Culture Chronicler of the Neglected Truth - And other important old pieces of literature

Check out these time capsules to 1926.

I’ve just started sitting down and enjoying them. I thought some of you might like to join me. I took some pictures of the most interesting articles I read today.

Selected articles:

How the South Regards the Negro

Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin!

The Eye and Art of Seeing

Editorials

Woodrow Wilson, Master of Dreams

A Dance a Week: Steps of the Minuet

Minuet (sheet music)

Spoiler: The articles

Y’all got anything special to share?

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I am sorry but that author of the negro article is so dry you could put his writing next to a candle and start a wildfire

 

[invisibult plus+]

Great find, OP.

 

[Vect]

I am sorry but that author of the negro article is so dry you could put his writing next to a candle and start a wildfire

Maybe, but he's successfully articulating a view that few today would even be able to find the words for, much less be comfortable putting onto a page. It's quite something to be so enlightened that you were calling out Critical Race Theory 100 years before it was a thing.

 

[Breadbassket]

Maybe, but he's successfully articulating a view that few today would even be able to find the words for, much less be comfortable putting onto a page. It's quite something to be so enlightened that you were calling out Critical Race Theory 100 years before it was a thing.

In summary the article says:

 

[Tablet County]

I am sorry but that author of the negro article is so dry you could put his writing next to a candle and start a wildfire

Welcome to what the news used to be.

 

[William Murderface]

I had a book in grad school that was so full of information that it was indispensable, but was so unbelievably dry that if the author could have somehow put the book in capsule form he would have gotten the Nobel Prize in Medicine for ending insomnia forever.

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

Spoiler: Earliest Times to the Second Massacre

Spoiler: A Song of the English

I had a book in grad school that was so full of information that it was indispensable, but was so unbelievably dry that if the author could have somehow put the book in capsule form he would have gotten the Nobel Prize in Medicine for ending insomnia forever.

What’s some of that indispensable stuff and why did you dispense with it?

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

It's interesting to read old news articles in favor of Jap internment during the war.

 

[William Murderface]

What’s some of that indispensable stuff and why did you dispense with it?

At the risk of powerlevelling, it was a book called West Virginia and the Captains of Industry by John Alexander Williams. It was just about the formation of industry in the Mountain State in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was an incredible amount of background on a project I was working on that ultimately went nowhere.

Like I said, the book was full of fantastic information I needed for the economics background, but was the exact opposite of fun reading. I'd read a single page and it would feel like I had been reading for an hour. It wasn't particularly dense, just boring.

 

[William Murderface]

It's interesting to read old news articles in favor of Jap internment during the war.

If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend just looking at newspapers and magazines on microfilm from 100 years ago to 20 years ago just to see how different so much was in attitudes and outlook and the media, but at the same time just how familiar everything was. I found it fascinating.

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

At the risk of powerlevelling, it was a book called West Virginia and the Captains of Industry by John Alexander Williams. It was just about the formation of industry in the Mountain State in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was an incredible amount of background on a project I was working on that ultimately went nowhere.

Like I said, the book was full of fantastic information I needed for the economics background, but was the exact opposite of fun reading. I'd read a single page and it would feel like I had been reading for an hour. It wasn't particularly dense, just boring.

I suspect that’s deliberate. Freaking wizards. I hate wizards.

 

[Truman the Jewman]

For Kiwis unaware the Dearborn Independent was published by Henry Ford (of automobile fame) and was an early target of the ADL because it frequently exposed Jewish trickery.

Ford's staff certainly had some eloquent writers for the time.

 

[William Murderface]

I'd fully considered leaving the book at a bus station, but I didn't want to take the chance some bum would read it, get depressed, and throw himself in front of a moving train. I don't need that death on my conscious or the bad karma.

 

[William Murderface]

For Kiwis unaware the Dearborn Independent was published by Henry Ford (of automobile fame) and was an early target of the ADL because it frequently exposed Jewish trickery.

Ford's staff certainly had some eloquent writers for the time.

People wrote a lot more eloquently and effectively before the 70s rolled around. Somewhere I read that was when newspapers and magazines started to cater towards less educated people to the point that now the standard for newspaper editors is to have their reporters write so the average 8th grader can read a newspaper.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

For Kiwis unaware the Dearborn Independent was published by Henry Ford (of automobile fame) and was an early target of the ADL because it frequently exposed Jewish trickery.

Ford's staff certainly had some eloquent writers for the time.

The International Jew and one of the english translations of The Protocols were also published there

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

People wrote a lot more eloquently and effectively before the 70s rolled around. Somewhere I read that was when newspapers and magazines started to cater towards less educated people to the point that now the standard for newspaper editors is to have their reporters write so the average 8th grader can read a newspaper.

Well we had been conquered by 1940s, the 1950s saw the comfy settlement of Frankfurt men in American academia and their cousins like Maurice Samuel started openly taunting our grandparents; by the 1960s the Frankfurt men had turned American students into drug-addled happy-go-lucky sluts and it logically follows that 1970 would see the end of eloquent literature.

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

They do this thing where they start an article and continue it later in the issue, on the same page as another article, and sometimes on three pages throughout it. Very unpleasant design!

Selected articles:

Briefly Told

The Essence of This Issue

Consolidated Stock Exchange—Finis?

North Carolina Crushes Mob Rule

When the Stars Foretell Trouble

Editorials

Things That Doctors Do Not Know

Prohibition Can Be Encorced

The Ways of the Egyptians

Mount Taishan, Oldest Worshipping Place on Earth

The Business End of Mormonism

A Dance a Week: Sicilian Circle

Sicilian Circle (sheet music)

Spoiler: The articles

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

This one is really heavy. Not really I mean figuratively. There are a bunch of stories in here about Germans being hunted. I’ll add to these if y’all are interested.

Spoiler: I, II & III

 

[MugolEx]

Well shoot. A hundred years later and this couldn't be anymore true. And this still continues. Who knows what another hundred years will look like.