[March 22, 1921] A Confederate veteran, shot in the eye 58 years ago in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., finds himself choking and coughs up the bullet. Willis Meadows, 78, is in good health afterward.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 11, 1921] Wisconsin becomes the first state in the U.S. to guarantee women equal rights in all aspects of the law, not just voting. Gov. John Blaine signs the act declaring that women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 6, 1921] Stubby the hero World War I dog receives a gold medal from Gen. John J. Pershing.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 15, 1921] Ethel Kimball is charged with fraud for marrying Louise Aechter, of Somerville, Mass., after posing as a man named James Hathaway.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 8, 1921] President Harding's cabinet has its first meeting, and goes outdoors to be photographed.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 7, 1921] Peggy Marlowe gives self-defense advice to the women of Los Angeles and re-enacts how she pummeled the starch out of one cad. She is only 19 years of age, weighs 110 pounds and yet has thoroughly whipped a 'masher' unaided, the Evening Express marvels.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 21, 1921] Casey Stengel of the Philadelphia Phillies slides safely into home in a 6-5 win over the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Aug. 21, 1921] The women's New Century Guild in Philadelphia offers 5 rules for how to catch a husband.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 27, 1921] Boys, if you're hunting an economical wife, move to West Philadelphia, Pa., begins this item about high school girls who have put on an economy fashion show with their handmade dresses. (Lafayette, Ind., Journal and Courier)2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 22, 1921] Musicologist Charles Seeger on a family camping trip with his wife, classical violinist Constance, and children Charles Jr., John and, in dad’s lap, little Pete Seeger.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 14, 1921] The U.S. population center is placed by the Census Bureau in Owen County, Indiana, 10 miles west of its previous location.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 27, 1921] Right-wing students go on an anti-Jewish rampage along the Kurfurstendamm in what is described as the first pogrom in Berlin. Many are beaten.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 1, 1921] France sends a shipload of prisoners to its penal colony Devil's Island off French Guiana for the first time in 6 years. The 700 convicts are locked in cages, and holes have been drilled in the top, the better to blast them with hot water or gas if they riot.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
