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Title: Boone County Recorder
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Boone County Recorder
Subjects: Boone County, Kentucky newspapers
Publisher: Boone County Recorder
Contributing Library: Boone County Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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the greatnewspapers give free millions ofdollars worth of advertising spacoto professional baseball, while theamateur games, in which boys andmen play on the sand-lots afterschool and work, receives a scantline or no attention at all. Professional baseball is a cold,hard business, in which the playersare workingmen, compelled to la-bor, dally at a routine employment,bound by fast rules, enforced byhard taskmasters, and hired by menwho cast aside aged young men witha ruthlessnese no other private em-ployer would dare to exercise. School and sand-lot baseball, onthe other hand, has the right to beknown as Americas national game.It is inspired By youths natural am-bition and energy and dedicated tohealth and sportsmanship. Athletic sports have had theirhighest - development in America.But here, too, they have been cap-italized in the most vicious manner.It is time to take the dollar sign off. —HORSE SHORTAGE FOLLOWSBIG DECLINE IN BREEDING. BOONE COUN TY RECORDER FOR THE TEENS PAGE FIVE
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On account of the farmers beingso busy there was a small crowd inattendance at court, Monday. People are being asked to1 sub-scribe to fresh air funds, but agood many seem to prefer hot air. The people who have lost theirminds through the use of moonshineprobably did not lose a great deal. If a fellow is going to train withthe modern flapper, he finds he hasto spend something besides the even-ing. The politicians c_ant seem to pass-the legislation the people want, butanyway they are getting the officesistributed. —■»■»■— So far the womens college debat-ers have proved able to keep talk-ing as long as the judges would lis-ten to them. Formerly political orators weresaid to shake their manes like a lion,now they shake their bobbed hairlike a flapper. Some of the girls loaf aroundwhile their mothers do the house-work, and then have to play gamesto get exercise. Forty-six Germans were killed and109 wounded during every hour theWorld War was raging, according toGerman statistic

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