Saturday, January 12, 1924. Taking Oaxaca.

Mexican mountaineer irregulars loyal to the government took Oaxaca.

France rejected a British proposal in the League of Nations to investigate separatism in the Rhineland.

Thursday, January 10, 1924. Soaring oil prices.

The sort of headlines that Wyomingites love to read, at least until they go to buy gasoline at the pump.

Wyoming, as we've explored here before, crossed over from being primarily an agricultural economy to an oil one due to World War One, with 1917 really being the demarcation point.  From that point forward the state drank so deeply of petroleum that it has never been able to see itself as anything but a petro state, even while keeping Steamboat as its symbol.  A century later, to suggest that the evolution of technology and other factors mean that this industry will decline is nearly regarded as treasonous.  Perhaps as a result, the state has neglected its other industries.

The Cohn-Brandt-Cohn film company (CBC) changed its name to Columbia Pictures.

France imposed a curfew on the Rhineland and closed its borders, save for railroads and food transportation.  The move was due to the murder of Franz Josef Heinz the prior day.  The French were so strict on the matter that they refused to let British officials in to investigate separatist movements connected with the incident.

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Wednesday, January 9, 1924. Oil.

 Oil in Mexico, oil at Teapot Dome, Oil prices.

Oil.

The intersection of N40th St and Meridian Ave N, Seattle, Washington, January 9, 1924.

The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeded $1 billion for the first time. 

Palatine seperatist Franz Josef Heinz was murdered by member sof the Viking League with the permission of the Bavarian government.

The Bishop of Speyer, Ludwig Sebastian, would refuse to give Heinz a church burial.

Sunday, September 30, 1923. Trouble over the Rhineland.

The Black Reichswehr carried out, unsuccessfully, the hastily thrown together The Küstrin Putsch, under the leadership of German officer Bruno Ernst Buchrucker.  Buchrucker would fail but survive, going on to serve the Third Reich in an unnoticed capacity, which he also survived, dying in 1966.

On the same day, rioting occured in Düsseldorf in Germany at a speech by Rhenish separatist Josef Friedrich Matthes.  He'd die at Dachau in 1943.

Grim work continued on in Central Wyoming.

Mormon Flat, in the days before its dam on the Salt River, was photographed.

Saturday, January 6, 1923. The US Departs.

The U.S. Senate voted to withdraw American troops from occupation duty in Germany, rather than participate in a French occupation of the Rhineland.  1,200 troops remained in Germany at the time.

March 8, 1921. The Occupation of the Ruhr Commences.

French, Belgian and British troops occupied Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort due to German reparation payment failures.  The U.S., meanwhile, announced that it would continue to occupy the Rhineland.

It's well know that the French "occupied the Ruhr" in 1923, but it rarely seems to be  understood that this started as an overall Allied action in 1921.  The initiation of the occupation was limited, but none the less the event didn't start in 1923, but 1921.