Democrats were attacking Theodore Roosevelt, Jr's supposed role in Teapot Dome. This Theodore Roosevelt was serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that position now effectively being a Roosevelt one, with he being the third Roosevelt to occupy it.
Too many "girls" were occupying boarding houses on West A, B, and 1st Streets, which was causing the Casper Police Chief to counsel against allowing more boarding houses and to close the existing ones.
Without really detailing the article, what the Chief meant was that there were too many working girls in the Sandbar District for effective policing.
Dr. Morad was robbed at gunpoint.
The houses were closed, Casper's other paper noted:
Casper was not a nice town.
The police effort against the working girls in the 20s would fail. It would take at least into the 1950s to really make a dent in the trade they occupied in the Sandbar, and it was finally shut down when an urban renewal project in the 1970s.
Wyoming doesn't have a fishing season per se now. You can fish all year around. Apparently, at the time, fishing opened on April 1.
A big difference between then and now is the extensive Wyoming Game and Fish hatchery system. It existed in 1924, but it's been much expanded.
Money for a fish hatchery was first appropriated by the legislature in 1895. I don't know if one was built at the time, but the oldest continually operating one in the state is the Story Fish Hatchery, which was built in 1909.
Imperial Airways was founded by way of the merger of the Handley Page Transport, Instone Air Line, Daimler Airway and British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd. airways.
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