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Disturbing news! Last week’s issue, labeled June 29, 1921, actually contained stories from June 30. Today’s issue, also labeled June 29, 1921, actually contains stories from June 29. Got it? Good.

Today we have short Swiss skirts, an uncouth prince, and a King who hears it all. Do unexpected things on…

June 29, 1921

• Two months of bitterness between New York aldermen William P. Kenneally and Bruce M. Falconer results in a “lively fist fight” between the two, leaving their lips cut and clothes torn.

• Italian immigrant Samuel Cetrone is besieged by a mob and arraigned before the Magistrate after being spotted tearing up an American flag to wrap furniture he was helping to move.

• New York tailor Morris Sorner is arrested on charges of criminal anarchy for distributing leaflets labeled “The Tulsa Massacre,” which called upon Black Americans to arm themselves and overthrow the “capitalistic Government trying to enslave” them.

• Barber Joseph Ladue is sentenced to three months in jail for stealing a $17 bust of Dante, his favorite poet.

• The Weather: Thunder showers today; Thursday cloudy; no change in temperature; south and west winds.

Say it five times fast! Short skirts shock Swiss, short skirts shock Swiss, short skirts…ahhhh, forget it.

GENEVA, June 28.—An association has been formed in Geneva to make war upon the prevailing scanty fashions in women’s dress. It urges that “improper attire” tends to impropriety of conduct, and not only will it combat too short skirts, bare backs, bare chests, and bare arms but also shoes with too high heels.

It is admitted that no Swiss town has so many powdered and painted women as Geneva, but Geneva declares they are neither Genevese nor Swiss. A public meeting to take place will decide whether local legislation in the matter is necessary.

On reading the headline I assumed this would be a story about a toddler, but no—it was good old Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, the future Edward VIII, who had just turned 27.

LONDON, June 28.—The Prince of Wales is always doing unexpected things and today he thoroughly enjoyed doing them at the big theatre garden party at the Royal Hospital grounds, Chelsea. On his arrival he was mobbed by seemingly all the actors and actresses in London and many policemen and detectives were powerless to help him.

“Give me a sporting chance,” said the breathless Prince, with hair ruffled and hat awry.

They gave him a sporting chance—the mobbing ceased—and the Prince was then able to enter into the fun that was going on. He accepted an invitation to indulge inside on the roundabouts and was soon enjoying himself whirling around on a wooden horse to the latest jazz tune. There are now lots of people who are boasting that they’ve ridden with the King’s son.

There were fifty sideshows, run by actors and actresses, and the Prince rushed from one to another in order to patronize as many as possible, mixing with the crowd and laughing and joking with the best of them but he refused to patronize “the Night Club” on the grounds that if once he started dancing he was afraid he’d never stopped. One of the most amusing incidents was the presentation of a doll to him by the Dolly Sisters, American dancers who have made a big success on the London stage.

This would be Christian X, then 50, who honestly wasn’t a bad looking dude. The standards in Northern Schleswig were high!

COPENHAGEN, June 10 (by mail).—When King Christian visited a little town in Northern Schleswig, a German woman remarked to a companion as they were passing the King:

“You can’t call him good looking anyhow.”

The King turned and answered in German, “but his hearing is excellent.”

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