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.
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The headline fits. I found the article Business Boom Foreseen interesting. It did, for 5 years, then we tumbled into the Great Depression, thanks in large part to unregulated banks and thin social safety nets.
Let us hope history doesn't repeat itself.
The article on Robert La Follette was interesting. When I went to college in Milwaukee in the 1960s, I was surprised to learn that the city had one Socialist mayor or another for most of the 20th century to that date, most recently in 1960.
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