1919

Articles from 1919

‘The Woman Who Took A Soldier’s Job” (American Legion Weekly, 1919)

Two years ago when the men began to drop out of the industrial world at the call to the colors their women associates gradually slipped into their places, and in the majority of cases effectively filled them… Those men have now nearly all come back to claim their old, or better jobs. What of the girl, then, in the soldier’s job? What is she going to do?

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VANITY FAIR Throws a Bobbed Hair Party (Vanity Fair, 1919)

A smattering of cartoons depicting those sweet young things of yore who were partial to bathtub gin, short skirts and
short hair styles.


In 1919 you didn’t have to be plugged-in 24/7 to the youth scene in order to recognize that bobbed hair was where the fickle finger of fashion was pointing. Perhaps the editors of VANITY FAIR presumed that a bobbed hair party was the best social alternative that could have been offered six months after the 1919 passage of the 18th Amendment, which ushered in the Prohibition of alcohol throughout the United States.

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The Prince of Wales Visits America (Review of Reviews, 1919)

A five page magazine article which saluted the heir of Britain’s King George V, Edward VIII (1894 – 1972: following his 1936 abdication he was granted the title Duke of Windsor). The article was written by the venerable journalist and U.S. Civil War veteran, George Haven Putnam (1844 – 1930) in order to mark the first visit made to the United States by that crowned head.

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‘The Americans Are Here” (Scribner’s Magazine, 1919)

Les Américains Sont Là!

Those were the words on everybody’s lips as the first big detachments of United States troops began to appear in the Paris streets… I think there is a simple politeness in these young warriors from across the sea, whether they come from some of the big cities, New York, Boston, Chicago or from some far-away states on the other side of the Rockies.

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Getting Around the Prohibition Laws (Stars and Stripes, 1919)

To be sure, there were complications with the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. While American clergy debated with government concerning the issue of sacraments involving wine, one enterprising restaurateur took advantage of the fact that the law, as it was originally written, only involved alcoholic beverages and decided to offer an inebriate in the form of a jelly sandwich.

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The Spiritual Disillusion of the 1920s (Current Opinion, 1919)

At the thirty-fifth annual church congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1919) clergy members seemed to agree that Christian leaders were fully complicit in the recently ended war and were guilty of abandoning Christianity for patriotism:

Christianity has betrayed itself body and soul.


When W.W. II started, Americans went back to church…


In 1900 people wanted to know why men didn’t like going to church…


Out of the Mouths of Babes: Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Erastyle=border:none

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