Well, it was the "Night Mail" edition. You'd get it Saturday morning.
Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Saturday, March 29, 1924. Yesterday's news, or not. Morning mail.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Friday, March 28, 1924. Daugherty resigns.
Harry Micajah Daugherty resigned as U.S. Attorney General due to the Teapot Dome Scandal.
He returned to private practice, authored a book about the Harding Administration from an insider's protective, and died in 1941 at age 81.
Total, the French petroleum company, was founded.
Coolidge delivered a Press Conference:
Press Conference, March 28, 1924
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Tuesday, March 25, 1924. Casper goes blue.
Monday, March 25, 2024
Tuesday, March 25, 1924. Casper goes blue.
Casper adopted a blue law:
I wish we had one now.
I really do.
Also, while De la Huerta was now in exile, some fighting was apparently still going on, tragically.
The Greek parliament voted to boot out the monarchy and declare a republic, subject to an April 13, 1924 referendum.
British aviators joined in a de facto race with the US Army in attempting to be the first to complete an airborne circumnavigation of the world, when British teams departed from Calshot, near South Hampton.
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Monday, March 24, 1924. Aid for the German poor.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Monday, March 24, 1924. Aid for the German poor.
The House of Representatives voted to appropriate $10,000,000 for food for poor women and children in Germany.
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Sunday, March 23, 1924. Noise.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Sunday, March 23, 1924. Noise.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Thursday, March 20, 1924. Barbarity Codified.
Virginia's Racial Integrity Act and Eugenical Sterilization Act went into effect, seeing two vile trains of thought combine into legislation on a single day.
The former barred that if a person had a great-grandparent who was black, they were black, and were barred from marrying outside of that racial category. The Pocahontas Clause" provided an exception for Native American heritage, sort of, in that if a person had 15/16th European heritage, they would be deemed white.
An emergency existing, this act shall be enforced from its passage.
Chap. 394. - An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases. [S B 281]
Approved March 20, 1924.
Whereas, both the health of the individual patient and the welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by the sterilization of mental defectives under careful safeguard and by competent and conscientious authority, and
Whereas, such sterilization may be effected in males by the operation of vasectomy and in females by the operation of salpingectomy, both of which said operations may be performed without serious pain or substantial danger to the life of the patient, and
Whereas, the Commonwealth has in custodial care and is supporting in various State institutions many defective persons who if now discharged or paroled would likely become by the propagation of their kind a menace to society but who if incapable of procreating might properly and safely be discharged or paroled and become self-supporting with benefit both to themselves and to society, and
Whereas, human experience has demonstrated that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of sanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime, now, therefore
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever the superintendent of the Western State Hospital, or of the Eastern State Hospital, or of the Southwestern State Hospital, or of the Central State Hospital, or the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, shall be of opinion that it is for the best interests of the patients and of society that any inmate of the institution under his care should be sexually sterilized, such superintendent is hereby authorized to perform, or cause to be performed by some capable physicians or surgeon, the operation of sterilization on any such patient confined in such institution afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy; provided that such superintendent shall have first complied with the requirements of this act.
2. Such superintendent shall first present to the special board of directors of his hospital or colony a petition stating the facts of the case and the grounds of his opinion, verified by his affidavit to the best of his knowledge and belief, and praying that an order may be entered by said board requiring him to perform or have performed by some competent physician to be designated by him in his said petition or by said board in its order, upon the inmate of his institution named in such petition, the operation of vasectomy if upon a male and of salpingectomy if upon a female.
A copy of said petition must be served upon the inmate together with a notice in writing designating the time and place in the said institution, not less than thirty days before the presentation of such petition to said special board of directors when and where said board may hear and act upon such petition [10]
—Virginia General Assembly, March 20, 1924
Finnair commenced commercial flights.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Wednesday, March 19, 1924. Oil and the GOP.
The Mongolian "Department of Women's Development" was formed as Mongolia slipped into Communist repression.
Oil and the GOP was in the headlines.
Monday, March 18, 2024
Tuesday, March 18, 1924. The high water mark of the Irish Mutiny.
Forty armed Irish soldiers assembled at a hotel in Dublin to plan the next move in the Irish Army Mutiny. A possible coup d'état against the Irish government was on the table.
Loyal Irish troops surrounded the hotel and there was a standoff. The result was that the young Irish government responded by securing the resignation of Irish Army Council members, along with that of Defense Minister Richard Mulcahy.
The mutiny was of the oldest type, an army rebelling for itself. Mulcahy would go on to a long career in Irish government, including as Minister of Education.
A soldier bonus bill was passed in the US.
St. Mark's is a major downtown church in Casper today.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Casper Wyoming
This traditionally styled Episcopal Church includes the office buildings for the church a meeting room, kitchen and a day school, so the interior space used for services is smaller than the large exterior might suggest.
The view featured on the bottom photograph could not be seen until recently, as a large house once stood in what is now an open area. The church is across the street from the former St. Anthony's Catholic School, which has moved to a new location across town. The church was built in 1924.
It's stunning to think it was built for $120,000.
The Douglas Fairbanks film, The Thief of Baghdad, was released.
Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was caught by the paparazzi on the streets of Washington D.C.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Monday, March 17, 1924 Telephones and grim news.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 15, 1924. Passing symbols and elections.
Maj. Gen. DeRosey Cabell, age 62, Chief of Staff during the Punitive Expedition under Pershing, died. He had been retired since 1919.
Brig Gen. Richard Henry Pratt, former head of the Carlisle Indian School and advocate for cultural assimilation of Native Americans, died at age 83. He coined the word "racism", but also advocated for the policy that he expressed as "Kill the Indian...save the man."
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Thursday, March 13, 1924. Send in the Marines.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Thursday, March 12, 1924 Exile in Florida.
Adolfo de la Huerta went into exile to Florida, following his initial flight to Los Angeles after the collapse of his revolution in Mexico. He's soon return to Los Angeles.
The World Court of the League of Nations issued its decision in the border dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia within the Orava Territory. Czechoslovakia was allowed to retain Javorina and Ždiar in return for ceding Nižná Lipnica to Poland. Poland ceded territory around Sucha Góra and Glodōvka became Suchá Hora and Hladovka in what is now Slovakia. The dispute had led to conflict in 1919.
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Monday, March 10, 1924. Denby resigns.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Monday, March 10, 1924. Denby resigns.
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, declaring that he was "dying with my face toward the enemy", resigned before being asked to do so due to the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Sunday, March 9, 1924. Disaster in Utah, Oil and War.
The French Cabinet held an emergency session over the collapsing franc.
Dangerous "boy gangs" were cruising Denver, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
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Saturday, March 8, 1924. The Castle Gate Disaster.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Saturday, March 8, 1924. The Castle Gate Disaster.
Three explosions at the Castle Gate coal mine in Utah killed all 171 miners working at the mine. It is one of the worst mining disasters in American history.
Nikola Tesla spoke publically for the firs time in many years to declare he had perfected a system of transmitting power without wires.
The Kingdom of Greece established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union while, on the same day, the Prime Minister was forced to resign after refusing the Army's call to abolish the monarchy.
Henry Breault, a submariner, received the Medal of Honor. He is the only enlisted submariner to have ever received the medal.
For heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the U.S. submarine O-5 at the time of the sinking of that vessel. On the morning of 28 October 1923, the O-5 collided with the steamship Abangarez and sank in less than a minute. When the collision occurred, Breault was in the torpedo room. Upon reaching the hatch, he saw that the boat was rapidly sinking. Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself. Breault and Brown remained trapped in this compartment until rescued by the salvage party 31 hours later.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Friday, March 7, 1924. End of a Revolution and a Mutiny.
The Delahueristas surrendered with President Álvaro Obregón offering them an amnesty which they largely accepted and de la Huerta entered into the US, going to Los Angeles. Mexican army officers who had been part of the revolution who held a rank higher than major were ordered to be executed.
De la Huerta's revolution came after Obregón endorsed Plutarco Calles as his successor and was favored by Catholics, conservatives and a considerable portion of the army officers. Obregón was supported by the U.S. government, agrarians, workers and it resulted in the establishment of the Mexican Air Force.
An Irish Army demobilization, resulting in reduced numbers, met the opposition of the Irish Republican Army Organization (IRAO) which delivered an ultimatum to President Cosgrave from Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton, demanding it cease. Defense Minister Richard Mulcahy ordered the arrest of both officers on charges of mutiny.
President Coolidge held a press conference:
Press Conference, March 7, 1924
Mr. President, are you approaching a decision on that matter?
Will they probably be reappointed, Mr. President?
Did the newspaper men make any suggestions, Mr. President, or give you any aid?
I noticed the statement given out yesterday, but it isn’t quite clear.
That had reference to the expiration of the terms of the two District Commissioners, didn’t it?
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Thursday, March 6, 1924. The US Olympic Equestrian Team.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Thursday, March 6, 1924. The US Olympic Equestrian Team.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Wednesday, March 5, 1924. An attempted caliphate.
Following the Turkish Assemblies abolishment of the caliphate, Hussein bin Ali, King of the Hejaz and Sharif of Mecca, was proclaimed the Caliph of all Muslims by Muslim leaders in Mesopotamia and Transjordania. Global Muslim reaction was mostly negative and it didn't take. This date is somewhat disputed, and it could have taken place a couple of days earlier, or later.
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Tuesday, March 4, 1924. Waltzing Matilda.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Tuesday, March 4, 1924. Waltzing Matilda.
Aiden de Brune became the first person to walk all he way around Australia. His return to Melbourne was the completion of a journey he began on September 21, 1921.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica resulted in the death of 70 people.
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