1791 The Bill of Rights took effect following ratification by Virginia.
1887 The Burlington Northern commences operation on its freight line to Cheyenne.
1890 Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a clash with Indian police. This event would be one of a series which lead to the tragedy of Wounded Knee.
1890 Burlington Northern commences passenger service between Douglas and Cheyenne. The Douglas depot is now a train museum (a photo of which will later appear on our Railhead site).
1903 USS Wyoming anchored at the Bay of San Miguel Panama, during the period of Panamanian separation from Columbia.
1909 The six masted schooner Wyoming, the largest wooden schooner ever built, launched in Bath, Maine. The huge schooner was the last one launched on the East Coast of the United States.
1910 Bishop James A. Keane approved of the parish of St. James in Douglas, together with
several missions.
1910 Wills Van Devanter confirmed as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1913 The cornerstone of the Newcastle National Guard Armory laid. The building is a museum today.
1913 George Saban, who had plead guilty to second degree murder in connection with the Spring Creek Raid, escaped while being transported as part of a work detail and was never heard from again.
1918 December 15, 1918. Returning Home, Not Making It Over, Wilson In France, Silly Cinema
The Philadelphia Public Ledger printed a poster as a supplement. The troops were already returning home in appreciable numbers so that celebrations were occurring.
And Sunday movie releases were a thing. Wives and Other Wives was released on this date in 1918.
The plot synopsis, involving newlyweds, looks absurd, but then it's no more absurd than the piles of slop that television offers now. Compared to Below Deck, it was likely downright intellectual.
This was a five reel film, fwiw.
The Cheyenne paper features a full slate of recent post war news in its Sunday edition, including the news that Ireland was going for Sinn Fein in the British parliamentary election held the day prior, and Lloyd George had apparently called Labor to be Bolshevik. France was celebrating Wilson's arrival and the paper was reporting that German efforts to woo African American troops had failed.
Hardly anyone heats a house with coal now (I know some do, and I've been in at least a couple of structures heated by coal), so the soot and smell of it is something sort of lost on a modern audience. But it would have done both of those. I.e, coal smells even if its a good grade, and the lower grades would have been quite smokey and sooty.
If we take cartoons as a reflection back on contemporary life, and really we ought to, there's some other interesting things to glean in these cartoons. For one thing, cars were obviously still a novelty, given the way that they were treated in Gasoline Alley. The protagonists are basically a group of car owners in these early issues experimenting on their cars. Note that steam cars were still a thing, as there's a reference to them in the cartoon.
And it must have already been the case that those who didn't make it "Over There" were a bit embarrassed by it, as that was the subject of one of the cartoons.
1933 The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
1939 "Gone With the Wind" premiered in Atlanta.
1963 The statue of Ester Morris at the state capitol was dedicated.
2008 Wyoming's presidential electors met at the State Capitol Building at noon to cast their votes for President.
2011 Conclusion of three days of oral arguments at the Wyoming Supreme Court.
2011 Governor Mead meets carolers from Jessup Elementary School.
