On this day in April, 1919 the Saturday Evening Post featured one of J. C. Leyendecker's illustrations, this one of a young woman expecting, but not receiving, April showers.
In the port town of St. Nazaire France, American sailors were on parade.
The Army was conducting shows of its own on this day. In Toul, France, the U.S. Second Army was having a horse show on this Saturday.
War prizes were being photographed in northern Russia, where this U.S. Army Captain was displaying a Russian saber taken from a Red Army commander. These men had lately been in action against the Reds.
And the Troopship America docked with solders returning home from France.
Casper was pondering a slogan, which is a headline that's oddly contemporary as Casper just adopted one a couple of years ago, that being "WyoCity". What became of the 1919 effort I don't know, but perhaps we'll learn of it in upcoming editions of the Casper Daily Tribune.
And in southern Wyoming efforts were underway to create a Pershing Highway, in honor of John J. Pershing. The proposed route was on the Lincoln Highway, so what was really contemplated was renaming a stretch of that highway.
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