The Evolution of the Sikh Military (The MacMillan’s Magazine, 1898)
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The Salad Days of Gynecology (Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
Do you think your job is tough? Pity the pioneering gynecologists of the 16th Century…
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U.S. Naval Officers Insignia (Vanity Fair, 1918)
Yet another examination of U.S. Navy officer insignia with additional illustrations of American naval rating patches.
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Wearing the U. S. Navy Sailor Hat (Yank, 1945)
The following article and illustration were clipped from the World War Two G.I. magazine, YANK; which we have included in our study of American World War One naval uniforms because we couldn’t imagine that the regulations involving the wearing of the lid could have been that much more different from the days when Admiral Simms ran the shop.
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The Predator (Pageant Magazine, 1955)
The attached article, A Mother’s Ordeal with Homosexuality first appeared in 1955, a time when the term gay was not known, and the word homosexual was used in its place – and as you will learn, homosexual was essentially synonymous with the designations sex offender, Paraphilia and Child molester.
The charge of homosexuality against someone, anyone, is not a light one. It requires proof, the strictest proof there is; getting it is not an easy matter.
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Those Who Inspired Mark Twain (American Review of Reviews, 1910)
This is a brief look at the up-bringing of Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 – 1910), accompanied by two 1910 magazine photographs of the people who inspired the writer to create Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn. Also interviewed was the the man who instructed the author in the skills required to pilot the Mississippi River.
The historian Henry Steele Commager chose to rank Mark Twain at number 4 insofar as his impact on the American mind was concerned – click here to understand his reasoning (does this still hold true?)…
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Red Saskatchewan (Pathfinder Magazine, 1946)
When the our neighbors to the North first dipped their toe into the tepid waters of socialism, they they chose to do so with car insurance:
A law compelling automobile operators and public schools to buy insurance from a state-owned company.
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A Wedding Vow Anecdote (The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
The exclusion of the word obey from the traditional wedding vow has been happening for a good while, and it seems to have pre-dated the 1960s; however in the following case, the presiding official at one wedding would only do so for a fee.
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The Costliness of Mesopotamia (Literary Digest, 1922)
The attached article from LITERARY DIGEST will give you a clear understanding of all that Britain went through in order to govern Iraq in the early Twenties; Britain’s treaties with the Turkish and Angoran Governments in regards to the oil-rich region of Mosul, the selection of an Arab King and the suppression of various Iraqi revolts.
The Mesopotamian Adventure required a tremendous amount of treasure and yielded very little excitement for either party:
At the end of the war we found Iraq upon our hands, and our Government agreed to accept a mandate for the administration for this inhospitable territory.
Click here to see a Punch Magazine cartoon about the British adventure in Iraq.
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The U.S. Urban Murder Rate: 1926 – 1935 (Literary Digest, 1936)
Attached is a chart pulled from a 1936 issue of THE LITERARY DIGEST that reported on the U.S. urban homicide rate spanning the years 1926 through 1935. It indicates that the murder rate began climbing during the economic depression (from 8.8 in 1928); the years 1934 through 1936 saw a steady decline in urban homicide, more than likely as a result of the end of Prohibition.
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