An historical item posted on one of our companion blogs of potential interest here.
January 6, 1920. Peace Secured. Protestants Unite? Suffrage Advances.
The headline news for this day, January 6, 1920, was that a treaty was to be signed between the victorious Allies and the Germans. Or, more properly, a protocol to the Versailles Treaty
More properly, this was an amendment to the Versailles Treaty altering and amending some of its terms. Germany's reluctance to enter into a protocol had lead the Allies and Germany back to the brink of war several months earlier, an event now wholly forgotten, but in the end the amendment had been worked out.
The U.S. Senate had not ratified the original text and would still not be ratifying the treaty in its entirety.
The Casper paper was also reporting that a new Wyoming corporation had been formed to build or take over the manufacturing of the Curtis Aircraft line. I've never heard of this before and Wikipedia sheds no light on what was going on with this story. Does anyone know the details?
Also making headlines was an effort to unite the nation's Protestant churches into a single organization. The headlines are apparently a bit misleading as they would suggest that the individual denominations were set to be united, which was not the proposal.
Also misleading, today, is the use of the term "United Church of Christ". That denomination would not come about until 1957.
On the same day, Kentucky and Rhode Island passed the 19th Amendment.
More properly, this was an amendment to the Versailles Treaty altering and amending some of its terms. Germany's reluctance to enter into a protocol had lead the Allies and Germany back to the brink of war several months earlier, an event now wholly forgotten, but in the end the amendment had been worked out.
The U.S. Senate had not ratified the original text and would still not be ratifying the treaty in its entirety.
The Casper paper was also reporting that a new Wyoming corporation had been formed to build or take over the manufacturing of the Curtis Aircraft line. I've never heard of this before and Wikipedia sheds no light on what was going on with this story. Does anyone know the details?
Also making headlines was an effort to unite the nation's Protestant churches into a single organization. The headlines are apparently a bit misleading as they would suggest that the individual denominations were set to be united, which was not the proposal.
Also misleading, today, is the use of the term "United Church of Christ". That denomination would not come about until 1957.
On the same day, Kentucky and Rhode Island passed the 19th Amendment.
Suffrage supporters watching the Governor of Kentucky sign his state's passage of the 19th Amendment.
And Walt experienced something that I routinely do a century later.
