Monday, July 26, 1926. Ports of call.

Robert Todd Lincoln, the only surviving child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, died at age 82.

A severe hurricane struck the Bahamas.

Swiss Army officers took 600 recruits on an ascent of the 10,650 feet high Devil's Mountain.

Reaching the summit at 8:30 am, they then descended without a single serious injury of any kind.

The still in effect Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports, providing that in peacetime, ships of all nations shall have freedom of access to maritime ports regardless of their maritime flag, went into effect.

Which should mean that Iran and the US, which the US hasn't declared war against, shouldn't be monkeying with ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Sunday, July 25, 1926. Last services before the Calles Law.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Arizona, Catholic, Christianity, Cristero War, Joseph Stalin, Judaism, Mexico, police, Prohibition, religion, Stalin's' Purges, Tunisia, USSR

Tuesday, July 20, 1926. Turning up the heat.

 

Coolidge gave a press conference at White Pine Camp.

Secretary Davis and I discussed only incidentally the question of munition depots. He said that there was a location in Utah that would he available, but the expense of moving our munitions out there would be pretty heavy. I think he said that none of the munitions that belong to the War Dept. have been exploded. What he did say which was of most importance was that careful studies were being made to make the locations of munitions as safe as possible.

I am not just certain when I shall go to Plymouth. I had rather expected that I might go last week some time, but I wasn’t able to get away. I haven’t any definite plan about it. What would the members of the conference prefer, to go by automobile or by train?

Press: Train.

President: Seems to be unanimous. Well, I think I can arrange to take you over there by train, if that would suit you better. I will do what I can in that direction. I suppose I will have to set down a time when I have made up my mind to go and then stick to it. Otherwise there is something coming up all the time that seems to make it desirable for me to be here. I got word that the Secretary of War was coming up, and now the Secretary of State is coming up here later in the season. He is going to speak at Plattsburg at the celebration there of the MacDonald victories on Lake Champlain.

The resignation of Commissioner Fenning is in the hands of the Attorney General. It was received just about the time we were leaving Washington. He has some small matters that we wish to have him clear up before he relinquishes the office. That will take but a few days and then he is to retire. I suppose that he would have given in his resignation any way, but I did send a request to him that he should retire.

Press: Was that request since you have been up here?

President: Why no, I said I got the resignation just as I was leaving. The request was made just before I came away.

There isn’t any particular significance in the visit of Senator Fess. He told me while I was in Washington that he was to be in the Adirondacks this summer. He has some friends up here. I think he makes it a practice to come up here every summer. They are located within 30 or 35 miles. I understood he was to be at Tupper Lake, but he is at Loon Lake. Perhaps he was going to Tupper Lake later, and I told him of course that if he was here I hoped very much ae would have a chance to come and stay a day or two with me.

I am not expecting to speak at Plattsburg at the unveiling of the MacDonald monument. As I indicated before, the Secretary of State will be there. I understand there will be some representatives of the Canadian Government there, which makes it especially appropriate for the Secretary of State to be present.

Press: Do you think you will go over, Mr. President?

President. No.

I haven’t any information about what Chairman Parker or other members of the House Commerce Committee are contemplating in relation to coal legislation for a conference with the coal operators and coal miners during the vacation. I knew that Representative Parker had prepared a bill, or that his Committee had, I coal legislation, which they were proposing to take up immediately on the convening of Congress. There didn’t seem to be time to take it up at the last session. I think I have said enough to make that plain. I didn’t know anything about a plan for trying to make an adjustment between the operators and miners, other than what I have seen in the press. I think I indicated at a conference that was held long ago that perhaps the railroad legislation which was passed at the last session might furnish a foundation principle for legislation and adjust in the coal industry. There are two or three things that I wanted as coal legislation. The first was the opportunity to call in a temporary Board to adjust differences whenever an emergency might arise, and the second was an opportunity have a coal administration whenever a scarcity was threatened. Those are the principal things.

There isn’t any comment that I can make on the fall of the French Cabinet. It is hardly appropriate to comment on a matter of that kind.

I hope that I may have a chance to go to the training camp at Plattsburgh some time during the summer. That is about 50 miles away and I judge we could go over in the morning and return in the afternoon.

If I go by train to Plymouth I shall go to Ludlow, and I think the members of the press would find accommodations at Ludlow or at Tyson, which is about 6 or 7 miles from Plymouth. It i s in the town of Plymouth, but that is post office name, 5 miles toward Plymouth from Ludlow. There Is a very good hotel there that was opened long ago but has been closed quite a good deal and reopened last summer. I went down there to lunch with Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot when they came to Plymouth to confer with me relative to the Belgian Debt settlement, so that I know that it is a very comfortable place. And there is also at Woodstock a very good Inn that some of you are already acquainted with.

I haven’t had any report from the Secretary of Agriculture relative to his work in putting into operation the bill that was passed at the last session relative to cooperative marketing.

And I haven’t any information other than that which has appeared in the press about bank failures in southern states. That seemed to be due to some local conditions there. It i s my understanding that those were mostly state banks and not national banks.

I also expect to visit the Saranac Veterans Bureau Hospital for tubercular patients while I am here.

The Adirondacks climate is very much like that with which I am acquainted over in Vermont. I noticed that a number of the old-timers over here came from Vermont. Paul Smith came from Milton. A man named Plumbley, a very famous Adirondack figure for a good many years, came from Suesbury, next to Plymouth. Suesbury is even more like the Adirondacks region than Plymouth is. The fishing is better here than it is in Vermont.

I have an inquiry about the appropriations. If anyone is interested to analyze the increased appropriations for the present year you will find that there is a very complete study of that in the remarks of Martin B. Madden, as you know, the Chairman of the Appropriations on the part of the House. It is in the Congressional Record for Monday, July 12, 1926, beginning on Page 13,006. Of course our Post Office Department is a growing Department. We mean to keep it practically self-sustaining. Sometimes there is a deficit. There has been all the time since I have been President. Wages have been greatly increased in the Post Office Department since 1914, increased about 50%. Those that were getting $1400 at that time are now getting $2100, and the general average of increases in the postal service is very close to 50%. That accounts for a very large part of the increase in the appropriations for 1926 and 1927, that is the budget that has just passed. The Government expenditures are $273,000,000 greater. There is $100,000,000 of that which is accountable for on account of the adjusted compensation, or the bonus law. The first year that it went into effect it was estimated that the expenditure would not be known and that an appropriation I believe of $50,000,000 would take care of it , so that for this year we made up that deficiency with $100,000,000 I think put in the regular appropriation for the bonus bill. As I recall, it was $125,000,000. I won’t be sure about that. I know it is $100,000,000 extra we had that we put in. So that the Veterans Bureau has $173,000,000 more in the present budget than it had in the last budget. Than there was a great deal of money that came due on the matter of roads. We had been making appropriations that took care of the current needs, but last year there were very large bills that came in, so that the appropriation for this year is $26,000,000 greater. Than we have adopted the public buildings bill. Haven’t had a public buildings bill for 12 years, and that accounts for $14,000,000 more. Prohibition costs are $13,000,000 more. Rivers and Harbors carries $10,000,000 more. That is for special work that is being done in the Mississippi Valley, notably from Kansas City, or rather from St. Louis to Kansas City going up the river, or from Kansas City to St. Louis down. If you are reporting for the Kansas City papers it would be Kansas City first, if you are reporting for St. Louis papers St. Louis first. Than there were some refunds, $5,000,000 of refunds on cigars taxes and automobiles. We have increased pensions for Civil and Spanish War veterans $5,000,000. The Arlington Bridge $2,250,000. Then we have begun construction of military posts to replace the temporary housing erected during the war. That doesn’t come out of tax money really, but of course it does appear as an appropriation item. That is $2,250,000. We passed a law that as that military land was sold off the proceeds might be taken to make better housing facilities for our military posts. And the Sesquicentennial is $2,000,000. Judgments against the Government in the Court of Claims and other judgments are nearly $9,000,000. The total increase outside of the Post Office, of which these are the principal items, is $273,000,000. I think these items that I have given you figure up to about $260,000,000. But there are some other small items of one kind or another and you can refer to this little table here in the Congressional Record to give you a very complete explanation of it if you wish to. Now, some of those of course are permanent. The public buildings program runs for five years. The Veterans Bureau bill for the next year won’t be nearly as big. The cost for the Post Office next year I should expect would not be as large public buildings will be larger next year because we expect to appropriate about $25,000,000 a year, but we found that $14,000,000 was all that we could expend advantageously this year. It takes so long to make plans and lay out the work. It is difficult to make any estimate about pensions. The Civil War veterans are dropping away very fast. That item which now runs about $2,000,000 will naturally decrease. Of course the country is a growing country. It keeps expanding all the time and there is tremendous pressure on the Federal Government to take on new activities which the Congress resists as well as it can and which I resist as well as I can. As we pay off the national debt of course the expenses are going to be reduced for interest, but I think the plan is that as interest charges are reduced more money will go into the sinking fund. That isn’t spoken of here, but it is my recollection that there is $30,000,000 more in the sinking fund for the present year than last year. That means we are using that to pay off the public debt.

Soviet monster Felix Dzerzhinsky died of a heart attack at age 48.

French General Auguste Dubail of France and British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson reached an agreement for a joint plan to mobilize 150,000 men in the event that Germany declared war on either nation.

Rebels in Haiti captured Cap-Haïtien.

Last edition:

Saturday, July 17, 1926. Boicotear

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Boycott, Catholic, Christianity, Cristero War, Mexico, Plutarco Elías Calles, religion, Taxes

Coldest Julys in Wyoming since 1895

Stacker compiled a ranking of the coldest Julys in Wyoming since 1895 using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Rankings are based on the lowest average temperature in each month. For each of the coldest months listed below, we've included the average state temperature, state-wide highs and lows for the month, and the total precipitation.

#10. July 1912
- Average temperature: 62.3°F
- Monthly high temperature: 75.5°F
- Monthly low temperature: 49°F
- Total precipitation: 2.2"

#9. July 1904
- Average temperature: 62.2°F
- Monthly high temperature: 76.9°F
- Monthly low temperature: 47.5°F
- Total precipitation: 1.06"

#8. July 1972
- Average temperature: 62°F
- Monthly high temperature: 77.5°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.4°F
- Total precipitation: 0.99"

#7. July 1902
- Average temperature: 61.7°F
- Monthly high temperature: 76.8°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.6°F
- Total precipitation: 0.97"

#6. July 1958
- Average temperature: 61.4°F
- Monthly high temperature: 75.8°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.9°F
- Total precipitation: 2.02"

#4. July 1950 (tie)
- Average temperature: 61.2°F
- Monthly high temperature: 75.7°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.7°F
- Total precipitation: 1.52"

#4. July 1895 (tie)
- Average temperature: 61.2°F
- Monthly high temperature: 76.1°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.4°F
- Total precipitation: 0.99"

#3. July 1992
- Average temperature: 60.8°F
- Monthly high temperature: 74.7°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.8°F
- Total precipitation: 2.24"

#2. July 1915
- Average temperature: 60.3°F
- Monthly high temperature: 74.3°F
- Monthly low temperature: 46.3°F
- Total precipitation: 1.75"

#1. July 1993
- Average temperature: 58.9°F
- Monthly high temperature: 73.2°F
- Monthly low temperature: 44.6°F
- Total precipitation: 1.88"

Sunday, July 11, 1926. The National Revolutionary Army takes Changsha, Hunan.

The National Revolutionary Army took the capital of Hunan, Changsha.

French World War One veterans marched in protest of the Mellon-Berenger Agreement (or Accord Mellon-Bérenger) on the repayment of the French war debt to the United States.

The first German Grand Prix was held.

The Tribune was reporting on a lightning caused disaster that had happened the day prior.

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Friday, July 9, 1926. The Kuomintang launches the Northern Expedition.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Kuomintang, National Revolutionary Army, Northern Expedition, USSR

The Arctic Summer.

We had no winter to speak of, and now we're starting off a summer than isn't one.  What causes the latter I have no idea, but it is not hot.  It's not even warm.

This may in part be part of the difference between men and women.  Women have more body fat naturally.  My wife is far from fat, but she carriers more fat than do as she's female.  I'm carrying more fat that I should as I have an office job where I don't get any exercise.  But I'm not fat either.

What this means is that the house is now bitter cold.

The air conditioning system is thankfully out of order.  I have no desire to replace it, although I was presented with some options to do that yesterday.  If it were up to me, I'd not have one.  It never gets that hot here, but then it probably doesn't get that hot anywhere in my view. But now we have freezing indoor weather on a natural basis.

It's 52F outside right now. The back screen door is wide open.  It's freezing in the house. 

It will be all summer long.

Friday, June 2, 1876. Breaking the Snow Camp.

A snowstorm that started several days earlier finally broke after leaving up to 12" of snow allowing Terry's command to break its "Snow Camp" which it had been huddled in for the entire time.

Traditionally, snow this late in the near is not really a big deal on the Northern Plains.

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Thursday, June 1, 1876. Milton Hershey opens shop.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Food, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Teenagers

Wednesday, May 31, 1876. The Dakota column of the Yellowstone Expedition experienced late day snow.

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Tuesday, May 30, 1876. Coup in Constantinople, Ems Ukaz in the Russian Empire.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Ukraine

Thursday, May 23, 1946. Chick-fil-A.

Railroad workers went on strike across the US at 4:00 P.M.

The Dwarf Grill opened by S. Truett Cathy in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville, Georgia near the Ford Motor Company Atlanta Assembly Plant.  It would later evolve into:

M'eh.

It's signature product was not part of the original menu and required a technological development which allows for chicken for sandwiches to be cooked as rapidly as hamburgers can be.

Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays, which is one of the admirable things about it, however.

A tornado outbreak occurred across the Central and Midwestern United States which would continue into the following day.

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Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, War in Iran, Nationalization of Coal in the UK.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Azerbaijan, baseball, Coal, Disaster, Iran, Iran Crisis of 1946, It was because of World War Two, Kurds, Music, New York, Personalities, Socialism, United Kingdom, USSR

Tuesday, May 9, 1876. Windy City.

Chicago was referred to as The Windy City for the first known time, in an article by the Cincinnati Enquirer. The headline was:

THAT WINDY CITY. Some Freaks of the Last Chicago Tornado.

Locally at least, Casper Wyoming is sometimes called "Wind City".

Ueno Park in Tokyo was dedicated.

Nikolaus Otto working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started the world’s first internal-combustion engine that efficiently burned fuel directly in a piston chamber.

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Sunday, May 7, 1876. First Black Hills sermon, maybe.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Black Hills, Christianity, Corps of Discovery, Protestant, religion, South Dakota, South Dakota (Custer)

The Agrarian's Lament: Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretending this is normal.

The Agrarian's Lament: Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretendin...:   Actually, that time was some time ago, but for those "clean coal" and "drill baby drill" people, you are converting th...

Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretending this is normal.

 

Actually, that time was some time ago, but for those "clean coal" and "drill baby drill" people, you are converting the planet into an image of Hell.

It's not too late to address this, but it'll take major action.  The good news is that a nation that can waste billions of dollars on a war with Iran for no reason whatsoever, can afford to address it, and reverse it.

And not only, that, the rest of the world is leaping ahead of us in alternative energy systems, including China in spite of what the dolt in the White House says.

Simply believing that because we've always done things one way means its okay, or that our pocketbooks depend on coal and oil mean sit okay, is absolute lunacy.  The day of fossil fuels either needs to end, or they'll end us.

And as a final note, all too often I've heard farmers and ranchers take the global warming is a fib line. This year, there's no water in the west, none coming, and there will be none . We won't be growing anything. 

Wake up.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 12, 2026.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 12: 2026.  Windstorms at a historic level closed highways in southeast Wyoming and closed the campus of CSU.

Sunday, March 12, 1876. London meat shower.

And, just a few days after it happened in Kentucky, a meat shower happened over London.

Weird.

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Friday, March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you".

Monday, February 4, 1946. Weather and War Brides.

National weather forecasts returned to American newspapers for the first time since December 15, 1941.

The SS Argentina arrived in New York City with 452 British war brides, one war groom and 173 children, the first large-scale such arrival.

The partially completed deck of the USS Kentucky (BB 66). February 4, 1946. She'd never be completed and would be scrapped.

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Sunday, February 3, 1946. The Gouzenko Affair.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Espionage, German SS, Radio, The Holocaust, The Press, USSR

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 113th Edition. Some things you aren't hearing much about right now and some things that require explanation that we're not getting. The Venezuelan Distraction Edition.

Hmmmm. . . . 

The U.S. attacked Venezuela over the weekend as its a major drug exporter to the U.S., or maybe because we wanted to liberate the country from Maduro, or maybe because it has oil.  

One of those things.  

Anyhow, 

Somethings we aren't hearing much about now.

• Where are those Epstein files?

Where, where?

Still delayed.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose leaves office today, claimed Trump would attack Venezuela as nothing distracts like war.  She said that, not me.

I'm not saying that he attacked Venezuela for that reason, although I don't put it past him.  But we sure aren't hearing much about them now, are we?

They could have dropped the entire file in a giant Playboy Ephebophilia, Collectors Edition, complete with underaged centefolds, and nobody would have noticed.

• What's up with the economy?

Do you know?  I don't, and I follow the economy.

• What's going on in the Russo Ukrainian War?

Trump was going to instantly end the war, but it turned out to be hard.  

Over the last month he was praising Putin, and then sort of praising Ukraine, and now we don't hear anything about the war at all.  Utterly nothing.

I'm sure Trump didn't end the war.

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Somethings we need explanations on.

• Greenland?

What is the real source of Trump's fascination with Greenland?  The strategic need line is complete and utter crap.  If somebody is actually telling him that, they need to be dope slapped into the 21st Century.  

I don't really think it's Trump, as I don't think Trump is smart enough to know anything about Greenland.  Having watched him now for years, I'm pretty much convinced that he was a fairly good salesman at one time, but he was never very intelligent.  Now he's demented so he's not even a good salesman.  

It's something or somebody else, or . . . 

• Putin and Trump?

We have to seriously consider once again why Donald Trump is a Russian asset.  

We know that he is a Russian asset, but we don't know why.  He may be simply because he likes them for some reason.  Or he may have really bought into some weird vision of the world that's centered in the 18th Century, in which he's King Donald the Demented and Putin is Tsar Vlad the Magnificent.  Btu with the threats on Greenland we need to at least consider the possibility that Trump is a full-blown Russian asset as they have something on him, or are giving something to him.

That sounds extreme, but a US that pulls back to the Western Hemisphere and wrecks NATO is a gift to Russia.  And it appears to be happening.  Putin had been a backer of Maduro but he didn't lift a finger to help him once our illegitimate head of state caused that illegitimate head of state to be seized.

And Putin has been oddly quiet.

It's clear that at least for the time being the relationship between the United States and Europe is wrecked.  If you were writing a script for a Russian mole to occupy the White House, even Tom Clancy couldn't do better than this.

Harry Dexter White. . . it's sort of happened before.

• Lindsey Graham.

What's going on with Lindsey Graham.  Unlike Trump, he's not dumb.  His complete and utter sycophancy needs some explanation.

• Stephen and Katie Miller

Okay, this is going to be delicate, but there's something really weird about Stephen Miller playing Joseph Goebbels and his wife playing, well, Joseph Goebbels.

They're both Jewish.

Miller is the chief proponent of White Anglo Saxon Protestantism in the administration, and he ain't one.  I don't know the ethnicity of his wife, but she could pass for a Mizrahi Jew.  

This might not quite be as weird as it sounds, although its downright dangerous for them.  Goebbels had been a Communist and you can find plenty of Nazis who were drawn from German populations that were repressed in the most violent ways during the Third Reich, but there's the lesson.  The policies that Miller advocates for would, in the end, put him and Katie in the hold of a boat and deport them to a place that people who think like him would think he would find more to their liking, or at least theirs.

Before this sounds too one sided, there's a real lesson for Catholics supporting Trump.  His people don't think you are very American either.

Careful Steve and Katie. . . this is how a lot of your fellow travelers see you.

• The weather.

It's been super warm this winter.  No winter at all.  

How long do we intend to ignore this?

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 112th Edition. Clinton calls Trump's bluff.

Labels: Bill Clinton, Crime, Donald Trump, Ephebophilia, Epstein Scandal, Republican Party, The Second Trump Administration, The wealthy, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Zeitgeist

Thursday, December 31, 1925. Reining in New Years.

The first attempt at a worldwide New Year's celebration was made via international radio when the United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year's greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York.

There was an effort in many locations in the US to rein in New Years celebrations, which if they were in compliance with the law, should be dry:

European flooding which had broken out on the 29th hit Belgium.

Today In Wyoming's History: December 31:  1925  The legendary Swan Land & Cattle Company issued its corporate holdings report for the year.

Last Edition:

Wednesday, December 30, 1925. Ben-Hur.

Labels: 1920, 1920s, 1925, 1925 at the movies, 1970s, Biology, Clothing, Education, Education Societies, Female Biology, Menstruation, trends, Women

Windy.

144 MPH Wind Gust On Wednesday One Of The Strongest Ever Recorded in Wyoming

Wednesday, October 17, 1910. The 1910 Cuba Hurricane,

Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 17, 1910: Of Kiddo the wonder cat: Kiddo the cat jumped out of the dirigible America but was fished out of the sea.

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Saturday, October 15, 1910. Episcopal concept.

Labels: 1870s, 1875, 1910, 1910s, Agriculture, American Revolution, Imperial Japanese Navy, Lighter than air aircraft, Ohio (Cincinnati), Oxford Movement, Protestant, religion

Wednesday, September 29, 1915. The Great New Orleans Hurricane.

A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana, killing 279 people.  The destruction of the storm would not be surpassed for fifty years.

The Germans recaptured lost ground in the Second Battle of Champagne resulting in a French suspension of their campaign.

6,000 or more Ottoman troops were dispatched to break Armenian resistance at Urfa, Turkey.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 28, 1915. La Matanza of Ebenezer

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Loos, Crime, Ethnicities, Indian Army, Iraq, Mexican Border War, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, panoramic, Racism, Texas, Texas (Texas City), Texas Rangers, World War One