Chicago Spanking Review Forum

Settle down everyone, the holidays are behind us, time to head back to class!
June 12, 1938 Detroit, Michigan July 10, 1948 Pittsburgh, PA October 16, 1952

Oh, wow - there's nothing like paddling ! I love these scenes, and isn't it interesting that newspapers employed artists to dramatize these scenes where there were no photographs? Those three girls in the last one look like they won't be late to school again any time soon! And for those who don't know, repeated "tardies" were indeed grounds for paddling students in at least some districts I've heard about.

My plan is to start presenting our combined newspaper spankings once the Comic Strip Series has concluded.

THANKS love spankings in the News! and hope to see more wow he broke the paddle on that girl`s bottom wonder what she did to deserve such a hard paddling OUCH!!!

I agree the pictures used to illustrate a newsworthy spanking are great stuff. I look forward to finding more and more of these beauties on the main site

Evidently recherché means unique, rare, obscure. Allentown Democrat February 10, 1910 For Butch and anyone else who may be curious here's the explanation of why high school senior Mary Etta Ginder was paddled by the principal. Here's Mary Etta's photograph as it appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Sunday June 12, 1938

No question about it - that senior paddling was well-deserved !

What is with the head on the floor? Did he go ISIL and decapitate somebody?

willjohn wrote:What is with the head on the floor? Did he go ISIL and decapitate somebody?

Either that or everyone else is on stage while the third girl is poking her head up through a trapdoor! Yes, the composition is peculiar. I think the artist wanted to depict all three girls with tears in their eyes, but found he didn't have room for a third body in a small panel, so he "solved" the problem by simply showing her head! I don't know if he thought it would be taken for expressionism, but since realism was the normal mode for newspaper art if he did his hope was probably in vain.

It would be interesting to know what contemporary readers thought about the drawing.

A BIG FAN of spanking in old newspapers Think the husband need a much smaller shovel to spank his wife with more like a coal shovel Thanks for the info on Miss Mary Etta Ginder Paddling much deserved ! hope to see more stories!