Then, as now, people just wanted a return to normalcy. Looking back at new year’s expectations a century ago

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New Year’s Day often prompts newspaper editors to switch from recording the past to predicting the future. The Chicago Tribune’s issue of Jan. 1, 1922, was a mix of both, reflecting a post-World War I America that was also grappling with Prohibition and a younger generation’s rejection of Victorian mores.

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