” maybe as many as 40 million. And “hordes of frenzied peasants attack trains.”

Headline of the Day -100:  

The reporter can read the placards but is presumably afraid to actually talk with one of the participants because they’re scary (the parade is by Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association).

The Hardings get another dog. An English bulldog named “Oh Boy.” He is a super-pedigree, son of a $4,000 dog.

In other news, in 1921 there were dogs worth $4,000, which is the equivalent of some money, but a lot of it.

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