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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, July 26, 1924. Camping and plowing.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, July 26, 1924. Other around the world f...: Argentinian pilot Pedro Zanni and mechanic Felipe Beltrame began their rather belated attempt to fly around the world. Larry Estridge became...

The weekly magazines were out.

The Saturday Evening Post with a girl who had a scouting uniform of some type, or perhaps was wearing an oddly colored representation of  Navy white shirt, with red instead of blue.


Country Gentleman had a classic of a draft team.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, November 17, 1923. The Lost Pearls

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, November 17, 1923. The Lost Pearls:    

Saturday, November 17, 1923. The Lost Pearls

  


Sigh. . . I wish.

The Saturday Evening Post had a more urban illustration.


The German steamer Kronos, Greek for "Time", hit a mine off of Saaremaa and sank with the loss of all 17 hands.

Painted Bricks: Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, Casper Wyoming

Painted Bricks: Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, Casper Wyoming

Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, Casper Wyoming




Casper has seen some murals enter its downtown space recently and this is a nice example.  Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, which has been in this location now long enough to be regarded as a Casper staple, had this very nice mural depicting scenes of Mexican rural life painted.







This mural is just across the street from the Women of Wyoming mural added last yeaer, which depicts a contemporary Native American woman, and just down the block from Jacob Reeb mural, so some of the diversity of Wyoming is being added through these depictions.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday June 18, 1921. Illustrations

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday June 18, 1921. Illustrations

Saturday June 18, 1921. Illustrations


A deeply illustrated bond of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes for the liquidation of the agro-debts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued on this day in 1921, and featuring many agrarian themes.

The irony.

 Same day, same paper. One ad celebrating agriculture, and one celebrating its destruction.