Tuesday, May 18, 1909. Sulfanilamide,

A patent was issued to Heinrich Hoerlein of the Bayer company for a sulfanilamide, the first synthesized sulfonamide. 

It was not until1935 that the antibiotic properties of sulfonamides were realized.

Hoerlien would go on to rise to power in the IG Farben company.  He joined the Nazi Party in 1934 after having campaigned against Hermann Göring's law banning testing on animals, showing how radical movements then and now had similar traits.  He went on to have knowledge of the company's production of Zyklon B and was tried after the war was a war criminal, but acquitted.  He had a place on the board of Bayer after the war.

Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, chose his 14-year-old grandson Lij Iyasu as his successor.

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Wednesday, May 12, 1909. The Taft Summer Residence.

1900s, 1909, Massachusetts, William Howard Taft

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

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

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

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

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

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.

1920s, 1924, Army, baseball, Calvin Coolidge, cavalry, Equine Transportation, Sports

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?

1920s, 1924, 2010s, Advertising, Casper Wyoming, Clothing, Government, Growing up in the 1970s, Lodging, Petroleum, restaurants and bars, Wyoming's boom and bust economy

Tuesday, April 1, 1924. Sentencing coup plotters.

White House, April 1, 1924.

Adolf Hitler, Ernst Pöhner, Hermann Kriebel and Friedrich Webe were sentenced to five years for his attempted overthrow of the German government.  Erich Ludendorff was acquitted.

Hitler was released from incarceration in December, giving the world a sometimes unheeded lesson about the failure to treat coups seriously.

Northern Rhodesia, which is now Zambia, became a British protectorate, its status as a private colony administered by the British South Africa Company having ended.

The Royal Canadian Air Force received royal assent from King George V, having previously been the Canadian Air Force.

Calvin Coolidge gave a press conference, as he very frequently did.  Replacing Daughter was a major topic in it.

The National Guard was still in the process of re-forming, literary, following Wilson's haphazard discharging of the conscripted Guard, which came about due to an odd process itself, following World War One.  We've dealt with that elsewhere. The Wyoming National Guard (it was all the Army National Guard at the time) was being reformed as cavalry, rather than infantry, as it had been before the war, and had, by that time, taken on its new unit designation of the 115th Cavalry Regiment.

As part of that process, the Guard now had a newspaper.

The paper is interesting as it demonstrated the early organization of the 115th, with the Headquarters Troop being located in Laramie.

This from Reddit's 100 Years Ago sub, the Radio News was correctly predicting medicine, and television, and maybe the Internet, of the future.

Frank Capone, age 28, was shot by Chicago police in a gun battle.  He was the older brother of Al Capone.

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Monday, March 31, 1924. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (actually III) and the Teapot Dome Affair, Making Working Girls Homeless, and the Start of the Fishing Season.

1900s, 1909, 1920s, 1924, Aircraft, Casper Wyoming, Crime, fishing, Sandbar District of Casper Wyoming, Sex, Teapot Dome Scandal, Theodore Roosevelt, Transportation, United Kingdom, Wyoming Game & Fish Department

Sunday, March 30, 1924. Camp Carey

Wow, what headlines.

I linked this in because of the reference to "Camp Carey", a Boy Scout Camp somewhere on Boxelder Creek, the land for which was donated by former Governor Robert D. Carey.

The Casper Herald also mentioned it on the front page.

It's not there today, and I don't know where it is, or what happened to it.  A search for its fate was in vain, although through that method, I learned that it had been in existence as late as the 1950s and a local figure's obituary proudly noted his role in establishing it.  A Camp Carey Road exists in Wyoming, but it seems to be in the Pole Mountain area of Albany County, which this is not.  Indeed, there's a reference to a military "Camp Carey" that predates this 1924 Boy Scout establishment.

By 1925, Girl Scouts were also using the "woodland paradise".

In 1926, a terrible weather related tragedy occured there, apparently.

Twelve people died from drinking denatured alcohol at a party in Toledo, Ohio.  That is, alcohol with poisons added to it by regulation.

This is very common and is designed to keep industrial and commercial alcohol from being used as a drink.

The German People's Party announced its election platform of a "new democratic monarchy".

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Saturday, March 29, 1924. Yesterday's news, or not. Morning mail.

1920s, 1924, 1950, 1950s, 1960, 1969, Crime, Mail, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Post Office, Teapot Dome Scandal, Weather

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.

1920s, 1924, Cartoons, Fascism, Italy, Mussolini

Blog Mirror: Hitler's trial for high treason and the death of German democracy

 

Hitler's trial for high treason and the death of German democracy

Friday, February 29, 1924. Slashing taxes. Ludendorff testifies.

 The date was notable as, like this year, there was one.  Most years, there isn't.

The House of Representatives used the extra day for the very popular slashing of income taxes.

Erich Ludendorff took the stand on his defense for treason in Munich, declaring that "We want a Germany free of Marxism, semitism, and papal influences."