1845 Texas voted to accept annexation by the United States.
1916 The Casper Weekly Press for June 23, 1916
Some of the news of June 23, 1916, is freakishly familiar a century later.
1917 June 23, 1917. War news of all types
I haven't been covering it much, although I've been meaning to post a
separate thread on it, but the arrival of the Great War in Wyoming, and
the expectation that thousands of troops would be flooding into the
state's two military posts, produced a flurry of all sorts of activity.
One of the collateral impacts of the war was Cheyenne going dry due to
Congressional action (arguably unconstitutional) and, soon thereafter,
the town fathers. . . and mothers, moving to shut down the "resorts".
Resorts, at the time, was the euphemistic term for houses of
prostitution, of which Cheyenne apparently had some prominent ones. The
town reacted, and the town's women in particular reacted to have them
shut down, with the war as the ostensible reason. The war may have been
the reason, but it isn't as if Ft. D. A. Russell was brand new. . . but
then thousands of conscripted soldiers going through there was a new
thing. Cheyenne was apparently more worried about vice and regular boys
who ended up in the service, and recalled National Guardsmen, than it
was about regular soldiers.
Anyhow, some of the soiled doves flew to Laramie and right away Laramie
followed Cheyenne's lead. In today's headlines, we see a specific
example of a "colored" house being closed. The move was on against all
of them, but for some reason that one got the axe first, with the others
ordered to quit serving alcohol.
Cheyenne's papers, in contrast, were reporting that Russia would stay in the war. . . which of course it wouldn't. It would stay in a war, of course, one of its own horrific internal making.
And another headline gave a glimpse into the past, although it was a fairly recent past in 1917.
In a pitching event against the odds, Ernie Shore came in to relieve Babe
Ruth, then the Boston Red Sox's starting pitcher, and turns in a no
hitter.
Ernie Shore on the left, Grover Cleveland Alexander on the right, 1915
World Series. Shore was a remarkably tall pitcher, particularly for his
era, as he was 6'4" tall.
What's amazing about it is that Shore had virtually no time to warm up
and nearly pitched the entire game. Indeed, at one time, this was
regarded as a perfect game.
The reason for that is Babe Ruth.
Ruth pitched to just a single batter, the Washington Senator's Ray
Morgan. Morgan was walked, but not before Ruth hotly disputed three out
of the four pitches that were called as balls, letting home plate
umpire Clarence "Brick" Owens know it in no uncertain terms. After the
fourth ball, he yelled out at Owens again. Owens calmly replied and warned Ruth to calm down, or he would be ejected, to which Ruth may have replied “Throw
me out and I’ll punch ya right in the jaw!”, or might not have. At any
rate, Owens ejected Ruth at that point and Ruth took a swing at him,
hitting him in the ear but knocking him down. The Boston police then
escorted Ruth off the field.
Babe Ruth as a Red Sox pitcher, 1917. {{PD-US}} – published in the U.S. before 1923 and public domain in the U.S.
Shore, a very good pitcher in his own right, then came in and pitched a
nearly perfect game. Indeed, at one time this was regarded as a perfect
game, although now it's only regarded as a no hitter.
Nephele A. Bunnell at the automobile
fashion show held at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, New York City, June 23,
1917.
Nephele A. Bunnell
Ruth McDonald
Mrs. James H. Kidder.
Actress Gertrude McCoy
Gertrude McCoy
Beatrice Allen, Hazel Dawn, Consuelo Bailey, Eleanor Dawn, Ann Pennington, Gertrude McCoy, and Vera Maxwell
The cars
1922. A tragedy.
Friday, June 23, 1922. Confederate Veterans visit the White House, Chinese Prime Minister Wu Tingfang dies, A forgotten tragedy.
On this day in 1922, a group of Confederate veterans visited the White House.
An annual reunion was ongoing in Richmond, and this event was likely associated with it.
Chinese Prime Minister Wu Tingfang, in office for mere days, and part of an effort to consolidate the reunification of China, died of pneumonia.
A forgotten tragedy was reported on in Casper.
He was apparently keeping time with other women, maybe. She was upset, but wanted to reconcile, and then, the note stated, didn't want to live alone.
Earlier this week, we noted this:
Thursday, June 21, 1923. Dawn of the advertising age. Somewhere West Of Laramie.
The modern advertising age dawned on this day in 1921 with an ad for the Jordan Playboy automobile:
The advertisement is the most famous car ad of all time, and the ad itself revolutionized advertising. Based on the recollection of the Jordan Motor Car Company's founder in seeing a striking mounted girl outside of Laramie, while he was traveling by train, the advertisement is all image, revealing next to nothing about the actual product. While the Jordan Motor Car Company did not survive the Great Depression, the revolution in advertising was permanent.
Anyway you look at it, it's still a great ad.
This, by the way, is the print date. The actual issue of the magazine would be a few days later.
On this date, the advertisement actually ran. I've always thought that it ran in the form set out above, but there were multiple versions, and it would appear that in actuality, the version below is the one that ran.
It's similiar.
But I like the one set out at the very top better.
Sculptor Guzon Borglum began carving the Stone Mountain Memorial bas-relief. He'd work on the Confederate memorial until 1925, and then abandon the project, blasting his carving of Robert E. Lee off the mountain. None of his work at Stone Mountain remains.
President Harding crossed Wyoming by train. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1925 Lower Slide Lake forms near Kelly as a result of a massive landslide. Attribution: On This Day.
1943 A clothing drive for Russians began in Cheyenne. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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