Today -100: October 19, 1926: We do not even think of it. Why should we?

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First it was booze, then milk, now water. This election is very liquid-themed.

Queen Marie of Romania is visiting New York, and the Times will not shut up about it.

At an imperial conference in London, Canadian PM Mackenzie King says “Any talk of the annexation of Canada by the United States is purely political and should not be taken seriously.” “[I]t is the last thing Canada is worrying about. Nobody there really talks about it; nobody wants it, and personally I haven’t encountered a single soul in Canada who has ever mentioned it. We do not even think of it. Why should we?”

At the preparatory meeting for the Disarmament Conference in Geneva, France proposes that countries that use gas during warfare should be punished by a massive air chemical attack on them by all countries signing the ban on such weapons. The US, Germany, Italy and Japan oppose this idea but Belgium, Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia support it.

Colorado Republicans claim the state’s D’s are linked with the Ku Klux Klan. Their evidence is laughable.

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The NYT’s long habit of citing the opinions of randos (a shoemaker in this case) about the Soviet Union has not abated.

The Texas Legislature committee investigating the Fergusons hears that the governor’s husband told road contractors he could secure maintenance contracts for them in exchange for c.10%. Ferguson denies it.

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