This is a digitization of 'The Habit 1922, Commencement Issue' a weekly news and activities announcement pamphlet, produced by the students and faculty of the Salina Kansas, High School, also known as the 'Washington High School'. Besides being the 'Commencement Issue' it also acts as a photographic Year Book (Yearbook), for the school. Over the years the title of the year book changed;

Only Once (1900)

Year Book (1903)

The Climax (1906)

The Rare-Bit (1907)

The Annual (1908)

The Classman (1909)

The High (1910)


and then beginning around 1912 possibly before;

The Habit (1912-1923)


The Trail, (1924-currently 'Trail' for Salina High School Central.)


Fortunately this is a used yearbook, and it has the names and autographs of many of the student, while many of the people in the pictures didn't actually have their names printed in the standard version of this book, this 'used' version helps the reader to find out more of the peoples names. It however does give opinions of these people from time to time, these have not been edited or changed, to give the feeling of how the original owner of the book thought. Besides looking for the school building's location, I have also given examples of various photographs of the Iron Avenue bridge, it still has the same style of street lights and fence, however the bride is now a hill with a concrete tunnel under it, the newer pictures were taken in 2011. My version of this book has the pages 29 and 30 switched around, so page thirty appeared first, but when checking the Salina Public Library's it did not have this error, so I re-arranged them in the proper order. I also use a photograph of the bridge from their collection for comparison at the end of the E-book.

Unfortunately my book digitizer is only good for books up to 10 inches, (about 25 and a half millimeters), so the edges of the book have been cropped out of the images, where you'd normally see blank space, there would have been metal brackets. However the camera does curve the images a bit, sorry for any lack of quality.

For more information on this school, it's building or more about Salina, Kansas you might like to read the following books.

Illustrated Salina: The Forest City; Frederick A. Loomis, S. E. Rankin Publisher, 1892. (Also on Internet Archive.org)

Salina: Mart of the Middle West; Salina Commercial Club, Padgett's Printing House; 1908. (Also on Internet Archive.org)

Salina: 1858-2008 (Images of America); Salina History Book Committee; Arcadia Publishing; 2008; ISBN: 0738561819,

and you might like to read the Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salina_High_School_Central about the school that would later replace this one, and for which this year book series would be continued.

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