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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1957
Page
2
The Script states its core aim is to print news about Sterling Township High School while including clever features if possible. It rejects trivial non news items such as personal color jokes and emphasizes staying on principle to remain worthy of SHS student readership.
Freshmen receive warnings about common campus scams including poker style games find the pea tricks and fake investments in the Brooklyn Bridge. Seniors prey on new students with protection schemes and fake share offers promising easy profits for a small fee. The notice urges caution and lists tactics to spot and avoid losses.
A satirical piece questions a student’s fit for a school with a two minute mental quiz. It ponders beliefs about history figures, astrology, and the Grand Canyon while jokingly suggesting the Foreign Legion as a fallback.
A playful verse on beauty with repeated B and C letters. The speaker waxes poetic about a B described as lovely and pressed upon a blessed record, noting that Cs are made by fools like him but only God can make a B.
Several unsold titles linger after a student book exchange before the new term. Items include Your State Treasury Orville Hodge Fundamentals of Poker Dr Norman Vincent Peale Touring New York King Kong You Too Can Speak Spanish Patrick O Reilly Rod and Custom William Shakespeare Shorthand At Home J Fred Muggs How to Cheat at Old Maid Abe Lincoln The Art of Paperhanging Adolph Hitler.
A collage references diverse topics from sports teams and historic events to literary debates and political plans. Notable mentions include the Pittsburgh Pirates, Theda Bara, the Lindbergh kidnaping, Slippery Rock's 1957 football team, the Brannon Plan, and the theory of expanding economy.
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