Premiered on this day in 1924. It had been filmed on location. Anna Mae Wong, the famous Chinese American actress, was cast as an Inuit.
It was a bad day for police officers:
Deputy Constable J. Edward Brown:
Police Officer Francis X. "Buck" Roy
Patrol Inspector James F. Mankin
Walter "Big Train" Johnson was chosen Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player
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Released on this day in 1924.
A different type of inferno had broken out on Casper Mountain.
Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera issued a manifesto to the army appealing for an extension of his emergency powers in which he stated: "One year is too short a time to attempt to carry out the work which lay before the directorio when we assumed power." He'd remain in power until 1930, by which time he'd lost support of the king, and the military, the latter of which had never fully backed him.
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The around the world flyers landed at Indian Harbour, Labrador (which was not yet part of Canada), thereby having arrived again in North America.
United with Newfoundland, Labrador would not become part of Canada until 1949.
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia proclaimed himself heir to the Russian throne.
Wine was released, which featured Clara Bow in her first leading role.
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Chancellor Wilhelm Marx informed the Reichstag that he would ratify the London agreement whether the Reichstag approved it or not and even if it meant a downfall of the government and new elections.
The Cheyenne paper pointed out that summer was drawing to a close.
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The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law making all Native Americans U.S. citizens. A little under half of the 300,000 Native Americans in the country became citizens for the first time due to the act.
It read:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.
The Communist Party's Central Committee chose the real leaders of the country, the Politburo. The leaders chosen, in the wake of Lenin's death, were Bukharin, Stalin, Trotsky, Rykov, Kamenev, Tomsky and Zinoviev. They'd all be victims of Stalin's purge, save obviously for Stalin, with Tomsky being the only one who wasn't executed, but only because he killed himself rather than be arrested.
Frank Lloyd's The Sea Hawk made an early premier in New York City.
Casper saw a big Chamber of Commerce Drive:
Locally, plans were being advanced for the construction of the Presbyterian church, which were published in one of the papers.
The church ultimately constructed would look a big different.
City Park Church, formerly First Presbyterian Church, Casper Wyoming
This is City Park Church, and was formerly, as noted below in the original entry, the First Presbyterian Church.This Presbyterian Church is located one block away from St. Mark's Episcopal Church and St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, all of which are separated from each other by City Park.The corner stone of the church gives the dates 1913 1926. I'm not sure why there are two dates, but the church must have been completed in 1926.This century old church became the home of the former First Baptist Church congregation on February 28, 2020, and as noted in a thread we'll link in below, had been experiencing a lot of changes prior to that.The original entry here was one of the very first on this blog and dated at least back as far as January 25, 2011. While the architecture hasn't changed at all, with the recent change our original entry became misleading to an extent.
Related Threads:Grace Reformed at City Park, formerly First Presbyterian Church, Casper Wyoming
Changes in Downtown Casper. First Presbyterian becomes City Park Church, the former First Baptist Church.
And, as can be seen, events have resulted in some denominational shifting.
The morning edition was full of all sorts of dramatic news.
German elections were held, resulting in the Social Democratic Party of Germany narrowly maintaining a small plurality of 100 seats. The German National People's Party finished with 95.
The Soviet Union demanded an apology for yesterday's police raid.
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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.
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.
The Nixon Nitration Works disaster occured in which an explosion of ammonium nitrate killed at least 18 people, destroyed several miles of New Jersey factories, and demolished Nixon, New Jersey.
While a very famous industrial disaster, the Nixon Nitration Works and Nixon New Jersey are remembered now principally for being mentioned in Band of Brothers as Cpt. Lewis Nixon III, a major character Ambrose's depiction of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, mentions it. Lewis Nixon was in fact a member of the family that owned the plant, and it was the case that Richard Winters, his close friend and for most of his service in Europe his superior, worked there for a time after the war.
The Nixon's were troubled in general, and Lewis Nixon III was no exception. His marriage contracted just after the start of the war failed during it, as did a subsequent one. A third marriage to Grace Umezawa, formerly a Japanese internee, was successful. She helped him overcome the alcoholism depicted during the series.
The KDP, the Communist Part of Germany, was reinstated. The KDP, together with the NADSP, the Nazi Party, would figure enormously in the destruction of German democracy as the extremes grew increasingly powerful in the remaining years of the Weimar Republic.
Alice's Day at Sea, the first of 57 Alice comedies produced by Walt Disney, appeared. They were short films meant to be shown before the feature, something at one time common.
White rats paraded in San Pedro, California.
Not a hack, but on this day, an Irish Traveler feeding his pony on this day in 1924.
A 20-year-old marrying a 15-year-old?
And she was in 6th Grade?
Calvin Coolidge.
While we keep harping on it, and yes medicine has really advanced since 1924, Wilson's death at age 67 wasn't surprising then, and really isn't now. He was old, by age 67. Electing a President older than that is foolish.
Alimony, a film, was released.
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Like many films of this era, the plot is melodramatic and a bit hard to follows. Apparently, the female protagonist sells her inventor husband's nifty invention to a wealthy oilman who covets her. She leaves her husband due to a made up affair, demanding a huge alimony, which she obtains. However, she wasn't fooled, and goes on to marry him again on her terms, whatever that means.
