Father's Day 1926

Here's wishing all you fathers out there a Happy Father's Day – especially my two brothers.

One hundred years ago, this was the Father's Day edition of the Lorain Journal on June 19, 1926. 

It has some special pieces in honor of the holiday: a funny, timeless cartoon, a special tribute by A.M. Hopkins to his father. But other than that, it's chock full of the usual news items – some tragic (several deaths caused by trains) and some unusual (a man about to be drafted by the Czecho-Slovakian army unless he can produce his birth certificate that shows that he was born in Lorain).

If you're wondering who A. M. Hopkins was (like me), it appears that he was manager and editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), a syndicate that provided features (such as his column) to newspaper nationwide.

As as for the young Lorain man who was trying to avoid serving in the Czecho-Slovakian army, the story had a happy ending.

June 23, 1926 Lorain Journal