1916: Cheyenne Sunday Leader, August 13,1916: Deutschland Sunk?, Guard to the border, Wyoming Guard sure it will go.
Lots of sobering news in this Sunday edition of the Leader. Guard to deploy, French and Russian gains in Europe, and the Deutschland reported potentially sunk. She wasn't and would survive the war.
The weather was going to be partly cloudy with a chance of rain, much like our weather today, a century later.
All Guardsmen were ordered deployed to the border, and the situation with Mexico appeared to be getting a bit more tense again.
Meanwhile, the Russians and French were reported gaining in the war in Europe, and a front page cartoon worried that Japan was taking US trade while the US focused on war production for Europe.
As we'll see with the two following posts, the Basin Republican was one of the local papers that must not have subscribed to a wire service, and therefore published almost all local news. It did, however, in this election year run an add directed at Woodrow Wilson, captioned "Great Scott Woodrow! I've been Up in the Air Almost Four Years!"
1919 August 13, 1919. Rawlins to the Red Desert.
The roads in Wyoming were, simply put, bad and the Lincoln Highway at this time made wide use of an an abandoned Union Pacific railroad bed, that being, undoubtedly, the bed of the original transcontinental rail line which is visible throughout its old course, both in the form of the bed itself and on the ash path on either side of it. So going was slow, and at one point a very wide detour had to be made.
At the end of the day, for the first time on the trip, the convoy camped out in an unoccupied area with no nearby towns or cities. This is probably the camp at which Dwight Eisenhower famously told the party to expect an Indian attack as a joke.
In other military endeavors, ammunition ships that were started before the war continued to be finished.
Quite the news day, really.
The Herald started off with the harrowing news of trains marooned in the Southwest, due to ongoing labor problems.
We're reminded by the page below that there was once an elected position of "County Surveyor". This has obviously gone by the wayside, which raises the question of what other elective offices are really obsolete as elective offices today.
Rules were changing for football.
And airplane rides were for the offering.
I'd forgotten there was once a town called "Teapot".
The Herald wanted to keep the Union Pacific brand off of the range.
Recently, of course, the state had an opportunity to buy the checkerboard from the UP's successor in interest and blew it.
A Colorado newspaper was happy with something Governor Carey had done, but what it was, I really don't know.
A restaurant was holding a contest for a name.
Charles Winter was running for office. His son, who lived to nearly be 100, worked in my office building nearly up to that very age.
The train situation, we'd note, wasn't only in the Herald.
