Wednesday, December 31, 1924. Final Home Edition.

 

Last edition:

Monday, December 29, 1924. 4 ROH + 4 CO + O2 → 2 (CO2R)2 + 2 H2O

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Thursday, October 23, 1924. Beijing Coup.

General Feng Yuxiang carried out the Beijing Coup overthrowing President Cao Kun and installing Huang Fu as the new Chinese president.

Ontario's voters rejected a proposal to end prohibition.

Last edition:

Wednesday, October 22, 1924. Toast.

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World War 2 Ice Cream of the US NAVY

Ice cream was traditionally a big deal in the U.S. Navy, in no small part as it was a Navy Prohibition era substitute for alcohol.  It became a huge cultural thing in the Navy.  US ships were equipped with ice cream makers, which a baffled Royal Navy had omitted when they ordered U.S. designs.

Anyhow, a World War Two themed item here.

Also, there's no excuse for nuts in or on ice cream.

Blog Mirror: 1924 Welch’s Grape Juice Ad

 

1924 Welch’s Grape Juice Ad

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.

Last prior edition:

Saturday, May 3, 1924. Foundings.

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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.

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Tuesday, April 22, 1924. Silent Cal.

President Coolidge gave the famous "You Lose" reply to Associated Press president Frank B. Noyes introduction to the AP conference that stated that Noyes could "get more than two words" out Coolidge.

The occasion was a press conference in which Coolidge proposed an international disarmament treaty modeled after the Washington Naval Treaty.

John Phillip Hill presented petition on the country's liquor prohibition.

Hill was a Congressman from Maryland who would himself be arrested during prohibition after he planted apples and grapes at his home, and used them for alcohol.  He renamed his home a "farm", as farmers were allowed to do that for home consumption, which didn't serve to avoid the law.  A jury found him not guilty as his products, at a whopping 12% alcohol, were "not intoxicating in fact".

German born Western artist Herman Wendelborg Hansen died at age 70.

Last prior edition:

Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924.

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Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924.

The first public Mass at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. took.  The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan.

Shahan is interred in a crypt as the basilica, the only person to have received internment there to date.

The Turkish Constitution was ratified by the Grand National Assembly.  It established Islam as the official religion and Turkish as the official language.  Ankara was established as the capital.

The Casper Daily Tribune issued an Easter Sunday edition noting the result of the prior day's meeting on a councilman with a liquor charge.

And tourists were being de bugged.

Last prior edition:

Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.

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Friday, April 4, 1924. Wolves in Albany County.

Educational broadcasting began with the introduction of what is now BBC School Radio.

Frank Capone, the brother of Al, received an elaborate funeral in Chicago.  Al closed speakeasies and gambling establishments that he owned in honor of his dishonorable brother.  Some of the press in the crime-ridden town lauded the late mobster and criticized the police in his death.

Wolves raided cattle in Albany County.

Wolves were recently reintroduced in Northern Colorado and there is some angst in some quarters that the reintroduced predators, unable to appreciate the giant dotted lines that make up state borders, will come into Wyoming, which they will, and be shot here, which is a real risk.  Perhaps somewhat mitigating against that, there's been rumors as far back as the 1980s, when I lived in Laramie, that there were already wolves in Albany County.

One of the reintroduce Colorado wolves has killed a calf in Grand County, Colorado, so the first instance of livestock depredation has now occured.  Initially, Colorado's fish and game declined to opinion on whether the wolf involved was one of the new residents, or one of the ones that was part of a pack of ten that established itself by crossing down from Wyoming in 2020.  The fact that they 'ad reestablished themselves on their own, as they will do, does give rise to the question of why an artificial reintroduction in Colorado was necessary.

It probably wasn't.

Gil Hodges, baseball great, was born in Princeton, Indiana.  Hodges died at age 47 after suffering a heart attack.

Last prior edition:

Wednesday, April 2, 1924. Selecting Harlan Stone.

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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.

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Friday, February 15, 1924. Gun fire and back pay.

U.S. Marines landed at Ampala, Honduras, during the Honduran Civil War.

U.S. Senator Frank L. Greene was wounded by a stray bullet when he was walking on Pennsylvanian Avenue in Washington, D. C.  The shot had been fired in a shootout between bootleggers and Federal agents.  He never fully recovered.

The jury in Joe Jackson's case against the White Sox awarded him $16,000 in back pay.   The Judge, however, decreed that the award was based on perjured testimony and set the verdict aside.  Jackson nonetheless felt himself vindicated.

German emergency powers, which had existed since December 8, lapsed, returning the government to its normal procedures.

Wednesday, January 23, 1924. Red Dead Relocation.

Mexican rebels decided to forego a blockade, but they took Saltillo and Monterrey.

Lenin's body was transported to the House of Unions.  Architect Alexey Shchusev was given the task of constructing a tomb for Lenin within three days.  He would accomplish the task, with the structure being obviously temporary.

Shchusev was originally a church architect, so his rise in the new Communist establishment is not admirable in any sense.  They should tear the crap he's responsible for after 1917 down, including the ice box that Lenin is kept in.

The US and UK entered into a treaty allowing the US to search British ships suspected of rum running.

Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, Signed at Washington, January 23, 192437

The President of the United States of America;

And His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India;

Being desirous of avoiding any difficulties which might arise between them in connection with the laws in force in the United States on the subject of alcoholic beverages;

Have decided to conclude a Convention for that purpose;

And have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

The President of the United States of America:

Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State of the United States;

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:

The Right Honorable Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America;

Who, having communicated their full powers found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:

Article I

The High Contracting Parties declare that it is their firm intention to uphold the principle that 3 marine miles extending from the coastline outwards and measured from low-water mark constitute the proper limits of territorial waters.

Article II

(1) His Britannic Majesty agrees that he will raise no objection to the boarding of private vessels under the British flag outside the limits of territorial waters by the authorities of the United States, [Page 159]its territories or possessions in order that enquiries may be addressed to those on board and an examination be made of the ship’s papers for the purpose of ascertaining whether the vessel or those on board are endeavoring to import or have imported alcoholic beverages into the United States, its territories or possessions in violation of the laws there in force. When such enquiries and examination show a reasonable ground for suspicion, a search of the vessel may be instituted.

(2) If there is reasonable cause for belief that the vessel has committed or is committing or attempting to commit an offense against the laws of the United States, its territories or possessions prohibiting the importation of alcoholic beverages, the vessel may be seized and taken into a port of the United States, its territories or possessions for adjudication in accordance with such laws.

(3) The rights conferred by this article shall not be exercised at a greater distance from the coast of the United States its territories or possessions than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected of endeavoring to commit the offense. In cases, however, in which the liquor is intended to be conveyed to the United States its territories or possessions by a vessel other than the one boarded and searched, it shall be the speed of such other vessel and not the speed of the vessel boarded, which shall determine the distance from the coast at which the right under this article can be exercised.

Article III

No penalty or forfeiture under the laws of the United States shall be applicable or attach to alcoholic liquors or to vessels or persons by reason of the carriage of such liquors, when such liquors are listed as sea stores or cargo destined for a port foreign to the United States, its territories or possessions on board British vessels voyaging to or from ports of the United States, or its territories or possessions or passing through the territorial waters thereof, and such carriage shall be as now provided by law with respect to the transit of such liquors through the Panama Canal, provided that such liquors shall be kept under seal continuously while the vessel on which they are carried remains within said territorial waters and that no part of such liquors shall at any time or place be unladen within the United States, its territories or possessions.

Article IV

Any claim by a British vessel for compensation on the grounds that it has suffered loss or injury through the improper or unreasonable exercise of the rights conferred by Article II of this Treaty or [Page 160]on the ground that it has not been given the benefit of Article III shall be referred for the joint consideration of two persons, one of whom shall be nominated by each of the High Contracting Parties.

Effect shall be given to the recommendations contained in any such joint report. If no joint report can be agreed upon, the claim shall be referred to the Claims Commission established under the provisions of the Agreement for the Settlement of Outstanding Pecuniary Claims signed at Washington the 18th August, 1910, but the claim shall not, before submission to the tribunal, require to be included in a schedule of claims confirmed in the manner therein provided.

Article V

This Treaty shall be subject to ratification and shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications.

Three months before the expiration of the said period of one year, either of the High Contracting Parties may give notice, of its desire to propose modifications in the terms of the Treaty.

If such modifications have not been agreed upon before the expiration of the term of one year mentioned above, the Treaty shall lapse.

If no notice is given on either side of the desire to propose modifications, the Treaty shall remain in force for another year, and so on automatically, but subject always in respect of each such period of a year to the right on either side to propose as provided above three months before its expiration modifications in the Treaty, and to the provision that if such modifications are not agreed upon before the close of the period of one year, the Treaty shall lapse.

Article VI

In the event that either of the High Contracting Parties shall be prevented either by judicial decision or legislative action from giving full effect to the provisions of the present Treaty the said Treaty shall automatically lapse, and, on such lapse or whenever this Treaty shall cease to be in force, each High Contracting Party shall enjoy all the rights which it would have possessed had this Treaty not been concluded.

The present Convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

In Witness Whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have thereunto affixed their seals.

Done at the city of Washington this twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

Charles Evans Hughes

A. C. Geddes

Heritage of the Dessert was released.  The film featured some technicolor footage.

Tuesday, December 18, 1923. Liking Prohibition.

Some news that read like news of the decade prior, and some that was truly horrific.

A murder simply over a man staying at a hotel.

Farmer James D. Cummings and draftsman J. Earl McLeod of Washington, Kansas, filed the patent application for the bulldozer.

It's amazing to think that bulldozers did not exist before that time.

The Tangier Protocol was signed between France, Spain and the United Kingdom, creating the Tangier International Zone in Morocco.  It governed the international zone of the city, and would exist until 1956 when Morocco became independent.

Andrew Volstead of Volstead Act fame told a law enforcement conference that the American public was working around towards supporting prohibition.

Thursday, December 13, 1923. Mexican Federals Mobilize

Ruth Muskrat presented Gustavus Elmer Emmanuel Lindquist′s book The Red Man In The United States to President Calvin Coolidge.  Highly educated, the Oklahoma native had a Cherokee father and an Irish/English American mother.  A pioneer in many ways in both societies, she was a professional educator and died in 1982 at age 84.

The Federal Government was mobilizing in Mexico. 

And booze was flowing south.

Lord Alfred Douglas was sentenced to six months in prison for libeling Winston Churchill.  He had printed a newspaper article claiming that Churchill had been paid to release a false report about the Battle of Jutland in order to cause stocks to decrease in value so that a group of Jewish investors could take advantage of it, all of which was false, as well as racist.

Lawrence Sperry, age 30, inventor of the autopilot and the artificial horizon, died in an airplane accident over the English Channel. Taking off in fog, his airplane simply disappeared.

Saturday, Sepember 22, 1923. Henning Hotel Robbed.

A major raid in Chicago on speakeasies resulted in the jails being filled to capacity.

Crime was a major story in Casper as well:

And the Governor of Oklahoma caught a dragon.

The Navy's ZR-1 dirigible flew over Washington, D. C.

Tuesday, August 27, 1923. 37 Hours.

Former Governor of Pennsylvania, William Cameron Sproul, opined that Prohibition helped kill William G. Harding, noting:

He was accustomed to an occasional drink of scotch. I was his personal friend and I know, and in that laborious task of a trip to Alaska, I'm sure he missed it.

U.S. Army pilots Lowell Smith and John Richter broke an aviation endurance record by staying aloft for 37 consecutive hours over Rockwell Field in San Diego, a feat made possible by air-to-air refueling. The accomplishment is impressive, if frankly, pointless.

German offered to end passive resistance to French occupation of the Ruhr in exchange for the release of deportees and prisoners, and the guarantee of the "safety of life and subsistence of the Ruhr population."

Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito, the future emperor, moved into Akasaka Palace.  The intended temporary state would end up bing a period of five years due to an earthquake destroying housing in Tokyo.

The patent for Lincoln longs, applied for on August 31, 1920, was granted.

Cohen in arrest after murder.

Louis Cohen, aka Louis Kushner, mob hit man, killed Nathan Kaplan, gangster, while the latter was being transferred by a police car in New York City.  

Kaplan was likely killed under orders of rival Louis Buchalter, aka Louis Lepke, aka Lepke Buchalter, who would rise up to be head of Murder Incorporated.  Buchalter would later receive the death penalty and be executed in 1944. Cohen was gunned down in a mob hit in 1939.

Of interest, these figures were all Jewish gangsters, something we've forgotten about over time, mostly remembering the Sicilian Mafia.  Indeed, Murder Inc. tended to use Jewish and Italian hitman in their role for the Mafia, which insulated the Mafia from direct involvement.