Election Follow-up – November 1924

Just like now, stories related to the election results dominated the news exactly one hundred years ago after Calvin Coolidge was elected. But thankfully not all of the news was about politics.

Above is the Thursday, November 6, 1924 Lorain Journal. I already posted the front page from the day after the election, but this one had some interesting non-election-related tidbits on it.

One article about kids playing hookey sounded like it was right out of a Little Rascals episode. The difference was that in this case, Municipal Judge J. F. Strenick had a pretty harsh solution. "Responsibility for educating children goes with the raising of them and this responsibility rests on the shoulders of parents. If their offspring had been raised right instead of petted and pampered there would be no difficulty in getting them to obey.

""What is needed is a whipping post for some of these hoodlums and rough-necks who play hookey and who refuse to attend school.""

The article even includes the names of the miscreants and their home addresses.

An article about the newly elected woman governor of Wyoming includes a gracious congratulations by her opponent. Mrs. Nellie T. Ross had run for the office after her husband, Governor William Ross, had passed away. Upon her election, Mrs. Ross became the first woman to serve as governor of a U. S. state.

Elsewhere on the page: a well-written Journal election editorial; a story about an motorist running wild on Elyria Avenue and doing a lot of damage; a bit about a "booze offender" being fined in court for smiling; and an announcement about Cross Word Puzzles appearing three times each week in the Journal.