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.

1920s, 1924, 1930, 1930s, Coal, Crime, Disaster, Herbert Hoover, Indiana, Ku Klux Klan, Mining, West Virginia

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.

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Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.

1920s, 1924, California, Calvin Coolidge, Cartoons, Casper Wyoming, Country & Western Music, Easter, Health, Holy Saturday, Music, Radio, Tourism, Transportation, Wyoming (Casper)

Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.

The Saturday Evening Post went to press observing Easter with a Leyendecker illustration.

National Barn Dance, a direct precursor to the Grand Old Opry, premiered on Chicago's WLS, running a whopping four hours every Saturday night.  It would run until 1968.

The Washington Post depicted Coolidge holding fast in a political cartoon.

In Casper, there was a big meeting to oust a city councilman who had been convicted on a liquor charge.

And Arizona tourists could get into California before Easter.

It's interesting to realize that motor tourism had become a thing by 1924.

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Thursday, April 17, 1924. Japanese reaction.

1920s, 1924, baseball, Cartoons, Democratic Party, Farmers Labor Party, Francis Warren, Government, Japan, Movies, Politics, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Sports, United States, Wyoming

Friday, April 17, 1914. Budweiser praising Bismarck. Emmer Breakfast Food.

Imperial Russia dissolved the Mongolian Uryankhay Republic in the Tannu Uriankhai and Mongolian Uryankhay Krai.

Russian expansionism at work.

A bomb went off in Great Yarmouth. Authorities suspected suffragists.  This was the second such incident they were suspected of in recent days.

In Casper, the paper issued what must have been, maybe, a real estate edition, as the paper was full of advertisements for lots, and this before the big World War One boom.

"Emmer" was to be used for cereal and manufactured in Wyoming.

It's a type of wheat.  I'm sure you've had a hearty bowl of Emmer Breakfast Food.

Here's a relatively recent article on Emmer, mentioning the cereal company:

Ancient grains a story of what once was old is new again

There was talk, as noted above, of a new rail line.

There was a terrible death in the jail of a man accused, seemingly with reason, of improper actions towards his adopted daughter.  Interestingly, maybe, based on the old statutes we recently put up, he would have been guilty of three crimes at the time, as opposed to one now, that one also being a crime then.

Perhaps a bit more remarkable, he appears to have been dead for hours when discovered to be so.

All that is interesting, but it's actually the following advertisement for Budweiser that caused me to link in this issue:

This was 1914.  Soon the world would be at war.  Bismarck probably didn't receive such high marks after that.

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Thursday, April 16, 1914. Marines contemplating Vera Cruz, Fallout from scandal in Japan, Chinese troops prevail.

1910s, 1914, boats and ships, China, Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Tampico Mexico, United States Marine Corps, Vera Cruz Mexico