American soldiers in northern Russia who were awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French on this day in 1919. Note that they are carrying Russian Mosin Nagant rifles, which were Remington made rifles for Imperial Russia which had been rejected, often for no good reason, by Russian inspectors.
Casper newspaper readers were greeted this morning by the happy news that Germany had accepted a new armistice, so the war (which Germany was hardly in any condition to fight) would not resume.
In less happy news, however, the French, who were not in that good of shape themselves, were urging a full on commitment into the Russian Civil War, and the U.S. was in fact reinforcing their commitment to the region in the form of supplying additional engineers to the effort.
The Soviets, for their part, seemed to be having none of it, and weren't planning on showing up in Paris.
In other news, the legislature was entering its last week in Cheyenne and the Spanish flu claimed another young victim. Not covered in the Casper paper, but in other Wyoming papers that week, a proposed Pilot County failed to gain sufficient support to make it through the legislature, and indeed the proposal had been tainted with scandal.
New movies seemed to be released now nearly every Monday, including new westerns.
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