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Nov. 24, 1921: Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, a landscape painter and son of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, dies in Boston at 76. His works include "The Seine" and "In Cairo."

Mohandas Gandhi carries out the first hunger strike of his career to protest the violence, and professes himself heartsick after what he planned as a nonviolent rally turned into an orgy of violent hate. The outcome, he says, has "stunk in my nostrils." 2/4

Nov. 19, 1921: 70 prisoners suffocate to death in India after being sealed in a train car taking them to prison. British authorities had locked 100 men in the car for rioting amid the Moplah Rebellion in the town of Tirur. The 111-mile journey takes place in oppressive heat. 1/4

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Oct. 25, 1921: George Alexander McGuire is ousted as chaplain of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association for asking members to help support McGuire's new African Orthodox Church in Harlem, N.Y. The cleric wrote Garvey's "Universal Negro Catechism."

Oct. 24, 1921: The Bluenose wins the International Fisherman’s Cup, a race pitting the fastest Canadian and U.S. fishing vessels against each other. The newly built schooner beats defending champion Elsie, from New England, in the race off Halifax. 1/2

Oct. 22, 1921: Norman Willey, who served as governor of Idaho from 1890-93, dies at 83 in a poorhouse in Kansas, where he had gone to live after several business reverses. He was blind and deaf in his final years, and his body will not be identified for several days.

Oct. 17, 1921: Julius Kronberg, Swedish painter, dies at 70. His works usually had classical, historical and Biblical motifs, and many decorate Stockholm Palace.

Oct. 15, 1921: The Rockefellers' Standard Oil of New Jersey gets exclusive rights to explore and drill oil in newly independent Czechoslovakia. The Carpathians (postcard) seem promising as an energy source, but their output as a share of world production is never large.

In the euphemisms of 1921 journalism, the testicles are "glands" and the purpose of the operation is to "rejuvenate" the patient. Serge Voronoff pioneered the procedure in France in 1919, claiming the implants would restore both sexual function and mental vitality in men. 2/3