Saturday, January 9, 1926. A different train attack.

Oddly enough, given the events that had happened ten years prior, Mexican rebels, under Colonel Manuel Núñez, opened fire on board a train  traveling from Guadalajara to Mexico City, ultimately destroying it and making away with 300,000 pesos. Eleven people were killed.

The Navy League of the United States released a report finding the United States Navy to be unprepared for war and short of the tonnage limitation set by the Washington Naval Treaty.

It was a Saturday.

Last edition:

Friday, January 8, 1926. Crownings.

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Friday, August 17, 1923. Diplomatic moves.

French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré announced he was willing to reduce the amount of reparations owed by Germany in a reply to an aggressive note by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon.

The Washington Naval Treaty was ratified by the U.S., U.K., France Italy and Japan.

Treaty delegates.

The Home Bank of Canada closed, wiping out the savings of thousands of Canadians.

Saturday, July 7, 1923. Things maritime.

It was Saturday, so the weekly magazines hit the newsstands.

The White House announced that President Harding's Voyage of Understanding was being extended by two days.  The new itinerary provided that Harding would visit Santa Catalina at Mrs. Harding's request and then travel down the Central American coast, through the Panama Canal, and back to D.C.

France ratified the Washington Naval Treaty.

Friday, February 16, 1923. Bessie Smith sings the blues.

Blues great Bessie Smith was in the studio.

Smith was a musical giant in her day, but was buried in an unmarked grave when she died due to injuries from an automobile accident in 1937.  In 1970s ,that was addressed and a new tombstone was erected.

The inner chamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun was opened by Howard Carter's archeological party.

The Conference of Ambassadors of the Allied Powers, which did not include the US, as the US had gone into international hiding on the basis that ignoring the world makes you safe from it, approved the transfer of Memel to Lithuania.  We dealt with this previously and the nature of this oddly disputed small Baltic territory.

Italy ratified the Washington Naval Treaty and the Treaty of Santa Margherita, the latter of which settled a territorial dispute with Yugoslavia,

Wednesday, March 29, 1922. Washington Naval Treaty ratified and a familiar name enters Wyoming politics.

On this day in 1922, the Washington Naval Treat was ratified by the U.S. Senate, with there being only a single no vote.

And attention was being gathered around a possible campaign for Governor by Patrick Sullivan.  He would not become Governor, but his grandson, Mike, did.

Sullivan was a Creighton educated lawyer originally from Nebraska who practiced in Casper, and then later in Laramie.

Monday, February 20, 1922. General Diaz to be President of Mexico. . . if revolution to oust Obregón succeessful

Which it would not be.

This was a nephew of Mexico's former dictator, we should add.

As the headline demonstrates, there'd been questions on whether the Washington treaties had secret protocols.  They did not.

Gen. Diaz was apparently living in New Orleans at the time.

Billy Sunday visited the White House.

Sunday had been a professional baseball player who became a hugely influential evangelist, perhaps loosely comparable to Billy Graham in his era.

A group of students did as well.

Thursday, September 1, 1921. Launchings

On this day the first "Super dreadnought" USS Washington, a battleship of the Colorado Class, was launched.

Jean Summers, daughter of Senator Summers, who did the honors.

She'd serve only three years and then be sunk as a target, due to the Washington Naval Treaty.

One heck of a waste of money.

The first Washington State Highway Patrol officers were sworn in. Their vehicles were, at first, Indian Motor Cycles.