It is simply unimaginable to me that North Casper was not always part of Casper. I had, truly, believed it was.
Not so, apparently.
Weimar asked for a new reparations conference with the Allies, seeking to transfer 2.5 billion, in gold marks, of materials over a five-year period, and then 1.5 billion of the same for a period of time after 1928.
A huge Shriner's convention was in Washington, D.C.
President Harding opened the national convention of the Shriner's, whose parade this was, with a speech that, in veiled form, criticized the Ku Klux Klan.
Secret fraternity is one thing. Secret conspiracy is another. In the very naturalness of association, men band together for mischief, to exert misguided zeal, to vent unreasoning malice, to undermine our institutions. This isn't fraternity. This is conspiracy. This isn't associated with uplift; it is organized destruction. This is not brotherhood; it is the discord of disloyalty and a danger to the Republic.
On the same day, the White House released Harding's Voyage of Understanding tour itinerary, featuring nineteen stops by train in the U.S. and Canada. The itinerary was to have been:
June 20 Washington, D.C.
June 21 St. Louis, Missouri
June 22 Kansas City, Missouri
June 23 Hutchinson, Kansas
June 24 Denver, Colorado
June 25 Cheyenne, Wyoming
June 26 Salt Lake City, Utah
June 27 Cedar City, Utah Visiting Zion National Park
June 28 Pocatello, Idaho
Idaho Falls, Idaho
June 29 Butte, Montana
Helena, Montana
June 30 Gardiner, Montana Visiting Yellowstone National Park
July 1 Gardiner, Montana
July 2 Spokane, Washington
July 3 Meacham, Oregon
July 4 Portland, Oregon
July 5 Tacoma, Washington Boarded the USS Henderson
July 6-25 Alaska Via the USS Henderson
July 26 Vancouver, British Columbia Via the USS Henderson
July 27 Seattle, Washington Via the USS Henderson
July 28 Portland, Oregon
July 29 Merced, California Visiting Yosemite National Park
July 30 El Portal, California
July 31 San Francisco, California
August 1 Los Angeles, California
August 2-3 Santa Catalina Island
August 4 San Diego, California
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