Best Post of the Week of October 29, 2017.

 Best posts of the week of October 29, 2018.

Creeps

Delia Kane, age 14.  The Exchange Luncheon, Boston.  January 31, 1917.  Recent stories have been focused on recent creeps, but you have to wonder how bad the treatment somebody like this girl, employed at age 14 in 1917, was in her era.  I hope not bad, but I'm not optimistic.

U.S. Troops landing in France, November 3, 1917.

"4098. A.E.F., France. Debarkation of Rainbow Division, St. Nazaire. Col. William Kelly, Lieut. Col. Harold Hetrick, Chaplain Bell, Captain Elihu C. Church, regimental adjutant. One Hundred and Seventeenth Engineers, November 3, 1917."

Freshman Caps? The Wyoming Student, November 2, 1917.

A Mid Week At Work Query: How Do You Decompress?

The Battle of Beersheba (Be'er Sheva, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, بئر السبع,) October 31, 1917

Today in the centennial of one of the most dramatic events of the Great War, the Battle of Beersheba (or as it is sometimes called Be'er Sheva), culminating the Charge of the Australian Light Horse that took the town.

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Remount Station, "Camp Lewis", Tacoma, Washington. October 31, 1917

The Depressing Issue of the state bar journal and institutional blindness. Patch 'em up and send 'em back into battle.

 

Today In Wyoming's History: October 29

Today In Wyoming's History: October 29:

Today is National Cat Day.