Life, 1922-11-02 · page 12 of 40
Life — November 2, 1922 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a historical calendar with brief notations of significant events and births for each day of November. Rather than satirical cartoons with caricatured figures, the page features small decorative illustrations accompanying entries about historical milestones. The entries mix weightier historical events (Congressional firsts, military surrenders, state admissions) with lighter cultural moments (the invention of poker, the first street railway). The illustrations appear to be generic vignettes rather than pointed political satire—for instance, the Thanksgiving Day illustration shows typical holiday imagery. This represents *Life*'s educational-entertainment approach: combining historical facts with whimsical drawings to make the calendar engaging rather than purely informative. There's gentle humor in the arbitrary juxtaposition of momentous and trivial historical facts.
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<1 TOR IEF: Atcs Calendar November By Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman STAMP ACT passed; invitations ex- tended for Boston Tea Party, 1765. Only three ‘out of five get pyorrheea, 1922, 2—Th.—James K. Polk born, 1795. Warren G. — Harding born, 1865, Kansas goes dry; new uses found for cyclone cel- lars, 1880, 3—F.— Continental Army disbanded, 1783, William Cullen Bryant born, 1794. First actress photographed getting into Packard, 1902. Maid-of-all-work takes tele- phone message correctly, 1919. 4—Sa.—Gatling gun invented, 1862. Evanston, Illinois, resident, while packing trunk, discovers method of refold- ing sleeves of fresh shirt, 1922, 5—Su.—Chinese Restriction Act passed, 1892. Woman suffrage adopted by Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona, 1912. Falm trees begin blooming ‘in rotogravure sections, 1922, 6—M.—United States recognizes Republic of Panama, 1903, Woman suffrage adopted by New York, 1917, Fe- male’ character in Oriental play is not referred to as somebody’s Lotus Flower, 1937. 7—Tu— (0) ELECTION DAY; Republican, Democrat ‘and Socialist leaders highly pleased with results, 1922. New York evening papers, printed at seven a. M. announce heavy early vote, 1922. 8—W.—Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific and are shown over the studio district, 1805. 9—Th.—Montana admitted to Union, 1889. Paul T. Saddle, only man to refrain from remarking avout the three-mile limit when seeing friend off for Eurove, born, 1890. 10—F.— CS) First English settlement in Connecticut; Y., N.H, and H. wrecks begin, 1635. “A” bets “D' instead of “B” in letter to newspaper, 1919. 11—Sa.—Cherry Valley massacre, 1778. Washington admitted to Union, 1889. Lettuce sandwiches first re- garded as sandwiches, 1912. 1Z--Su.—Montreal surrendered to American Army, 1775. “Home, Sweet Home” first sung publicly '823. Last New York cabaret taken over vy colored sntertainers. 1923. 13—M.—Edwin Booth born, 1833. First vacane . next to skyscraper set aside for measuring transatlantic liners, 1902. '4-Tu.—Treaty of Com- merce signed between Great Britain and Republic of Texas, 1840, Man with black dinner tie folded ander roll collar _ is shot while passing office of “Vanity Fair.” 1924, 15—W.—Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrive from England and start well-snown line firm, 1763 Articles of Confederation adopted, 1777. Zebulon M: Pike discovers Pike's Peak, one of the greatest coin: cidences in the history of civilization, 1806. 16—Th.— Fr Sherman restarts his march through Georgia, 1864; Savannah banks remain open, 1/22. 17—F.—Congress meets for first time in Capitol at Wash- ington, 1800; one hundred and ten million people be- in to think it would have been just as well if it adn’t, 1922. 18—Sa.—Standard time established, 1883; legislators be- gin to knock the daylight into it, 1913. Turkish baths introduced into Turkey, 1936. 19—Su.—James A. Garfield born, 1831. Lincoln delive: Gettysburg address, 1863. First piece of hotel soap engraved, 1897. 20—M.— ) David L. Fairchild, Topic, W. Va., decides that if cuffs are turned and a new collar put on it will do nicely for another winter, 1922 21—Tu.—Napoleon issues “Berlin Decree,” 1806. Jolin Meredith, born cf obscure parents, discovers new method of arranging oranges and apples ‘in dairy lunch, 1° 22—W.— * First anecdote about poker game in Leaven, 473, Nineteen Russian actors discove-ed still in Russia, 1923. 23—Th.—Franklin Pierce born, 1804. Battle of Chat- tanooga, 1863. Joseph Urban invents Neapolitan ice cream, 1901. 24—F.—Zachary Taylor born, 1784, Emil J. Scanlan, East Liverpool, Ohio, finds he has rubber band when he needs it, 1918, 25—Sa.—British evacuate New York; Corn Exchange Banks and Schulte’s cigar stores take possession, 1733. bor Day in Louisiana, but only Nov. 25 elsewher 1922. 26—Su.— First street railway, running between New ‘ork and Harlem, begin operation; Mayor Hylan insists on fivecent fare, 1823, First hat band run in and out of soft hat by college student, 1856. 27—M.—U. S. and Germany sign arbitration treaty, 1904; strong evidence that they must have been joking about it, 1917, Collar button dropped in comic strip fails to roll under bureau, 1967. 28—Tu.—Jeremiah Castor, inventor of famous oil, born, 1801, Citizens, in nation-wide uprising, voice demian for better blotters, 1923. 29—W.—Detroit surrendered to the English, 1760: Henry Ford gets first news of it, 1922. W. J. Messner, Little Falls, Ark., uses grape scissors instead of just puliing a handful from the bunch, 1925 30—Th.—Mark Twain born 1835, THANKSGIV- ING DAY, strangely coinciding with end of twelfth month of LIFE’S CALEN- DAR, 1922. Thanks giving Day comicbooks.com