Monday at the Bar: The Lawyer?

 

Casper newspaper ad, May 13, 1924.

Tuesday, May 13, 1924. Conventions wrap up.

The 1924 Wyoming Republican and Democratic conventions ended and chose their candidates.

The GOP chose Calvin Coolidge, and the Democrats Wyoming Senator John B. Kendrick.

The Kendrick decision proved to be a non-starter.  He'd receive no support at all at that year's Democratic national convention.

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Monday, May 12, 1924. Final filly wins the Preakness.

1920s, 1924, France, German Weimar Republic, Horse Racing, USSR

Monday, May 12, 1924. Final filly wins the Preakness.

Nellie Morse became the fourth, and last, filly to win the Preakness.  She's the only horse to win the Preakness and the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

Maryland's Nellie Morse Stakes, restricted to fillies and mares, is named after her.

The USSR began a boycott of Germany over the Bozenhardt Incident.

Prohibition came to an end in Alberta, with two government owned liquor stores opening.

Raymond Poincaré announced he would resign as French Prime Minister as soon as a new government was formed, following recent French elections.

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Friday, May 9, 1924. Scottish question results in chaos.

1880s, 1885, 1920s, 1924, 1990s, 1999, Aircraft, Belfast Northern Ireland, Calvin Coolidge, Immigration, Japan, law, Mail, Scotland, Scotland (Liverpool), Washington DC

Friday, May 9, 1924. Scottish question results in chaos.

Portrait taken on this day in 1924.

President Coolidge's attempt to delay the implementation of restrictions on Japanese immigration was defeated by the House of Representatives.

George Buchanan introduced a Scottish Home Rule bill, but the debated descended into chaos and Parliament adjourned for the day.

Administrative devolution was granted to Scotland in 1885.  Home rule in the form of the Scottish Parliament was granted in 1999.

In the US, Washington D.C. has home rule, unfortunately.

The Westland Dreadnought was destroyed in a crash.

Air mail service from Belfast to Liverpool was established.

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Wednesday, May 7, 1924. Liberty.

1920s, 1924, German Weimar Republic, Labor unrest, Mexico, Mining, Peru, Politics, Ruhr, Socialism, South America, The Press

Wednesday, May 7, 1924. Liberty.

 

The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance was founded in Mexico City by Peruvian politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre as a Latin American left wing political party/alliance of left wing political parties.  It still exists.

The first issue of Liberty, dated May 10, appeared.  It lasted until July 1950.

German miners went on strike in he Ruhar over wages.

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Tuesday, May 6, 1924. After shocks of World War One and the beginnings of the 30s.

1920s, 1924, Fascism, German Weimar Republic, Macedonia, Marriage, Romania, The relationship between men and women, USSR, Women, Yugoslavia

Tuesday, May 6, 1924. After shocks of World War One and the beginnings of the 30s.

The Soviet Union suspended trade with Germany over the Bozenhardt incident.

The founding meeting of the anti-Semitic Romanian organization  Frăția de Cruce was raided by the Romanian national police under orders of local police chief Constantin Manciu.

Macedonian separatist presented their May Manifesto.

Bride's party, May 6, 1924.

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Monday, May 5, 1924. Cuban revolt spreads.

1920s, 1924, Cuba, Education, Japan, Korea

Monday, May 5, 1924. Cuban revolt spreads.

The ongoing Cuban revolution spread to Oriente Province.

The Pusan Public Industrial Continuation School, later the Busan National University of Technology,  now part of Pukyong National University, was established in Japanese occupied and ruled Korea.

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Sunday, May 4, 1924. Summer Olympics. Not ousting councilman over booze.

1920s, 1924, 1924 at the Movies, 1924 Olympics, Calvin Coolidge, Casper Wyoming, German Weimar Republic, Movies, Newspapers, Olympics, Prohibition, Protestant, religion, Society of American Wars, Wyoming (Casper)

Sunday, May 4, 1924. Summer Olympics. Not ousting councilman over booze.

The 1924 Summer Olympics opened in France with preliminary competitions and a really cool logo.

Men, opened.

It's lost.

The Society of American Wars, which was a thing, met with Coolidge.

Efforts to boot Councilman Royce failed, due to the state of the law.

And the transglobal flight was back at it.

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.

British sponsored Assyrian Levies killed 50 in Kirkuk.

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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Saturday, May 3, 1924. Foundings.

1920s, 1924, Art, boats and ships, California, German Weimar Republic, Judaism, Nebraska, Nebraska (Omaha), Omaha Nebraska, Personalities, religious organizations, Teenagers, USSR, Youth Organizations

Saturday, May 3, 1924. Foundings.

The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA or אצא), an international fraternity for Jewish teenagers, was founded in Omaha, Nebraska.

It would go on to found the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization a year later.

The SS Catalina, which would be in service for 51 years ferrying passengers between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, was launched.

German police raided the Soviet Trade Delegation

Zinaida Kokorina, against the odds and through the intervention of the Soviet head of state, became the first female military pilot on this day in 1924.

She wanted to become a fighter pilot, but was persuaded to remain a flight instructor, which she did through World War Two.  She later became headmistress of a village school at Cholpon-Ata in Kyrgyzstan before retiring to Moscow.

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Friday, May 2, 1924. Craters of the Moon.

1920s, 1924, Calvin Coolidge, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Cuba, Government, Idaho, Radio

Friday, May 2, 1924. Craters of the Moon.

President Coolidge placed an arms embargo on Cuba at the request of its government.  

Craters of the Moon National Monument was established.

WHEREAS, there is located in townships one south, one and two National Monument, north, ranges twenty-four and twenty-five east of the Boise Meridian, in Butte and Blaine Counties, Idaho, an area which contains a remarkable fissure eruption together with its associated volcanic cones, craters, rifts, lava flows, caves, natural bridges, and other phenomena characteristic of volcanic action which are of unusual scientific value and general interest; and

WHEREAS, this area contains many curious and unusual phenomena of great educational value and has a weird and scenic landscape peculiar to itself; and

WHEREAS, it appears that the public interest would be promoted by reserving these volcanic features as a National Monument, together with as much land as may be needed for the protection thereof.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by authority of the power in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,” approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and

six (34 Stat., 225) do proclaim that there is hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all valid existing claims, and set apart as a National Monument all that piece or parcel of land in the Counties of Butte and Blaine, State of Idaho, shown as the Craters of the Moon National Monument upon the diagram hereto annexed and made a part hereof.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this Monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled, “An Act to establish a National Park Service and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (39 Stat., 535) and Acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Washington this 2d day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty – eighth.

Sen. Robert Howell (R-Neb.) proposed that the Senate broadcast its proceedings via radio. 

Doing so would have cost $3,300,000 in 1924 dollars, which would be $100,000,000 now, thanks to inflation. The initiative died.

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Thursday, May 1, 1924. Salt.

1920s, 1924, Automobiles, German Weimar Republic, Germany, Labor unrest, May Day, Medicine

Thursday, May 1, 1924. Salt.

Iodized salt was introduced in the US, which addressed a pile of thyroid related problems.

Having had half of my thyroid cut out this year, I appreciate that.

It was Canadian pediatrician David Murray Crowe who became aware that the addition of sodium iodide or potassium iodide to salt could safely remedy the problem of iodine deficiency that was a leading cause of thyroid problems.

Benz und Companie and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft combined operations, but had not yet quite merged.

May Day demonstrations occured across the US.

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Wednesday, April 30, 1924. More tornadoes.

1920s, 1924, Animals, Calvin Coolidge, Cats, Cuba, First Around The World Flight, police, Weather

Wednesday, April 30, 1924. More tornadoes.

Tige, the Coolidge's cat.

Tornadoes killed 111 people in five southern states.

The lead plane in the transglobal flight effort, the Seattle, crashed in fog near Port Moller, Alaska. The crew was unharmed.

A short-lived rebellion broke out in Cuba under Gen. Laredo Bru.

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Tuesday, April 29, 1924. The Townsend Fire.

1920s, 1924, British Empire, Casper Wyoming, Disaster, Prohibition, Rhodesia, The American South, Weather, Wyoming (Casper), Zimbabwe

Tuesday, April 29, 1924. The Townsend Fire.

In Casper, the well known fire in the Townsend Building broke out.

The building still stands, and still looks largely the same as it did in 1924, although its exterior would be renovated in 1934.

This building is not, of course, to be confused with Casper's Townsend Hotel, which is now the Townsend Justice Center.

And Councilman Royce was struggling to retain his position.

There was a huge tornado outbreak in the southern United States.

"His Master's Voice", Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1924.

Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, elected its first colonial legislature, with voting restricted to whites.

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Monday, April 28, 1924. Another West Virginian Coal Mine Disaster.

1920s, 1924, 1930, 1930s, Coal, Crime, Disaster, Herbert Hoover, Indiana, Ku Klux Klan, Mining, West Virginia

Monday, April 28, 1924. Another West Virginian Coal Mine Disaster.

Ten years after the terrible disaster at Eccles, West Virginia, which killed 180 coal miners, 119 were killed in a mine explosion at Benwood, West Virginia.

Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana was booked into the Marion County Jail after being found guilty of fraud by a Federal Jury.

McCray had been an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan who helped figure in his conviction, although McCray admitted the truth of the allegations, which involved promissory notes and land speculation.  Becuase of the KKK's involvement, McCray was pardoned by President Hoover in 1930.  He lived out the rest of his days after serving three years of his sentence on his farm.

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Sunday, April 27, 1924. Weimar warns.

1920s, 1924, Dawes Plan, German Weimar Republic

Sunday, April 27, 1924. Weimar warns.

The German government issued a warning against extremist opposing the Dawes Plan, noting that its rejection might lead to a second World War.

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Friday, April 25, 1924. Denver Colorado receives 24" of snow, Jilted "Girl" lawyer turns killer.

Location: Denver, CO, USA