Decade in Review
what the 1920’s were all about
Table of Contents
Editor’s Nook
Letters to the Editor; Editor’s Nook pg 1 The Massace on St. Valentines Day... pg 2 Scandal Strikes in White House! Teapot Dome Oil Sold by Secretary of Interior
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Voting for Women pg 9 The Reds Take Over!
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BLACK VS. WHITE: Racial Discrimination at its Largest
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Evolution Vs. Religion: The Scopes Trial
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The Sacco-Venzetti Trial Fully Exposured
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Labor Union Political Cartoon
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The Radio and the Movie
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Sports Captures Nation’s Attention
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Model T Ford Re-invents America
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The Famous Harlem Renaissance
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The stench of the streets fills the air as the barrels were passed down the line of men. One by one they’re stacked against the garage wall in a carful manner so that nothing is spilled. Each drop is worth their payment; it’s the prohibition era and alcohol is everything. The men dare not speak, for the police are watching with a careful eye and in a city like Chicago, a bootlegger really has to be sly. The time passed slowly as more barrels are brought from the truck. The weight of each barrel is great, exciting the men with the thought of a bigger payment for this illegal work. But with great risk comes great backlash; people dying in the streets, men getting blown into pieces by explosions, and brother against brother. It’s the life of American Gangsters to kill those who stand in the way of business. The streets flow with red with alcohol mixed blood. It’s a bloody job, and everyone wishes to make it out alive.
The Massacre on St. Valentine’s Day, the Era of Prohibition, and the Backlash
Feature story by Dylan Schnurman pg 2
The final barrel is stacked and the men sigh in relief. The buyer will be there soon enough and all seems well. But suddenly, a figure appeared down the end of the garage, walking towards them. You hear the shouts and yells for everyone to get on the floor. This was not part of the plan, the cops weren’t supposed to be here. One of the gangsters stands up and walks briskly toward the cop. He pays him off and quickly, the cop vanishes. The other gangsters knew that he would take the bribe, but they still shook like whimpering puppies. The final barrel is stacked and the men sigh in relief. The buyer will be there soon enough and all seems well. But suddenly, a figure appeared down the end of the garage, walking towards them. You hear the shouts and yells for everyone to get on the floor. This was not part of the plan, the cops weren’t supposed to be here. One of the gangsters stands up and walks briskly toward the cop. He pays him off and quickly, the cop vanishes. The other gangsters knew that he would take the bribe, but they still shook like whimpering puppies. It’s not over yet though. Out of
At the scene of the St. Valentine Day’s Massacre
Al Capone; The man supposedly behind the massacre.
“Get against the wall and put your hands where I can see them!” shouted the short one. The gangsters oblige to the request and get against the wall. These were not police busting them for trafficking moonshine; these were rival gangsters here for the alcohol. “You got this all wrong, Daddy-o!” said one of the gangsters. “Why don’t we just give you part of our cut and you can be on your way?” the corner of their eyes, the gangsters spot The short one with the two more figures at the garage entrance, tommy gun smirks, he doesn’t care but these men mean business. They carry for part of the cut, he wants all of with them, two fully loaded Thomas Sub it. “We can just pay you, and you’ll Machineguns and they’re not here to talk. be gone. No one needs to get hurt,” continues one of the gangsters stand ing against the garage wall.
The other man holding a tommy gun looks at his short partner. They nod in sync, and with that, the garage walls are riddled with bullets. All seven gangsters hit the floor after 60 rounds of ammo are unloaded. Silent, the bodies lay motionlessly on the cold dank floor of the lonely garage. The two holding tommy guns drop their firearms and began loading the stacked barrels of alcohol into their own truck. You’ve just witnessed the St. Valentine Day’s Massacre, where seven gangsters were killed by rival crime groups over alcohol. It’s truly been a bloody red valentine’s day this year.
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The Era of Prohibition
The prohibition movement, the movement to ban alcohol has been a huge part of this decade. Though starting small with only a few hundred women, support has grown to hundreds of thousands of active participators. What put the prohibition movement in motion was the women’s Temperance Movement during the mid 1800’s. The movement consists of mostly white, upper-middle class women and men. These men and women believe that alcohol is tearing American families apart, turning men violent, unemployed, and economically and morally bankrupt! When finding no available work, men turn to the devil’s bottle. Drinking away their sorrow and pain, men return home to beat and abuse their wives and children. This is truly a sad and unfortunate even in America’s homes, but with the passing of the 18th U.S. amendment, an entire nation has been saved.
Men drinking heavily during the 1920’s.
Women in the Temperance Movement, protesting alcohol.
Police cracking down on moonshiners.
18th Amendment
Prohibition grew to such large support that finally in 1919, 36 states voted yes, confirming the passing of the 18th U.S. amendment. The amendment outlawed the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors”, it did not make it illegal to buy, possess or consume alcohol however. Now, with laws in place, liquor created the sober America who was focused, hard working, and happy. Without alcohol, spousal abuses, violence, and drunk driving decreased substantially. Women didn’t have to fear their men coming home to beat them. Instead, they could relax and be happy with their man returning from work to see them.
The American Issue, January, 1919 showing the 18th Amendment passed.
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The scene of a car wreck caused by drunk driving.
Backlash
It’s 5 pm as he rolls up to the general store. It’s only mid afternoon and already he longed for the bitter taste of alcohol. Walking into the ally way, he looks back making sure no one is following him. Three knocks on the back door and a voice asks, “What do you want?” The man looking back one more time, swallows and says “Speak easy my friend, I ain’t no cop.” And with the secret phrase said, the door unlocks and the man slips inside. In there emerges an entire atmosphere of sleaze: smoke in the air, loosely dressed women, jazz music being played on stage. The man has entered the world of a Speakeasy, where alcohol is passed illegally from man to man and where almost no rules are found. The man finds the bar and heads toward it, passing multiple
feather boa dancers along the way. He stays focused, clearly his mind for the one taste he’s been craving for all day. “I’ll take a shot of whiskey, Sir.” The bartender slides down a single shot glass and fills it quickly with his steady hand. One gulp and it’s gone. The bartender refills the shot and the man continues drinking his future away. It’s nearly 7 pm, as the man looks up at the clock. Time to go home and visit the wife, he thinks. Too bad for him, he’s under the influence of the devil’s juice and not even Jesus can save him now. He loads into his Model T and begins to drive down the road. He can barely keep his hand on the wheel; much less keep his eyes open. Swerving back and forth, in tune with the man’s snores, oncoming traffic honks their horns in an attempt to stop him from crashing. But it’s
too late for that. Then boom! Right off the road and head into a tree the car crashes, sending the man through the glass windshield. By the time the police arrive, the man is already dead, with broken ribs, combined with shards of glass in his skin; he bled out until he died. “I heard he was unemployed, which is why he hit the moonshine,” says an officer at the scene of the accident. A crowd of people have gathered to see the horrific scene. Speed down the road, you see a women race out of car and right through the yellow police tape. It’s the man’s wife. She sobs as she stares at the bloody scene. The victim and his wife’s dreams of raising a family shattered with broken glass littered throughout the bloodstained car.
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Scandal Strikes in White House! Teapot Dome Oil Sold illegally bySecretary of Interior
News Article by Dylan Schnurman In 1922, the scandal of the pointed Secretary of Interior, Albert decade occurred when Secretary of B. Fall, began leasing the petroleum Interior, Albert Fall, with assistance to private investors for thousands of from members of President Harddollars. He did this by convincing ing’s organization, started to lease the Secretary of the Navy, Edwin the U.S. Navy’s petroleum reserves Denby, to give control of the oil to secret investors in exchange for fields to Fall himself. illicit bribes. The three naval oil fields that were involved in this scandal were the oil reserves located in Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills, California and in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. These oil reserves were created and set in place by former President William Howard Taft after the entire Navy fleet changed Teapot Dome, Wyoming, 1922. fuels from coal to oil in the early 1900s. President Taft explained that these reserves were essential In April of 1922, Fall began to America because with them, the leasing part of the oil reserves in Navy was always insured to have Teapot Dome, Wyoming to varifuel for their great fleets. At the ous oil corporations including one time, many politicians believed that Harry Sinclair of the Mammoth these oil reserves were unnecessary Oil Company. The leases appeared because of the growing oil induslegal on the surface because Fall tries sprouting up in America. made it look as if corporations and However, it wasn’t uncompanies were bidding on the oil til 1921 that President Harding reserves, but with Fall accepting moved control of these oil reserves additional bribes for the oil, which from the Navy Department to the he collected himself, the leases were Department of Interior. Now, the in fact illegal. In exchange for the oil fields could be accessed by the oil, Fall received “gifts” (or bribes) President if petroleum reserves from Sinclair estimating almost began to run low, and then be used $400,000. for America’s naval ships. But after Fall’s illegibly legal leases this executive decision was made were met with many suspicions by President Harding, the newly ap- toward him. After setting up leases pg 6
in April of 1922, the public got hold of Fall’s undisclosed meetings with private oil companies when the entire story was placed in front of the public’s eyes by the Wall Street Journal. This type of exposure brought forth one important investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands led by Republican Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and Democrat Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. For the next two years, together, Follette and Walsh worked to find evidence on Fall and his illegal leases. Finally, in 1924 the duo found strong evidence on Fall which linked him directly to making money off of the illegibly legal leases. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the previous oil reserve leases had been corruptibly obtained and the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome leases were invalidated by the court. Finally, in 1929, Fall was found guilty of bribery and sentenced to a $100,000 fine and one year in prison, ending his reign over the oil reserves.
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Voting For Woman Written and Edited by Gabriel Zornes. When the 19th Amendment was passed, the Women’s Rights Movement changed society into what we know it as today. Before the 19th Amendment had passed, many women were considered inferior to men. Because of this mentality, many women fought back in strikes demanding the right to vote along with more rights. Many famous women played a big part in this movement such as Alice Paul.
Main building of a Womans Suffrage Unit
Alice Paul started the National Women’s Party. Alice and her party used many radical tactics to gain attention of the President about women’s right to vote. Many of these tactics included picketing and going on strike in front of the White House. During these strikes hundreds and thousands of women took place in fighting for their rights. In 1913 Alice led a march
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of over eight thousand women in front of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration day. Also during President Wilson’s 2nd inauguration in 1917, she led a march around the White House. During the First World War, many Women took up jobs in the war to support their effort. After the war was over, Carrie Chapman Catt (Head of the Women Suffrage Association), told the President several times that he should honor the women with their work in the war. President Wilson told her he would do what he could and he started to support the Women’s Suffrage. In a speech on September the 18th of 1918 he said “We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?” When Wilson says this he’s trying to say that we should not treat omen as if they are beneath us. We should treat them with respect and give them rights that all men have. In little less than a year on May 21 of 1919, an amendment was passed by the House of Representatives and later the Senate followed. Then finally on August 18th, 1920, the amendment was passed through all the states and it was proposed law that any United States Citizen whether male or female was given the right to vote. The Amendment clearly says “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on Account of sex. The Congress shall have the power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.” Because of the passing of this 19th Amendment it changed the way America now views society. Many women turned away
from politics now that they finally obtained their right to vote. The Amendment gave many Women more confidence in themselves and gave them a sense that they could accomplish more. Many women gave up the confines of being a stay at home wife or mom. Women started to get jobs outside of their home life and some of them started playing sports.
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The Reds Take Over Written and Edited by Gabriel Zornes. In 1919, on June 2nd, eight bombs simultaneously went off within the same hour in eight different major United States Cities. Before this disastrous event, in April of the same year, head authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to members of the US political and economic establishment. These were both two different bomb threats, but still from the same enemy. The bombs used in the bombing in June 2nd were much bigger than the threat exposed in April. Russian and other foreign immigrants were used as scapegoats and took most of the blame for these catastrophes. This sparked the hatred that Americans of the 1920s felt toward immigrants which lead to the event that the press refers to as “The Red Scare”. After these bombings, most States issued “criminal syndicalism” laws that outlawed support of violence in effecting and securing social change. Some of these restrictions included limitations to free speech. On September 9th, the Boston Police Force went on strike. There were allegations that the “Reds” were against the strike force in Boston. There were many rumors of huge riots, pg 10
chaos, and federal troops shooting in mobs. Because of these laws, it provoked Police Men to arrest many people on charges of suspicion. This caused much tension between the citizens and law enforcers. Because so many people were on strike, they were labeled as “Reds”. Due to the fact of so many strikes, fear led to persuade people that the country was headed towards a Communist revolution. Many colleges were considered to be sources of Bolshevism and professors were considered as radicals. The chase for catching the Reds went down to secondary schools where teachers were fired for current or prior membership in such organizations.
of this effort was also to just help maintain law, order, and the rest of the sanity that everyone had left. By the end of the year the organization had over a million members. The Government was also not just going to stand by and do nothing; they started the General Intelligence Division of Bureau of Investigation on August 1st of 1919. The sole purpose of this company was to uncover Bolshevik conspiracies and then deport them. In November of 1919, General Mitchell Palmer ordered government raids on suspects. The Bureau of Investigation chose November 7th because it was the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Many newspaper reports of the raid said that some people were “badly beaten” during the arrests. The Bureau of Investigation managed to arrest 650 suspects of Bolshevism. Of that 650, only 43 were successfully deported due to the lack of warrants.
Political cartoon depicting the Red Scare.
The American Legion was soon created afterwards to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States. Most pg 11
BLACK
“Racial Discrimination VS. WHITE at its Largest” News Article by DYLAN SCHNURMAN
Rising to great power, the Klu Klux Klan
has taken to the harassment, deporting, and lynching of innocent African Americans and other races. In an effort to show that white is the true dominant race, the KKK has been racially discriminating more than any other group in America. They’re reign of terror in the United States must come to a stop; the future of the African American race, along with other foreign races, depends on it. -------------- The Klu Klux Klan began in the late years following the Civil War. The group was created with the philosophy that to be truly American, a person must belong to one race, religion, and political and economic philosophy. Meaning that unless you were a white, Christian, and responsible, hard working Republican, your chances of living in a normal southern city were surprisingly slim. pg 12
The reestablished of the KKK, in the year 1915, took to new levels of hatred in America. Spreading vastly and quickly across southern states, the KKK grew to oppose Catholics, blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, Asians, drug dealers, “wild women”, and even the Pope. Notorious for mostly the discrimination of African Americans, the KKK was now victimizing other ethnicities for their views and opinions. -------------- The KKK views any of other ethnicities other than the white race, to be inferior. They carry out all of their racism in the hopes of cleansing America from the lower classes of race. This insensitive and narrow minded way of thinking is why so many African Americans have already died. The KKK has formed into a group of racist murderers who are almost past the point of saving.
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[left to right:] Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert T. Delaney
The Klu Klux Klan burning a cross in a field, early 1920’s Lynching by the Klu Klux Klan.
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However, without the KKK’s racism towards African Americans, the great boom of culture from the streets of Harlem might never have happened. In recent years, we’ve seen great explosions of artists, writers, actors, and musicians from New York City, specifically in Harlem. This culture came from the great migration of African Americans from southern states to northern states, in 1910. -------------- The migration helped start a new era of respect towards our Negro brethren. Just in recent years, we’ve seen such great musicians as Louis Armstrong, perfect jazz into a beautiful transcendent sound that anyone can enjoy. -------------- We’ve also heard the sorrow and pain from inspiring writers such as Langston Hughes, who has tickled our brains and imaginations with his short stories about WWI. This culture explosion in Harlem has given us much more than artists, writers, poets, and jazz musicians; it’s given us new respect for African Americans alike. -------------- The racism of the KKK is nothing short of illegal and morally wrong. They’ve killed those who share only the smallest of differences between them, but it seems that they are still rising. And even though the KKK may have been responsible for the spark of culture in Harlem, New York, the people of America must come together to stop this hooded menace before anymore or hurt or killed. What will happen to the African American race, if we don’t? pg 15
Evolution VS Religion: The Scopes Trial
out on the radio for people to listen to. The trail was started at first to bring attention By Cade Blankenship to the little town of Dayton Tennessee which A court case was held in the 1925 called was where Scopes worked and where the trial by the name “The Scopes Trial” or nicknamed was held. The point that Darrow made was that by law “The Monkey Trial” was case of one man they had name John Scopes who was caught teachto teach ing evolution in one of his classes. This was everything against the law in Tennessee but the ACLU that was in told Mr. Scopes to do it anyway so that they the school could test the law. The ACLU (American Civil book that Liberty Union) goal was to get this trial as was given public as possible and to see if the law would to them by hold up in a court case. They also wanted to the state. get something in the constitution that deSo there scribed what they could and couldn’t teach in was a giant a school. The case ended up being more of loophole in a case between religion and evolution than the system anything else. This case will be well known for John T. Scopes that the ACLU was counting years. on. So by law they had to teach everything in the book, and since that there was a section on evolution in the book then by law they had to break the law. They question Bryant about certain miracles that were performed in the bible. Bryant made a critiacal error when he accidently contradicted himself in front of the court. The court ended up finding Scopes guilty of the charges but that’s not what the media focused on. The trialed lasted 8 days and he had to pay $100 fine (With inflation it would roughly around $1,200 today) It seemed that everyone that was listening to the trial and hearing about Darrow and Bryan During The Trial was more interested with the actual debate of The science vs. religion. They didn’t seem to care Butler act as much if Scopes taught evolution but what had been passed in Tennessee banning the Bryant and Darrow had to say during the trail. teaching of any evolution material. On May Many people admired Bryant for many things. 5th Scopes was caught teaching evolution out The main one that people liked him for was of Charles Dawins book “The Origin of Spethe way that he put faith over facts. In the cies”. Former presidential candidate William court case it didn’t seem to matter how many Jennings Bryant was for the persecution and facts were used against him. He stuck with Clearance was for the defense. This case was his faith and that won the crowed over in the pg 16 big enough that they actually broadcasted it long one.
The Sacco-Vanzett Trail Fully Exposed
by Dayna Dendy At 4:00 p.m. on April 15th, 1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a very large factory payroll through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small town south of Boston. Neither the guard nor the paymaster saw the two men standing near a fence, without notice, they pulled a gun. The gunmen grabbed the cash boxes dropped by the wounded men and jumped into a waiting automobile. The bandit gang, numbering four or five in all, drove away, eluding their pursuers. This story was spread locally very quickly, but it was someone accepted considering it was post WW1. Three weeks later, on May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti were suspected of murder for the Braintree crime because of a trap that they fell into set by the police. Although originally not under suspicion, both men were carrying guns at the time of their arrest and when questioned by the authorities they lied. In the end, they were held as the two men that shot the victims in the Braintree crime. Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. These events were to mark the beginning of twentieth-century America's most notorious political trial.
their radical activities that they were involved in, and the prosecution's insistence that only hard, nonpolitical evidence had implicated the two men in common crimes. Moore would try to show the prosecution's hidden act: its desire to aid the federal and military authorities in suppressing the Italian anarchist movement to which Sacco and Vanzetti were a part of. Moore's defense of the two men soon became so openly and energetically political that its scope quickly transcended its local roots. This was no longer a local argument trail, it had become national. He organized public meetings, solicited the support of labor unions, contacted international organizations, initiated new investigations, and distributed tens of thousands of defense sheets throughout the United States and the world. Sacco and Vanzetti were still Italian citizens at the time. Moore's aggressive strategy transformed a little known case into an international occurrence. After a hard-fought trial of six weeks, during which the themes of patriotism and radicalism were often sharply contrasted by the prosecution and the defense, the jury found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of robbery and murder on July 14, 1921. This verdict is still in action. We are waiting on what will happen next. Some are saying the duo will be prosecuted, which is sadly accurate. The conflict of if Sacco and Vanzetti actually were guilty or innocent are still talked about often, but all agree that their rights were violated.
For a first criminal offense in which no one was hurt, Vanzetti received a sentence that was much harsher than usual, ten to fifteen years. This by all means shows that their rights were taken advantage of. The triggered the men to a need of a new defense strategy in the Braintree trial. They decided to get a lawyer, Moore; their second lawyer completely changed the nature of the legal strategy. He decided it was no longer possible to defend Sacco and Vanzetti solely against the criminal charges of murder and robbery. Instead he would have them acknowledge their faults in court, trying to reestablish that their arrest and prosecution came from pg 17
The Radio And The Movie
by Dayna Dendy
“Katy, I love it!” said Margie after receiving her first radio. She’s never even seen one before until now. Turning it on for the first time ever, the radio emitted the sweet sound of the sports channel loud, appealing to both ears. Katy’s ears perked up as she heard an oncoming advertising about a new movie coming out.. “Can we go? Can we go?” asked Katy with enthusiasm. Margie wasn’t sure about it, she didn’t seem very drawn to the type of movie that was playing. It was a thriller and Margie already had terrible nightmares from previous accounts. Margie considered it and then responded, “Since you have gotten me this charming radio, I guess it won’t hurt to go to one more frightening picture show.”
In this political cartoon you have the big union leader bullying his workers. To work 36 hours in one shift was uncommon back then and that’s why millions of people left the unions. The plates on the conveyor belt read “Coal Mining” “Steel” and “Factory” these are the places that usally had workers work 36 hour shifts. The union manager standing at the top of the page saying “Who Says That You Can’t Work 36 Hours In One Day?” He is saying this because back then the union managers didn’t think that it was too much to work 36 hours at a time
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Both girls ventured off to the movie theater. Katy’s eyes were glued the entire time. While Margie’s eyes were confused on if they should stay opened or closed because of all of the frightening images. Before they knew it, the movie was finally over. On their way home they discussed the movie and their favorite and least favorite parts. “My favorite part was when the man walked into the house and saw his wife wasn’t there!” Katy said. Margie responded, “Oh my, I hated that part.” The following day, Margie was all alone at home. Her house wailed with silence of the day, Margie decided to turn on the radio which she re-
ceived from her friend Katy, the night before. Turning to the radio station, Your News Now, Margie listened intently, want to know what was on the skimpy. The people on the station were discussing the story of how last night a woman walked out of a Speakeasy with a lounge lizard not knowing he had put something unknown into her drink. In a freak accident, the woman dropped dead at the scene. Margie eyes bulged and she began to worry. She didn’t have any desire to leave her house. The radio had caused more of a fright then the movie did the previous night. She didn’t want to be alone so she decided to give her friend Katy a call. Margie rang Katy two times and there was no answer. She began to get scared, so she decided to call Rick, her husband. Ring, ring, ring, went the telephone. “Hello, this is Rick.” Margie screamed, “Rick, come home! I’m scared and I…” BOOM! All of the sudden, out of nowhere, a massive noise came from the back bedroom. Margie dropped the phone, it lingering on the table. The rest is unknown. Radio reporters and neighbors showed up to her house because of a police call by Rick. Upon arriving, the police discovered that Margie was nowhere to be found. The police asked friends and family about what could have possibly happened to poor Margie. Eventually Katy showed up, sharing the story of the night before to all of the news reporters. One day went by and Katy was listening to the Your News Now. All of the sudden heard Margie’s story. With the news broadcasters beginning to tell Katy’s story about the night before, Katy began to remember about what happened in the movie when the wife went missing. She then remembered where she actually was! Margie was found 26 hours later under a bridge behind their house. Shaken and frightened. She is currently in the hospital under trauma condition and is in recovery. More updates on Margie will be in the next edition of this magazine. pg 19
Sports Capture Nations Attention Sports By Cade Blankenship
have taken an increase in popularity as organized sports grab the attention of the Nation. Many sports such as baseball, football and boxing have shown record setting attendance within the last few weeks. With legendary athletes hitting their prim it’s no wonder sports have become so popular.
Babe Ruth
who holds the record for most home-runs in a single season with 61 is considered an American hero. He used to play pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but was later traded to the Yankees. The Yankees decided that it would better for the team if he played in the field whether than pitcher. This way he could bat every game rather than only play every other two games if he still played pitcher. He still doesn’t look like an athlete with his round body and swindle legs, but he can sure it a ball. He keeps breaking his own records for most home-runs Babe Ruth Batting About To Hit A Home Run in a single season. He held it at 58, than he moved it up to 59 then setting the all time homerun record at 61. This record lasted for over 30 years
Boxing
was once illegal in the United States of America because of its brutal nature of the sport. Boxing was brought back and in the 1920’s, a legendary match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney was held. The match was in Philadelphia. Jack Dempsey Vs. Gene Tunney pg 20
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with the re-match held in Chicago. More than 130,000 people witnessed Tunney beat Dempsey. The match made over 2.6 million dollars. Tunney nearly lost in the 7th round when he was knocked down. A very controversial call was made when the ref The Fmous “Long Count” didn’t start the count till Dempsey was in the right corner. This was known later as the famous “Long Count” Tunney was able to get up at the count of 9 and finish the match blocking rather than attacking. Over 42 million people listened to the match on their radios. The match was so intense at some parts that 10 people actually dropped dead from a heart attack because the excitement of the match.
Football
had started to taken off in some areas. Some players have become American because of the natural talent on the field. An athlete in particular by the name of Herald Grange was a running back from the University of Illinois. His dominance on the field was impossible to miss. He held all sorts of records and even though that most football players were not as well known as baseball players, Herald Grange was the exception. In a single game he ran for over 246 yards. He scored 4 touchdown in the first half alone and by the time he got out of college he was making around 3 million dollars. Herald Grange Running Up The Feild
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Model T Ford Re-invents America
During the past decade, America has experienced a post-war economic boom. Hundreds of new models of cars burst onto the scene. One of these cars was called the Ford Model T. Henry Ford made a way to mass produce cars with little to no cost at all. The car’s purpose was for it to be affordable to the common middle class man. The car opened up traveling to a whole other level. Most cars before the Model T cost a lot to produce therefore only the rich could afford them. Henry Ford found a way to fix this problem with mass producing. Not only was the car cheap to make, but it was also very reliable.
One of the first Model T Ford’s
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The first production of the car was in August of 1908. Ford said this about his vehicle “I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.” Ford did exactly what he promised. Because of the mass production of so many cars, by May 26th of 1927, Henry Ford got to watch his 15 millionth Model T drive out of the factory. The effect of the Model T being created changed society and economy as we knew it. Soon enough we had roads everywhere to give us road to drive on with our New Model T’s. Who knows what will be in the future thanks to Ford’s great discovery.
It wasn’t long after Henry Ford’s 15 millionth Model T rolled off the driveway that Charles Lindbergh took off on a non-stop flight from New York to Paris. Charles Lindbergh won the Orteig Prize. Before Lindbergh flew to Paris, 6 other men died trying to win the prize by flying non-stop from New York to Paris. Charles was another great example of America’s economy boost. Soon enough people were flying back and forth from continent to continent without any trouble at all. This also boosted the trade market due to how fast people could travel instead of by ship. Due to this rapid shift in America’s economy, we became known as one of the world’s most successful countries. Both Charles and Henry were the reason that our economy took such a rapid shift upward that we are now successful.
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The Famous Harlem Renaissance
By Cade Blankenship
instruments. At first jazz was just a lot of improve. This is where the term “Jam Band” came from. This is where each instrument took a bit of time to kind of solo out. This is instead of playing songs. This was a good way to start making a name for yourself because you stand out more during little jam sessions than playing a full song. This was comThere pletely original and a huge sense was a term of pride started towards called “The the upNew Necoming gro” that black described culture. the new Duke Ellington on the piano The jazz sense of pride scene Lewis Armstrong PLaying His Trumpet that African became very popular in the 20’s Americans when it moved up north. Nobody had. For too long the culture stated had herd music like that at the time that too be black was to be inferior so people were very interested in it. to other ethnic groups in America. Many famous jazz musicians started This was a time where they could appearing in the scene. Some of the be proud of who they are and what famous on were Louis Armstrong, they do. They were a proud bunch who was a famous singer and trumof people who were starting to make pet player during this time in hisculture changes for themselves. tory. Duke Ellington and Jelly Role Many black leaders were starting Morton were also started making a to make a name for them also. Jazz name for themselves. started to make and appearance in the world. Jazz was a combination of African drumbeats and European pg 26 The Harlem Renaissance was a time in African American culture where there was a sense of pride to by African American. It took place in New York mainly in the Harlem area. Many famous artist, poets, writers and painters were just starting to make an appearance in society.