Let's look at Cheyenne:
This issue is remarkably similar to an issue of this Cheyenne paper that ran a year ago. We learn here that, once again, a bevy of Cheyenne high school beauties were the "sponsors" of the Annual Cadet Show, an even that no doubt took on more meaning in 1917 and 1918 than it ever had before.
And once again, oil prospects near Cheyenne were in the news. Those prospects were real, but it wasn't until the 2010s that they'd be developed. New technology made that possible.
A school nurse was recommending something that was fairly radical at the time. . . but as this came at the tail end of the Progressive Era, it was a somewhat radical age.
Around the state 167 men were called to the colors. Elsewhere, a terrible military balloon tragedy had occurred.
And in Casper:
Casper's newspapers, now larger with a larger reading audience, continued to improve and at least this issue of the Casper Daily Press was real news. . . not all optimistic petroleum boosterism.
A real city improvement, sanitary and storm sewers were being put in. And that was big news.
William Ross, who would become governor. . . as would his wife, was rising in the Democratic ranks.
And the balloon tragedy also made the front page news in Casper.
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