Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Industrial Workers of the World have recently assumed a position of alarming importance in the newspapers throughout the country. Yet very little is known about them by either editor or reader. It is generally recognized that this most insidious of our present labor groups is at the bottom of a large part of the strikes and the willful destruction of property that is taking place throughout the farming and mining country west of the Mississippi. But beyond stories of isolated outrages and the seizure of their leaders and documents by the government, the public knows almost nothing of them...
...thereby distributed to the fighting forces at the front. Following the example of many of the leading American publications, the Lampoon is asking each subscriber to forward his copy to the soldiers and sailors. Moreover, a one-cent stamp is placed on each number before distribution, so that the reader has only to drop his copy in a mail-box to be sure that it will reach the military forces...
...drawings of Mr. Lavalle are easily the leading features of the issue, and most of them are very creditable indeed. The reader is struck by the puns which stare at him from every corner of every page. Fortunately no intimation is given as to who is responsible for these...
...efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former preparedness movements is out-lined. It comes as an interesting bit of history to the casual reader...
...contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...