Today -100: November 7, 1922: Of malicious lies, leagues of some women voters, bombings, and crowbar governors

The D.C. District Court overturns the District’s minimum wage law for women, because women are totally equal now.

Rural New Hampshire polling stations close at 3 pm?  Some states just specify sunset.

Joseph Frelinghuysen, US senator from New Jersey (R) running for re-election on a dry platform, calls a “malicious lie” stories going around that he has liquor in his cellar. Whether that malicious lie has anything to do with his losing the election today to Gov. Edward Edwards (the man so nice they named him twice), an opponent of prohibition, I do not know.

Mrs Herbert Ottenheim, president of the Kentucky League of Women Voters, appeals to women to vote. And by women, she means white women. She calls on them to prove wrong the Southern anti-suffragists who said black women would vote and white women stay home.

The Irish Free State made a raid looking for Éamon de Valera, missed him but made several arrests of prominent Republicans. One of them, Mary MacSwiney, begins a hunger strike. This will be a touch awkward as she is the sister of Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork who hunger struck to the death in British custody 2 years ago.

Southern Rhodesia votes against being absorbed into South Africa by 59%. And by Southern Rhodesia, I of course mean white people in Southern Rhodesia.  The colony, which has been ruled by the British South Africa Company founded by Cecil Rhodes, will now have to be given responsible self-government.

Hecklers including Knights of Columbus break up the first attempt by the Ku Klux Klan to hold a meeting on Long Island.

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Obit of the Day -100:  Morgan Bulkeley, insurance guy, baseball guy (1st president of the National League), two-term Connecticut governor and US senator. The interesting thing about the two-term-governor part is that he was only elected to one term. Under CT rules, if no one got 50%, it was thrown to the Legislature. In 1888, a Republican Legislature chose Bulkeley despite his having fewer votes than the Dem (see? they were like that even then). 2 years later, when Bulkeley hadn’t even run for re-election, the two houses of the Legislature were controlled by different parties and deadlocked, so Bulkeley just... stayed in office for a whole extra term. He did have to break into his own office with a crowbar after a D. official changed the lock. The Legislature refused to appropriate funds to run the state government during those two years, so he got Aetna Life Insurance, of which he was president, to fund it. Connecticut changed its election rules after that. Dead at 84.

Huh, they had yogurt in the US in 1922:

You will notice very interesting results.

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