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Boston Terrier Sgt. Stubby, mascot of the mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, died at age 10. He'd served for 18 months in France in the Great War, participating in 100 battles and four offensives. He provided warnings of attacks and of the use of mustard gas, and captured a German soldier by holding him by the seat of his pants.
He was a genuinely heroic dog.
The Casper recaptured fugitives indicated that they'd left Casper by rail.
I posted this page for the bus schedule. I have a detailed thread coming up on trains, and then noted this. I wasn't aware that there was a bus by 1926.
A closer look.
What isn't clear is how long the bus trip took.
There is bus service from Casper today. Greyhound. We'll take a look at that in some future post.
Apparently unrestrained immigration was worrying some. Others were worrying about Wyoming's oilfield population leaving for Texas.
Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket in the United States at his Aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Rocketry, like aviation, advanced like crazy. By World War Two rockets would be in use as ground weapons, air to air weapons, and of course, with the first ballistic missiles.
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