Today -100: September 19, 1923: Of strikes, whipples, lynchings, fairs, and temporary dictatorships

Thanks to the International Pressmen’s Union strike, today’s issue is a combined edition of 10 NY morning newspapers, and it’s 8 pages long. This will go on for some time, which certainly makes my job easier. The strike was called by the local union, but its parent union calls the strike illegal.

After the Japanese earthquake, the Japanese Navy ordered US destroyers arriving with medical supplies not to dock. The destroyer, um, USS Whipple ignored the order and docked anyway. It removed foreign refugees made homeless by the quake and subsequently evicted from the Imperial Hotel, which the Japanese military wanted as an hq.

A 20-year-old black man is lynched in Hattiesberg, Mississippi.

Oklahoma Gov. J.C. Walton unbans the state fair.

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Phew.

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