The sort of headlines that Wyomingites love to read, at least until they go to buy gasoline at the pump.
Wyoming, as we've explored here before, crossed over from being primarily an agricultural economy to an oil one due to World War One, with 1917 really being the demarcation point. From that point forward the state drank so deeply of petroleum that it has never been able to see itself as anything but a petro state, even while keeping Steamboat as its symbol. A century later, to suggest that the evolution of technology and other factors mean that this industry will decline is nearly regarded as treasonous. Perhaps as a result, the state has neglected its other industries.
The Cohn-Brandt-Cohn film company (CBC) changed its name to Columbia Pictures.
France imposed a curfew on the Rhineland and closed its borders, save for railroads and food transportation. The move was due to the murder of Franz Josef Heinz the prior day. The French were so strict on the matter that they refused to let British officials in to investigate separatist movements connected with the incident.
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