The game was called due to rain.
Readers of morning papers would still find themselves reading about the World Series which, just like today, would have been the news of the prior day. This was the era, of course, if evening and morning newspapers, with the evening ones, now that wire services existed, reporting on the news of that day. Many readers of this paper, therefore, would have already read about the fourth game in yesterday's evening paper.
The Casper Herald was unusual for a Wyoming paper at the time in that their was a Sunday edition. Most Wyoming papers took Sunday completely off.
Grim news continued to come from the Mexican border and appear on the front page, but for some reason now war with Mexico seemed a lot less likely than it had previously seemed.
A sort of war, however, seemed to be raging in a lot of American cities.
And the President was reported to be improving. The conspiracy of silence around his real condition had very much set in.
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