Central High Girls Rifle Team, November 2, 1922.
Photos like this tend to bring out the perfunctory, "see, back in the day. . ." type of comments, but not without reason.
These photos were taken on the East Coast, probably in Washington D.C. The Sullivan Act was already a thing in New York, so gun control already existed in at least that location. Be that as it may, it wasn't widespread.
Rifle teams were common in high schools, and as this photo attests to, there were boys and girls teams. Locally, the high school team here fired full sized military weapons.
It's something in our society that's gone wrong since then that seems to make such things dangerous. It wasn't always so.
I uploaded the second page for a couple of reasons. One is that it was a preelection issue, and lawyers were going on record supporting the retention of a sitting judge.
We still vote to retain judges, but there are never ads of this type to do so. Indeed, it might be regarded as improper.
Secondly, it was interesting to see who was practicing in 1922. I recognize a couple of the lawyers on the Natrona County list who practiced in the same building I do now. Beyond that, however, there are some names in that list of lawyers whose descendants still practice law in the state, or who were the founding members of firms that were around until just recently. One name is the same as for a currently practicing lawyer whose father was a physician, but whose grandfather must have been a lawyer.
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