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More recently it figured here, as the owners of the building commissioned some murals on the fire escape doors:
So how on earth does it end up in a political campaign?
Frankly, I have no idea, but the entire idea of it being built by "a Democrat" is a real wild one. The principal figure in the building being built was B. B. Brooks, who served as a Republican Governor for Wyoming, as we noted above. Brooks had his offices on the fifth floor of the building.
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This building has been continually occupied since 1917, and some of the businesses currently in it have been in the building since the 1940s although as earlier noted, one of them might have been in the building as early as 1917. Of the other two sisters, one is now the Townsend Justice Center which houses Natrona County's courts, and Wyo. Bank Bldg is an apartment building with a cafe on the street level.
All three buildings originally had, fwiw, massive period style lobbies which are sadly now all gone although you can catch glimpses of them, particularly in the Wyo. National Bank Bldg. The ConRoy once had a cigar store and magazine stand on the street level, after the lobby was taken out, and into the 50s, which explains the current appearance of its very small lobby today. Basically, the ConRoy and the Wyoming National Bank building were victims of "modernization" concepts in architecture from the 1950s and 1960s, at which time those buildings were forty years old and less, and nobody thought of them being particularly historic. The Townsend probably retained its architecture the longest, as it was a hotel originally, and up into the 70s when it closed. By that time it was pretty much a flop house with a popular cafe. I recall it as my father had lunch there until the cafe closed, which many other downtown businessmen and professionals did as well. It made for an odd place to go as a kid, which I sometimes did with my father, as the cafe was really popular, as was the adjoined Petroleum Club, but in the lobby the working girls were recovering from their prior night.
The ConRoy, on the other hand, has hummed on much like it has since 1917, although some of the notable early tenants, like the Casper Star Tribune, have moved on. The building was recently featured in the Oil City News when some of the equipment for a new elevator, replacing the one from the 1950s that replaced the one from 1917, was lifted by crane into the structure.
Anyhow, this is baffling. Of course, I only know of this as somebody else whose familiar with the building pointed it out to me and was horribly amused by it. I don't know that I am, as I like things to be accurate.
But why would a person do this, and how would such a wild rumor get started?
CNN has an excellent breakdown of the killing.
People like to say you can see more than one thing on these things. Well, let's say you can. Those last few shots are an execution.
These guys should be tried for murder.
ICE/Border Patrol in the interior should be disarmed.
Frankly, these morons are lucky this wasn't a local matter. Things are turning against ICE and Trump, even here. The ICE/Border Patrol killings became a topic that surprised Harriet Hageman, running for Senate, and current Wyoming Congressman, at a really hostile town hall meeting in Casper.
Hostile.
She was confronted on this and her reaction was to flee the stage.
She next appeared in Thermopolis where things didn't go much better. The crowd started yelling at each other.
Meanwhile, in Riverton, locals blocked ICE agents into their hotel. The police had to come and rescue them.
In some parts of the country, there's an effort at a general strike today.
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George S. Patton died at age 60, the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident several days earlier.
The general's daughter woke up in the United States and saw him standing, in full uniform, at the foot of her bed, where he smiled. His daughter Beatrice received a phone call in which he asked "Little Bee, are you alright?'” An attempt to confirm the call in the morning ended up in the information that no oversees call had been placed.
Such incidents are not uncommon. A fairly large number of people experience post death visitations of people they knew, with it most commonly being the case that they happen very soon after the person's death. Indeed, in ancient times, Jews believed that the spirits of the dead were not aware of their deaths for a three day period, and the Irish custom of a wake stems from a desire to stay awake with the recently departed to help them know that they had died.
Patton was one of the most controversial American generals of the Second World War. A member of the cavalry branch, he's famously recalled as an armor general. Almost all of the really effective armor generals in the U.S. Army from the Second World War were cavalrymen. While now hugely admired, during the war the two slapping incidents he was involved in nearly cost him his career.
Patton, although he died due to an accident, fits into a fairly large collection of senior military officers that died right after the war.
The Battle of Shaobo in China ended in a Communist victory. It was another one of the battles in which Chiang Kai Shek pitted Chinese collaborationist units that had rejoined the Nationalist against the Communists.
From the same newspaper as above:
Ethiopian Airlines was founded.
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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.
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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The first nighttime lighted football game in the US was played between Midwest and Casper.
The Sheridan Press reported that the Nationalist Army, whom they reported as "regulars", were being rushed to Mongolia to fight the Communists.
That was correct. The U.S. was aiding in that effort through air lifting.
A local brewer that no longer exists advertised in the issue:
It was Labor Day.
The Spanish Army attempted to make an amphibious landing at Alhucemas Bay at Spanish Morocco. It was a complete and disastrous failure.
General Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga was appointed by Prime Minister Mussolini as the Commandant-General of the Fascist Party's Voluntary Militia for National Security (MSVN), the "Blackshirts".
British troops fired on Chinese protesters at Shanghai.
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And it appears she will be visiting Casper.
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