Bearpaw Mountains, Montana. July 31, 1920. Viewing scenes like this before the widespread introduction of the automobile was a fairly involved endeavor. After the automobile. . . not so much.
The hottest month of the year was coming on, and people were getting out in automobiles, still a new innovation in 1920.
And accordingly still being celebrated on the cover of magazines.
In a hot region of the United States, the U.S. border with Mexico, Laredo, Nuevo Laredo and Ft. McIntosh found themselves being photographed.
Cities of Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. July 31, 1920.
Fort McIntosh, Texas, 1920. This post dated to 1849 and was named after a U.S. Army officer of the Mexican War. It's now part of the Laredo Community College.
At the same time it looked like the Mexican conflict in Lower California was cooling down.
Worried about the male casualty rate of the Great War, France banned every type of contraceptive. Part of that concern was founded in the fact that France's pre war birth rate was at 2.5 children per woman, which is statistical replacement, not growth. France had slipped below replacement during the war, and it never returned to it, pointing out something that I discussed in another post here earlier this past week.
Communism continued its bloody rise as lands went over to it and others hoped to take lands into it. Byelorussia saw the formation of a local Communist Party on this day following the recent occupation of Minsk by the Red Army. The Communist Party remains strong there to this day. In the UK, the Communist Party of Great Britain was formed. It reached its high water mark in 1946 with 60,000 members, but fell so low that it disbanded in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union.
