So Lois posted something involving moss, so I had to post this and get it out of my web browser.
6 years before the infamous pranque, a different scandal happened at “the Indiana College”. This time the students were clearly on the right side in my opinion.
Starting to talk about a news magazine of the past, it seems meta to make the first post on it be about news papers it covered.
TItles of Prison-Papers
Published in the Religion and Social Service section of the January 22, 1916 edition of the Literary Digest is an article on “The New Prison-Journalism” with these examples of name plates of various prison news papers. We see, in approximately top to bottom, then left to right order:
The Index – too generic a name to be able to find out where it was published
The Bulletin – same as above, but appears to say “California”.
Stray Shots – What a terrible name for a prison news paper.
Leavenworth New Era – Another Federal one, presumably the civilian one and not the military one. Interestingly, an escapee from this place made it to Canada and turned mayor!
The Corrector – sub says Chicago, so I’m guessing the Cook County Jail?
Aside of the titles, the article presents the feeling of the time as one of reform and improvement, both of society and self. Maybe it will come again?