The Casper Tribune reported on major events of the day, but what drew my attention was the horse packing plant. I was completely unaware that Casper had every had one.
A little digging shows the company was still in business in February 1928, and doing well enough to have a full page ad.
By that time it was then packing everything, including poultry. Horses were still noted, however, with the reference to wild horses, "outlaws of the range". The company advertised into the 1930s, and there were newspaper reports of it taking in huge numbers of horses.
What happened to it?
Of interest on this story, the plant was owned by Hill Milling Company, which still exists. It's Hill's Pet Nutrition today. Apparently in the 1930s it was a major supplier of horse meat to Europe.
The Soviet Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.established Gostrudsberkassy, the savings bank for workers in the Soviet Union.
On the same day, the USSR and the Emirate of Afghanistan went to war over control of the island of Urta Tagay.
The small war over the island resulted from Imperial Russian troops having to abandon the island in 1920 in order to aid the White cause, with the island, long claimed by Afghanistan, then occupied. The fight drew the attention of western nations, and amazingly Afghanistan won.
The Reichstag approved the Locarno Treaties.
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