A Second World War, over Iran, was averted.
The day's cartoons.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Tuesday, March 25, 1946. Crisis in Iran averted. Navy veteran turns out to be 10th Mountain Division deserter.
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Monday, March 16, 2026
Saturday, March 16, 1946. Route 66. George Mikan turns pro.
Route 66 was recorded for the first time, the introductory edition of the Bobby Troup work by Nat King Cole.
Troup was a songwriter and actor, married to actress Julie London
He was also a graduate of Wharton, which produced the unfortunate Trump and Gray, but that's another matter. He served in the Marine Corps in World War Two, by which time he was already a songwriter. The war did not really interrupt his songwriting.
Route 66 was an absolute masterpiece, and has been recorded an innumerable number of times, and was even used for the basis of a television series that ran from 1960 to 1964.
In some very real ways, Route 66 symbolized the post war world and its sense of youth, indicability, and automotive freedom.
Route 66 itself was one of the original U.S. Highways of the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. It became a huge factor in Depression Era migration to California, which makes the way its nostaglically remembered somewhat ironic, but as
College basketball player George Mikan, who was hugely popular turned pro.
He was a great player, and notably played with glasses. He struggled with diabetes in his final years, which focused attention on the plight of pre big money players.
He died in 2005 at age 80, a basketball great.
The Rocky Mountain News focused again on gambling.
An intersting service was being offered:
A tryst with a German Madchen went rather poorly.
To popular one panel cartoons of the day:
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Friday, March 15, 1946. Soviets in Iran.
Labels: 1930s, 1940s, 1946, Harry S. Truman, Iran, Nazi Germany, Propaganda, Radio, Skiing, United States, USSR, World War Two
Tuesday, March 16, 1926. Sgt. Stubby crosses the Rainbow Bridge.
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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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Saturday, March 14, 2026
Sunday, March 14, 1926. Reddy Kilowatt introduced. Manhunt in Natrona County.
Introduced on this day in 1926, the cartoon emphasized, in its introduction, electrical appliances and how they made life easier. Power companies used the cartoon figure for decades. I well recall it from when I was a kid.
There'd been a jail brake in Casper.
A railway disaster in Costa Rica resulted in the deaths of 248 people.
One via Reddit's 100 Years Ago sub, 16 year old Maybelle Addington married 27-year old Ezra J. "Eck" Carter, brother of A.P. Carter, in Virginia giving rise to the "first family of country music".
Country music, we'd note, is a bit deceptive in this context. As we've discussed before, Country & Western were actually two categories of music identified by early record companies, as was Rhythm & Blues. Western ballads, associated with cowboys and ranching, was really its own distinct genre, as was "Country", which was sometimes referred to as "Hillbilly Music". The current categories of C&W, Folk, etc, really hadn't set in, in a hard and fast way, either. Folk and Country music were in fact very rapidly evolving. Blues, which of course also had a Southern rural origin, was frequently picked up by Country artists at the time, even while it was breaking out in new directions in the Midwest and East coast, where it has already given rise to Jazz.
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Saturday, March 13, 1926. Daydreaming.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.
I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, and its a bit surprising.
What we've discussed here before is hunting during World War Two.
Here's where we looked at it earlier:
Lex Anteinternet: So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in genera...So what about World War Two?
I've always thought this was one of the more interesting threads on this blog, and it's one of the many ones I post and wonder why there's never any comments on it. But that's common for blogs. Usually, they don't get posts.
Anyhow, this cartoon by J. R. Williams sort of confirms what I'd suspected. Some people supplemented their table fare during the war by hunting.
Williams was, as we've discussed before, a Canadian cartoonist who moved to the U.S. with his family at age 15, locating in Detroit. He soon dropped out of school and became an apprentice machinist, providing topics for his cartoons which frequently depicted machine shops. He drifted after that, something not uncommon in that era, and worked as a cowboy in the West, as well as serving a three year stint on the U.S. Army as a cavalryman. All of that experience likewise reflected itself in his cartoons. Family life, in spite of his being a bit short (again, not all that uncommon for the time) also featured frequently.
He became a professional cartoonist in 1922 and remained one until his death in 1957 at age 69. He'd used the proceeds of his cartoons to buy a ranch in Arizona, before relocating later on to Pasadena, California. His cartoons carried on to some extent after his death in the hands of other artists.
Anyhow, one of the things about his cartoons is that depict fairly accurate slices of life, and this running gag from 1945-46 no doubt did. The father has taken an elk and a deer, and the family is keeping it in the ice box. The part that surprises me is that I really like venison, and these cartoons suggest that this venison was bad, which may be explained in an earlier cartoon I'm not familiar with.
Eighteen nations entered into an Agreement on Reparation from Germany.
"Southern Resorts Fashions" were on the cover of Life.
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Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
In Memoriam. Scott Adams.
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has died at age 68.
Adams was a peculiar character and its fairly clear that his character Dilbert was based on him. It was a hugely popular cartoon until some remarks he made, reported as racist (I can't recall what they were) got him into trouble the cartoon was widely cancelled.
How much more of this can the country take?
I don't think much more.
I don't have a license to use this, but nothing else seems to capture it as well as this.
Every week, or practically every day, Trump does something outrageous or insane, and its getting worse. His behavior is so asinine that its indescribable.
Things are tense, but MAGA doesn't seem to realize it. If the water isn't at the boiling point, it's clear that its about to reach a full boil. Nobody inside the administration, save for the Joint Chiefs, who are reportedly slow rolling a moronic illegal instruction to prepare to invade Greenland, is doing anything.
But that last item is telling.
Something is going to occur. We're either going to see the 25th Amendment invoked at the nick of time, and the pot taken off the stove, or we're about to go into a period of civil strife in the country unlike any we've seen in over 50 years. People are already getting killed. If we go into that, it'll get much, much worse.
Anyway we look at it, I don't think the country can take any more of this. Trump is too insane for this not to boil over and start to spill.
Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.
A ceasefire between Nationalist and Red troops in China took effect at midnight. Gen. George C. Marshall had mediated the truce.
The first issue of the Anchorage Daily News was published.
In Japan the luxury cigarette "Peace" was introduced.
The concept of a wrist communication device was introduced in the cartoon Dick Tracy.
I never could stand the cartoon, and the predicted device is a scourge.
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Thursday, January 10, 1946. The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Monday, December 29, 2025
Saturday, December 29, 1945. Korean protests on US decision.
Korean civilians attacked U.S. soldiers in Seoul in protests of a U.S. decision two days prior to wait five years before granting the country independence.
It would in fact come quicker than that, with South Korea becoming independent in 1948. Originally, the entire peninsula was to have been part of the new republic, but the post war separation into two occupied halves kept that from coming about. U.S. occupation of South Korea would end at that time.
The period from 1945 to 1950 in South Korean history is not looked at much, but it was marked by strife, including what would become a hard fought guerilla war between the newly formed Republic of Korea and Communist guerillas.
Hitler's will and marriage certificate were found.
And the Coast Guard was going back to the Treasury, which is where it should be.
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Friday, December 28, 1945. War Brides. Yank ends.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Sunday, December 27, 1925. Between time.
Basil III (الأنبا باسيليوس, Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ) bebame the 17th Metropolitan of the Holy and Great City of Our Lord, Jerusalem (Holy Zion), and Archbishop of the Holy and Ancient Archdiocese of Jerusalem, all Palestine and the Near East.
A mine explosion killed 52 coal miners in Palaú, in the Mexican state of Coahuila.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, December 27, 1925
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Saturday, December 26, 1925.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Boxing Day, Communism, Crime, football, Imperialism, India, Italy, J. C. Leyendecker, Somalia, Somaliland
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Tuesday, December 25, 1945. Christmas.
It was the first peacetime Christmas for much of the World since 1938, although in some areas of the globe new wars and the continuation of old wars raged on.
A souvenir edition of Stars and Stripes was put out for occupation forces in the Pacific. It featured a 1946 calendar I'll decline to put up of pinup illustrations, in black and white, starting with a clearly Asian woman, chest hidden behind the month, followed by eleven other such girls until the last three months of the year in which the figures are much more clothed and American, with the suggestion being that the surprised GI is surprised in those months by the pursuit of an American girl whom he likely marries.
Japanese Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara was sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the mass execution of the 98 American civilians on Wake Island on October 7, 1943. He yelled out, prior to his sentencing, that Americans were equally as complicit due to the atomic bomb strikes earlier that year.
According to the Rocky Mountain News:
Truman pardoned 4,000 Federal convicts who had served in the Armed Forces during the war.
The RMN also contained cheesecake for its Christmas edition, with a picture of an 18 year old Miss Finland.
Normally I wouldn't have posted that either, but I'm struck by how much older than 18 she looks. Photographs of late teens of the era, male and female, tend to show people who look older than the same ages today.
Bill Mauldin was appearing in stateside papers.
The Cold War was clearly arriving.
Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was born in Folkstone, England. He's pass away in 2003.
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Monday, December 24, 1945. Patton laid to rest.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1916, Art, China, Christmas, Holidays, Mexican Border War, National Protection War, New Year
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Monday, December 24, 1945. Patton laid to rest.
He was interred next to a Private of the Third Army.
The same paper ran a classic edition of Out Our Way.
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Saturday, December 22, 1945. Truman prioritizes displaced persons in immigration.
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