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.
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