Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2024

Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.


The Saturday Evening Post went to press observing Easter with a Leyendecker illustration.

National Barn Dance, a direct precursor to the Grand Old Opry, premiered on Chicago's WLS, running a whopping four hours every Saturday night.  It would run until 1968.

The Washington Post depicted Coolidge holding fast in a political cartoon.



In Casper, there was a big meeting to oust a city councilman who had been convicted on a liquor charge.


And Arizona tourists could get into California before Easter.

It's interesting to realize that motor tourism had become a thing by 1924.

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Thursday, April 17, 1924. Japanese reaction.

Blog Mirror: Radio at School, 1924

 

Radio at School, 1924

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Thursday, April 17, 1924. Japanese reaction.

Political cartoonists were making fun of it, but the Japanese were both measured and enraged by the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Act.  On this day, Japanese businesses in Japan began cancelling orders from the US in reaction.

Regarding the Chicago Tribune cartoon from above, one of the most remarkable things about it is that the cartoonist included five political parties.  One wouldn't do that today.

Wyoming's Senator F. E. Warrren was already urging reconsideration of the act, and urging meetings to consider its impact.

The All-India Yadav Mahasabha was formed to promote equal treatment of and rights for Yadav people, the poorest people in India's caste system.

Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures were merged by Marcus Loew to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In baseball:

April 17, 1924: Baby Doll Jacobson hits for the cycle, but Browns lose to White Sox

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Wednesday, April 16, 1924. Flyer forced down.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Wednesday, April 16, 1924. Flyer forced down.

Germany accepted the Dawes Plan.

Romania announced that it had settled its debts with Italy.

Senator Warren was reported as having voted against the Japanese Exclusion Act.


And an aircraft went down in the Around the World flight.


Henry (Enrico) Mancini was born.  He enlisted in the Army upon turning age 18 in 1943 and interestingly served in the 28th Air Force Band before being reassigned overseas to the 1306th Engineers Brigade in France.  He was the writer of many famous movie scores.

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Tuesday, April 15, 1924. Opening day.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Tuesday, April 15, 1924. Opening day.

Baseball didn't make the front page on this day in 1924.  The House passing the Japanese Exclusion Act did.

But it was opening day.



The silent one shook the hand of Bucky Harris.

Other athletic endeavors were going on as well.



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Sunday, April 13, 1924. Greeks decline a king.


Saturday, April 13, 2024

Sunday, April 13, 1924. Greeks decline a king.

Flag of the Second Hellenic Republic.

Greek voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots to abolish the monarchy and endorse the Second Hellenic Republic.

The king, however, wouldn't be gone forever. . . this time.

The round the world flight made impressive progress.


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Saturday, April 12, 1924. Madeline Blair and the USS Arizona.

Friday, April 12, 2024

Saturday, April 12, 1924. Madeline Blair and the USS Arizona.


The Chief Radio Operator of the USS Arizona discovered 19 year old prostitute Madeline Blair on board the ship when she lingered too long on deck at a water cooler, called a scuttlebutt, while the ship was off of Balboa, Panama, getting ready to pass through the canal.

She had been allowed to stow away and hide on board by sympathetic sialors who bought her sad tale of poverty and the need to go to California.  On board she was hidden in an unused genetaror compartment and charged $10.00/day for lodging and meals, a huge sum at the time, by ship's cooks and she plied her trade at $3.00 per trick.

Going on deck only at night, and dressing in dungarees and blue sailor's work shirt, she'd been earlier discovered by a sailor while watching a movie from a searchlight platform when he'd reached into the breast pocket of the shirt she was wearing and detected her correct anatomy.  While shocked, that sailor had kept his discovery to himself.  The Chief Radio Operator did not.  She was put ashore and then returned to New York on hte Panama Railway Company SS Cristobal, which charged the Navy for her fare.

Twenty-three sailors would be court-martialed and Blair would write her story for The San Francisco Examiner in 1928.

Dawes met with Mussolini, who expressed support for the Dawes Plan.

The House passed the Japanese Exclusion Act.

Friday, April 11, 1924. Closing borders.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Friday, April 11, 1924. Closing borders.

Japan, through its U.S. delegation, warned the US that grave consequences would occur if the Senate passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited immigration from Asian nations.

The noted was passed to the Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, LeBaron B. Colt.

On April 19, the U.S. Senate voted, 62 to 6, to pass the bill, which had already passed the House.

Arizona closed its border with California as part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.

4,000 Germans staged a demonstration in Breslau in favor of Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, to return to Germany as Kaiser Wilhelm III.  On the same day, the German Association of Industry released a statement expressing approval of the Dawes Plan.

Casper was no longer blue.


It hadn't been for very long.

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Thursday, April 10, 1924. Best dressed in the world?


Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Thursday, April 10, 1924. Best dressed in the world?

 There was of course headline news this day in 1924:


And the change in how Federal oil resources were administered was a huge one.

But it's the clothing ad that drew my attention:


"Best dressed men of all nations"?  

Nobody would claim that now.

The Townsend Hotel, which was dilapidated by the time I was a kid, was opening.  It was no doubt a great hotel at the time.  Its café remained in use until it closed in the 1970s, just after the Petroleum Club moved.  The café remained good until it closed, and was popular with men who worked downtown.


The Stratton's as realtors would carry on to the present day.

The Townsend remained abandoned from the 80s until it was refurbished as the current Natrona County Courthouse.  It's now the Townsend Justice Center.



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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Monday, April 7, 1924. Another around the world effort.

While the US Army Air Service was flying up, on this day, the Canadian coast towards Alaska, in its around the world effort, another such effort was commencing in Portugal.

The Portugese effort had the decency to start on  Monday, as opposed to the American one that launched on a Sunday.

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

Sunday, April 6, 1924. The launch of the around the world flight.

The Aerodrome: Sunday, April 6, 1924. The launch of the around t...

Sunday, April 6, 1924. The launch of the around the world flight.

The United States Army Air Service launched its around the world flying expedition from Seattle, Washington, although as previously noted, it could be argued the party had commenced several days prior by flying to Seattle.

Chicago, the lead Douglas World Cruiser.


Fascist swept Italian parliamentary elections.

Note, they really swept them.  So, like Germany later, authoritarianism was brought about by the vote.

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Friday, April 5, 2024

Saturday, April 5, 1924. Fighting the KKK in Lilly.

We haven't featured one for awhile, as they haven't been great, but on this day, The Country Gentleman restored the dignity of magazine cover art with a spring theme.
The Ku Klux Klan shot 22 people in Lilly, Pennsylvania, killing two.  The gunfire was sort of the equivalent of a drive by shooting, with the KKK shooting randomly into the town's railroad station after some townsmen, miner workers who were heavily immigrants from Eastern Europe, had "played a stream of water from the town fire hose upon the visitors(KKK) as they were marching back to the station." 

The KKK was in Lilly for one of their ceremonies in a local field and was returning to the station for transport to Johnstown, PA.  They did catch the train, and upon arrival at Johnstown they were met with 50 policemen who arrested 25 Klansman and confiscated 50 firearms.  The next day, an additional four residents of Lilly were arrested. Twenty-nine people were charged with murder.

Lilly was a mining town, and like most of them it had a strong contingent of Catholic and Orthodox miners, members of ethnicities that the Klan didn't like. A strong UMW union town, the residents weren't cowed by the KKK.  A monument to their efforts has been placed in the town in recent years.

Locally, there were concerns about spring floods. And the flight around the globe was suffering delays.


And the accusations against the former Attorney General Daugherty were getting bizarre.


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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Friday, April 4, 1924. Wolves in Albany County.

Educational broadcasting began with the introduction of what is now BBC School Radio.

Frank Capone, the brother of Al, received an elaborate funeral in Chicago.  Al closed speakeasies and gambling establishments that he owned in honor of his dishonorable brother.  Some of the press in the crime-ridden town lauded the late mobster and criticized the police in his death.

Wolves raided cattle in Albany County.


Wolves were recently reintroduced in Northern Colorado and there is some angst in some quarters that the reintroduced predators, unable to appreciate the giant dotted lines that make up state borders, will come into Wyoming, which they will, and be shot here, which is a real risk.  Perhaps somewhat mitigating against that, there's been rumors as far back as the 1980s, when I lived in Laramie, that there were already wolves in Albany County.

One of the reintroduce Colorado wolves has killed a calf in Grand County, Colorado, so the first instance of livestock depredation has now occured.  Initially, Colorado's fish and game declined to opinion on whether the wolf involved was one of the new residents, or one of the ones that was part of a pack of ten that established itself by crossing down from Wyoming in 2020.  The fact that they 'ad reestablished themselves on their own, as they will do, does give rise to the question of why an artificial reintroduction in Colorado was necessary.

It probably wasn't.

Gil Hodges, baseball great, was born in Princeton, Indiana.  Hodges died at age 47 after suffering a heart attack.


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Wednesday, April 2, 1924. Selecting Harlan Stone.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Wednesday, April 2, 1924. Selecting Harlan Stone.

Calvin Coolidge, just one day after saying he had decided a new Attorney General, nominated Harlan Fiske Stone to that position.


Stone, who had been the dean of Columbia Law School, would go on from that position to the United States Supreme Court and ultimately Chief Justice.

The Bulgarian Communist Party was outlawed due to its role in attempting to overthrow the government.

A large demonstration broke out at the funeral of German monarchist Wilhelm Dreyer who had died in a French prison following his dynamiting a train in the French occupied Ruhr.

The Cla McIver rescued passengers of the SS Frangestan which had caught on fire. The 1,200 mostly Muslim passengers were on their way to Mecca.

Bobby Ávila, 1954 American League batting champion and Player of the Year, was born in Veracruz.  He'd later be mayor of the city.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, April 1, 1924. Sentencing coup plotters.