Cartoon drawings: comics
approximately 1904-1933
Comics, pre-1920 (estimated)
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"May I have the next dance?"
1904
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Ball-room conversation is the closest thing in the world to nothing. [Inscribed:] To the UC club
with best wishes… Rube Goldberg // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Chamber of horrors: Skagway Steve, the terror of the north...
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Ready for another trimming
[1908]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't think I'll need a harvesting machine for this job." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
The only real amateur athlete.
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"Will you fight Johnson?"
1910
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [Five hooded fight promoters in upper right]
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Boxing
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Burns belongs to the bull-dog type…
[1907?]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you're not careful, you'll knock yourself out, Tommy."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Boxing
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The horses are now breaking into print and overshadowing the rest of the news
[April 12, 1907]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll loan you thirty cents on it." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] "Me sick wife is starving…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Horse racing
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Why do new clothes always insist on getting mussed up
1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After all, nothing makes a man feel…"
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There's no hope for the man who isn't…baseball
Sept 2, [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Judge, I want an absolute divorce-my husband refused to take me to the ball game." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "I've been discharged from the bughouse…"
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Wash day is always bad weather
August 28, [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll have to get my new imported shirt laundered…"
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The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club: The ladies view the great masterpieces at the annual exhibition of the associated
artistic nuts
Sept 5, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must give that artists model..." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Slackers: The kid who
is supposed to practice an hour…
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One way of disposing of the summer hotel leftovers
Sept 8, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "They're not a bad lot for the remnant counter." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I never thought
of that: "I've been walking around here for an hour…"
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With all his misfortunes, a blind man…
1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A much-needed invention, if women insist on wearing those sight-destroying hats.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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It's different when you're sitting in the bleachers
Sept 7, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The poor tailor has to press the suit eight times to get it right. // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Telephonies: "Yes, dad, I've cut out all forms of pleasure this year..."
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[Mother was right] "Andrew, I believe in trusting you completely..."
Sept 9 [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I never thought of that: "If my feet would only reach that chair-"
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It is fortunate they don't have mirrors out in the sidewalk
Sept 19, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm one of the few men that can look right in a derby." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I
never thought of that: "It's funny-that hat fit me when I came into this restaurant."
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The day grows sweeter as the days grow shorter
Oct 4, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It must be time to get up-I've got a big day before me today." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Foolish questions: "Is the alarm ringing, son?"
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[History in a modern picture frame] Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America
1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I stepped off the boat I jumped into a taxicab…"
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A labor-saving New Year's Eve noise-maker
Dec 29, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I knew I'd get there sooner or later…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "You
must be mistaken-no one is blowing any horns in this apartment."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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"Mother, how do you like my one-piece bathing suit?"
1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It isn't what you think-it's what other people might think." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Silly sonnets: "The king was sick but he was calm."
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It is putting it mildly to say the Chicago delegate will have their hands full
June 18
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Goodbye, fellow citizens-your welfare will bemy only thought at the Chicago convention"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Politics
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You always forget it because it's so easy to remember
Oct 2 [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Father, mail this letter on your way down town-my happiness depends on it."
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[Vaudeville.] "Anyway I can bank on my two friends in the fourth row to stick till I go on."
[ca. 1912]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies
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And still we pity the savages who wear rings in their nose
Sept 27 [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The danger of the dinner-ring mania. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "Yes, I
believe a girl looks her best when she's dressed quietly-I never wear any jewelry."
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[They all look good when you're far away] "It's fierce to be an old maid and sit around day after day with no one to talk
to"
Oct 6 [1911]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Georgette, turn the purple room into a nursery at once."
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Ahh yes, civilization has made life really worth while!
Dec 4, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If you are an acrobat, you may possibly get through one of those modern revolving doors without
being mortally wounded. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Do you want yo' shoes cleaned, sir?"
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"Maiditis" epidemic breaking out among women in all places
Dec 15, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A meeting of public-spirited women to distribute Christmas cheer. // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] I never thought of that: "Yes, I'm a great little guy for attending to things."
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Cartoonist Goldberg breaks into Vaudeville -- by himself
Dec 18, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Anyway I can bank on my two friends in the fourth row to stick till I go on." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "Yes, it's great to be on the stage-everybody treats you fine and looks up to you with great
respect."
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Beautiful poems, full of Christmas sentiment
Dec 23, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Willie's Christmas Gifts-by Silas Junk of Grand Junction.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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Get the great Boob calendar -- a screw loose in every month
Dec 28, 1911
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let me crawl into your overcoat pocket-I'm a moth ball." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Foolish questions: "Are those the new 1912 calendars?"
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Why they throw bombs
Nov 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll devote an hour or two to some very important mail that I have shamefully neglected."
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The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club
Dec 3, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Erasmus Van Sink, professor of dead languages in the University of Farina… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I know a guy-: "It's wonderful how this town has gona ahead."
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Social conventions are largely a matter of the imagination
Dec 11, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mr. & Mrs. Aedipus Shoehorn request the pleasure of your presence…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Did your umbrella blow inside out?"
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Yes, every child should have a musical education
1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Professor, I want you to take charge of my son and teach him to play the piano-I'll be back
after the first lesson." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm the guy: "If I had charge of the New York police, I'd clean
out the gamblers in ten minutes."
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"Where is the false-face department?"
1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Won't Ophelia be delighted when she learns I've mastered the new step!" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Telephonies: "Yes, all us young folks are having the time of our lives."
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All the world's a moving picture show
Jan 6, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After twenty-years hard work I've saved $631.40-just enough to open a nice little stationary
store." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Is that the trained monkey?"
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History in a modern picture frame: The village blacksmith: under a spreading chestnut tree…
Feb 10, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've only got $387.40 on me but I can wire to the back for more." // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Foolish questions: "Were you robbed?"
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Leap year sports for the ladies
Feb 24, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The leap year marathon: "Patrick Henry had the right idea when he said…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Telephonies: "I'd give ten years of my life to be out of this house."
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It is beginning to look as if music is good to eat
Feb 2, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] How grandfather used to order: "Bring me an oyster cocktail, some chicken soup…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "The boys are all having a most enjoyable time."
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Why does every boy use his pockets for a junk shop
Feb 1, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Youth's one great joy is crabbing the garbage man's job: "We'll have to put him on a diet-he's
getting too stout." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Willie, have you got something in your pockets?"
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The seven slumberlan[ds?]
Feb 8, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We were doped!"
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Fans to honor great baseball hero
Mar 20, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Abbot J. Grass has served faithfully as ground-keeper of the local ball park for the last 47
years. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "What have I got in my hand?"
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Some people can look busy when they're unconscious
Mar 29, [1912]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if it looks business-like to dot the I" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish
questions: "Trying to button your collar, Toby?"
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Ball players developing new curves in training camps
Mar 2, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The tailor ball-when the batter sees a picture of his tailor on the ball, he immediately thinks
of the money he owes him and becomes helpless. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "There are only two of us in
the running for the position on the team…"
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Even then, you can't get sore at her
Mar 15, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't think of any greater pleasure than walking through life with the girl you love." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are you the shoe clerk?"
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The best a kid gets is a lot of time to himself & a chance to raise a beard
Apr 16, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must go out to take part in some suffragette riots-you stay home and mind Sylvester." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Putting your pants under the mattress to press 'em?"
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Still mother can't be a piker when she buys her Easter bonnet
Apr 6, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Guess I'll have to get a job as manager of a railroad or something" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Selecting your Easter hat?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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[It all depends on the point of view] How the approach of spring looks to the man who sells fishing tackle & bathing suits
Apr 17, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Oh sun, oh sun, your light is good…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Telephonies: "If I do
say it myself, there's nothing about me that is insincere or false.
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Why is it - ?
Apr 18, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] That a man who is broke has a chance to make a good investment and a man with a bundle of dough
doesn't know what to do with it.
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You can go through fire and water to please your wife - and then she isn't pleased
May 30, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want to get a stylish straw hat-don't spare any pains or expense because my wife is very particular
about how I look."
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The law of [compercation proven by a hat and a pair of pants?]: Going down. [with arrow to man's hat]
1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Going up: [five dated scenes of man walking in hat that gets larger over time, and pants that
get shorter.] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "My son, my son, are you wearing those short English pants?"
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Both presidential conventions will be full of pepper & dynamite
Jun 12, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If the worst happens, John, do you want a stylish tombstone on your grave?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Is the clock busted?"
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History in a modern picture frame: Francis Scott Key writing the "Star Spangled Banner"
Sept 16, 1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Toss a tune around this lyric, Steve…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions:
"Is your machine equipped with electrical lights?"
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This all comes under the heading of pleasure: "I pity the poor simps that are tied down all day in a stuffy office without
any fresh air or recreation"
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every man should have a hobby like collecting wish-bones or taming wild-flowers or breeding
artichokes"
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This all comes under the heading of pleasure: "Now I think I can appreciate how a nut feels when they throw him into a straight-jacket"
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll bet everybody thinks I'm a cab…"
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This all comes under the heading of pleasure: "What greater pleasure could a man want than spend the evening with the sweest
[sic] little baby in the world"
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Cutey, cutey, see, papa is an ostrich."
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The most sensible man to select your straw hat from the thousands of new shapes
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Take the one that happens to land on your head and let it go at that. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I never thought of that: "It took me all afternoon to select that hat."
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The goat
Jan 1, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And on the way out they all wished me a happy new year." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Foolish questions: "Are you still blowing that horn?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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The suffragettes are getting ready for the walk to Washington
Feb 3, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The long walks that are being taken in the interests of suffrage make it lonesome around the
house. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Gee, are we still walking uphill?"
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But it doesn't mean anything
April 5, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Tooshwaa kowting pajama submarine."
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This all comes under the heading of pleasure: "You'll have to eat lunch without me - I'm going over to the park to get a little
pleasure out of my new camera"
Apr 26, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I feel like a king, up here with my camera-nothing can disturb me." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Leah, why did you put out the light in the parlor?"
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When the maxim silencer is applied to apartment house walls
April 7, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why can't we lead a nice, quiet, happy, peaceful, loving, sweet, enjoyable life like the Joneses?"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Aren't you two happily married?"
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They way of all investigations
Mar 20, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Committee appointed to investigate big steal in municipal cuspidor contract…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Silly sonnets: "I fly like a swallow on the wing."
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Weston, sweep out padded cell 63140
Mar 18, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll walk six blocks this morning to keep my blood in circulation." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Silly sonnets: "With flaming eyes and streaming hair"
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The income tax has started a lot of weary thinking
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "These shoes will make you look as if you owe money." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm
cured: "I'll run this $100 up to a thousand, buy a home in the country on the installment plan and settle down to a life of
ease."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Taxes
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Boobs abroad: Every Frenchman you see at Maxim's is an American
July 26, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'll have to wait till I cable my agent to sell all my apartment houses in America before
I can pay this check." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Hello, Eddie, are you in Paris too?"
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Boobs abroad: English barmaids are a very strong argument against temperance
July 19, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the very spot where Henry VIII bestowed the order of the garter on Black Ben of the
royal coal-scuttle dragoons." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "So you're one of these English barmaids,
are you?"
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Boobs abroad: A wild and bloody night at the National Sporting Club of London
July 22, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Quiet please-I 'eard somebody breathe." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions:
"Is that fellow's body tattooed?"
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Boobs abroad: At that a man has a right to worry about himself as long as he is paying for it
1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We ought to feel thankful we're here when we read all the terrible news in the papers." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Taking the cure?"
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Boobs abroad: As the old saying goes, never look a European gift in the face
Aug 26, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What people don't know won't rob them of any sleep." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish
questions: "Vill you haf some toys for der children?"
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Boobs abroad: There may be something sadder than a ship's concert but nobody has discovered it
Aug 29, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fellow passengers, we are now passing the very spot where thousands of brave sailors found a
watery grave." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are you one of the stokers?"
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Boobs abroad: Maybe they tried to apologize but we thought they were still calling us names
Aug 14, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Not that I don't appreciate it, but I can't understand why the king sent his bodyguard down
to meet me-I didn't wire him I was coming" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Do I have to eat with that
wooden spoon?"
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Boobs abroad: After spending a few days in Holland, you know what it really means to be a Dutch
Aug 9, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, madam, you lost your birdcages!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions:
"Say, driver, is that a Dutch windmill?"
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Boobs abroad: Who knows, they might have had taxicabs in Pompeii too!
Aug 16, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] One citizen, at least, did not regret that the eruption of lava came along and saved him from
losing a bout with his anxiously-waiting wife. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Is Vesuvius still smoking?"
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Boobs abroad: [M]an carries his place of business around under his arm
Aug 19, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This collection of grand opera would be worth about $300,000 in America.
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Boobs abroad: When you're broke you know you're cured
Aug 21, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You are dying from too much over-heaviness-I must gif [sic] you my reducing cure sooner at once-my
assistants will make an instant relief of you."
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Confidentially speaking, a man has a right to be a little more reckless during his vacation
Sept 6, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got to hand it to myself-it was pitiful the way that blonde with the big eyes fell for
that stuff I pulled about owning a yacht and six candy factories." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are
you in haste?"
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When they've all had their little say, Paris is still Paris
Sept 11, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I was in Paris…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are you the butler?"
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Breaking even: If restaurant patrons could get a waiter to sit down at his own table
Sept 15, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been here two hours already and nobody has even offered me a glass of water." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are they smashing each others straw hats?"
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Anyway, election returns give you an excuse for staying out tonight
Nov 4, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The latest reports from Osgonsgas county indicate a plurality of… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are they still counting votes?"
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Breaking even: The only way to even up matters with the man who is always boasting about his only child
Nov 14, 1913
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dorothy is only two months old and Hammerstein wants to sign her up in grand opera…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are they unveiling the monument?"
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Everything seems to be all right until you want to start something
Nov [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Step in, Ralph, I want to show you how my new self-starter works…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Foolish questions: "Is this one of those crankless machines?"
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You may as well look your Christmas shopping square in the face
[ca. 1904-1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As close as I can figure it, it takes fives days to get from the toy department to the delicatessen
counter." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "It's about time I got wise to myself-there's no reason why I should
stick around here working…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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After all, it is only a matter of getting used to it
Dec 10, [1913]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been here in Mexico so long I feel as much at home as a native." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "There can't be much class to me-all the real people ride horseback every morning before going to work."
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"It says here in the paper that only the single men will be called to serve the country during the war"
1912
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hurry up, Olga we're going to get married-don't ask any questions-just follow me." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Silly sonnets: "Love's breath is wafted with a sigh"
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jan 14, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My only ambition is to run this first thousand dollars up to a million…." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm the guy: "I couldn't stay in business unless I gave each of my customers a perfect fit."
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Breaking Even: If men who attend banquets ever get a chance to address the chronic after-dinner speaker.
Jan 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have written an original poem for this occasion…." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm
cured: "Money means nothing after all…."
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It's all wrong, King Albert, it's all wrong
1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Suzette, my socks are full of holes…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I'm
making great headway…"
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The new eugenic baby
1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It seems to be in perfect condition, but you can't tell what might develop later on." [Includes
two women holding a baby labeled, 1914 ball season. The back includes an additional drawing of a man.]
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The nation's underpreparedness
1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You know, Myron, if Napoleon were living today he'd be your valet…." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Phoney films: "I'd be robbing you if I accepted a tip because I realize how unnecessary I am on earth."
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Boobs abroad: Whatever you've heard about crossing the English Channel, it's worse than that.
1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I know how little a sardine gets out of life."
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That little touch of green makes your purple hair looks lovely, Harriet
Mar. 3, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] No kidding, they are going to wear the hair to match the loud color of the gown. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "My boy, you're wasting the best years of your life around these tango joints…."
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Laughs are no good unless you can share them with somebody
Mar. 10, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I heard a great story this morning - I laughed till I was blue in the face." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Nobody's business: "The old man didn't show up the other night till one o'clock in the morning…."
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Breaking Even: If husbands ever get the chance to put hooks in their clothes
Mar 12, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You had better start hooking me up the back now, dear…." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Nobody's business: "I always suspected that Isabelle Humphries in the millinery department was pretty thick with that big-eyed
guy...."
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It is bad enough to dance it without trying to say it
Mar 17, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Maxixe craze hits town. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Nobody's business: "Ludwig Murphy
certainly picked a sour one when he married that widow from Buffalo…."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Mar 20, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Who can tell me the name of the ninth king of Sardinia?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
I'm cured: "Ah, here is an answer to my cable…."
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[...?] lover that knows his own sweetheart
Mar 26, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "How should I know - I haven't seen her face yet." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish
questions: "Is there a foolish question in today?"
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Breaking Even: How to get even with the man who always plans his talking monologue soon as you get in the house
Mar 27, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Wait till you hear the other 740 records." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "At
last I've got it - the self-scrambling egg…."
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If you look at it in the right light, you're a mere child at 100
Jul 9, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My life has been a dismal failure - I'm 70 years old…." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney
films: Their wives are away in the country too.
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There's no sense to the fish-hook curls - that's why they're stylish
Mar 31, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The newest head-dress is a matter of surveying. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured:
"Extra paper - all about the great bla, bla, bla…!"
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A stranger knows nothing when he arrives - and less when he leaves
Apr 9, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here I am in a strange town with a ticket for the convulsion theatre I bought at the hotel…."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Madam, I advise you to take a number twelve-R."
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Why didn't they tell the truth in the first place and save all that time?
Apr 13, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boss, my old indigestion has come back on me - I feel sure I will be laid up tomorrow." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Lola, the sweetest girl on earth - I'll surprise her with a beautiful bunch of
roses before I call tonight."
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Don't be surprised if the butcher brings this shop around to your house
Apr 15, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sorry I can't serve your eggs, sir - the egg chauffer is having trouble with his engine, sir."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Pretty soft for these policemen - I think I'll try to get a job on the force."
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Breaking even: If the public even gets a chance to take charge of the information bureau in a railroad station
Apr 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When does the next train leave for Deadhead-on-the-Hudson?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
I'm cured: The horn seems a little hoarse - I'll get a mechanic to look it over."
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It's all wrong, Mendelssohn, it's all wrong
Apr 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The secret of Mozart's "Song of the Dill Pickle" lies in the position of the back teeth when
sounding lower "Q"." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Maybe your wife would like me to do some sewing for her…."
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Salute, you boob, salute!
May 5, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The only way to make sure you are not insulting anybody is to salute everything in sight. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "We've printed a limited edition of Updike's works…."
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It's all wrong, Oscar, it's all wrong
May 7, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've walked around for six days looking for work and have worked up appetite enough to bite
the ear off of a race-horse running at the rate of 60 miles an hour." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I don't
blame the girls for not falling for a guy with hands like mine...."
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Moreover, they need men at home to read the war news
May 9, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A war drama in two acts. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I want to get a tune
fork for a friend of mine who is going to get married…."
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Our overskirt is the mother of invention
May 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no sense to all these overskirts, but, that's what they're wearing and people must admit
my husband has a stylish wife." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Boy, I want to have this shirt washed - how
long will it take?"
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A man is a mere boy at 96 from the tango standpoint
May 18, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It seems foolish for a man my age to start taking tango lessens... // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Phoney Films: "Have a light."
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It's all wrong, Cleopatra, it's all wrong
May 20, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "207 pounds! I must see a doctor at once and find out if there is any hope for my figure." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I believe in trusting my chauffeurs…."
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Shades of grandma, they're wearing their ears outside again!
May 25, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The swellest of them are wearing their hair straight back from their ears. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "This is an ideal spot for you and your family during the hot summer months."
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It's all wrong, Judge, it's all wrong
May 26, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll help myself to an apple - I Haven't eaten in seven days." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Phoney films: "No, my baby isn't the greatest in the world - in fact, I'm ashamed of him…."
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It's all wrong, Cupid, it's all wrong
May 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Allkinds, the young millionaire, is coming to call this evening and will probably propose
to me before the evening is over." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I think Edna has the loveliest baby."
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Breaking even: If actors ever get a chance to criticize the dramatic critic
Jun 3, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The only thing about him I can't quite straighten out in my mind is why they let him live."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Make my picture look natural - I don't want you to flatter me."
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It's all wrong, Graham White, it's all wrong
Jun 5, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm certainly fortunate in having a nice, quiet, safe little delicatessen business - I pity
painters and steelworkers and aviators who have to risk their lives every time they want to make a dollar." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney Films: "Boss, I realize that business is on the blink and feel that I would be doing you an injustice
if I took a vacation this year."
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The title of this picture is - "Fifty-fifty"
Jun 8, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He tried to play up to her station and she tried to play up to his station - they were both in
wrong. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Fine, central - you got it right the first time."
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Rules for winning an heiress at a summer hotel
Jun 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if he'd talk to us - we're only worth a million." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Phoney Films: "I'm sure I see a messenger boy running - one of us has lost his reason."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jun 13, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see, I'm paying $5 a day at this resort which is $70 for the two weeks I am going to stay
here." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney Films: "Don't look till she gets in the water - she might feel embarrassed."
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No wonder the Mexicans can't fight!
Jun 15, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A cigar can change a man's whole future. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm the guy: "I'm
the guy that put the bat in battle."
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How to keep from missing the 5:30 out to your summer cottage
Jul 22, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The commutometer - the bell rings at 5:15 to remind you that you must hasten to catch the 5:30
for clam chowder-by-the-sea. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Conductor, you forgot to collect my fare."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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It's all wrong, Lambert, it's all wrong!
Jun 17, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Go to bed without any dinner - no boy who smokes cigarettes can ever grow up to be a successful
man." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "There must be something wrong with the meter - it should read $2.70
instead of $4.80 - I hope you'll pardon the mistake."
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Did somebody say "Everybody's out of town,"?
Jun 18, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The secret lies in the little kink in the blade." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney
films: "Give me a table in the back some place - I've been planning a star part on Broadway all season and people might stare
at me and embarrass me."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jun 19, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nothing can be discovered without patience - I've made up my mind to find a four-leaf clover
and I'll keep on looking." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: Just my luck! There goes the lunch whistle and
I'm right in the middle of a most interesting piece of work - I'll ask the foreman if I can go right on working - I'm not
hungry anyway."
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It's all wrong, Irving, it' all wrong.
Jul 6, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "At last I've finished the most beautiful song ever written - I'll read it over before I take
it to a publisher an sell it for a couple of hundred thousand dollars." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films:
Complete absence of bad language. [Man breaking his golf club]
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jul 7, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The citizens of Bilgewater Junction deeply appreciate the great honor you have slipped them
by your visit to our fair city." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I' cured: "Let me put your name up at the Camel's Club
- it's principal object is good - fellowship."
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They ride to the city every morning on the 7:30
Jul 9, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The commuter who insists on talking village politics every morning in the seven-thirty smoker
runs the mosquito s close second for honors in the pest department. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "The
real estate agent was right - there's not a mosquito in the place."
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If you don' think you are attracting enough attraction, send somebody a telegram
Jul 17, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As toastmaster, it is my great privilege to read a few of the hundred of telegrams of congratulation
sent to the bride and groom by prominent people in all lines of endeavor." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured:
"My greatest ambition is to have my son take lessons on that counterpart of the human voice, the violin."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jul 18, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just think, the actual ball with which Homerun Bonedome won the game for the Horribles." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Shall we take a taxi?"
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I'm the guy: I didn't miss a meal the whole trip
Jul 23, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It is four months since the boobonia went down with all on board - I'm afraid I can't hold out
much longer - four months is a long time to go without food."
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Phoney films: Is the one in blue travelling alone?
Jul 24, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):]"I have an appointment to take Miss Paraphernalia to the theatre."
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I'm the guy: I'm not seasick - it's the pudding
Jul 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It took me 17 years to land this treasure chest - I'll move to a foreign country, grow a lawn
on my face and run for mayor or something."
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Phoney films: Honest, you don't need your goggles in the ocean
Jul 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's growing again!" [Man looking at new hair growth after using a hair restorer]
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None of the others know what the song is all about, either
Dec 11, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Where is this Tipperary, where is it a long way from, why should anyone want to go there, and
how does it concern you?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I can understand the words."
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Here's another girl calendar for your collection
Dec 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jan.; She marries janitor. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I just had to put
a deposit of $99.15 to reserve a table for New Year's Eve."
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The tango has succeeded bread as the staff of life
Dec 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Instead of admiring the baby's face they now look at his feet. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Phoney films: "I know you want to dance with me out of sympathy..."
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The prima donna retires for the 1,678th time
Dec 31,1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear friends, before making my farewell appearance, I want to express my heart-felt thanks for
your generous appreciation of my various rough-house performances during all my years as a souse." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "I'm off the stuff for good - I'm on the wagon for the rest of the year..."
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I'll be in Paris in between the 15th and old age
1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] I'm cured: "My mind is made up - I'm tired of my own society - I'll propose to Dorcas tonight."
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What time is it? My wrist is sprained
Aug 3, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] I'm cured: "When does the next train leave for Camp Shoestring?"
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What are you gonna do with it?
Aug 4, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My 25 years of research in the science of mudology" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm
cured: "Give me a good, stiff jolt of whiskey - I want to forget my troubles."
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If this is Switzerland, where is the cheese?
Aug 7, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Phoney films: "Gee, I had a fine night's sleep."
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This is only a psychological cartoon, so that lets us out
Aug 11, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If business is bad only psychologically, then you can take a vacation the same way. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "What kid of wine will you have?"
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For raising the deuce with a queen, the king is an ace
Aug 12, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Phoney films: "The prescription is written in Latin and looks very expensive."
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Rehearse this & you be lonesome crossing the ocean
Aug 13, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Speech one: "Is this your first trip across?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm Cured:
"You ought to join a bridge whist club where you can meet the wives of our leading citizens."
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When I was abroad, etc., etc., etc.
Aug 14, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] I'm cured: "Ah "sunny and warm - light winds - no rain" - that's fine -I won't need my umbrella
today."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Aug. 24, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have more duel scars on my face than any student that ever graduated from old Heidelberg."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: Lastforever tires - absolutely puncture-proof.
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[..?] that, the pictures are sometimes the best part of the vacation
Aug 17, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Soon, we'll have the silly season where they show vacation photos of people nobody ever heard
about, taken in places nobody ever cared about. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Not a servant in sight
waiting for a tip!"
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What are you gonna do with it?
Aug 19, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll bet nobody from the hotel ever left his trade mark at the very top of that tree." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Gee, I'm glad school has started again."
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Take an Englishman away from his tea and he's not an Englishman
Aug 20, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In England when it comes to a question of duty or tea, tea wins. // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] I'm cured: "Gee, I wish I took up French in school - he might be saying something very important."
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It's all wrong, Morpheus, it's all wrong
Aug 21, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One o'clock! I went to bed at eight o'clock and haven't closed my eyes for a minute - this insomnia
is killing me." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Don't bother me - I'm busy with affairs of state."
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There's enough material in a shoe-string for a dozen Ostend bathing suits
Aug 25, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Before you get a chance to take off your hat, the bath-house starts to move out into the ocean.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I'm going to a swell society tea this afternoon and I don't want to look like
a rank outsider."
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Stay in the bath-tub and laugh at the hot weather
Aug 26, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I won't be disturbed - this weather's too hot for a murder." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Phoney films: "I'm giving this $5,000,000 to the orphan asylum on condition that nothing is said about it in the papers."
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"Mind over matter" is the right dope
Aug 29, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Ball players are rehearsing the trance gag during their spare moments.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Baseball
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If you are on the ground, naturally you can understand the war situation more thoroughly
Sept 8, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've read every French paper since the trouble started, and I haven't the slightest idea what
the war is all about." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Foolish questions: "Are we in the war zone?"
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The Parisians show their loyalty in many ways
Sept 15, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This poor dachshund didn't even know that war had been declared but the Parisians were too excited
to ask him. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Business has been terrible since these peace delegates held
their important meetings."
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Can't feel depressed if your vacation ate up all your loose change
Sept 19, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The only sensible thing to do after coming back from your vacation broke. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Phoney films: "But, Julia, this is your night off."
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The war refugees didn't have time to think about clothes
Sept 21, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Americans had to use ingenuity in getting their families away from the warzone. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "This is the first of the new fall models we are importing from Paris."
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Breaking Even: The only way to get back at the man who is always telling you how sick he thinks he is
Sept 26, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Call seven doctors and eighteen nurses - I've got appendicitis, chicken pox, brain fever, heart
failure, hydrophobia, and housemaid's knee - I can tell because my elbow itches." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney
films: "I dropped in to pay you that three dollars I borrowed July 18th, 1906."
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It's all wrong, Wilhelm, it's all wrong
Oct 6, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "War is costing $55,00,00 a day and nobody knows what it is all about." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "I think the French are wrong."
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You're foolish if you even try to say them
Oct 7, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Those unpronouncable names should not keep you from discussing the war. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Phoney films: "Goodnight, Joe, it was a great game and everybody's satisfied."
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Now you know why your customers can't give you any trip advice
Sat. [1914]
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't quite understand all this talk about hard times." [Two men labeled Phil Athletics and
Boston Braves receiving lots of money] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "It's all my fault, Jack - I admit
I was wrong."
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It's all wrong, Joe, it's all wrong
Oct 22, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll call on A.T. Stretch, president of the rubberneck department store, and I won't tell him
I'm here to sell him an order of hairpins until after I've shown him a good time and gained his good-will." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "What you need, Phil, is excercise - you'd feel better if you took off weight."
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It's surprising there was so large a vote rolled
Oct 27, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If it is the last act of my life I must go to the polls and vote for my brother-in-law who is
running for city and county onion-inhaler." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "As a committee of 10,000 of your
supporters and leading citizens, we have come to congratulate you upon your election."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Politics
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Father Time will have to move faster to keep up with the new automobile models
Oct 22, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] They're getting out the new automobiles so fast, a man is three years behind the time unless
he is four years ahead of himself." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "This old roman vase was made in 23 B.C.
and was used as a shaving mug by Emperor Kickyerfacien. You can have it for $4,000."
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The society season is very successful in spite of hard times
Oct 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Society people are all broke, but that doesn't stop them from going through the motions. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Business is great."
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A drummer in an orchestra can't say business is quiet
Nov 2, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It will alays remain a great mystery why a drummer is expected to do more things than any other
living person. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I'm sorry I can't suggest anything to cure your cold."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Nov 3, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm ashamed of myself - I'm eight years old and I can't inhale a cigarette - I might as well
start practicing right now." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I don't see any sense in making a healthy guy
like me go to school."
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The best part of reducing is that it is so simple
Nov 10, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Doughnut (A) rolls down board (B) and becomes overheated from friction... // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "Darling, I just love widows."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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It's all wrong, Bombardier, it's all wrong
Nov 12, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I never saw a prize fight in my life." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "You must
meet our crowd - we're all jolly bohemians and never bother with any of the conventionalities like full dress or society talk."
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Everything you pick up is wrapped in germ-proof paper
Nov 13, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] They're wrapping everything in sealed packages now to keep out impurities. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Phoney films: "I've been here 26 years and I'm getting $17 a week."
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We got this way from reading war news
Nov 14, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll send you a bill for gas and air." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "My
wife is sick and we haven't eaten for three days."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Nov 16, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After studying all year I've memorized Shortfellows, 'Old Clay Pipe'." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm the guy: "Don't squeal, lady, I just want to borrow your cape so I can make a safe get-away."
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Have you some inside dope on the war, too?
Nov 18, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I know for a positive fact that the Sultan of Turkey is Wounded." // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] Phoney films: "He didn't make a liar out of me."
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Some presents we must accept from life's Christmas tree
Tuesday [1914]
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a great car but it won't go." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "This is
certainly a relief-This magazine is full of real Christmas spirt..."
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It's less dangerous to fight than to remain neutral
Nov 27, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I write an editorial on the war for my paper I take particular pains to kep it absolutely
neutral." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I've had enough - I can't win back what I've lost."
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The speeches are not the only thing the matter with a banquet
Nov 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The guest of honor generally has to break a date that would mean so much more to him than the
banquet // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "Nobody but a farmer wears suspenders these days-a belt is much more
comfortable"
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What are you gonna do with it?
Dec 1, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd rather drink poison than take my cold shower this morning - but they're all doing it." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I'm not using the limousine today."
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If your firs are big enough to be seen with the naked eye, you're not in style
Dec 5, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The furs they are wearig this season don't seem to have very much to do with the cold weather.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: A peach entering and not a head turned.
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If you get killed outright, it saves you the trouble of meeting all those strange people
Dec 8, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Is this the slowpoke railroad? I was knocked down by one of your cars today and I want you to
make a settlement." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "Bless the little darling - he didn't disturb me once
last night."
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A Christmas surprise is only a surprise because it's so cheap
Dec 9, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My what a small hand you have, Miss Coldcream!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured:
"These dime savings banks are wonderful little things - a man can save money without stinting himself."
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You'll soon be able to use your dog house for a garage
Dec 10, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] These very small cars they are making now are apt to cause your friends a lot of unnecessary
worry. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I want to give myself up - I saw a man arrested for stealing an
apple."
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The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club
Dec 11, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Laughington brings her daughter's fiance around to meet the ladies. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] Slackers: The person who writes anonymous letters and starts a lot of trouble without any fear of getting into
it.
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None of the others know what the song is all about, either
Dec 11, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Where is this Tipperary, where is it a long way from, why should anyone want to go there, and
how does it concer you?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Phoney films: "I can understand the words."
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Here's another girl calendar for your collection
Dec 28, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jan.; She marries janitor. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] I'm cured: "I just had to put
a deposit of $99.15 to reserve a table for New Year's Eve."
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The tango has succeeded bread as the staff of life
Dec 30, 1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Instead of admiring the baby's face they now look at his feet. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
Phoney films: "I know you want to dance with me out of sympathy..."
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The prima donna retires for the 1,678th time
Dec 31,1914
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear friends, before making my farewell appearance, I want to express my heart-felt thanks for
your generous appreciation of my various rough-house performances during all my years as a souse." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] I'm cured: "I'm off the stuff for good - I'm on the wagon for the rest of the year..."
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Father was right
Jan 10, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Julian, my boy, you are very foolish to raise a mustache..." // [Additional panel(s)] Old man
Alf of the Alphabet: "I'm afraid to go home to face my wife."
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It's all wrong Godiva, it's all wrong
Jan 11, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd give $7,000,000 of the fortune I inherited from my uncle just to have long beautiful hair."
// [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "You forgot to give us our homework."
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Some men think anything that looks foolish is an antique
Jan 12, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I picked up everything you see in this room during my travels in all the countries in the world."
// [Additional panel(s)] I'm cured: "I just made $16,780,000 in lawn mowers and I want to collect rare painting like other
rich men."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jan 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I chinned the bar 43 times." // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "Nothing is
too good for you, darling..."
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We have to like them even though they are lacing their shoes on the side
Jan 16, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] At that, the shoe-maker who put the first pair of shoe-laces in the front may have been wrong.
// [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "It is worth losing a night's sleep just to know that the people upstairs are having
a wonderful time."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jan 22, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is my seventh load - 596 people were all smashed up in the 12th wreck of the rough and
ready railroad." // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "That's a wonderful lot across the street - for $500,000
I could put up an apartment house."
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It's all wrong, Larry, it's all wrong
Jan 23, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must watch very closely for the next car." // [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "Yes, sir,
I'm going down."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Jan 29, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, Spike, I just had the most wonderful dream in the world." // [Additional panel(s)] Phoney
films: "I'll be ready soon dear - I've found my full dress shirt studs and tie and shirt all in one place."
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It's too bad those little information books aren't large enough to use for fuel
Jan 30, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm a successful business man but I feel my lack of education..." // [Additional panel(s)]
I never thought of that: "How can they expect me to work in an ice chest like this with a hurricane blowing down my neck?"
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You don't know what work is until you've tried to open a window on a train
Feb 1, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Peanut butchers on trains could make a lot of money selling electric window-openers to passengers.
// [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "I'd call on the telephone and ask me to join myself but I'm afraid I'm out of town."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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It's all wrong, Jimmy Valentine, it's all wrong
Feb 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My Swiss watch and diamond ring are the only valuable things I own on earth." // [Additional
panel(s)] I never thought of that: "There's an Australian duster-hound, one of the rarest animals in the world."
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The enjoyment of a dinner party depends entirely on mechanical skill
Feb 19, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It takes more than an ordinary amount of courage and strategy to entertain your partner at a
dinner table. // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "My paintings are better than Rembrandt's, and people think
I'm cheating them when I give them away."
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Why not take your valentines and give the "victims" a chance to defend themselves?
Feb 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It's cowardly to send comic valentines - this way gives everybody an even break. // [Additional
panel(s)] I never thought of that: "Didn't I tell you never to clean the stove with my shaving brush?"
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Read this and learn how to button your collar in a hurry
Feb 17, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Stand near pool table (A)...// [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "Mister Suet Pudding."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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Edison should invent a way to regulate a shower bath
Feb 18, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A nice shower bath will straighten me out for a good day's work." // [Additional panel(s)]
Phoney films: "I found a popular magazine without a girl's face on the cover."
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it's all wrong, Euclid, it's all wrong
Feb 19, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Lutie, I want to impress upon you the importance of knowing your arithmetic thoroughly..." //
[Additional panel(s)] I never though of that: "That's the biggest bargain I ever saw in riding pants."
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The less they know about a thing the better they like it
Feb 20, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] People don't think music is high class unless they hear it in a language they can't understand.
// [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "Why won't you marry me Amorita?"
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What are you gonna do with it?
Feb 25, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "U.R. Slow, of the Cheesecake Athletic Club, crosses the line first in the great hardlyable marathon
handicap." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney Films: "I found your stolen diamonds."
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It's all wrong, Fatima, it's all wrong
Feb 26, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll stop off on the way up-town and leave this box of marshmallows at my daughter-in-law's
house..." // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "Julia will be proud of my business sense in buying this beautiful
$100 horn for $12.60."
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Woman's place is the home, but that is no reason she should not vote
Mar 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why leave the kitchen to make a political speech? // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "This
is a 5 cent cigar with a 25 cent band on it..."
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European soldiers are not the only ones who receive crosses for bravery
Mar 4, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Being decorated with the order of the misfit. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that:
Just think, Uncle Luke is worth two million and I'm his sole heir."
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Every thrice-horse-power car should be equipped with a shoe-horn
Mar 5, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, we're trying to figure out the best way we can all fit in the new one-cylinder car." //
[Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Dear, I can't deceive you - Before I accept your proposal I must tell you that I wear
a wig, I have a wooden leg, and I make a noise when I eat soup."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Mar 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've spent every evening for a month practicing on one of those 'Sister Susie's sewing shirts
for soldiers' songs like Al Jolson sings." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Young man - here's your salary - you
deserve it -"
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It's all wrong, Aloysius, it's all wrong
Mar 8, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've dropped that dollar - watch 27 times in two days and it's still running." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I insist upon you allowing me to take you home from the dance in a taxi."
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Why should a man be idle while his companion is dolling up in public?
Mar 10, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A man could put in his time shaving himself while his wife is powdering her nose." // [Additional
panel(s)] I never thought: "What can I do for this toothache?"
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Another German blockade in the Schultz family
Mar 11, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got just enough to buy a stack of chips over at Jake's when I sneak away after dinner."
// [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I just finished building that house and it didn't cost me a nickel more than the
contractor said it would."
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What are you gonna do with it?
Mar 12, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, hide something in the next room and I will show you the power of thermohypnotic concentration
as I developed it from the teachings of Prof. Stonedome." // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought of that: "There's a itemized
bill right before your very eyes - $87.44 in black and white."
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The only sure way to get your morning bath is to sleep in the bath tub
Mar 17, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There goes the alarm clock - I'll get up early and start the day right." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "There you are, Sir - one brass bed, $57.10 - our terms are strictly cash."
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The reason for baseball training camp reports has been discovered at last
Mar 18, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been in bed for six hours and haven't closed an eye - I'd give a million for something
to make me sleep." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Mother sent me over to return this book she borrowed three years
ago."
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All theatre box offices should be equipped with this time-saving device
Mar 19, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When your patience is exhausted, pull handle and push lever forward. // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "For 35 years I've spent all my time and money on Henrietta Bamboo."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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A man isn't always crazy if he laughs to himself
Mar 23, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A man who is seen laughing to himself always attracts a lot of unfavorable attention - perhaps
he is only cashing in the laughs he was too polite to take // [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "There goes my son, Jasper
- although he is captain of the college football team, is the best baseball pitcher in college..."
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It's all wrong, Paderewski, it's all wrong
Mar 24, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll sell papers until I get enough money to start taking piano lessons." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "There's one of our very latest Parisian models."
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There's room for all kinds of talent in the moving pictures business
Mar 26, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Olive, I'm afraid you'll step on your own neck some day and strangle yourself - you've broken
17 ornaments in three days." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "There's just the kind of a machine I've
been wanting to own for years."
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The only bad part of a good idea is that everybody has it at once
Mar 27, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've saved $1,000 for a nice trip to the San Francisco fair where I can get a complete change,
away from the boobs I've had to associate with every day in this town." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Which one
of these diamond rings do you prefer, dear."
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The only way to meet a boat is to put up a tent on the wharf
Mar 31, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ella is on the Detainia which Is due at the dock at 7:10 - I've just got three minutes to make
it." // [Additional panel(s):] "I never thought of that: "I'm going to sue the owner of this building."
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It's all wrong, Bunny, it's all wrong
Apr 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After seven years of constant practice I've mastered the expression in the wrist that indicates
surprise." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Here's the material I matched at the store with the sample you gave me
this morning."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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The real Easter parade takes place the day after Easter Sunday
Apr 5, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She told me it was the only hat of it's kind in town and I saw seventeen others like it on
the avenue yesterday." // [Additional panel(s)] Phoney films: "This is what all the stylish young ladies are wearing."
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Father was right
Apr 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Elmer I haven't much longer to live so I'm giving you this little safe containing $3,746.10,
the savings of my whole lifetime - put it in the bank and let it draw interest." // [Additional panel(s)] I never thought
of that: "I can't see a thing in this office - my eyesight is getting worse every minute."
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Father was right
Apr 8, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dad, I'm in love with the most wonderful girl that ever lived..." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "My $8.10 is gone - I've been attacked by thieves."
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it's all wrong, Narcissus, it's all wrong
Apr 16, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All the swell girls are calling me up and making a fuss over me..." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "The door is locked and I have no key."
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Father was right
Apr 21, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My poor old dad still believes in that foolish idea of a young man starting at the bottom and
working his way up..." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I'm giving you more than a quart but I'm not particular -
I won't charge you for it."
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Most sensible way to break in a new pair of shoes
Apr 26,1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Naturally, the first thing to do is to get the shoes." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films:
"Things are a little slow so you can take the afternoon off and go to the ball game."
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Father was right
Apr 28, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My son, you're very foolish for wanting to be a prize fighter..." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought: "I'm the manager of this team - leave all the arrangements to me."
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If you want to read your morning paper you ought to buy an automobile
Apr 29, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Give me a morning uproar and a daily slam - the only time I get to read the papers is on my
way down to the office in the morning." [Inscribed:] "With sincere good wishes to my friend Irving Berlin, R.G. Goldberg,
June 1915." ] // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I feel comfortable in these clothes."
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The Jitney Bus threatens to put the world on a five-count basis.
May 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The Jitney Bus makes everybody look like a millionaire for a nickel. // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "I bought this mask for the big masquerade ball tonight so my wife won't recognize me."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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Try this and you'll never lose your glasses again
May 8, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Wireless arrangement guaranteed to find your glasses when you forget where you left them. //
[Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "We'll fight it out to see which one of us will marry Fanny Blinkensniffer."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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It's all wrong, Eitel, it's all wrong
May 8, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Remember, Lena, your father is English and I'm French - it would break my heart if you married
a German." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "The kid has been able to talk for six months and hasn't said a cute thing
yet."
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And you can't have the window-dresser arrested either
May 10, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We must hurry to the theatre, dear - We're fifteen minutes late, already." // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "I can get enough soap out of this to wash my hands."
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Father was right
May 12, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'll regret wearing tight shoes, son... " // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "He's actually
brushing the dust off of my hat."
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Getting ready for the yearly summer attempt to grab an heiress
May 21
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And after I marry the heiress I'll pay for the clothes, and give your son a job…" // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: "My client admits he deliberately knocked you down with his automobile and wants to pay all your
doctor bills and settle an income on you for life."
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Father was right
May 22, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't read those trashy novels, Violet - read this copy of one of Shakespeare's works and you'll
get some real benefit." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Eight cars have passed without even hesitating."
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Don't give up the old place till you've actually moved into the new one
May 27, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just what we want dear - we'll be all ready to move on the first." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "Hurry down to the train and meet my old schoolmate, Miss Stall."
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Why confine that comfortable position to racing automobiles?
May 31, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] No automobile is considered real classy unless the driver is lying on his back. // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "The music in this place is driving me mad."
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Father was right
Jun 1, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My boy, don't try to save your hair by spending your money on every fancy remedy that comes
along - buy a wig for forty cents and forget about it." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I'm not particular about
the salary you give me for playing on your team - I play for the love of the sport."
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The only place where you can really meet your friends is at the movies
Jun 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've had to come here to sleep since Mary started her singing lessons." // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "Your honor, my wife doesn't ask for any alimony in her suit for divorce…."
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"Call a rose by any other name etc. etc."
Jun 3, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, Karl, I am going to handle this garden on a purely scientific basis." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "Don't stand there and tell me that Mister Crabflake isn't it."
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The soldiers in the trenches seem to be getting all the best of it
Jun 7, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As an American citizen I am thankful that I don't have to get mixed up in the war." // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: "Mamma, you forgot to give me my medicine."
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Father was right
Jun 11, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's too dangerous up there, Eddie - I took a fall when I was a boy and had to have my head
reupholstered." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: Portrait of a professional humorist
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Summer's bathers should take precautions against submarines
Jun 16, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The submarines are so careless with their torpedoes, ocean bathers should be careful not to
be mistaken for hostile craft." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "We love your place and would like to spend the summer
here - what are your rates?"
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If you go to a stylish summer resort for a change, you'll barely get it.
Jun 26, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't get to see any - I was too busy changing my clothes." // [Additional panel(s):] I
never thought of that: "I've slaved in this office for 36 years. I never left my desk until four hours after closing time."
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War has made life simply one darn note after another
Jun 28, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Diplomatic relations at the breaking point // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "No thanks,
lady - I never eat watermelon."
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Father was right
Jun 29, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But, Julius, I served in the campaign of 1859 and I'm still wondering what the war was all about."
// [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I'd love to but my face is all dirty and I'm ashamed to meet anybody."
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At that, we wouldn't like 'em so well if they had sense
Jun 30, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She walks along the beach sweltering in heavy winter furs because the other women who read the
fashion page are doing the same." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I paid $125 for this ring - how much will you
loan me on it?"
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Father was right
Jul 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Please don't wear that dress, Doris - there are so many reasons why you shouldn't wear it I
haven't time to go into details - you'll have to take my word for it as a man who knows something." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "The dust is blinding me."
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Father was right
Jul 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We can't own any private yachts selling cheese, herring, and pumpernickel, son, but we eat our
three square meals a day and don't have to worry about the color of the butler's uniform." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney
films: "I made up my mind to go home after winning $20 and I'm sticking to my resolution."
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Maybe it's the law of compensation, whatever that may be
Jul 7, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A woman will laugh her head off at a moving picture of a man beating out his landlord's brains…."
// [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I. Slamm, dramatic critic of the morning goulash, says I played Hamlet last night
with as much success as a one-legged porch-climber robbing the poor house -"
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A vacation is something like an ipplewoggle - there's no such thing
Jul 9, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This man went to the mountains for the fresh air." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "That's funny - I put a dollar in my pocket five minutes ago -"
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The experts might know when the war will be over but they're keeping it a secret
Jul 10, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After a careful study of the military situation in Europe, and having served as a general in
53 wars, I positively predict that the war will be over by January thirteenth." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "The
Evening Schmeekase: Society Gossip"
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Father was right
Jul 12, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You haven't the proper training for a successful poet - take my advice, Otto, and accept the
position I secured for you in Uncle Jake's livery stable." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I made a date
to meet her here at 4:30 - it's already 9:45."
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You may as well take the doctor's advice because you're wrong either way
Jul 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You worry too much about business when you are in your office - you must get away to the country
at once." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I advise all business men to do this before going to bed in my daily health
articles in the "Evening Screech" and I actually do it myself."
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Learn to swim now - it may come in handy some day when you sit next to a coal-heaver eating soup
Jul 15, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The subject stands in front of image of wife with phonographic attachment which causes her to
make speech as in picture..." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I feel perfectly rested after my vacation."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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Father was right
Jul 22, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're foolish to quit your job at the factory just when you're in line to be promoted to head
janitor." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of it: "I'm roasting to death in this bed."
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Boobs at the Fair: It isn't so bad if you just keep in mind that you don't have to stick with this bunch after you reach San
Francisco.
Aug 5, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This boob is travelling and doesn't care who knows it. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "I wonder why they don't make up my berth."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: The San Francisco people have a right to be proud of the fair, but a visitor has only one pair of eyes
Aug 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I haven't seen the old town in five years - I'll rest up after the long trip and take a quiet
look around before going to the fair grounds." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I always enjoy the convenience and
comfort of a pull man wash-room."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: For the benefit of those who can't make their yearly trip to Europe, they seem to have brought Europe over
here
Aug 11, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've seen everything in Europe and the Orient and I'm glad to get an opportunity to visit the
fair and find something about my own country." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "There hasn't been a soul near this
booth all day."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: It seems foolish to come all the way to San Francisco just for a dance
Aug 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I came all the way out here from Boston because I appreciate the educational value of the fair."
// [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I don't want any fuss made over me - I'd rather go out and see the fair all alone
as a private citizen."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: P.T. Barnum must have had "The Zone" in mind when he said "There's one born etc. etc."
Aug 17, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There are many wheels of fortune on the "Zone" where you can win a nice $0.15 doll for $88.00."
// [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I might as well tell you the truth, ladies and gentlemen - these Egyptian dancers
have never been Egypt in their lives - in fact they don't know where Egypt is."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: You don't have to wait till night to see the beautiful illumination at the fairgrounds
Aug 18, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You can't afford to miss the illuminations at the fair - have another cocktail." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I've been walking around the fair all day without a thing to eat."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: It takes a man with an inventive brain to appreciate the aeroplane exhibition
Aug 21, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a man dying right in the middle of the fair grounds." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney
films: "The beautiful dancing girls, all perfect Venuses, are about to appear inside."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: What's the use of listening when you can read the guide-book after you get back to the hotel?
Aug 24, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We are now coming to something of tremendous interest to all the members of our party - our
souls hunger for a touch of the ethereal-step into the auditorium of dead languages." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films:
"You'll have to take the next car - I don't want to crowd my passengers and make them feel uncomfortable."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: Of course, this doesn't say what the horses in the livestock exhibit think of the people
Aug 31, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope he can stand up long enough for me to get this three-second exposure." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Well, we're all here to entertain the Governor of Georgia who is to be our guest of honor
at this banquet tonight."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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Boobs at the Fair: The electrician at Sing Sing can get a few pointers from the exposition's electric chairs
Sept 1, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Take an electric chair and see the fair in a nice, quiet, comfortable way - you can't afford
to miss anything." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "This is a genuine abadaba rug imported direct from the city of
Alfalfa, ruled over by Sultan Mohamet Bey Nutti."
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Boobs at the Fair: You can't get much nourishment out of the art exhibit if you let it worry you too much
Sept 3, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You can't understand what you are looking at here in the Fine Arts Building unless you buy a
catalogue." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Sergeant, keep firing till the rest of the army comes back from the
saloon across the street."
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Boobs at the Fair: The unreasonable ones expect the Liberty Bell to stand up, walk around, and make faces
Sept 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Many of them think the nation is foolish to bother with a damaged piece of iron when there are
so many improved articles on the market. // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I left some films of the fair here to be
developed."
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Boobs at the Fair: When you figure out the length of your visit, add an extra week for buying a return ticket
Sept 7, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll get my ticket, reserve my sleeper and beat it for home tomorrow." // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "Certainly I can give you a lower berth without keeping you waiting with a lot of mysterious telephone discussions."
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Boobs at the Fair: In the smoker on the way home you'll discover that the best town in the country is Everytown
Sept 9, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Seattle is the only town on the coast for warm climate during the cold weather." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Why didn't I take a bite to eat before I left home?"
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Father was right
Sept 10, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My son, if I were you, I wouldn't be too quick to judge people before I met them - besides,
if you knock, you can't tell who might be listening." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Here's the contract for that
$1,000,000-deal - it is written on one page and doesn't contain a lot of foolish words."
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Look at this and stop worrying about our standing army
Sept 15, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Our taxicab drivers can scare away the enemy without the help of our standing army of 134. //
[Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "No home should be without the new pazaza electric bulb."
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Father was right
Sept 16, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It is an uncertain business, son, and you have to be in it a great many years before you know
anything about it - and then you don't know anything about it." // [Additional panel(s):] "I have decided to produce your
play exactly as you have written it - I won't change a word to suit the wild ideas of the star and I won't try to work off
any old scenery from last year's failures."
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Father was right
Sept 17, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You know, Ezra, you've never been on a horse before and it might be a good idea to take a few
lessons before riding with a lot of experienced horsemen." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I'd like to
borrow $50 for half an hour - it is a matter of life and death"
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If you've started following a moving picture serial you may as well give up your business
Sept 18, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I missed one installment of 'The Miseries of Marguerite' and my life is wrecked!" // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "This is the worst moving picture I ever looked at."
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Has your office boy decided what kind of a car he is going to buy?
Sept 20, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that I've got a day off I'll attend to a few small personal matters." // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "The apartment looks fine - I think we'll take it."
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It's all wrong, Mars, it's all wrong
Sept 21, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The war seems to be getting worse every day - the thought of those poor men -" // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "What ball team do you think will win the pennant?"
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Don't start looking for an apartment unless our brain is very strong
Sept 22, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The apartment looks pretty good only you have to go outside and walk around the block to get
into the bath-room - and you don't get the morning sunlight till the after-noon - besides, $15,000 a year is $2 more than
I expected to pay - ad there's no private bath for the dog." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "Well, dear, we're all
moved and there's not a scratch on the furniture."
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"I apologize"
Sept 23, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Submarine sinks liner "Insania" 88 lives lost. U.S. accepts Germany's apology." // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: "Papa, I think you ought to send me to the dentist to have my teeth looked over - some of them might
need pulling."
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Don't worry, you'll get a good rest in the cemetery
Sept 24, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You need a complete change - you must go to Sardine Springs for a few weeks." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "It's a shame for that poor woman to have to stand."
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Those low, open, rolling collars for men should bring women nearer the vote
Sept 25, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The only legitimate excuse a man can have for wearing his shirt like this that he lost his collar
buttons. // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I can take a day off and play golf-There's no official note to send to
Europe today.
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Father was right
Sept 27, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As you say, Herbert, it might be perfectly all right to wear a wrist-watch in Europe, but this
isn't Europe." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "It is a hundred-mile drive, dear, and the map doesn't
show a single place where we can stop for a bit to eat."
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Father was right
Sept 28, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I never thought I'd see a daughter of mine bleach her hair." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney
films: "Mignon, don't try to grab that young man - he's got too much money."
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Father was right
Oct 1, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Father, it doesn't make any difference how fast we go - you are 88 years old and I carry $100,000
worth of accident insurance - we have nothing to lose." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: Motorcycle cop with a pleasant
face."
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Our soldiers are so busy going to moving picture shows the invaders won't be able to find them.
Oct 2, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Maybe the army is out in it's Ford" // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Don't
be so mean - can't you lend me your glove for one inning?"
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Anything slower than 200 miles an hour is called loafing
Oct 6, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] De Palma, Resta, Oldfield, Burman, Mulford, and the other racings drivers are breaking records
so fast we'll soon have to invent a new clock. // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "That man owns an automobile and never
talks about it."
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It's all wrong, Paul, it's all wrong
Oct 7, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I certainly enjoy doing this light work on six days of the week -" // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "Let the Germans keep defeating us - we Russians should worry."
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War orders make $100,000 worth of ham & eggs look like a half portion
Oct 8, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The tremendous war loans have had their effect on sidewalk conversation. // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "I want to borrow five bucks - I can't pay it back for a long time - in fact I may never see you again."
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Father was right
Oct 11, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'd be better off, Amos, if you studied Shakespeare and Dickens instead of sending all your
time learning those funny noises that are called college yells." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I've
stood him on his feet twenty times and he has fallen over each time."
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A moving picture doctor doesn't seem to have much regard for the hero's life.
Oct. 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] John Celluloid, the hero, falls out of an aeroplane, lands on a train-load of dynamite, is blown
through the window on to an automobile racetrack where 16 automobiles run over him and he is hit by a stray bullet from the
gun of a sports man who is hunting fox in a nearby fur store. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Don't contradict
me - I know that Turkey borders on Spain."
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Preparedness need not necessarily interfere with your daily business
Oct 14, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Office towel ready for use as army blanket." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that:
"I generally get a laugh out of this fellow's pictures but this is the worst I ever saw."
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Simple way to light a cigar in an automobile traveling fifty miles an hour.
Oct 15, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When automobiles speeds at fifty miles an hour motorcycle cop (A) starts in pursuit..." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "This cigar tastes like an old shoe - it's killing me."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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There's always somebody just a little more lonesome than you
Oct 16, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If you think this is the lonesomest man in the world - // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "Darling, I want to be near you all the time."
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It's too bay they have to stop playing golf while they sleep
Oct 21, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, if it isn't my old friend, Eddie Eggplant! Have lunch with me Tuesday." // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: I know it's a beautiful day on the golf links, dear - but I'd rather stay home with you and help
you put up jam."
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A shine would last much longer if you didn't have to take it with you
Oct 22, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Tony, give me an extra fine shine - my wife is very particular about my shoes looking right
when I come into the house." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I work 18 hours a day and get $7.00 a week
and that fellow is in the office about 2 hours a day and gets $300 a week."
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Father was right
Oct 28, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Never fall in love with someone you haven't met - there's no sense to it." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "I tried to warn the man before I knocked him down."
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Father was right
Oct 30, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Daughter, you shouldn't leave your child entirely in the hands of the maid - he needs a mother's
care - you haven't talked to him for a year." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I've lost my tie pin!"
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It is difficult for the European countries to remember all their enemies
Nov 12, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The war is becoming so complicated, when two soldiers meet on the field of battle they don't
know whether to shoot or kiss." // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "There goes a man who looks well in a derby."
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Don't be too liberal with your sympathies
Nov 13, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "John used to walk as straight as a soldier but now he hangs his head like a man in great distress."
// [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "I'm against woman suffrage."
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A rich man's house is a good ad for him even if he doesn't live in it
Nov 17, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If rich men didn't build beautiful country homes, people in automobiles wouldn't have much to
talk about. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "My wife's aunt is a fifth cousin of the Kaiser."
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Father was right
Nov 19, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Didn't I tell you I don't want that Bulgarian fruithound around here any more!" // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: "I love to see a woman carry a dog."
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A study in brain-concentration
Nov 20, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll take this brown one for my new overcoat." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "That' the sixth time I've fallen over that rug today."
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You'll soon be able to buy dill pickles in a clothing store
Nov 25, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The modern druggist doesn't have to know anything about drugs. // [Additional panel(s):] I never
thought of that: "We'll have to call off the game."
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Father was right
Nov 27, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Take my advice boy, boy, and don't ask her what she wants for Christmas." // [Additional panel(s):]
Phoney films: "Yo'all treated me pretty nice dis yeah, boss, so I don' spec' nothin' fo' Christmas."
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What's the use of all this waste of energy when you never remember the name [?]
Nov 29, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not have a numbered list o guests at the door and place the corresponding numbers on the
guests' backs? // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I've discovered that your wife is very jealous of
me so I guess I'd better resign."
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Father was right
Dec 3, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Better let them do it, Jim - they know what's inside the car." // [Additional panel(s):] Old
man Alf of the alphabet: "In appreciation of your remarks this evening the members of the club request me to present you with
this beautiful loving cup."
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A handy traveling trunk has everything but a billiard table
Dec 7, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If they keep on improving trunks, you'll soon be able to live in them and save room rent. //
[Additional panel(s):] Mister Alf of the alphabet: "I'll take the overcoat - how much is it?"
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As Herman the Great once said "The more you look the less you see"
Dec 9, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Smart people do their Christmas shopping early - I'll go to a big store where I can quietly
look over everything in the place and pick out something suitable for all my friends - it's all very simple." // [Additional
panel(s):] Phoney films: "Do you know what lamb a la caruso and oyster bryan and chicken soup and au constantinople and all
these other fancy names mean?"
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Suggestion to save Christmas shoppers worry and fatigue
Dec 20, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you don't see anything you like, ladies, I'll put on another record." // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the Alphabet: "You do yourself a great wrong if you don't take one of our policies at once."
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The spirit in which the presents are given forces you to stand for anything
Dec 27
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It takes quite a lot of experimenting to find out what some of your Christmas presents really
are. // [Additional panel(s):] Phoney films: "He's had that toy a whole day and it still works."
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Buy one of our 1916 Peace Calendars and hang it on the floor
Dec 29, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want you to help out the wounded goats of Africa." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf
of the alphabet: "Yes, Eddie, he's my only son - did you ever see a more perfect baby in your life?"
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This picture has a lesson in it if you can find it
Dec 30, 1915
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] So, you needn't waste any sympathy on yourself when you break your New Year's pledge.
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Father was right
Jan 3, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'd better wear your rubbers, Lancelot - you can't be too careful in this weather." // [Additional
panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Advance and give the countersign."
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Adam and Eve had the best of it when it came to clothes
Jan 5, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm late this morning in getting to the office." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the
alphabet: "There's a fine-looking machine - just the kind I'd like to have -"
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It's all wrong, Cicero, it's all wrong
Jan 7, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that I've become prominent I'll have to prepare a great speech to deliver at the banquets
to which I'll probably be invited." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I have investigated the temperance
conditions of the town of Snakeville and this is my report."
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A picnic is not as stylish as a dinner party but it gives you more room for your elbows
Jan 8, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It is still one of the world's great mysteries why they seat twenty-nine people at a table that
is meant for eight and expect them to be comfortable. // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I lose $87.42."
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The fellow this happened to doesn't want his name mentioned
Jan 12, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want you to answer all my telephone calls today, Martin - I expect a call from Joe Mooch who
wants to borrow money from me - when you hear his voice tell him I'm out of town." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf
of the alphabet: "Haven't you any manners to stand there with your back to me -"
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The ice skating rinks are becoming so crowded they have to carry their own ice
Jan 27, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If this ice jitney doesn't pay, I can open a saloon and smash up the ice for cocktails." //
[Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I've been ringing this messenger signal for two hours - I guess all the
boys dropped dead."
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If the price of gasoline back going up you'll have to be a millionaire to ride across the sheet
Feb 2, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man discovered that he still had two gallons of gasoline in his tank and had to call out
the militia to keep off highwaymen who had their eyes on his treasure. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that:
"The high price of gasoline is keeping me broke."
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It's hard to be optimistic when you have friends in the insurance business
Feb 5, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The trouble with you is that you always think you're going to die - you'll be alright if you
only keep your mind off the burying ground." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Buy one of our lots
and you'll double your money in a week."
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The least important thing about most calendars is the date
Feb 7, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see, what is today, Tuesday or Saturday? Or maybe it's Thursday?" // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I'll have to arrest that man for undignified conduct."
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The most plausible way to select your new make of automobile
Feb 9, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] As the different salesman speed their automobiles beneath you, cut the string holding you to
the balloon and buy the machine you happen to fall into. // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "There's
a man outside who wants to see you - here's his card."
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Father was right
Feb 10, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think we ought to name him something manly like "Steve" or "Spud" or "Pete"." // [Additional
panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Young man have you any children?"
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An idle thought of a tired business man on Lincoln's birthday
Feb 12, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I thought Lincoln abolished slavery." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Abraham
Lincoln lived in a log cabin and was elected president."
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Father was right
Feb 17, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that you are married, Jules, you should put a little money aside for a rainy day - you have
your own home now." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I have a wife and 24 children and I need two
dollars at once."
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Bohemia must be a great place when you consider what Bohemians can get away with
Feb 19, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When an artist or a musician drinks himself speechless they call him a Bohemian and admiringly
look upon the booze as an inspiration o his genius. // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "There goes grandfather
in his high hat and everything."
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It's all wrong, Kid McCoy, it's all wrong
Feb 25, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] ""Battling Schultz" fights tonight at the Slam-bang Athletic Club" // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Telegraph for Mister Phoney."
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The butcher's favorite song, "The boy is on the way"
Feb 26, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, is this Meatball and Co.? Where are those chops I ordered?" // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "We have eggs, eggs, and eggs."
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There's always one of these on every jury
Feb 28, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I still hold out for a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree - the shape of the prisoner's
ears is absolute proof of his guilt." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "This invitation gives me a great
chance to bust into society."
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Baseball recruits indulge in heavy brainwork at opening of training season
Mar 6, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Training recruits to address an umpire in the proper terms. // [Additional panel(s):] I never
thought of that: "This home-run will win the game and get my name in the papers all over the country."
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It wouldn't be so bad if they'd give you a shoe-horn or a bird cage once in a while
Mar 27, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mike, let me give you one of the souvenir pencils our brewing company is getting out -" //
[Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Here's a letter from Archie who went out west to take up mining."
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It's all wrong, Venus, it's all wrong
Mar 8, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm so happy I've been invited to the big Bohemian costume ball where all the artists come together
every year" // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I'll sign these new plans for the new jail with the usual
"R.A." showing that I'm a registered architect."
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Riding in elevators needs practice just like eating olives
Mar 9, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If you are thinking of renting an office in one of those tall sky-scrapers it is a good idea
to first accustom yourself to the elevator service. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I dropped a penny
in that machine and didn't get any gum."
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Edison's talking pictures weren't a success, either
Mar 11, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Oh, I get the idea now - the Queen was a waitress before she married the king and she recognizes
the king's prime minister as the old cook in the beanery where she used to work -" // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "I'll take a good aim at his chin, pull my right hand back slowly and let him have it right square on the point of
the jaw."
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It's different when you can afford to be nervous
Mar 21, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She's so healthy and independent-just the kind of a wife I want." // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I want a suite of rooms with six baths."
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And all along you thought she only cared for pink teas and the opera
Mar 23, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no chance for me - I'm only a millionaire." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "I wonder where I can buy a ticket to the Willard-Moran fight."
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We needn't worry about getting volunteers if we go to war
Mar 28, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "In your income tax report I find you did not mention the nickel you made on November 6th for
holding a man's horse." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "My doctor told me to have this prescription
filled."
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The only excuse for this picture is the date
Apr 1, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I've thought everything over and have decided -" // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf
of the alphabet: "$55,000,000,000 worth of ore was just discovered in your oatmeal mine -"
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Celebrating an anniversary is very sweet if you don't make it a [?] business
Apr 5, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I certainly love a nice quiet restful evening at home." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought
of that: "These shoes are falling apart."
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She probably thinks the milliner's time is worth 5 [cents] a year
Apr 6, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want a nice spring hat - this one looks fair but It is too much like the one Mrs. Soupmeat
just bought." // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: After a careful diagnosis of the case I can only say
N.H."
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When a rich man sneezes they set it to music
Apr 7, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When an unknown man says something important he's lucky if he is not arrested - but - when a
famous person mumbles something foolish, he is quoted all over the world. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that:
"I didn't do anything wrong but there's a cop right in back of me running his head off."
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You're lucky to get near enough to a girl to telephone to her
[Apr 11 ?] 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The new wide hood skirts make it almost impossible to get close enough to a girl to invite her
to lunch. // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "My name's Professor Noise - I'd like to teach your children
to play the violin."
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The owl is not the only animal that can see in the dark
Apr 8, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Looking for seats at the movies develops the eye-sight so you can see very distinctly in the
dark. // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Come next door quick."
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It would have been easier to tell him to in the first place
Apr 14, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That pest McEmpty is on the wire - he wants to call on you tonight." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "I can't get rid of this dog and I'll miss a date -"
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It's all wrong, Oscar, it's all wrong
Apr 13, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Please give me something to eat - I'm starving to death." // [Additional panel(s):] I never
thought of that: "I'm ashamed of this country - we're going to the dogs."
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The spring air awakens the poetic instincts in all of us
Apr 18, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Almost any old thing is an inspiration for springtime poetry. // [Additional panel(s):] Old
man Alf of the alphabet: "Seeing that you are new tenants in the house I thought I'd call on you and make you feel at home."
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Roosevelt started something when he found the bird that eats nuts and barks like a dog
Apr 15, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Largebundle, what have you to say about the financial outlook for this country." //
[Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I saw the sign outside, "M. Knockdown & Co." Are you Mr. Knockdown?"
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A certain man makes good automobiles and now they want to run him for President
Apr 25, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Fixing the future of their child according to the present standards. // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "I must have two dollars right away or I'm ruined."
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What's the use of paying office rent when you're always on the golf links
May 1, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry, but he's busy now - I'll make an appointment for you to talk over that $2,000,000
cheese deal at the thirteenth hole." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I have to go to Florida on business
-"
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It is surprising there are any movie actors left after looking at the films
May 3, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The movie producers seem to be afraid the public will lose interest if somebody doesn't die every
two minutes. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "When these important papers fly all over the place -"
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The place occupied by those big hats need not go to waste
May 11, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm all broken up because I'll miss my yearly visit to King George's wife" // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "This cold ocean water kills me."
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It's too bad the baby doesn't know how smart it is
May 12, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Little does a baby realize that it's first word is more important that any number of words it
might say later in life when it grows to be a man. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "Someone is in the
next room"
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Father was right
May 13, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't you think it is a good idea to look her family over first" // [Additional panel(s):]
Old man Alf of the alphabet: "In your letter you signed yourself "Gen. John Bugs"
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When the first straw hat appeared
May 19, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nobody seems to care whether I'm dead or alive - I'll have to attract attention in some way
- I'll stand on the sidewalk and shoot myself." // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "These pants are so long
they wear out at the bottom -"
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Modesty can be studied just like juggling and ventriloquism
May 20, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When the movie star makes a personal tour of the picture theatres. // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "Good morning, Mister Bezitz - have a seat."
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A real tragedy
May 23, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I gained a pound!" // [Additional panel(s):] Old man Alf of the alphabet: "Your Majesty, H.R.H.
the Duke of Mustard is outside."
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The war has forced the Germans to make bread from wood pulp
May 24, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Attacking a loaf of war bread. // [Additional panel(s):] I never thought of that: "I've been
hunting seven hours for that golf ball -"
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It was a perfectly natural position for him at that
May 25, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It looks a little cloudy, so I don't think I'll buy a straw hat today." // [Additional panel(s):]
I never thought of that: "I'm all worn out chasing around to different apartment houses."
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Father was right
May 29, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Throw your shoulders back and stand up straight - I'm 72 years old and I look younger than you."
// [Additional panel(s):] Boob News - things in the day's happening that no one cares to know: Tremendous crowds turn out
to greet Elias J. Celluloid as he starts on his great campaign for municipal clock-winder.
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Will sinking of S.S. Derby start another serve of diplomatic [?]?
May 31, 1916
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is a direct violation of the international law of headgear." // [Additional panel(s):]
Boob News - this important film was taken by our cameraman at the risk of everybody's life but his own: 39,000,000 biscuits
being shipped to the allies from bakery owned by Philip T. Shoelace to be used for ammunition - this deadly form of torture
is expected to bring about early close of the war.
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Father didn't lose anything -- he was only thinking
June 1, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After thinking the matter over, I've decided that we'll stay in town for the summer" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "It's funny I can't open this bath room door"
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A golfer who is not a liar is no golfer
June 2, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's the tenth time I've missed it-I don't seem to be playing a very good game" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I don't know what to do this summer-I don't like the seashore"
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It would be a great surprise if everybody didn't know it already
June 5, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And, dearest, I haven't told a soul that we've been going together…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "All you able-bodied men owe it to your country to…"
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[Father was right] "No, dad, I can't see that golf thing, at all…"
June 7, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Nobody would ever think, to see poor dad with all those foolish golf sticks…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] "I have to get home early-grandpa's coming to dinner"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Joe, sweep out padded cell 763
June 9, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My only ambition is to save enough to buy a cheap little car and make you happy" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] An interesting review of nothing and a lot of it.
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It is a very easy matter to find a golf ball if you know how
June 12, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Attach a basket of seeds to the golf ball-when the ball lands…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "I wonder why everybody thinks I'm such a grouch"
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You ask him up to spend the evening and he moves in
June 20, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A gentle hint to an interesting bachelor who doesn't know when it's time to go home. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] Interesting happenings in the lives of serious gentlemen whom nobody ever heard of.
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To become a good golfer, buy a complete outfit & forget to use it
June 21, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He decides to take up the game. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that]
"I never played golf and I don't want to play it"
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There must be something in that preparedness idea they're all talking about
June 22, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Won't hurt you if you behave yourself on the way to the station" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Boob news] Let your children follow this and save the expense of sending them to school-they won't be able to go.
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No kidding! The women will wear half-hose this summer
June 10, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why do you hang your head, Joe? Did you do something you're ashamed of?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Boob news] A review of the days happenings in the field of politics, science, art, literature and junk.
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It's all wrong, Abner, it's all wrong
June 23, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of all the up-to-date conveniences of city life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "I can't stand a dirty shirt when I'm traveling"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
Among other things, you show your individuality while in bathing
June 24, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The slip-me-the-dough stroke-a natural style of swimming for lawyers and doctors. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] Including the latest fashions in yawning and eating soup.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
[men and women holding handles on a subway train.]
June 26, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] Exclusive films-nobody else will print them.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
[Sweep out the padded cell] Andre, sweep out padded cell 39,746
June 27, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that you have asked me to marry you, I have nothing more to wish for" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I have to get up at six in the morning and-"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
[Father was right] "My son, no man can do good work and keep fresh unless he takes a vaction once a year"
June 28, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let me follow my own system, you poor boob…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "Walking around with the sun shining down on top of your head"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
[Father was right] "Come on, son-we'll take a nice, quiet row around the lake"
June 29, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's dead stuff-a speedy motor boat is my dish" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "That woman needs my protection"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
She may not be so crazy about you but she certainly appreciates the ring
July 1, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I had it made to order at Stiffany's after a design I saw in England when I was visiting the
queen" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Phoney films] "I think I'll move up and make room for the people who are just getting
on the car"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
That's right, let the boy have a good time
July 4, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, you're only young once-I believe in giving a child plenty of freedom and excitement" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] Our cameraman, J.T. Snap, spent two months with the U.S. Army in Mexico-he was
a bit lonesome with so few people around but bore up bravely.
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Abner, sweep out padded cell 842
July 5, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If I could only make a six-foot dive I'd be happy" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob
news] Learn what is going on while you are away for the summer-let us do your thinking for you.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 02
"Coming down on the car this morning"
July 10, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I thought of a great idea for a cartoon" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] An educational
feature.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
Why give the mosquito any…
July 6, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] After a few rehearsals of these mostquito-slapping strokes, you can go to the country… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I don't have a minutes rest with that dog around"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
[Father was right] "This old uniform brings back the stirring days of the civil war…"
July 7, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This war stuff is the bunk-I'm a family man and I belong at home…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Boob news] "Mother, I think we'd better shoot father-he's delaying the meal"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
[Sweep out the padded cell] Barney, sweep out padded cell 3742 1/2
July 11, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It would be wonderful if I could get her up to forty-five miles an hour" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "It feels as though there is a tack on this chair"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
After all, it is merely a question of surroundings
July 12, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Alec Smith, the champion mixer of soft drinks, lost his job at the soda fountain… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Don't stand there gazing at me like a simp"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
It's all wrong, Irma, it's all wrong
July 13, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's three o'clock in the morning-these late hours are killing me…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Say, I can't stand here at this phone"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
[Sweep out the padded cell] Lee, sweep out padded cell 9376
July 14, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A good week's rest will fix me up in great shape" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "I feel great-a man, representing the Belgian Relief Committee, just…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
Precautions to take before leaving for the country
July 15, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm afraid to go home because everybody in the family will think I'm a lounge and sit on me"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] "Dearie, you must be more economical…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
You don't have to go to an amusement park for dangerous forms of pleasure
July 17, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't order any chopped meat!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that]
"I want to make a hit with this letter…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
[Sweep out the padded cell] Amos, sweep out padded cell 4631
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is a cute moonstone, but if I only had a diamond ring I'd be happy" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Boob news] Censored.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 03
[Father was right] "You know, son, you don't have to eat everything on the bill just because we're paying by the week…"
July 19, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I believe in going the limit when it doesn't cost any more…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "I'm only up to the thirteenth hole and…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
In a large family it takes a genius to keep track of his own toothbrush
July 20, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's the string just as I left it last night" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news]
Boiled egg woods. Alexander J. Freightcar wins fat man's race at…
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
You can make mosquito bites a pleasure by scratching to music
July 21, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as you know the mosquitoes are going to have their own way… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Look at the wonderful watch I bought for 60 cents from a guy across the street"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
[Sweep out the padded cell] Sig, sweep out padded cell 1492
July 22, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's awful, sitting here alone in the apartment all day waiting for Eric…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "It's terrible out here in the country…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Signor Pasquale Tomato plays a selection entitled "the blessings of nature"…
July 23, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going to sue the proprietor of this hotel because he said this part of the coast was safe
from aerial attacks" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The plain looker.
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
Girls, if you like to be alone, marry a golf player
July 24, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is your son Otto-he was four months old Tuesday…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I
never thought of that] "These pebbles are cutting my feet to ribbons"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
It's all wrong, Herman, it's all wrong
July 25, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This $300 camera has 18 adjustments on it…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "The doctor told me I must get into a high altitude but…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
They can't arrest us for showing you how to beat the prohibition laws
July 26, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] An attachment like this will make it easy to get a drink in your home without arousing suspicion.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] "The house is full so you'll have to sleep in the maid's room"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
One of our soldiers on the border was married by mail
July 28, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear wife: I'm broke and can't support you. Look over this menu…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Boob news] Breakneck speedway, I.I.
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Ralph, sweep out padded cell 6416
July 31, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I just want to learn a few popular songs for my own amusement" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "This board is so long it will make…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 04
Since that German submarine got safely across the ocean
Aug 1, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Shall I kill him with one blow or talk him to death?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob
news] Dorey Lake, Maine. Henry M. Mosquitobite, the well-known banker…
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
[Mother was right] "Put all your nickels in this bank so you can buy something useful"
Aug 5, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Boob news] Well-known actor executes daring feat before the camera…
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
You might as well take the tortures of civilization gracefully
Aug 7, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as you know that people will lie all over you in the cars, why not wear a set of pillows
and make them all comfortable. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "There's nothing more delightful
than a ride in a canoe"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
Catching trains is a day's work in itself
Aug 8, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Get up John" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's funny-everything
seems to be dark"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
[Father was right] "Remember, Doris, this fellow Bonetop who is calling on you this evening is a…"
Aug 10, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good evening Mr. Bonetop-I'm so glad you're following up our seaside romance" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I never seem to be able to…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
You can finish a book in bed if the book doesn't wear out
Aug 12, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a book called 'The Broken Nose' that I've been wanting to read for years…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This is terrible-I've been ringing the bell for half an hour…"
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[Mother was right] "If you want to write poetry, why don't you write something somebody can understand!"
Aug 14, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've got my great poem almost finished but I can't…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
Giving the movie fans their money's worth
Aug 15, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's always my luck to arrive in the middle of a long picture…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "How do you like my long monogram?"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Tony, sweep out padded cell 203
Aug 17, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Business is so bad I'd be satisfied to have just one customer for a quick shave" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's funny-I'm a perfectly good drawing but…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
Pride goeth before a golf ball
Aug 21, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Didn't I tell you it disturbs me if anybody breathes heavily?..." // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] "I can't sleep at night worrying how I can make a living"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
[This all comes under the heading of pleasure] "Here's a bath-house for you, sir"
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A business man like myself is entitled to a little pleasure once a year" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Telephonies] "Come over tonight, Arthur-my beautiful niece from Halifax is visting me this week"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 05
[But it doesn't mean anything] "One-piece bathing suits strictly forbidden on this beach."
Aug. 9, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm glad there is a little modesty somewhere in the world…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Where is Steve? Has he met with foul play? Have you anything to tell the police?"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Victor, sweep out padded cell 7961
Aug 24, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd give anything if I didn't have to get up at 6 o'clock to go to work" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] "I envy the man that can afford to have his clothes made to order"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
It's all wrong, Maximilian, it's all wrong
Aug 25, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is what I call pretty soft-the McBankbook's have invited me to spend the week-end at their
swell summer home…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "The man in that automobile must
be very happy-I certainly envy him"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
Absence makes the bed grow softer
Aug 29, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's strange-the sheets are white! There must be some mistake" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It's pretty soft for the guys that can afford to take out swell chorus girls…
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
Try this system of indexing your records
Aug 30, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Place the name of the dog opposite the record he carries-when his name is called he jumps off
the table and runs to you… "I'd like to hear Mme. De Screech sing the grunting song from 'La Groan'" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I guess we're stuck here for the rest of the day"
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[Mother was right] "If you're not careful you'll take on flesh like I did-you must watch yourself"
Sept 2, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nothing can spoil my figure-I'm naturally slender" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "It must be great to have enough money so you never have to think about getting up"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Ulysses, sweep out padded cell 13
Sept 5, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My only ambition is to serve the people in my own small way…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "My son, it hurts me to feel that I can't afford to give you the advantage of a musical
education"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
No brains, no brains!
Sept 6, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There goes the telephone again" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich
man: "I wish I could buy those American beauties for my girl"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
There is at least one uninvited guest at every picnic
Sept 6, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The thrilling moment at every picnic when Sebastian, the bold son of the family, attacks the
strange bug that lands on the lunch and nearly spoils the day. "How will we know it's dead? It may try to fool us" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've lost my dog?"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 06
Signs of Peace
Sept 7, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The dill pickles don't seem to agree with the ice cream" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The guy that goes for a drink when it is his turn to dance with the wall-flowers.
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The best time to read the morning paper is [in the afternoon, crossed out] when you get a chance
Sept 7, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no better enjoyment than reading the morning paper at the breakfast table" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It must be great to have a motor-boat with nothing to do but sit still
and enjoy the trip"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Maurice, sweep out padded cell 4962
Sept 8, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All I need is a dancing lesson or two so I'll be able to make myself agreeable at affairs like
this" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've been falling over that broken board"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 07
[No brains, no brains!] "Well, well, if it isn't my dear old friend Josephus McClump!"
Sept 9, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "How are you, Joe? Any little ones running around the house?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The bootblack that does a lot of acrobatic stunts and forgets to shine your shoes in the back.
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Another prisoner of War
Sept 11, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [a boy walks to scool followed by giant military figures labeled: spelling, arithmatic, history,
geography] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to have a governessfor
little Saul"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 07
Wives will form a union and strike next
Sept 13, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I demand two more dolls, fewer kisses from homely aunts, and a new nurse" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It must be wonderful to have enough money to take a long trip on a train"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 07
[Mother was right] "Daughter, I don't want to butt into your affairs because you were just married"
Sept 14, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But I think you ought to let me show you how to cook" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had enough money to buy a home out in the country where my family could get some fresh air"
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"I'm a peaceful king and have always done my best to make my people happy…"
Sept 15, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Again, I don't want to cause any trouble…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "I don't understand why you don't like this little hat"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 07
Is there anything more hazy than a woman's decription of a show?
Sept 18, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Andrew, I enjoyed the show immensely…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "It must be great to have a horse do all the work for you"
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In these days of great big moving picture productions
Sept 21, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I thought this town had 50,000 inhabitants" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "It's terrible-I can't afford to hire a maid to help my wife do the housework"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Ernest, sweep out padded cell 3288
Sept 22, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All I want is the privelage of selling you a pair of these 38-cent socks" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I wonder why my nose…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 07
The influence of the war on the football season
Sept 25, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] European war names will furnish the rooters with a collection of new noises for the football
cheers. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to hire a lawyer to protect
me in my business deals"
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When Jake Daubert was called out after making his home-run…
Oct 11, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's Cutshaw-he lives on my beat"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 08
When you enter a street car you [?] there's nothing in the world but feet
Oct 10, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I know what a tough job the Italian army is having to cross the Alps" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've had that expensive clock only eight days and…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 08
The war is still forcing prices up and sized down
Oct 9, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] One way to beat the high price of clothes. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor
man, rich man: "It must be great to have a job where you can take care of your hands and get a manicure once in a while"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 08
It's all wrong, Balboa, it's all wrong
Oct 6, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must compliment you, Norman, on the high mark you received in geography…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's funny-the water has been running half an hour…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 08
To look at a carpenter, you'd think he was directing the armies of Europe
Oct 4, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [carpenter measuring and making calculations.] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "The guide book says that you turn to the right near an old wooden house"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 08
As long as you are going to sleep at the movies why not be comfortable?
Oct 3, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Some enterprising moving pictures manager can become wealthy… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "Little woman, some day I hope to earn enough so you can open a charge account in all the
big stores"
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The other fellow generally doesn't know any more than you
Oct 2, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm for Hughes-he's the only man for the presidential chair" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "You can't vote-your name isn't down here in the book"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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There's a little philosophy in back of everything that looks foolish
Sept 28, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Life is a lot like an acrobatic act in vaudeville-you use up much valuable time and employ the
greatest… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It must be wonderful to have a lot of money
so you can do charitable deeds and help your unfortunate fellow beings"
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[Mother was right] "Where are you going, daughter?"
Sept 27, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Over to the book store" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's
funny this is an expensive brand of cigar that Carl…"
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You dig up a lot of old memories every time you move
Sept 26, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Enrico, empty out the bureau-the moving van will be here any minute" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "It's ten minutes walk to the station and…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 09
Political news seems to be a matter of sentiment
Oct 24, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man didn't attend the political meeting because he thought he could read the full account…
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had the money to go abroad"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Steve, sweep out padded cell 8742
Oct 23, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Maxwell, I know everything is high now, so I'll be perfectly satisfied with a cheap set of goat-skin
furs" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It's awful for a man with my artistic taste to
use these cheap dishes…"
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If you believe all the candidates for the same office you'll be ashamed to vote
Oct 21, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That nominee should be sent to jail for life-it is lucky ou have a chance… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "There was no bottle of cream in front of my door his morning…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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[Mother was right] "I simply adore dogs"
Oct 20, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It is foolish to keep a dog in an apartment-both for yourself and for the dog" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I certainly envy the fellows that can afford to belong to exclusive
clubs…"
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Why not give a dance when you first turn on the radiator?
Oct 19, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Adrian, that radiator keeps much better time than ours" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I
never thought of that] "I'll go broke the price of flour is going up…"
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Step inside ladies and gentlemen, the show is no going on!
Oct 17, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Kossovo bajazet ghan seljuk osman…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Are
the Italians and Turks having a war?"
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It is harder to get out of a department store elevator than jail
Oct 16, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The wife told me to stop in this department store for a minute and get some hair pins" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor woman, rich woman: "I wish I could afford to own a set of furs"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Hoyle, sweep out padded cell 739"
Oct 14, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boys, we'll have a nice ten-cent limit game of poker-it is always more sociable when you play
for small stakes" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This sweeping raises so much dust"
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Special page for music-lovers
Oct 13, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Great discovery! A man has been found… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of
that] "I'll have to jump for the ferry boat if I want to make it"
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It's all wrong, Orson, it's all wrong
Oct 11, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here I am at last in the home of the free and brave…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "The man who owns that 57-story office building must be very happy"
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Some people don't find trouble -- they carry it with them
Nov 7, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, Central, what are you doing, adjusting your wig or fixing your wooden leg?" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to leave my business long enough to…"
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Old politicians make predictions on tomorrow's election
Nov 5, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The winning candidate's phone will be kept busy by people who are looking for jobs but not for
work" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My election is absolutely certain"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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It's all wrong, Ezra, it's all wrong
Nov 4, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been a traveling salesman for thirty-one years and have visited every bum town in the United
States" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I love expensive rugs but I can't afford to
have them"
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It is hard to find a reason for some things
Nov 2, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Walking around this house is like crossing the Alps-I can't walk a step with out taking a chance
of breaking my neck" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to move into
an apartment that has steam heat"
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[Father was right] "You can't fool the voters when you are running for office…"
Nov 1, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you hand them a little bull they'll do anything" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "My eyes will be ruined from…"
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It's all wrong, Omar, it's all wrong
Oct 30, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm lonesome and blue-I'll get a bun on and forget my troubles" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "Well, I've got my ice skates and am all ready"
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It is dangerous to present a letter of introduction
Oct 28, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm visiting this town for a few days for pleasure…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "It's funny I've got my umbrella up"
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Movie vampires have it all their own way these days
Oct 27, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In the movies, the vampire woman simply rolls her eyes and her victim is ready for the scrap
heap. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had enough money to retire"
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The only men left in Europe after the war will be the simps
Oct 26, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The line is twelve blocks long and I'm afraid of a stampede" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "I'm afraid I'll spoil the picture because…"
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It's all wrong, Seymour, it's all wrong
Oct 25, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A man my size hasn't very much reserve strength and…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "I'd love to smoke strong Havana cigars if I could only afford it"
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Holding office is simply a matter of attending official banquets
Nov 25, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As soon as I'm able to eat a locomotive wheel I'll feel strong enough to shoulder the responsibilities
of the president of my lodge" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've been chewing this gum for
five hours"
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The dancing fever recognizes no age limit
Nov 24, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Things are very quiet around the house these days…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "It hurts me to see my poor wife do all the washing…"
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And now he's looking for the author of "Home Sweet Home"
Nov 21, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I left the office early today so I could rush home and enjoy our new furniture" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I can't go out looking this way"
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Every sight-seeing trip includes these
Nov 20, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Monument to the honorable Llewelyn J. Jellyhead, who introduced petty larceny in the public schools
and filled our jails. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "A fellow with a face like mine has no
chance in life"
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Lucille, sweep out padded cell 31964
Nov 18, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'd look just about right with sleeves a trifle shorter and a collar just a bit lower"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could go down to one of those tropical countries…"
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If you've ever taken a boat trip you've met this bunch
Nov 16, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Captain, why don't you stop the ship at night so you can keep regular hours?" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This tropical country is full of strange bugs and…"
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And imported dog collars are worth $67 apiece, too
Nov 13, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I once guarded a truck-load of gold leaving the mint…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "The girls don't seem to know that I'm alive…"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Elmer, sweep out padded cell 9973
Nov 11, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dad, I just want to play a little football on one of the scrub teams…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I wonder if they delivered the right pair of shoes"
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You can't accomplish the impossible, so why worry?
Nov 9, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll have to get up now-I've got a million things to do today…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I hate to come to this dump to play billiards but I can't afford to have a table at home"
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Clothing concerns must spend a lot of money for paper
Nov 8, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll take this suit" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I designed
this little suit-case myself"
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It is bound to happen so you may as well be prepared
Dec 30, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You needn't think just because this is New Year's Eve you can insult my life" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I can't stand this noise any longer"
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The Hawaiian epidemic has done this to our souvenir calendar
Dec 29, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good-bye Fooladooa" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I
received a hundred New Year's cards…"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "I'll reserve a table for New Year's Eve a few days in advance so
I won't be disappointed when the time comes"
Dec 26, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The only thing I have left is this small table near the kitchen…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I'm in a terrible fix"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 12
A Christmas story entitled "The old rag doll"
Dec 25, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [child looking at dolls with tags on them] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor
man, rich man: "I can't afford to give any Christmas presents, so, of course, nobody gives me anything."
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The fact still remains that Julius is a good boy
Dec. 22, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Papa, here are your slippers" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "McSausage
McSausage McSausage…"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "Say, doctor, you are the only man that can save my life…"
Dec 21, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You know, the price of operations has gone up on account of the war…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "If I want to read in bed I have to break my back"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 12
There's a day set aside for everything but eating
Dec 19, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, I'd like to invite my friend Henry up to the house for dinner some night next week" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I just had enough money to buy…"
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There are still a few new places to hide Christmas gifts
Dec 18, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Four of the robbers got away but I knocked…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to buy another spoon for my dessert"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[Mother was right] "Daughter, take my advice and do your Christmas shopping now…"
Dec 9, 1916
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm too tired to shop today…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] "I wish I could
afford to take my wife shopping for Christmas presents"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "Now that you've accepted me, sweetheart, I'll rush downtown and buy
the ring"
Dec 8, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can already see myself in my country home…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "I wonder what day Christmas falls on this year"
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Suggestions for Christmas gifts
Dec 7, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Germ-receiver-for the gentleman who stis in back of you at the theater… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It must be great to be able to get a new pair of shoes every time you need them"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "The wife told me to get some bread for dinner tonight…"
Dec 5, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, baker-send enough bread up to my house for six children, my wife and myself" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to have a secretary near me…"
volume 1964.047 v.05--ffALB, folder 12
If you are going to take a sea trip, make up your mind to raise a beard
Nov 27, [1916]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going in my stateroom to shave myself" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "That fly has been bothering me…"
volume 1964.047 v.06--ffALB, folder 01
And still apartment house superintendents wonder why they are so unpopular
Jan 24, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This tenant was shot by burglars while waiting for the apartment house superintendent to fix
the lock on the front door. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] "While you were out to your bridge party
I taught the baby the letters of the alphabet"
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[Father was right] "My son, never spend money you think you are going to get…"
Jan 23, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're getting old" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] "Yes, I've got the
greatest kid in the world-he's not a bit of care"
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Can this be called cruelty to animals?
Jan 22, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My nest is on the other side of town and I can't get home to my wife and family" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] "It's strange how a little child like Otto just naturally develops a great love for
his daddy"
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[Father was right] "Son, it is pretty wet out-I think you'd better wear your rubbers today"
Jan 12, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm a young feller-rubbers are made for people who are in danger of dying of old age" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My expensive rugs are ruined from…"
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A story of wasted youth
Jan 11, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He studied hard and got his diploma in literature. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The guy who buys a cheap present for his girl and sends it to her in an expensive box.
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War materials need not go to waste when peace comes
Jan 9, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Tomorrow I'll cook my breakfast with my consolidated ambulance wheel stock" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That Egyptian duck is a bargain for fifty cents"
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It's all wrong, Agamemnon, it's all wrong
Jan 6, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been wounded forty-seven times…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor
man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to buy a diamond tie pin"
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A telephone call always livens up the household
Jan 5, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] There is always great excitement in the house when the phone rings around dinner-time… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could take my wife to Palm Beach, Florida for a few weeks
this winter"
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[Father was right] "Son, you look good in that outfit-but you musn't forget that…"
Jan 4, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why, little children know how to skate-there's nothing to it…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "I've been trying to get in here for an hour"
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The pleasure of ice skating can be made part of the day's work
Jan 3, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, remember, the high notes are low and the loud notes are soft" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's funny-it doesn't seem cold enough for an overcoat but…"
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You get tired hearing your friends say, "Got a match?"
Feb 8, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Everybody in the office kept asking this man for a match… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[The Boob family] Maybe Mrs. Boob forgot to listen when Boob expressed his opinion.
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Charlotte, sweep out padded cell 397,410
Feb 7, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd be satisfied if I could just skate well enough to keep on my feet" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] It was only paper, so you can't blame the kid.
volume 1964.047 v.06--ffALB, folder 02
Unionized baseball
Feb 5, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We just discovered that there's a non-union elevator boy working in the leather factory…" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] Boob is not acquainted with the possibilities of the latest fashions.
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[Father was right] "You shouldn't allow your wife to do so much work-why don't you get a maid to help her?"
Feb 1, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The exercise will do her good-besides, I save a lot of money by not having a maid around" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] Apparently, Mrs. Boob doesn't expect an answer.
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The traffic signals might come in handy for home use
Jan 31, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What is she waiting for? The road's clear!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family]
Boob has an opinion, but that's all.
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Science doesn't seem to have much in common with pleasure
Jan 30, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The air in this room is terrible-Doctor Windbag, the ozone specialist…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] Boob pays the rent and his interest in things seems to end there.
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It's all wrong, Lucille, it's all wrong
Jan 29, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the sixteenth hat I've tried on and still I'm not suited" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [The Boob family] Mrs. Boob always has her mind made up beforehand.
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There's a limit to convenience even in automobiles
Jan 27, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd like to buy an automobile that will suit my needs" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The
Boob family] "The butcher is here for the order for tomorrow's dinner…"
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Another great question that Congress probably can't answer
Jan 26, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Johann, why don't you ask Mister Pettingill where he gets his clothes?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] "The milliner sent this hat on approval and the boy is waiting outside for my answer"
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He should feel honored that his wife depends so much on him
Jan 25, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We'll form a company and incorporate for $200,000…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The
Boob family] "Yes, I've got to hand it to myself for knowing how to bring up a child…"
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Perhaps you've been in this predicament yourself
Mar 10, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The waiters and customers look so much alike I can't tell which is which…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] "This life is like a garden fair,"
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When the big hotels are overcrowded
Mar 8, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, landlord, there's no hot water in my room" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob
family] "The nectar of the gods I'll brew"
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Nothing makes you think faster than the arrival of a telegram
Mar 3, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a telegram for Mister Ippleskiff" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family]
War, like charity, begins at home.
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Fortunately, eggs don't always break easily
Mar 1, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll try your act at $10 for one week to fill in between the movies" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] You don't have to know much to think of these-try it.
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[Father was right] "My boy, why don't you enlist like I did during the civil war?"
Feb 26, [1917]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I love my country very much but how can I leave the girl I'm engaged to? It will break her heart"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] The horse belongs in the family; he's foolish, too.
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Douglas, sweep out padded cell 9375
Feb 24, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The one-reel picture is a bit too short to hold the crowd…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[The Boob family] The kind of poetry doesn't matter, as long as you can keep time to it.
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "Joel, we'll freeze to death if you don't get some coal"
Feb 20, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I've got $2-that ought to keep us warm for a little while" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [The Boob family] Maybe you can think of one of these yourself.
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A little reminder
Feb 12, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A note on your memorandum pad just to remind you that you've got something to think about today.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family] It's only natural for the little Boob to inherit his poetic talent from
his father.
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Suggestions for costumes for the annual masquerade ball
Feb 10, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Go as a war bulletin if you want to leave something to the imagination. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] At times, Otto shows a flash of intelligence.
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "Take me to see 'It's all wrong'-everybody says it's a wonderful show"
Feb 9, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want a couple of good seats for tonight" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob family]
Apparently the old man seldom looks in the mirror.
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Some men think life is just one good story after another
Apr 14, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Did you ever hear the one about the old lady who used to cut her husband's hair?" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "There's always a bunch of papers scattered all over my desk and…"
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The periscope is too good a thing to limit to submarines
Apr 9, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry for the poor wives whose husbands keep looking around at other women" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "The day was bright, though the air was chill"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Chief, sweep out padded cell 77421
Apr 6, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm the fire inspector-I just dropped in to look around" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "Can't you see, stupid, that the allies will have to surrender in six months if the u-boat campaign
keeps up!"
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It's the spring air that does it
Mar 28, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Lester, will you wait on a gentleman who is outside" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "It must be great to live in a place where they have nice polished hard-wood floors"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "I want to buy some writing paper so I can write home for money-I'm
almost broke"
Mar 26, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Paper is very high now-I can let you have a few sheets for $2.10" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "The Fates have made a mighty vow"
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Spring styles will center around oriental & domestic junk
Mar 19, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's the matter-did the neighbors stop you from throwing those things in the back yard?" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I'm certainly in tough luck-I was knocked down by a street
car and I can't afford to hire a good lawyer"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "I'm a plain man with a plain family-the potato is simple food but
it's good enough for us"
Mar 17, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have the only sack of potatoes in town-seeing that you're an old customer I'll let you have…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Hail to thee, forget-me-not,"
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It's all wrong, Babette, it's all wrong
Mar 15, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My legs are not very pretty but I'll soon be old enough to wear long skirts" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This telephone service is terrible"
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Pasquale, sweep out padded cell 47364
Mar 13, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think this is a good reasonable price-I want to give the workingman a chance" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I could afford to hire a French maid for little Sylvester"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "The doctor told me I should eat a tomato every night before going
to bed"I
Mar 12, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The least I can do is to buy my wife a tomato" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "This knife is so dull it wouldn't make a dent"
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[Mother was right] "Why don't you quit hanging around and do a little…"
May 17, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why, mother, it would interfere with all the social obligations I owe my friends…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My friends keep loafing around here and keep me from doing any work"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Miss Paprika Van Jawbone, president of The Society for the Suppression of
Beards on goats…
May 15, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We haven't decided where we'll go for the summer…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
"I wish I could afford to buy a decent piano so I could give real expression to my musical soul"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] T. Alexander Carpetface tells the ladies of the club why he wrote "The Empty
Bean", the book that…
May 8, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It is a great pleasure to me to see how anxious you ladies are to develop…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Jenny wrote and asked me for a picture of myself"
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We're rapidly becoming a military nation
May 7, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And don't forget the spool of thread" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Of
me you've oft heard kipling tell…"
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Using every available space for food production during the war
May 4, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm tired of dancing with the elephants…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "I can't go out in the country and enjoy the beauties of nature but…"
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The village souse will soon have to seek another kind of popularity
May 2, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When prohibition robs the village souse of his only claim to fame, he'll have to keep up his
popularity by… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "Just think-all I get is three dollars
a week! I certainly envy the $50,000-a-year men"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "Simeon, I knew food would be very scarce so I saved a lovely can
of tomatoes"
Apr 30, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine! I'll run down to the corner and buy a can opener" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly
sonnets] "An Hawaiian song, a hula maid…"
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[Father was right] "My son, before I die I want to tell you that there is only one nobility…"
Apr 28, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're all wrong, dad-but thanks for the million" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had enough money to take part in some of these swell society costume affairs"
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It's all wong, Leonard, it's all wrong
Apr 19, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My husband is so fine and big and strong and I love him so much I don't think I can live without
him…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This is a great position-I can see the enemy very distinctly"
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Universal military training is busting out everywhere
Apr 18, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Carry spoons! Forward march! We'll surprise the soup with a flank movement and follow…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "I fain would sing in lyrics bold"
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Even a fast runner sometimes arrives just a little too late
June 22, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's about half a mile from here to the beach but…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly
sonnets] "I'm sick of golf and motor cars…"
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A man with a great brain is only human, after all
June 20, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, I'm certainly glad to see you-I haven't seen you for twenty years…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I'm smart-I'll put the key right here in the trunk"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Henry Rentdodger, of the Royal Academy of Arabia, gives the ladies an absorbing
illustrated talk…
June 19, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After traveling for 88 days across the plains of hitchykoo, living principally on banana skins…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor woman, rich woman: "I wish I could afford to have a hairdresser come
to the house…"
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Otherwise this man has nothing the matter with him
June 16, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You probably don't believe it, but the gentleman looking at the new apartment… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Hark, hark, did some one call my name?"
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The Germans in this country are all under observation
June 8, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Julia, it's against the law for me to come near your house" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Silly sonnets] "The city's turmoil I forsook…"
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You can't blame the boys for feeling a little proud of their new uniforms
June 4, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] No wonder it is hard to get a trained army-these legs all have to march in the same direction.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "I begged her on my bended knee"
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The war will make men scarce at the summer resorts
June 1, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Anything in the shape of a man will be welcome, now that most of the young fellows are at the
military camps. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "Pretty soft for these wealthy young
fellows who can spend a couple…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Ignacio Sqeakerino, the great Slavic violinist, plays one of his own compositions,
"The Growl of a Servian Wolf-Hound"
May 29, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Dick-that simp is still playing so I'll have to postpone the date for an hour" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Private citizen, public man: "An ambassador must have a wonderful time being…"
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It is useless to sit down any more
May 28, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's nothing like a plate of hot soup" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets]
"Still undaunted, undismayed,"
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You probably pick out the wrong one, anyway, so why not this?
May 26, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The hat store diving board-to save time in selecting your straw hat, you keep the one you fall
into and let it go at that. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Every time I sit down I tear my
trousers on that nail"
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Golf is a great game after you once get started
July 13, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll shoot right away so I won't delay the people in back of me" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've been lying here for three hours waiting for that alarm to go off"
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The designs on foreign flags must mean something, after all
July 11, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Flags of all nations" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "That's
my idea of luxury-taking an automobile tour for a month…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies spend the afternoon cheering up a member of the club, who has
a bad cold
July 10, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I brought you this book giving the final words of great people just before they died-it's very
interesting" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I'm dying for a drink of that water"
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The summer camera nut always mails you these
July 7, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Taken on the road to Cheesecake Gulch with the driver of the bus. // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I envy the fellow with a big camera that has a lot of complicated adjustments"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "I have a few dollars saved up and I want to buy a small piece of
land where I can build a little shack"
July 6, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can let you have a square foot of rock in the middle of that lake for $1,000" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "My wife she is a suffragette"
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Independence Day
July 4, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [person sitting in a chair labeled "autocracy" with a giant firecracker lit under the seat] //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor kid, rich kid: "I wish somebody would buy me all the fireworks in that
window"
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The author of "Tipperary" didn't know he was writing a great war song, either
July 2, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] All the great writers and composers are working night and day. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Silly sonnets] "We do not know when life shall end,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies give a luncheon to Richard Otten, the poet…
June 26, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "From out the void of the mystic past, I hear a voice…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I
never thought of that] "I have to go out for the paper every morning before breakfast…"
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When they got home they told of their narrow escape
June 25, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't look around and give him the impression that you feel guilty" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "The riddle no man seems to know,"
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Martinez, sweep out padded cell 41,976
June 23, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll take Saturday afternoon off so I can go out in the country for the week-end" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I'll take plenty of films away with me"
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[Sweep out the padded cell] Manuel, sweep out padded cell 27,130
Aug 22, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One cigar a day can't do any harm even if the doctor advised me to stop smoking" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Her voice is like the nightingale's,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take a sightseeing trip to refresh their memories on the romantic
history of their native city
Aug 21, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That dill pickle factory you see straight ahead of you stands on the very spot where…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "It must be fine to have a big lawn where you can sit all by yourself
and enjoy life"
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It's all wrong, Jerome, it's all wrong
Aug 16, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's too expensive to join a golf club so I'll have to economize by playing on a public links"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Up spake brave sargeant Joe McGee,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mme. Joan Feedbag, the famous hygienic cooking expert, kindly consents to…
Aug 14, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "In making the Brazilian pancake, take two eggs that are slightly overcome with…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "If we keep on walking we might land in China"
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How the same gentlemen behaves when he gets his only authority of the year -- running the annual outing of the lodge
Aug 11, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The world should be made safe for democracy…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty]
Poor man, rich man: "Every time I want to catch a train…"
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[Father was right] "It says here in the paper that we should not use gasoline for joy-riding because it will be needed…"
Aug 10, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The old man believes everything-I'll fill her up and take a spin…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Driver, stop here for a few hours"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies visit the state penitentiary with the idea of taking a hand in
prison reform
Aug 14, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of course, de prisoners ain't got no education…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "Boobania is bounded on the north by the river plupp,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies have a theatre party to study the drama
July 31, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's that? All right, tell the usher about it-nobody can stop me from wearing my own hat"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had the price of one of those cool pongee suits"`
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It's all wrong, Luke, it's all wrong
July 21, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't do any work around this office with all this talk going on" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Fat man, skinny man: "I'd give everything I've got in the world to lose 100 pounds"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies have an outing on the beach and go in "bathing"
July 17, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bathing is a delightful sport-I can tell by what it says in this book" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I feel foolish standing around here"
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It's all wrong, Webster, it's all wrong
Sept 12, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This speech of mine is a wonderul masterpiece-it took me tow months to write it…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "These words the German poet penned,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] A shortage of twenty cents is discovered in the treasury and a special meeting
is called…
Sept 11, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have an idea for the first time in my life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The girl who reads the last chapter of a story first to escape the descriptive efforts of the author.
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The new army in the trenches experiences its first gas attack
Sept 10, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can see from the happy expressions on your dear little faces how glad you all are…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] School boy, grown man: "It must be great to be grown-up and have no home…"
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Breezy summer gossip from any old lake
Sept 1, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Hotel gossip has linked the names of Julius Mothball and Matilda Wheatcake… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who splashes the water around the bath-room and takes particular pains not to get wet.
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It's all wrong, Eddie, it's all wrong
Aug 31, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't keep a pair of white trousers on for five minutes without getting them spotted" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I wish I had the price of one of those swell bow ties"
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The man at home must do his bit by helping Esmerelda knit
Aug 30, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll see your five-dollar raise and boost you two cents" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The gink that gives the directions and remains on the light end when there's any heavy work to be done.
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And the barber generally has his way
Aug 29, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But I don't want my moustache trimmed" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of
that] "That's funny-all the other vegetable gardens are growing nicely"
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[Father was right] "Why don't you be sensible and have your eyes measured for a pair of glasses?"
Aug 27, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Spectacles are for old men-nobody will ever discover I can't see very well" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "Alone I rushed into the fray"
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A summer commuter leads a tragic life
Aug 24, [1917]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This summer commuting is terrible-I go to bed thinking about the 7:42…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The housekeeper who sweeps everything under the bureau.
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As long as we are making the world safe for democracy
Aug 23, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Taxicab driver who takes you around the block when you want to go across the street. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've pulled at this sweater for an hour-"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hold a debate on the following subject…
Oct 30, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "History tells us that Emperor Finnigan the first, of the ancient Carthaginians…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The woman who knits a sweater for a soldier and then wears it herself.
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[No brains, no brains!] "Why, sure, golf is my dish-as a rule I only play with the champions"
Oct 25, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I generally go around the course in about 80-I'll play you for anything you like" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The fellow in the front of the boat who stops rowing to admire the beautiful scenery.
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There are two sides to every man, as well as every argument
Oct 24, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Speed! Speed! Hurry up, everybody!..." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of
that] "Let's see, what did I do with my glasses?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies do their bit by organizing a military unit of their own and experiencing
the hardships of war once a week
Oct 23, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if the captain would mind if I took a taxi when we start marching" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who never carries an umbrella and always borrows yours without ever asking whether you need
it yourself.
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The 1917 football squad
Oct 18, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The ancient Egyptians never ate mustard with their ice cream" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The football player who always makes sure to land on top of the pile.
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[No brains, no brains!] "If you'd like a nice dance I'll introduce you to a fine girl from out-of-town"
Oct 10, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sure, I'm a swell dancer" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "The
paper hanger said on account of the war he couldn't get another piece of…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies give a skating party and Mrs Poundcake's husband is the only man
who can take the afternoon off to enjoy the festivities
Oct 9, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Skating is a wonderful sport-it's so uncertain" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The guy who lets the others in the party struggle with the high notes and comes in strong during the easy parts.
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[No brains, no brains!] "I made up my mind to buy a nice, plain, common-sense overcoat"
Sept 26, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Right this way, sir-our new fall line just came in-I know exactly what you want" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "My love for you is far more great"
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The members of the club pose for the annual photograph for the club album
Sept 25, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pictures never do me justice but I don't care if people talk" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The painter who gets himself all covered with paint and keeps painting in one spot.
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Maybe the jazz band can be included among the horrors of war
Sept 20, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What opera is that from, Moe? I just love harmony!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "My face wouldn't be so terrible if-"
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[No brains, no brains!] "The boss wants to see you"
Sept 15, [1915]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You have been with the firm for twenty-three years and your record is perfect" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "The paper is always full of news about different people"
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Even the foolish derby has it's redeeming features
Sept 14, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The man whose derby rests on his head like this seldom gets a side view of himself… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who throws his medicine out of the window when his mother's back is turned.
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[No brains, no brains!] "Good night"
Sept 13, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thanks very much for taking me to the theatre" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The gink that never helps you look for your golf ball.
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That's what makes it scarce!
Dec 5, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Someone told me that sugar is going to be scarce for a long time so I'm buying all the sugar
I can lay my hands on" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I wonder why everybody around the place…"
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Nothing means less than the name of an apartment house
Nov 24, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Come up and see me-I'm living on the corner of Muffledunk and Ipplesink in the…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird that reads all the magazines on the counter and then asks the girl for a match.
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The war tax on theatre tickets isn't as serious as it looks
Nov 23, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "During war times you can't expect to go to the theatre and have a clean husband besides" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That poor man must have been knocked down by an automobile"
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Suggestions for banquent souvenirs
Nov 21, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I landed in Egypt four years ago last Tuesday-no I think it was Friday-again, it may have
been Monday" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That dog chews up everything in the house"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The president of the club gives an economy luncheon and each member brings
a suggestion for a war dish
Nov 20, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The people in the Arctic regions eat candles so I thought we could be more up-to-date and have
some stewed electric light bulbs" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The woman who wears very long skirts to avoid
darning her stockings.
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[No brains, no brains!] "Otto, I have put up a lot of jam and jelly for the winter and I don't want you to touch it"
Nov 19, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't change your shirt so often, dear, the laundry bill is fierce" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Man with long nose, man with short nose: "I wish my nose wasn't so prominent…"
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[No brains, no brains!] "Wasn't it romantic the way we bumped into one another and found ourselves dancing before we knew
it"
Nov 15, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pardon me for being bold, but I think you're a swell kid" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The gink who counts for nothing at a banquet and crowds right up in front of the camera when the flashlight is
taken.
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It's all wrong, Stuyvesant, it's all wrong
Nov 12, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been invited to one of the most exclusive parties in town…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "I'm sick but still I feel no pain,"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies attend a lecture, on the raising of children, by a woman who never
raised any
Nov 6, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A mother's appeal to her child should be made from an intellectual standpoint…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gazebo who buys a lot of fine books and never reads any of them.
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Caddies can still be used after the golf season is over
Nov 3, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pick me out something that will lift thick soup out of a deep plate" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The man who can't hear, the man who can hear: "I always miss the best part of a show-I wish I could
hear"
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[Father was right] "Son, I think you'd better take a bite to eat before you go to the banquet-you can't always tell"
Dec 20, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But the invitation says it starts promptly at seven o'clock" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "Demi tasse gazaam mazuma napoleon marimba"
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Christmas makes a moving van out of every man
Dec 19, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if I've forgotten anything-let's see-a smoking jacket for the baby, a shaving mug for
aunt Julia…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] In the south. In the north.
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The ladies gather for tea after a day of Christmas shopping in the downtown stores
Dec 18, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Right after lunch while I was making up my mind what to buy in the book department…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The girl who always picks out the best candies for herself before she passes around the box.
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It took a war to straighten him out
Dec 17, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're a fine son, you are! For years I've tried to make you stand up straight and you're getting
worse every day" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Telegram for you, sir-sign here"
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"The end of a perfect day"
Dec 15, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gimme some flowers that will make a big hit with a lady and I don't care how much they cost"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The barber who slams a steaming hot towel on your face…
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The man who sits next to the window pays well for the light
Dec 14, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Open the window-it's too warm in here" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of
that] "I'm losing all my business because my hand-writing is getting worse every day"
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It's all wrong, Sandow, it's all wrong
Dec 13, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, would you mind carrying this little bag? I'll take the rest" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who accepts a cigar from you and later gives it to a friend in payment for a favor.
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One way to save the trouble of fighting your way through a crowded store
Dec 12, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll wait for the leather goods department to crawl by" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Fifty-fifty] Woman with long arms, woman with short arms.
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[No brains, no brains!] "I'm certainly glad to have met you-what is your telephone number?"
Dec 10, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Creampuff 6637" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My clothes cost
me $5000 a year because I go around with the best people in town and have a great many social obligations"
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It's all wrong, Leo, it's all wrong
Dec 7, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been studying my lessons for six hours and know everything but the date of the battle of
Lumbago… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The man who can't sing. The man who can sing.
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One of life's little jokes
Jan 7, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This child was a sweet and dainty tot, so his parents called him launcelot. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "The streets are in terrible condition after the storm"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Their first guest of honor for 1918
Jan 1, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We are with you to a finish through your trouble and your care…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor man, rich man: "I'd give anything to be able to attend one of those wild New Year's parties I've
heard so much about"
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Teach your child French so he'll know how to eat when…
1918
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The menu starts with puree de gibier St. Hubert-that sounds promising"
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The wayward son sits at the bedside
Dec 31, [1917}
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good-bye-I'm going fast" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who has his
stenographer call you up and keeps you waiting on the wire until your whole day is spoiled.
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Have one of our 1918 war calendars with our compliments
Dec 28, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [calendar with numbers formed by soldiers] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "The shirt man put something over on me-I didn't notice that these sleeves were so short when I bought the shirt
four months ago"
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At that, a kid deserves a little the best of it around Christmas
Dec 26, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's gratitude-after me giving that child a wagon for Christmas look what he does to the house"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "That's a fine Christmas present to give me-a pickle lifter!"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies treat some of the soldiers and sailors from nearby training camps
to a big Christmas feed
Dec 25, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish I was in the draft age" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who wears
his full dress shirt to the office the day after a banquet.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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A little camouflage to surprise Otto on Christmas morning
Dec 24, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry, Toby-on account of the war we can't have a Christmas tree or give you any presents…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "There goes the bell-it's probably a Christmas package"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[No brains, no brains!] "I'm smart, I am-I know exactly what I'm going to give all my friends for Christmas"
Dec 22, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I go to the stores I won't wasted a lot of time looking around…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My goodness! The rug is on fire and…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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It is only called work when you're getting paid for it
Dec 21, [1917]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Miss McJazzbo, will you please pick up the piece of paper I just dropped on the floor…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who always goes home and lets his partner entertain the boob customer from out-of-town.
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[Father was right] "Do you wish to take this full dress shirt home with you, sir?"
Feb 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, send it-I never carry bundles-be sure that it reaches me tonight" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who wants more encores but is too lazy to applaud.
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Life's little jokes -- number three
Feb 8, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The honorable Henry Montgomery Fitch was famous and handsome and clever and rich…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "There's so much news in the paper about the war it drives me crazy trying to
keep track of it"
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It's all wrong, Newton, it's all wrong!
Feb 4, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Since you are the best man in the office I want you to do everything in your power…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who lets the other fellow open up a space so he can walk quietly out of the car."
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Maybe he never learned how to write at school
Jan 26, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's the most popular soldier I ever saw" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The
tailor who never alters a suit after he once gets it on your back-and gets away with it.
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A puzzle picture -- guess the answer and hand yourself a cigar
Jan 23, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Is this chair comfortable enough for you, sir? Or shall I have the carpenter build another one
for you?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Poor skater, good skater: "I'd give anything to be able to skate
like that"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies form a gymnasium class and start seriously to reduce
Jan 22, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One-two-three-four-five…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who takes the
credit of looking like a great doctor or college professor but really wears the beard to hid e a weak chin.
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "My landlord raised the rent on me and I had to move"
Jan 18, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll look for a room in the cheapest part of town" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The Boob
family] "The members of the lodge sent me to escort you to a little surprise dinner they are giving you tonight"
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One way to save the bride the trouble of exchanging most of her presents
Jan 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As the bride's uncle, I would like to say that she needs everything from a grand piano…" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Boy, man: "Gee, I wish I was old enough to shave"
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The house maid circuit
Jan 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Maids never stay more than a week in one place… "They don't appreciate talent in this section-in
the last house where I appeared the lady refused to accompany me on the piano while I was frying a steak" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "This wire is so short every time I want to use the telephone"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies invite a woman-letter carrier to tell them of the great work women
are doing in men's jobs
Jan 8, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I predict that in a few years the men will only be good for answering the door-bell…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who stands at the foot of the line and bends his knees during the stiff-legged limbering-up
exercise."
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Of course, this may be a trifle exaggerated but
Mar 7, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I ought to reach your real complexion with a couple of days hard work"
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[No brains, no brains!] "Isn't Ferdinand just the dearest, sweetest, best looking dog you ever saw?"
Mar 6, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's a thoroughbred-his father once ate some spaghetti that was cooked for the king of Italy"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The match-maker who gets a girl all excited about a young man…"
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Life's little jokes -- number six
Mar 2, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When Annabelle Simpson was seven years old she was prim and precocious and stylish, I'm told.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The girl who takes piano lessons for twelve years and then says she can't play
because she hasn't brought her music.
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George Washington was great in more ways than one
Feb 22, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't my new overcoat a peach?" "Yes, it fits fine" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The guy who always apologizes when you meet him in a cheap lunch place.
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[No brains, no brains!] "I was in the neighborhood buying some fish so I thought I'd drop in and see you, too"
Feb 21, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My what a beautiful piano! It must have cost a lot of money" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The girl who doesn't put her face near the phone and then wonders why she has to repeat everything she says.
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies sit upstairs and listen to the speeches at the annual banquet
of the Celluloid Collar Manufacturers Association
Feb 19, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope Joe is careful with that shirt so he can wear it tomorrow" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I'm late this morning because the elevator operator in my apartment house takes so long
to answer the bell"
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It's all wrong, Martin, it's all wrong
Feb 18, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The people of this country are too extravagent" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The gazebo who is afraid to let the young lady know that he can't read without glasses.
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Lifes little jokes -- number four
Feb 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Squinty Bezitz was as thin as a rail, he was scrawny and weak, his complexion was pale. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Whenever I'm in a hurry"
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[No brains, no brains!] "Hello, dear-I want you and your husband to come over tonight to hear me sing my new song…"
Feb 14, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thanks for asking us to come-we always consider it a great pleasure to hear your voice" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "If the bullet doesn't hit that aviator"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies each chip in fifty cents and take a lesson in French from Mlle
Suzette de Peacherino
Feb 13, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I will start the lesson with a quotation from the french classics…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've been standing here like a fool ringing this bell for an hour"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies inspect the presents just before the marriage of a member of the
club
Apr 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I told the man to be careful-you can see where the initials have been changed on this bean fork"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The guy who never brings more than one golf ball with him and then apologizes
when he borrows one from you.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies visit the Venus Beauty Parlor to have themselves made over so
they'll be more interesting to their husbands
Apr 9, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't mind paying the $135 but are you sure the wave will be permanent?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who roasts the officials in Washington for not speeding up the war…
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[Sweep out the padded cell] Fatima, sweep out padded cell 9730
Mar 30, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Goodness, I'm three ounces overweight-I must reduce" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly
sonnets] "Venus, queen of all the stars"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
The baseball news is getting more exciting every minute
Mar 29, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Home-run Onyx of the Dreamtown Reds has a weak toe but the doctors are doing all they can to
make him more comfortable. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The boss paper-hanger who phones the landlord that
he's rushing the job through as fast as he can.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies call on La Belle Babette to get economical ideas for war time
Easter bonnets
Mar 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I made up these few odd shapes to show you that, whenever anything is ready to be thrown away,
it is just the thing to be put on a hat" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who does his home work with
a dime novel hidden in his geography book.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Professor Emil Softskull NG kindly enlightens the ladies on the racial questions
that must be settled by the war
Mar 19, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The lower half of Abyssinia rightfully belongs to the Laplanders who established the Duchy of
Ukalele…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who entertains the lady guest while he lets his wife do the
carving.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
Life's little jokes -- number seven
Mar 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] J. Alexander O'Hara McKnight was dressed to perfection each day and each night. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The guy who memorizes the titles of the latest books and then talks as though he read them.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
The coming aristocracy of labor
Mar 15, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After I devote the best part of my life trying to educate our son to be…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who, as soon as he starts to wash, forgets that he has a neck.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[No brains, no brains!] "Now remember what I tell you-as each dish is served wait for the hostess to start eating so you'll
know which knife, fork or spoon to use"
Mar 13, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm so hungry I can't wait" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I've
had a cinder in my eye all day and…"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take advantage of an auction sale to pick up a few odds and ends
very cheap
Mar 12, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This genuine Jazzerino table cloth adorned the table of the late crown prince of Plutz on the
very night he strangled to death on a herring bone-I'll start it myself at a nickel" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The bird who spends three hours dressing for a party and then shines his shoes on his trousers.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…now that aeroplanes are hopping across the Atlantic
May 24, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Where shall we go tonight, dear, to a musical comdey in Petrograd or a vaudeville show in Rome?
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "This is a great scheme of mine holding my cigar butt on the end of a pin"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the ladies builds a country home according to her own ideas and takes
the other club members out to give it their admiring approval
May 21, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wanted something different-the architecture is a mixture of old colonial…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The guy who stands in front of the building watching the clock across the street for fear he
might get back to work one minute before his lunch hour is up.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
Life's little jokes -- number seventeen
May 18, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Margaret Mamie Linoleum Frye, was gently and timid and bashful and shy… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The wife who buys a cake at the baker's and lets her husband think she baked it herself.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
Oh no, they don't want to hear what's she's saying!
May 16, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, yes, this is Cordelia-well, well, it certainly sounds good to hear your voice…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The woman who objects to allowing babies in the elevator because they frighten her dog.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies spend the afternoon hanging pictures in their new club rooms
May 14, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do I have to do all the work? Someone could at least stand under the ladder to catch me when
I fall" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The man who plays the bass fiddle, the man who plays the piccolo
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies stand at a window and gaze sympathetically at one of their friends
going through the agonies of moving
May 7, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the fourth time she's moved this year…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The guy who calls you up on long distance to wish you a happy birthday and then reverses the telephone charges.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
Life's little jokes -- number fourteen
May 4, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Eric Van Sprint was as swift as a deer, he won every race for his college, I hear. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who not only keeps his seat in a crowded car but tries to flirt with the lady standing
over him.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
A man doesn't know how small he is until his wife starts housecleaning
May 2, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "These polar bear skins certainly attract dust" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought
of that] "Every time I hang my coat on a hook"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies join a golf club and find out just how much to believe of one
another's conversation
Apr 30, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She's the most economical woman I ever saw-she's even stingy with her counting" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who spread his toilet articles all over the pullman wash room and uses every hoof
for his tie, collar, vest and shirt.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies make a date to meet at one of the big hotels for luncheon, but
forget to reserve a table
Apr 23, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I ought to have some influence with the head waiter-I live in one of his apartment houses" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gazebo who rushes to the breakfast table, uses all the cream, and then appears
to be surprised when he discovers that his wife hasn't had her breakfast yet.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
[No brains, no brains!] "Take a nice comfortable chair"
July 1, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I came to answer your ad in the paper for a new maid" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I
never thought of that] "It's too hot to close the window and the mosquitoes are killing me"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
It's all wrong, Carlyle, it's all wrong
June 29, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He wasn't even introduced to her but she seems crazy about him already" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The boob who invites his girl to watch him swim in three feet of water.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the ladies writes a poem and invites the husbands of the other members
to come to the club and hear her read it
June 25, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Awake, awake! The dawn is here, the air is full of atmosphere, on yon Hawaiian…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Every time I stop to cut a page"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
Life's little jokes -- number twenty
June 22, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Amos Alfalfa Chrysanthemum Hay was born in the country where nature holds sway" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who manufactures handles for lorgnettes and tries to convince the anti-loafing official
that he is engaged in a useful occupation.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies get a wild desire to take up horseback riding and one trot in
the park cures them
June 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't know you were so fond of animals…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The
girl who has never been on a horse but wears a riding habit because she thinks it is becoming.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
When a business man has no place to go he goes "in conference"
June 6, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In some offices all business must be settled by the conference route. "The building is on fire!"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who wears a derby all summer when he can buy a straw hat for fifty
cents.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs Featherbrain invites the ladies out to watch her take her first lesson
in running the automobile her husband gave her for a tin wedding present
June 4, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Take your foot off the clutch-you've got your brake on…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "Yow!"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
The slowest moving thing on earth is a box office line
May 30, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope they don't change the bill before I get inside" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The butcher boy who stops to look at a parade while the lady of the house has to keep apologizing to her guests for the delay
in dinner.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
It's all wrong, Minerva, it's all wrong
May 25, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a hard job to pick out a name for a child but there's nothing like being prepared in advance"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who always forgets to close the door.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 08
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number forty-seven
May 25, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Andre Kerplunkle Van Prune always goes to a very swell tailor to buy all his clothes. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Dear, things are very high now so I think we'll have to fire the maid"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] After the outing, the ladies change cars at Malaria Junction for the train
to the city and then discover they are traveling according to last year's time table
July 30, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, madam, the 4:31 used to stop here last year when the engine was new…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "When I'm out on the links with my friends they don't seem to play very well"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
Life's little jokes -- number twenty-five
July 27, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Ignatz McBozo was seven feet tall, he towered above people, shoulders and all. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who sends a postal with a picture spread all over it so he won't have to write much.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
What the public knitting habit will naturally lead to
July 26, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Next time I go out I'll take an ironing board with me" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The movie actor who borrows an automobile to pose for one of those personal pictures that appear in the film magazines.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
Life's little jokes -- number twenty-four
July 20, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] John Toby Gonzales could eat like a mule, he ate seven meals every day, as a rule. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who agrees with the other merchants to close at six o'clock and then keeps his place
open on the sly till eight.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
After the war aeroplane will be as common as fliovers [?]
July 19, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Joe-will you have lunch with me today in Chicago?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The vaudeville performer who orders the orchestra to play loudly at the end of his act while he keeps bowing to
a lot of imaginary applause.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] There are only two of the ladies left in town but they get together just
to keep up the dear old custom of the weekly meetings for sociability's sake
July 16, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of course, don't think I want to talk about the other girls during their absence…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The man who spends his vacation in a lonely farm-house. The man who spends his vacation
in a convenient summer hotel.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
It's all wrong, Venus, its' all wrong
July 13, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm taking these expensive swimming lessons because…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The bird who monopolizes the breeze from the electric fan.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
Mrs Hohenzollern's summer boarders can't stand it much longer
July 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The poor boobs may get something to eat if there is anything left after I feed myself. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The Jane who gets busy picking wild flowers while the other ladies prepare the picnic lunch.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies spend the afternoon at the conservatory in the park and study
botany so they can appreciate nature's beauties
July 9, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We pride ourselves on having the greatest collection of ellipsoid…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Fore!"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take a launch ride to view the beautiful scenary along the river
July 2, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If I live through this trip I'll poison the man who writes the jokes on sea-sickness" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] The man who spends his vacation in a swell summer hotel. The man who spends his vacation
roughing it.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
Memory seems to depend on what you have to remember
Aug 2, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Back in April 23rd., 1892 when I was playing with Jack McSpasm at the Cheatmore Country Club…
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who walks up a public stairway with his umbrella in this position.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
Fringe is perfectly useless -- maybe that's why it is so popular
Aug 9, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hurry back, dear-the table looks so bare without the table cloth" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who can't think of anything to say and stalls by remarking that he intended to say the very same
thing as the speaker before him.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
Lifes' little jokes -- number twenty-seven
Aug 10, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Orrin Leander Van Rensallear Bart was pulled around town in his little go-cart… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I just broke an expensive ornament in the parlor"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
The ladies pay a call to congratulate the happy mother of a new baby and distribute a few words of admiration
Aug 13, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor little thing! Wait till he grows up and has a good look at his parents" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I spent $17 for these glasses last month and"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
[No brains, no brains!] "Yes, we came out here in the country because my husband is so crazy about golf"
Aug 17, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Lovely!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The painter who puts a lot of black paint
on a canvas to avoid work and then calls it "Night in Spain".
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The members get a wholesale rate for a series of swimming lessons at the
Venus private swimming pool
Aug 20, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've called on her three times and she's never been in my house once-I wonder who she thinks
she is!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Every time I walk along the beach I get my shoes full
of sand…"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Why not appoint a government commission to standardize the various…
Aug 21, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I propose a resolution ordering all drug stores to station an interpreter…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who invites you to a musical show, takes you up in the gallery…"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
Life's little jokes -- number twenty-seven
Aug 24, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Theobald Mokus had oodles of kale, his money was packed in the bank by the bale. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The girl who phones that she'll come over and help you get ready for your trip and then arrives
after your trunks are all packed.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Through the courtesy of general (censored) the ladies get a very special
permit to visit an aviation camp and learn some of the secrets of high flying
Aug 27, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Watch closely, ladies-he's doing a nose dive now…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "I'll borrow all the money from all the German people"
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
Bath-house conversation is very deceiving at times
Aug 28, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Otto, is that you in the next house?-There isn't much class to the crowd…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The maid who starts singing to avoid answering the door-bell.
volume 1964.047 v.07--ffALB, folder 10
It's all wrong, Noah, it's all wrong
Aug 31, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My friends, this community is threatened by the social salamander" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who hangs his hat and coat outside when he comes late to work to make the boss think he's been
busy in another department.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The members get some new ideas at the Bon Ton fashion show
Oct 1, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My last batch of dill pickles didn't turn out very well but my marmalade is lovely" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who plants himself in your softest chair and sits there all evening…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
[No brains, no brains!] "I'm basing all my hopes on the stupidity of the people-the poor boobs do all the fighting and we
get all the gain."
Sept 28, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, papa" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Yes, we motorists must
conserve gasoline"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
Any way, he doesn't have to pay any rent in the big house
Sept 27, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, madam, it's a sad case-his landlord raised his rent so he decided to move…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The woman who has her picture taken like this to make her look tall.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
Don't place too much confidence in the numbers on theatre tickets
Sept 25, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm tired of sitting around the hotel-I think I'll take in a show" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who sends you a box of cigars for your birthday and then comes to your house and smokes them himself.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] A fire breaks out while one of the ladies explains to the other members the
simple principles of knitting a sock
Sept 24, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hate to butt in, ladies-but soon the house won't be here any more and you might catch cold
sitting out in the open air" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Man whose wife can't cook. Man whose wife can
cook.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
It's all wrong, Herbert, it's all wrong
Sept 14, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, we must live up to all the food regulations and use only one lump of sugar to a cup-we
musn't waste any food" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who puts all his money in the bank and tries
to prove he's broke by showing you his empty pockets.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
The barbers are thinking of charging a dollar for a hair cut and fifty cents for a shave
Sept 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What a gorgeous plant you have-I just love nature" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never
thought of that] "One hair-cut every two weeks at a dollar a hair-cut means 26 dollars a year"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The fat members of the club spend the afternoon selecting a suitable uniform
for the newly organized reducing drill corps
Sept 10, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I thought I'd show you the uniform on a model with a figure like most of you ladies have" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Man who has no dentist. Man who has dentist.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
A forthcoming raid which would cause great damage among young civilians
Sept 4, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You children have been happy long enough" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The
kid who shares his chocolate layer cake with his little brother but keeps the part with all the chocolate on it for himself.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 01
Life's little jokes, number thirty
Sept 7, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jenny McPiff had a tender young heart, she cried when her poor little dool fell apart. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "Every time I eat watermellon it makes me sick"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies attend their first political meeting to find out which way to
vote
Oct 29, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fellow voters, I ask you what became of the six dollars the board…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I know a guy] "I'm certainly glad to be back although I had a pretty exciting time of it over there"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
The man who's runing for office now should have no trouble keeping it a secret
Oct 25, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We don't care what's going on outside of Jazzburg-hooray for us" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Slackers] The woman who practices war economy on her poor washerwoman but takes her summer savings to the fur sale
and falls for a $500 sealskin coat.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
Do you remember that "Superman" stuff at the beginning of the war?
Oct 23, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nach Berlin!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who only drops his coupons
in the box when he thinks there's someone looking.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The members just leaving, after calling at the house of a member who is suffering
from a nervous breakdown
Oct 22, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm surprised she didn't pick out something that called for an operation…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I know a guy] "You're wanted on the telephone"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
Life's little jokes -- number thirty-two
Oct 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Baby Horatio Oofington Papp looked exceedingly sweet in his cute little cap" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who is so busy winning the war with words he hasn't time to buy a liberty bond.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
Mike and Ike - they look alike
Oct 10, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You look like you can talk English-will you please tell me how to get to 35 Rue de Goatee"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
The last of a vanishing race
Oct 9, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Step inside, ladies and gentlemen, and see the only housemaid in captivity who does the family
washing…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Turk. Hun.: "If I hadn't gone into business with those babarous
Germans I wouldn't have to answer for their crimes, too"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies go shopping for expensive furs at the most exclusive furrier's
in town…
Oct 8, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a modest set of wild Hungarian moose just like the one we sold yesterday…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of that] "I can't get in the army but I'd like to buy a complete outfit for a soldier
just to show my patriotism"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
[Father was right] "My son, it's wrong to spend money on clothes now-we must practice thrift"
Oct 5, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't be foolish, father I have to look right when I meet my friends" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The guy who hogs the evening paper and doesn't even tell the rest of the family the news.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 02
[No brains, no brains!] "I'll tell you a secret-they're selling silk shirtwaists at Madam O'Briens for $1.49-they only have
few left so don't tell anyone"
Oct 3, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going down to buy one myself this afternoon…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The maid who doesn't clean the part of the window that is covered by the shade.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
Life's little jokes -- number thirty-eight
Nov 30, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When Silvio Hipp in a restaurant ate, he kicked at the music and the food on his plate. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy] "Look at me, Phil-don't you notice any change?"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies stop off on the way to the meeting to telephone and then forget
all about the meeting
Nov 26, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, I can't come for a fitting on Thursday because I have the hairdresser and the piano-tuner…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who stops in the middle of the road to fix his engine and gets insulted
when somebody tells him he's blocking the traffic.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
Life's little jokes -- number thirty-seven
Nov 23, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Lester Columbus de Cunningham Flapp could find any place that appeared on the map. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who says he'll take care of the house while his wife's away and then puts the dishes
on the fire escape to be washed by the rain.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
Real Americans
Nov 22, [1918]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man has a long trail of glory in back of him. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The druggist who fills a bottle with plain water, puts a latin name on the label and sells it for $3.60…
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take a ride with the girl who joined the motor ambulance corps
and give her a chance to exercise her knowledge of machinery
Nov 19, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't know what's the matter with my hair lately…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know
a guy] "I knew something would happen to me if I took up window washing"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
Another German prediction that went wrong
Nov 15, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All hail the divine son of the all-highest emperor of the…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I know a guy] "Watch this linoleum-hound-he'll open your eyes"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies visit the training camp of one of the fighters who will take part
in the boxing bouts for the united war charities drive
Nov 12, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I'm champion, but I owe all my success to my little wife…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Slackers] The boxer who says he'll appear for charity, but who wants most of the charity himself.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
Maybe you don't know it, but the opera season opens soon
Nov 8, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This performer makes a peculiar gargling noise and gets $1,000 a night for it, while. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy] "What do you think, Al-I walked…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
You don't get time to read one extra before another comes out
Nov 6, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want you to deliver all of the newspaper editions to me as soon as they come out…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird on a street car who keeps a woman standing in front of him…
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 03
The ladies go shopping for phonograph records for the second…
Nov 5, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The bloom in her cheeks is fading, since the druggist moved away" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I know a guy] "I'm glad you came to see me, Ewald-I've had a pretty tough time of it"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
It's a pleasant walk into the boss' office to receive your Christmas check
Dec 20, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder how much the boss is going to give me for Christmas" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I know a guy] "Say, Jim, isn't this a peach of a car?"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
There's no reason why they should block the aisles while they're making up their minds
Dec 18, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see-shall I buy the maid a new shirtwaist or a smoking jacket" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The lady who takes up a lot of elevator space in department stores around Christmas time, and never
buys anything.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hold a special meeting to exchange ideas on how to approach their
husbands for expensive Christmas presents
Dec 17, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Change the subject, girls-my husband's coming" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a
guy] "Yes, Phil, I've made enough money to own three suits"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
It's all wrong, William, it's all wrong
Dec 14, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've earned the rank of ace with constant service on the fighting front for three years" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who goes away on a long vacation just before Christmas to escape giving
Christmas presents.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
"The Day"
Dec 13, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Private Jones, when you finish sweeeping out the barracks, put the horses to bed…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy] "My son sent me this German helmet"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
Speaking about peace tables
Dec 11, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the fourth time we've had bean soup this week" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I
know a guy] "I just shook hands with President Wilson-I must telegraph Jerry"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies accompany one of the club members to the dressmaker's for a fitting
Dec 10, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think it makes me look too stout" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who
gets away with a house full of shabby furniture by calling it antique.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes -- number thirty-nine
Dec 7, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Ivor Antonio Constantine Voe was always on hand with a friendly "hello". // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The gink who looks up a certain fact in the encyclopedia and then tries to win money betting on it the
next day.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
When our soldiers come home cupid's vacation will be over
Dec 4, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The first week he's back I want to go to four shows, six dances, five dinners and eight other
parties-I'll let him spend the rest of the time with his men friends. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird
who won't mix with any but the "best people", but who trims the cuffs on his only shirt with a scissors.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 04
Starting for the dentist is one thing, and getting there is another
Dec 6, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This tooth-ache is terrible-I can't stand it any longer-I simply have to go to the dentist"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy] "Gee, I feel great today-I've done something good for my fellow man"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Mike, here's a letter from the father of De Witt, our adopted child…"
Jan 9, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's a pretty classy name, Ike-he must be a millionaire, at least"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take the bridge whist fund and go shopping for an oriental rug
Jan 7, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It took 305 Turks sixty-one years to weave this genuine Boobestan rug…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [I know a guy] "Gee, I'm certainly going the pace"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
Life's little jokes -- number forty-three
Jan 4, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Little McTrevor McPickle McGinn was a wonder at playing the old violin. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who lets somebody else chase his hat when it blows off.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
The women will have to wear skates to get anywhere in their narrow skirts
Jan 3, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If I walk any slower I'll be going backwards" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The gink who stalls along all day and starts working at five o'clock so he can collect overtime.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
[Boobs abroad] "It was certainly very thoughtful of Lillian to put this old pen-wiper in my trunk"
[1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fourteen bells-I guess that means it is half past one in Calcutta"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies sign a New Year's pledge to stop knocking but forget about it
even before the ink is dry
Dec 31, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] We, the members of the Tuesday Ladies' Club… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy]
"Hello, Sam-I haven't seen you since Christmas…
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
Lifes' little jokes -- number forty-two
Dec 28, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] His strength was wonderful to see, they called him Cannonball McGee. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who gets the manicurist to polish his nails for nothing and then tries to make a date with
her.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
A few pages from the 1919 Peace Calendar
Dec 27, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] First good sleep since the war started. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know a guy] "They
certainly gave me a great reception when I came home"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The fattest lady in the club insists on decorating the Christmas tree and
the other members have an attack of heart failure
Dec 24, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't lose your patience, girls-I'll be through in four hours"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 05
Life's little jokes -- number forty-one
Dec 21, [1918]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Chief Boola Magool was a black Hottentot, he was born in a land where the weather was hot. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The bird who keeps postponing his Christmas shopping until he's sure ther ewill
be nothing left in the stores for him to buy.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: London looks the same at a glance-but not at two glances
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here I am in London for the first time since the war-it doesn't seem to have changed much"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: you can't check your trunk in England-you have to stick to it like a friend in need
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Which one is yours, sir?" When you get off the boat they hide your trunk in a pile of "luggage"
as high as the woolworth building and then dare you to find it.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: going through the danger zone off the Irish coast
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thirteen ships were sunk right on this very spot"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs Abroad in 1919: the worst part of it is you have to live on the same boat with them for over a week
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The exclusive gentleman with the long neck who is going to Europe on a mysterious mission-probably
to escape his tailor.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: we're strong for the freedom of the seas-especially in rough weather
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We must be up near the North Pole where the nights are six months long"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: getting started for Europe is harder on your character than running for office
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The intelligence department informs me that you were seen easting a frankfurter nine years ago"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: we get a bad start and disappoint the office force
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good-bye, old boy-I hate to see you go, but Europe's in trouble and she needs you"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
You can't try out a new pair of skates unless you let them touch the ice
Jan 18, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must try out these new skates that-" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I never thought of
that] "They've rung in seventeen alarms already-I'll be the first one at the fire"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
It's good she didn't want to exchange a grand piano
Jan 11, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This shirt is three sizes too large for little Tommy…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers]
The kid who wipes his pen on his stocking because he is too lazy to use a pen-wiper.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 06
Why waste time while waiting for central to get you your number?
Jan 10, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll try the first three bars of Beethoven's Moan in Q Sharp" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I know a guy] "How do you like my new moustache, Eric?"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
The morning after
Jan 1, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, that was the roughest party I was ever in!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I know
a guy] "Gee, Alex, I feel terrible today"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: We attend a prize fight and discover that our boys & the French have the same instincts
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The one language that French and American soldiers in Paris seem to understand. "Look, [crossed
out] he's got the big stiff groggy!"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Diagram showing route taken by an American in France who is trying to do the right thing
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Is asked for railroad ticket which he has given up on train by mistake.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] They've preserved everything Napolean had but the measles
ca. 1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Napolean's laundry bill-showing where he tore it in a rage because the purple spots had faded
out of his favorite shirt.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: A visit to the Casino de Paris convinces us that Paris deserves its reputation
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Que vos grande yeux plein de dou…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The easiest thing to discover in England is that you're wrong
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going to talk to some of these British soldiers and get a little inside dope on the English
point of view"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: It will be a shame when the English women war-workers go back to their regular clothes
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Even window-cleaning doesn't seem to be too strenuous for the ladies to tackle.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Just a few sidelights on London caught while passing through
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The captured German guns that line the parks don't seem to have any terrors for the English children.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: As soon as they hit Europe they think they have to start a little war of their own
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All the Americans stop here at the Hotel Savoy-I'll sit here and meet…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 07
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The Londoners say they miss the air raids now-they were so entertaining
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hate to spoil this dapper waistcoat I just bought in Piccadilly for three pounds…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: With a little patience you can find plenty of battlefield souvenirs in the Parisian barber
shops
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Gaston le Fromage, a private in the French army, returnes to Paris and has his whiskers trimmed…
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: We spend the night in a beautiful French chateau that was the headquarters of a German
general
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I get home I'm going to look up the man who makes French chateaus look so comfortable and
luxurious in the movies"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The German Crown Prince had as many dugouts as a herring has bones
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mac, this auto trip over the different battle fronts will give us a good idea of how dugouts
were used"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Our modesty prevents us from saying any more about our war trophies-read for yourself
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Boche officer's helmet, captured from an American doughboy after a fierce battle of words…
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: You must see German prisoners to realize what we missed when we put the Kaiser out of
business
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The German high command no doubt had this beautiful gentleman slated for the job of Emperor of
Manhattan, the Bronx and Yonkers.
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The souvenir hounds are already picking up everything on the battlefields but the shell-holes
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, I found the crown prince's hat!"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: They may make the world safe for democracy but they'll never rewind all the barbed-wire
in France
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Luke, it looks as though our fund of $627.40 isn't quite enough"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Everybody in Paris looks like a delegate to the Peace Conference
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That surely must be one of the delegates to the peace conference…"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The American doughboys are now experiencing their hardest fighting in the "Battle of
Paris"
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The part that makes me sore is that he can't understand the names I'm calling him"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 08
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The striking picture of the rack outside the conference room containing the hats and
coats of the biggest men of all nations…
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 09
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The whole American population of Europe tries to get on every boat sailing for home
Mar 13, 1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I landed in France I kicked at the inconvenience-now that I'm headed for home every wallop
is a joke"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 09
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: After the boys have been away a year or so they forget how big the United States is
Mar 12, 1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I start for home tomorrow-I'll say good-bye to some of the soldiers I met over here in
France"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 09
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: It's hard to break into Paris; but it's almost impossible to get out
Mar 11, 1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think the cloth in his overcoat was made by a Bolshevist"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 09
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: To see Paris you have to fight your way through a jungle of whiskers
1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't know the French had captured the black forest from the Germans"
volume 1964.047 v.08--ffALB, folder 09
[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: I didn't discern what was the matter with these pictures until after I drew them
Mar 10, 1919
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Dear Reader:- I actually sketched these important-looking gentlemen from life at the Quai D'Orsay…
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Picking out a gown for your wife in Paris isn't such a big job if your wife isn't along
Mar 7, 1919
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Somehow or other I can't keep my mind on the gown"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: A man can go broke in Europe without spending a nickel
Mar 6, 1919
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got $100 with me that I'll keep in case of emergency…"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: A soldier with a message always stops off in Paris whether Paris is on the way or not
Mar 5, 1919
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Lieutenant, take this important order to General Jones by the most direct road to his camp"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: This interview with the Kaiser may or may not be authentic-use your own judgement
1919
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just tell the people of the United States that I am taking a much-needed rest…"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Honest, the word "cootie" is mentioned in the best French society
1919
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "One of the hotel guests says his year is up and he wants to take a bath"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hold a special meeting to discuss the League of Nations
Mar 25, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "If the United States joins the League of Nations does that meant that…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] This is certainly tough luck-the gang decided to force the guy with the smoked glasses to tell…
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The new shivering jazz dances were'nt invented; they just happened
Mar 24, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Without music, too! Gee, that guy has talent" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Just look at
this bird! He never bows to anybody, never says "hello" and never removes his smoked glasses…
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Banquets can still be happy occasions in spite of prohibition and empty glasses
Mar 22, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor Joe has his annual load" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Well, well well! Here's that
same bird we saw yesterday-the man with the smoked glasses! Look, he stopped…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "For the life of me I can't see how you can sit in a stuffy room playing poker when there
are so many good books to read"
Mar 21, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't claim to be smart but I've got enough sense to know what's good for me…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Here he is again! He must be smart because he never says anything…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Yes, women are the cause of all the trouble in the world"
Mar 20, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Six of my best friends went to the dogs on account of women…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
The man of mystery-the guy with the smoked glasses! Who is he? Where is he going? Nobody knows!
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The torch in the hand of the Statue of Liberty is the girl you left behind
Mar 19, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The six months salary I've got coming will buy four thousand, six hundred and forty-seven ice
creams"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Sailing west you gain time but lose money
Mar 18, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, remember, boys, we quit promptly at twelve o'clock"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: No matter how hard you try, you can't look stylish in a life-preserver
Mar 17, 1919
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't let the boat sink yet-I haven't finished my book"
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: Every soldier just naturally becomes an orator or an author
Mar 15, 1919
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fellow members of the sunshine club:- this tremendous ovation is a complete surprise to me…
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[Boobs abroad] The only man you don't want to meet when you get back to America…
ca. 1919
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Take this declaration blank and put down all the articles you are taking into the United States…"
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Ball players are now training for another hard season
Apr 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must practice bowing so I'll be limbered up for the big reception I'll get at the opening
game" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The mysterious man-believe me, this guy with the smoked glasses…
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] For the first time in the history of the club the ladies can't talk…
Apr 8, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll take those boys home with me and pay 'em to play by the year" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Who is he?] Look! The mysterious man with the smoked glasses must have something pretty serious on his mind…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Yes, Fred, my little baby is a wonser-he's almost too smart for his years"
Apr 7, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "So you're one of those poor nuts that's always talking about his wonderful kid!" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] Look! A terrific storm doesn't bother the strange man with the smoked glasses…
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[Boobs abroad] Boobs abroad in 1919: The world's greatest men don't seem to take themselves as seriously as some of our small
politicians
ca. 1919
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] There is nothing about the peaceful, fatherly features of Marshal Foch to mark him as the stern
oganizer of the great allied victory.
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The only way to handle the man who always forgets to close the door
Apr 4, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, come here with your broom-there'll be something for you to sweep out in a minute" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Take a good look at the guy with the smoked glasses today-notice how his coat bulges out in the back…"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "You'll never catch me wiggling all over the place like a lunatic-dancing is terrible"
Apr 3, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "How can anybody waste time flying around the room all doubled up like a pretzel?" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] Help, help! The guy with the smoked glasses is driving us nutty! Here he is walking…"
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It's different when a man talks to you about something you can understand
Apr 2, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, let's look the League of Nations square in the face…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
The mystery of mysteries! Here's the guy with the smoked glasses…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Just think of a grown man walking around all day pushing a little ball…"
Mar 29, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here, take this club and try to hit the ball just for fun" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
There's the guy with the smoked glasses in a telephone booth…
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Every investigation is something like a doughnut -- there's no end to it
Mar 28, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This investigation will spare no one from the president of the company down" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] The man of mystery keeps pulling a new one on us every day…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I have a couple of tickets for a very exclusive exhibition of classical dancing…"
Mar 27, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Fine, let's go. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] Gee, there he is again-the guy with the smoked
glasses…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I buy my paints wholesale so I can afford to throw them all over the canvas…"
Apr 30, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, mister de cash, this is my masterpiece…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?]
Isn't this one a terrible goat-getter? Here's the guy with the smoked glasses…
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the ladies is going away on a long trip and the other members come
in to help her pack
Apr 29, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If I waited for them to pack my trunk I'd be so old I'd have to travel with three…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] Here's a clue to the mysterious guy with the smoked glasses…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I don't see how anybody can fall for this fortune-telling stuff-there's no sense to it"
Apr 28, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's the good of knowing what's going to happen twenty years from now…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Who is he?] Look, Julius! The guy with the smoked glasses doesn't pay any attention…
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Golf is a great game if you start playing before you're a hundred
Apr 26, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "In a few years when I can afford to take off a little time I'm going to take up golf" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The mysterious man-why does the guy with the smoked glasses think of such foolish ways to
move…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "There's a poor boob who wastes all his time trying to save the one hair he has left on his
head"
Apr 25, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at all those nuts-I can't understand how they can be interested in that stuff" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The mysterious man-here's the guy with the smoked glasses holding down an important job…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "This chair is a genuine antique-it belonged to the Egyptian king, Bazookus…
Apr 23, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just think of all the history in back of that chair-I'll take it" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-nobody invited the guy with the smoked glasses to sit on the platform…
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take an all-night trip on a pullman to visit the Wednesday ladies'
club of Orange Peel City
Apr 22, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, porter, tell the engineer to go up a side street-there's a man looking in my window" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-well, well, well, this is significant! The guy with…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "There goes old man Greenback in his $5000 automobile-he thinks of nobody but himself"
Apr 21, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's another millionaire in his limousine-money could never change me like that" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-everybody in town slips on a banana peel…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Mister Bump, here are some letters for you to sign"
Apr 19, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "All right, Miss Keyboard" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-the
guy with the smoked glasses won't even take off his hat…
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A conversation between two boys from the same town is certainly very exciting
Apr 18, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "So you're from my home town-do you remember Eddie Glucose?"" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Who is he?] The man of mystery-ah, a clue! The guy with the smoked glasses is carrying a peculiar-looking bundle…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "These fellows that always get their pictures in the paper make me sick"
Apr 17, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's another picture of senator Gasbag-I can't stand people…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Who is he?] The man of mystery-the guy with the smoked glasses goes everywhere, is always in a hurry…
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies entertain Theda Glaum, the famous movie vampire & try to find
the secret of her great power over men
Apr 15, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have a staff of experts always traveling around the world just to select my perfumes" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-the guy with the smoked glasses! Look, look! Think of a dignified gentleman
stealing a ride on the back…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "It now gives me great pleasure to announce the prime minister of Hydrophobia, Sanislaus J.
Itchovitch"
Apr 14, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] The man of mystery-now what is he up to? The guy with the smoked glasses is the
only civilian in the home-coming parade…
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[No brains, no brains!] "I want to check this suitcase while I go and get my lunch"
Nov 28, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'll have to check that umbrella separately-we charge ten cents for each article"
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[No brains, no brains!] "I can let you have an overcoat for $75-that gives me a profit of only 50 cents"
Dec 5, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "$75 for an overcoat is outrageous-what's the world coming to?"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "It makes me sore to see men sitting down in street cars and letting the women stand up"
Dec 8, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The gentlemanly spirit of the old days is gone-we are a nation of rough-necks…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The first morning out on their bargain-priced tour of the country…"
Dec 9, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's my cold cream-my initials are on the jar"
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[No brains, no brains!] "Gee, this is lucky! I just got a letter and the stamp isn't cancelled…"
Dec 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A little water will loosen up the stamp and it will be as good as new"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "It makes me laugh to see those poor boobs all bundled up…"
Dec 15, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wouldn't wear any clothes at all if I weren't afraid of getting arrested"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Christmas is certainly a nuisance-I don't believe in it and I pity everybody who does"
Dec 22, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Your friends give you things you don't want and you give your friends things they don't want"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The members of the touring party find themselves away from home around Christmas
and begin…
Dec 23, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The man in the next room sent me in to find out who was being murdered"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…
Dec 24, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't care how far you live, Miss Cookie-with you beside me, every click of the taximeter
is music to my ears"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Merry Christmas!
Dec 25, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Merry Christmas!"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I had this desk made to order-it cost me $760.75-the wood was imported direct from Hindustan"
Oct 30, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at that rug-it's a genuine abbadabba rug…"
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[No brains, no brains!] "This car uses less gasoline than any car on the market…"
Oct 30, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't think I could afford a car-but, if that's the case, I'll take it"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Say, you Fathead, would you please stop powdering your nose long enough to get me my number!"
Nov 3, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Give the poor girl a chance-she's only human"
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[No brains, no brains!] "These tortoise shell rims don't fit over my ears…"
Nov 5, 1919
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Papa, he said he'll have to charge $1.50 to fit the rims to your ears"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I'm just putting on my coat now, dear-I'll be home in twenty minutes…"
Nov 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think of what the batchelors are missing when I rush home to my little family…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hold an election of officers by secret ballot-but, as usual, they
are all unable to keep the secret
Nov 11, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't breathe a word to anybody-but I'm going to vote…"
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[No brains, no brains!] "The price of babies' clothes is a fright these days…"
Nov 21, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It isn't what anyone would call stylish-but we must practice economy"
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Life's little jokes -- number 580,294
Nov 22, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] James Montmorency Van Shrewsberry Brown, belonged to the very best people in town.
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[No brains, no brains!] "Hey!"
Nov 26, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll get that apple back if I have to run all the way over to Mexico"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Light travels at the rate of 300,000 miles a second and…"
Nov 27, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The planet Mars moves two inches closer to the Earth every year-so it stands to reason that…"
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Life's little jokes -- number sixty-eight
Sept 27, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Doctor, my toe hurts" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Don't you know it's dangerous
to give a baby a hat pin to play with?"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "People seem to spend all of their time these days arguing about the labor question"
Oct 13, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The working-man should share the profits" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "How
much do you want to caddy for me?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies spend an enjoyable afternoon at a football game although they
don't pay any attention to the game
Oct 14, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A cllege education is wonderful-I don't know whether to send my son to Yale or Princeton…" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I work like a dog all day and you blow in my money on a new fur piece!"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…the word "unbreakable" is not in baby's dictionary
Oct 15, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "See-this doll is absolutely unbreakable"
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Life's little jokes -- number seventy-one
Oct 18, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The shoes that Prunella La Buttercup wore were the smallest and tightest they had in the store.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "The dinner will spoil if it cooks a minute too long"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "Gee, Eric, you look foolish pushing one of those things"
Oct 20, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Jasper-since when did you become a nurse girl?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No
brains] "I wouldn't pay 50¢ for a chain-it's a waste of money"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There's John Softsoap, who is running for congress-he loves all the children in the neighborhood"
Oct 23, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, he's liberal-see all the cigars he's giving away" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No
brains] "It looks like rain-but I'll lose fifteen minutes if I take the clothes in and it doesn't rain"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…you can't blame him for wanting an education
Oct 24, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Run down to the delicatessen store on chowder avenue and get me ten cents' worth of pickles
right away-I'm in a hurry" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "We're spending too much-we must cut down our grocery
and butcher bills"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Professor Ivor Ivoryoofsky, the Russian pianist, plays his beautiful intermezzo
for the ladies…
Oct 27. [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I certainly appreciate good music, especially when the saxophone player shakes his shoulders"
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[No brains, no brains!] "Dear, I need a new fur piece-I know you can't afford to pay much…"
Oct 29, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let me think-I'll see Joe Applesauce"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I never had one of those birds tell my fortune-I think I'll take a chance and see what it's
all about"
Aug 28, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You are now passing through a great crisis in your life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "Why spend $50 for a self starter when you've got a crank on the car"
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High cost of living is giving romance an awful jolt
Aug 29, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Accept these flowers as a token of my love-will you marry me?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "I didn't have time to buy a new pair of socks today…"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Automobiles are like babies: They're always the best
Sept 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you ever have any trouble with your car?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"That's robbery-I'll take my own picture"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…A simple little golf story
Sept 12, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Two snappy, young golfers got sore because three slow, fat, old ladies ahead of them held them
up. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "There's a street car strike-how much do you want to take me to work?"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes -- number sixty-five
Sept 13, [1919]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] In the days of our fathers when goodness was prized, an egg… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "I have to raise the rent on your shoe store"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
[They all flop sooner or later] "I'm eighty-seven years old and I'm still single-I'm way past the dangerous age…"
Sept 15, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're safe" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "The idea! The man wanted a dollar
and a half to clean my rug…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies engage an expert student of political economy…
Sept 16, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "For example, take the price of prunes-it is a well-known fact in the history of Rome…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "The fly will spoil that milk if I don't kill him right away"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Professional strikes may lead to slight embarassments
Sept 19, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The condemned man in number 13 refuses to go to the electric chair…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Will you give a dollar to the fund to help the starving orphans?"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes… number xixty-six
Sept 20, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Pecksniff Balthazar Pajama McSwede read all of the volumes on "how to succeed". // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Toby, will you pick up my bag?"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 04
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Speaker for the League of Nations gets a rousing reception"
Sept 25, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Speaker against the League of Nations gets a rousing reception" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "I won't waste money on candy-I'll tell her I'm saving up for our household expenses…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Yes, modern dentistry has improved wonderfully"
Aug 14, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You wouldn't believe that a modern dentist needs more tools…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "My horn is out of order but it's too much trouble to have it fixed"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Did you ever hear one of those after-vacation camera monologues?
Aug 15, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This one was taken on the road to Ham-and-egg Gulch-that's me behind the cow" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Gee, I slipped and busted the $1000 lamp"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes… number sixty-one
Aug 16, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man had a name that sounded like this-de Rutherford Vernon Van Stuyvesant Bliss. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I'll teach the kid how to walk and keep him from wearing out his stockings crawling"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[They all flop sooner or later] "Is Mrs. Eggplant home?"
Aug 18, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No ma'am-she's out playing bridge" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I've got
a small cavity in my tooth and the dentist wants $5 to fix it…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The police department sends up a detective to solve the mystery of a burglary
that…
Aug 19, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "At last I've got a chance to have hysterics-wow!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Why should I break my back rowing for an hour when I can make the same distance in this motor boat in 15 minutes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The pictures are not the only things that move in a movie
Aug 20, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah, here's a nice aisle seat" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "When a man gets
married he's a slave-you'll never catch me tagging after a woman-I'm glad I'm single"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Experts give opinions to help remedy high cost of living
Aug 22, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mooch McCheesey, the well-known explorer, says… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Gentlemen, we are now passing through a very critical period"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes… number sixty-two
Aug 23, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Angus Petruchio Silas McDuff of whiskey and gin couldn't get quite enough. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Andrew, I'm all upset-you're two minutes late for dinner…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[They all flop sooner or later] "Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Toastmaster, fellow members…"
Aug 25, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't see how men can make such fools of themselves" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No
brains] "I'll put a lock on your door for $5"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Two of the ladies, caught in the great wave of social unrest, go on strike
and do picket duty…
Aug 26, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you're a union ice cream boy, don't take the ice cream in there…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "I haven't time to buy a catcher's mask-I don't want to miss any playing"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[They all flop sooner or later] "I'll get a bathing suit and go to the seashore-maybe I can land a husband"
July 28, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All the stylish bathing girls are wearing socks this year" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "I'll save ten cents on a dozen eggs if I walk ten miles out here to the farm"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] All the members who own cars take part in an endurance contest for a prize
of a pearl-handled egg-beater with a sausage-slicing attachment
July 29, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I thought I'd carry along a horse in case of emergency" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No
brains] "I don't see why I should spend $3.40 for a pane of glass when the house doesn't belong to me"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The English language is getting to be more of a puzzle every day
July 30, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Papa, I don't want to study big words" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "If I
pack in a hurry I can catch an earlier train and save ten minutes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number fifty-nine
Aug 2, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Philip O'Googus Tekumseh Pizette was crazy 'bout every young child that he met. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Boss, I can't live on $25 a week-I need thirty"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Wanted: a traffic law to regulate umbrellas
Aug 6, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wouldn't mind missing my train if I only had some way of finding out…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Give me this machine for teaching the baby how to walk-it doesn't have to be strong…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[But it doesn't mean anything] No, we have not gone out of business! We are still serving drinks…
Aug 7, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, I need a bracer" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I haven't time to walk
around the creek-I'll save a minute by jumping across"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The big question is: has the war made the world any better?
Aug 8, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hey, why are you killing yourself?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "My music
teacher told me to practice an hour-I'll only practice half an hour…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number sixty
Aug 9, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Young Billingsgate Bozo Porkopolis Flounds drew plans of fine houses with beautiful grounds.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "You don't catch me paying a dollar to have my white trousers cleaned"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[They all flop sooner or later] "Wherever I go I hear that awful ragtime music"
Aug 11, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Does she make everybody stare-I'll say she does" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Joe, will you come to a concert with me? I've got two $10 tickets"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 06
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the members moves into a new apartment and invites the ladies around
to give her a few friendly suggestions about the arrangement of the furniture
Aug 11, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This would be a lovely apartment if you had the floor lowered and the ceiling raised…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I want to buy a wallet to keep from losing my important papers"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies go in for community singing but, unfortunately, forget to close
the windows
July 8, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's another Armenian massacre" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I'm making big
money now and I'll retire when I'm sixty"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Doctor, I don't feel well-I want you to tell me what is the matter with me"
July 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Certainly-your tongue is slightly coated with a film…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No
brains] "Henry, the maid wants a raise-but if we make her work…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies invite their husbands around to meet the new member and then wonder
why they could have been so foolish
July 15, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What are you doing Monday?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Victor, I don't
want you to bring any of your friends home to dinner-they're too low-brow"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…It's easy to meet summer girls if you only know how
July 18, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Didn't I meet you over in Paris nine years ago?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"My son, don't you know it's wrong to play baseball on Sunday?"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number fifty-six
July 19, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Henry McGluke married Annie de Plank… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "It would
cost me $200 to put a fire escape on my building-that's too much money"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[They all flop sooner or later] "Did you see Mabel's new dress? It's terrible"
July 21, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nothing looks well on her" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I wouldn't pay $1.60
for a book-I'll read the story in the magazine"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hold a debate on the question, "is it proper for a woman to pay
more attention to her dog than her husband"
July 22, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's right-no member is to be interrupted while she is speaking" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [No brains] "A man my age must be dignified to command respect"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
[But it doesn't mean anything] "I always envy these fellows that get all tanned up during the summer…"
July 24, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The sun is killing me-but I must have something to show when I get back from my vacation" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "No one would ever catch me paying $100 for a watch"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Prohibition develops a new method for making after-dinner speeches bearable
July 25, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Toastmaster and members of the insect powder manufacturers association…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I save $34.67 on a dress when I make it myself"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 07
Life's little jokes…number fifty-eight
July 26, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Brutus Van Tassel Lafcadio Bish was raised in the water-he swam like a fish. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "There's a speck of dust on this plate-I'm afraid of germs"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Sometimes your vac[a]tion is over before you even take it
June 25, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Henry, your two weeks' vacation starts today" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Why should I pay $5 for a guide when I can find the way by myself"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Say, Hank, you're an authority on boxing-give me some inside dope on the…"
June 26, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's how it looks to me as an expert…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Lionel,
we'll land in the poor house if you keep on burning so much gas"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Life's little jokes -- number fifty-two
June 28, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Andre McZack was on time when a kid… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I want to
teach myself how to use the typewriter but $50 is too much to spend for a machine"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The funeral of Henry M Booze
June 30, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor Booze-he died of a broken heart" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] This man
never had any trouble walking past a saloon.
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take all the neighborhood children out into the country to give
them a chance to appreciate the beauties of nature
July 1, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's fine for the little ones to get away from the turmoil of the city" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Say, this is a fine way to get a shirt back from the laundry! There's a little speck of dust on it"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Exclusive opinions on the big fight by well-known unknowns
July 2, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Abner Doze, night-watchman at Willard's camp… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"There's my little boy talking to that tough Jones kid"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Toledo doesn't know itself since Willard and Dempsey took possession
July 3, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Willard's left jab will bother Dempsey" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "What
do you think I am, a millionaire? You overcharged me a nickel"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Closeup of a hotel room in Toledo the night before the big heavyweight battle
July 4, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got six men on my neck and I'm supposed to accommodate only four" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Romulus, didn't I tell you never to touch fire-crackers! They're too dangerous"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
"I don't see how anybody can deliberately go to see two fellows smash each other into a jelly"
July 5, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Prize fighting is the greatest evil of modern civilization-I'll devote the rest of my life to
have it abolished" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I'd like to see the big fight but I can't even afford a
$10 ticket"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 08
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Life is nothing but a succession of wheels
July 9, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Your start life on wheels. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "No, Jim, I'm too busy
to see you now-I haven't a minute to spare…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[But it doesn't mean anything] Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Anyone would think it was an honor to have your rent increased
June 11, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't it terrible! My rent was raised $15 a month!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"I can't see very well but I don't believe in paying so much to look after my eyes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[But it doesn't mean anything] "I have your contract all drawn up according to law-shall I read it to you?"
June 12, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I like everything simple-I'm very anxious to know…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "Henry, the man wants $8.50 to fix the electric light"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Fussy golfers should hire a dozen caddies when they drive off the tee
June 13, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I brought along all the rules that were made since 1706" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "I certainly feel envious every time I see a happily married couple"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number fifty
June 14, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Caleb Phyzullo Oriferous Mooks was a child who spent all of his time with his books. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Olga, I'll have to fire you if you don't stop being so wasteful"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The "spruce-up" campaign is the latest to come into our campaign-burdened lives
June 18, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The managers of the "spruce-up" campaign want us to keep the soldiers busy… "Major, the cat is
hungry" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Mamma, can I go in swimmin'?"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Say, waiter, I'm as hungry as a wolf-read me the bill-of-fare-I want to order a good…"
June 19, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We have crab flakes a la Suzette, President Wilson soup…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[No brains] "Hello, is this the shoe store? Send me up a cheap pair of shoes…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Glory is like ice cream -- it melts quickly
June 20, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There goes a man who captured three German machine guns, killed 46 Germans, took 88 prisoners…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Driver, wait here-I want to go in and buy a collar"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number fifty-one
June 21, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Romulus Radish, when only a child, about moving pictures was perfectly wild. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "This $100 bond pays me $4 a year and I'm afraid I'll lose it"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[They all flop sooner or later] "I'm broken-hearted-I've been dieting for a month and I've only lost a pound"
June 23, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You make me sick-always worrying about your weight" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"I have a terrible pain in my shoulder…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The club has three knitted sweaters left over from the war and offers them
as prizes in the annual tennis tournament held for members only
June 24, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't care much for the crowd at this resort. But the air is good for my dog" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I'm in a hurry-I'll take a short cut through the trees and save ten minutes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…If you want to hold your girl don't compete with a restaurant orchestra
May 28, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, your hat is very becoming-you look prettier than ever tonight…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "I haven't the time to take lessons-I'll go right out on the links and learn the game by myself"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The baby carriage problem in elevator apartments
May 29, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Giving little Alec an airing. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "The rents in the
city are terrible-I'll move to the country and save $20 a month"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The main thing is how many bottles the apartment will hold
May 16, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The main part of the apartment is equipped for storing bottles to prepare for prohibition…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Dear, we're paying too much rent-we ought to move and economize"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
[But it doesn't mean anything] "My wife has the biggest piece of jewelry in this town-it contains eighty-seven diamonds…"
May 30, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It took 17 jewelers to make it and it cost me…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Dear, I think we ought to have the telephone taken out-our expenses are too heavy"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number forty-eight
May 31, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Zeno Lazarre Abercrombie McCain was a leisurely sort of society man. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "I can't paint your house for less than $214"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
[They all flop sooner or later] "I can't imagine how a sensible man can war one of those things"
June 2, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at that poor simp with a wrist-watch…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I
want to buy a shirt waist for my wife but I can't afford it"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The secretary reads her annual report giving all the vital statistics on
the financial condition of the club
June 3, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "On January seventh I laid out thirty cents out of my own money…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [No brains] "Mister efficiency expert, look over my books-your salary is $100 a week"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 10
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…You can figure out that you're your own grandfather
June 4, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, this is your cousin Lester speaking-I'm coming right over to see you" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Yes, this tie only cost me twenty-five cents"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I don't see how people can leave a nice comfortable home in the summer to go to some foolish,
out-of-the way place in the country"
June 9, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As far as nature is concerned, a sensible person ought to be satisfied with this" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "Nurse, I want to cut down expenses so I'll have to fire you-I'll take care of the baby myself"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The members of the club go to an amusement park to forget the serious problems
with which they have been struggling during the past season
June 10, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going to resign from the club-the members are getting too frivolous" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "I know when my system is out of order-I guess I eat too many meals"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 11
[They all flop sooner or later] "Look at that poor nut looking up in the air-I'll be he doesn't know what he's looking at"
May 12, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every time some poor boobs hear a noise they think it must be an aeroplane" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The guy with the smoked glasses] "Like all mysteries, there's no mystery to me at all…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies stop at Softdome's hat store on the way to the club to help one
of the members select a straw hat for her husband
May 13, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My maid left me yesterday" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I've been going out
too much lately and losing a lot of valuable sleep"
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It's about time she bought some new music?
May 14, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll set fire to the house and help her get rid of some of the music that's been here
for 66 years" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I have to economize-I'll start right away"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I won the first prize for the best spring poem written for the society of poetical uplift"
May 15, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'd love to hear it" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "You don't catch me wasting
my money in these expensive cafes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 11
Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes, number forty-six
May 17, [1919]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Willis Cardoza Van Wellington Peel, rode all over town in his automobile. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "That's outrageous-$30 for a beaded bag!"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I can't understand why it is that men who are supposed to have some sense seem…"
May 19, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "To lose their minds completely when they buy their straw hats for the summer" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "These new cars are too expensive-I'll save money and buy a second hand car"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 11
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Silas K Fishbone, one of the directors of the aquarium, addresses the ladies
on a very vital subject
May 20, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I am glad to have the opportunity to tell you public-spirited ladies…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "Look, dear-little Julius needs a pair of shoes"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 11
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…A lonely bench in the park doesn't remain lonely very long
May 21, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No one else knows about that bench" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "I can't
shave myself today-I only have ten minutes to spare"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I guess I'm the only man in this country that's not crazy about jazz"
May 26, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't see how anybody can sit on a hard bench all afternoon watching…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [No brains] "My clothes look pretty shabby but I'm saving my money"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the ladies tries to smok a cigarette-after two puggs she takes sick
and breaks up the meeting in a storm of confusion and protest
May 27, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gertie, run for a doctor-and stop on the way back…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains]
"Yes, mother, you're right-I'm glad that low necks and short skirts…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 12
Life's little jokes -- number forty-three
May 1, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Angus Lluellyn Enrico McFee was always as tight as the bark on a tree. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Who is he?] The mysterious man-the guy with the smoked glasses has been examining this spot for two hours…
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 12
Returning him to his mother with thanks
May 2, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [Soldier being lifted in palm of hand] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is he?] My goodness!
The guy with the smoked glasses buys a $10,000 victory bond…
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I don't see how people can waste their time at the movies"
May 3, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at the crowds going into that movie house…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Who is
he?] The man of mystery-the guy with the smoked glasses certainly can't be a United States senator…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 12
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies accompany one of the members to the country to help her select
a cottage for the summer
May 6, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of course, I have to raise the price this year because so many people from the city…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [The guy with the smoked glasses] The man of mystery-now there's no doubt of it-the guy with the smoked
glasses has got something under his hat…"
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 12
[They all flop sooner or later] "There goes another poor boob out on a foolish picnic with his whole family"
May 7, [1919]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at that poor nut carrying a lot of lunch boxes-I'm sorry for him" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The guy with the smoked glasses] The man of mystery! One of our readers suggests that the silent guy with the
glasses is none other than Phillup Space, himself-that can't be-see how empty this looks!
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Her prayer of thanks
May 9, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] wives mothers sweethearts. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [The guy with the smoked glasses]
The man of mystery-see him sitting out here alone in the moonlight buried in deep meditation!
volume 1964.047 v.09--ffALB, folder 12
Life's little jokes -- number forty-two
May 10, [1919]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Ezekial Otto Mazoola McHaze could walk at the age of 8 months and 4 days. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The guy with the smoked glasses] Look! Look! The great mystery is about to be solved! The guy with the smoked
glasses has taken off his hat!
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
It's all wrong, Claude, it's all wrong
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll do sixteen hours work every day so I can retire from business when I'm forty years old
instead of waiting till I'm eighty" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Fifty-fifty] Truck horse, society horse: "Pretty soft
for that society horse with nothing to do but grow fat"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
[Man in lifeboat]
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
"Shall I call up a surgeon and tell him to amputate a white chip from your stack?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The fellow that always forgets to ante.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
Never count your chickens before the boat sails
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, is this the office of the white star line? I want to reserve passage for two on the Olympic
which sails today"
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[six panels of man wearing hat with numbers below]
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
[Sweep out the padded cell] Dowie, sweep out padded cell 4963
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'd command more respect from my business associates if I raised a mustache"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
This picture ends sadly, but we have to stick to the truth
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Their great love was the only thing that really counted in their lives, so they got married.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
They'll be wearing calendars and thermometers
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] That's quite an idea for the city to put clocks on the lamp-posts-now I'll know when it's time
to take my pills.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 01
Hints to political candidates
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I have that picture published I'll have to think up a good name for the town where I didn't
live"
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[Father was right] "Monday I play pinochle, Tuesday I go to the lodge, Wednesday I go to the movies and Saturday I attend
a lotto party"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor dad is afraid to trust anything to his memory"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
Chasing the blues
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The grouch hawk.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
"An artist must have sent this letter -- all artists are careless"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's an awful lot of ink to waste during these war times"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
[What are you kicking about?] Think of this poor bug who imagines his wife's mother has come to spend the rest of her life
with him!
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
Something very important for you, sir
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
Chasing the blues
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [Man on horse with giant ink pen]
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
"It's a boy!"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "They all look good when they're far away" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Giving the baby his bottle?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
All men are created free & equal
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "In twenty-six hours, forty-seven minutes and three seconds…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
A few redeeming features about your new overcoat
[ca. 1905-1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If your new overcoat fits like this around the neck you should feel consoled by the fact that
you…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 02
It's all wrong, Von Kluck, it's all wrong!
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I just inherited $100,000 and I'm going to devote all my time to travel…"
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[This all comes under the heading of pleasure] "The king of England has nothing on me-my rent is paid…"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every night, every night-see them bite…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Hurry men-I see smoke down in the valley-we're no the only human beings here"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Looks like two tramps-how did they ever get down there?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Here's your check boss-hope you liked your meal-don't forget me-I'm Ike"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here Ike, buy yourself a hat"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Injun Bringum far nuf-you ketchum train go home-uh!"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee Ike we'll have to ride the box cars to get home"
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[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I'll get this job Mike. Maybe you can get another one"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All right Ike"
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[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Now that we have this waiters job Ike, maybe we can make enough for carfare home"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One onion cutlet in a hurry-I'm Ike"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
You take a guest home to the country for the weekend because you know it won't be any trouble or expense
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He uses the only good safety razor blade you've got-
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[A man in black vest and pants with a short bearded man]
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
Here's something to keep you busy this evening
Fri April 1 [ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Cut out the numbered designs, insert them in the spaces bearing the corresponding numbers… //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Hello, Rube, are you drawing foolish questions again?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
The man who said "Time is money" knew what he was talking about
Wed Jan 16 [ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, is this Broadfoot and Co.? -I'm coming downtown for a pair of shoes" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [The Boob family] "You see, I'm Boob-just plain Boob-I think I'm the boss because I wear the trousers and do the
carving but-"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 03
Another one of life's little jokes
Mon Jan. 21 [ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jerry McNutt said, "When I fall, I'll marry a beauty slim and tall" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [I never thought of that] "My umbrella has been swiped again"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 04
Awful dream of the man who has just bought an automobile
Aug. 16 [ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He went past a trolley without apologizing to the conductor" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I never thought of that] "Every time I put this book down, I lose my place"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 04
Different varieties of handshakes
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The guy who keeps shaking your hand the whole time he talks to you… "And how is the wife and
Aunt Emily and Little Otto and…?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 04
"Hey, if you're not going to operate, the least you can do is come over here where I can hear what you're saying"
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 04
Gymnasium work is strenuous even if you only think about it
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's join a gymnasium class and reduce-I'll meet you there at nine tomorrow morning"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 04
How he expressed his views to the family regarding the Thanksgiving turkey
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, do you think I'm John D. Rockefeller? Is ther any law that says you've got…"
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[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Look out Mike, you'll get sick. That's the fourth hat full you drank."
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look Ike, there's a sign-maybe we'll find out here how to get home"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
First shots on the world's series firing line
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I saw him whispering to Rube Marquard last night"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
"I'd prefer this, one brick at a time"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] At the end of the fourth, Murphy thought somebody hit him with a Harlem apartment house.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
If the contest were to be decided on the merits of beauty, either one could substitute a dog and win
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Will Kid Broad get scared and run when he is confronted with something homelier than himself?
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mme Phoneyiska, the noted medium, gives the ladies a glimpse into the great
unknown for a dollar a throw
Tues Aug [ca. 1915-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hear a strange voice out of the dim and distant past telling me that…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Slackers] The fellow who always says he has the change and then lets his friend get on the pay-as-you-enter car
first.
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"Say, Pa, those three radishes we ate last night can't keep us alive forever"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Society item: -old man Neil and his son Frankie will not entertain much this winter.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
"Hitting the trail"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Baseball tabernacle.
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"Matty's arm looks great"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Many who got there early showed good judgement in bringing along a complete set of food.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 05
Maybe the six-day riders are doing it to keep their minds off the war
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The French riders are constantly in danger from German spies.
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The traffic cop poses as the statue of hard luck
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Astor cup race.
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The mattress hat -- designed to give aviators an easy landing
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good morning gentlemen-what's your hurry?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Are you an aviator?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
[This all comes under the heading of pleasure] "Say, guide, I'm here on a pleasure trip so I don't want you to let me overlook
anything"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Asurance asurance"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
It is just as necessary to be an acrobat as to know how to…
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Tell the porter to wake me up when we pass south bend-the mayor owes me a dime"
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England Ireland Russia China Turkey and then some
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
Goldberg sees Brooklyn lose in opening game of world's series
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A few of the 37 poses Marquard took every time he threw the ball.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
Mr. Burns, you are a coward, a four-flusher, a ringer and a flabbergasted…
[1908]??
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Dear Tommy: -I just fell off a train and fractured…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
"If you give me my raise, I'll let you kiss me, George"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] She might use the affectionate gag on the mayor…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
"We had a run for ours, anyway"
[1908]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Young Corbett and Kid Broad have the laugh on the poor mutts with bank accounts.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
The Sunday afternoon pilgrimage to the delicatessen store
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "10¢ worth of sliced tongue, a bottle of olives and two cans of sardines"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
"We will meet at the church at 4 o'clock, dearest"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nothing but death will keep me from you, darling"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 06
"Theopholus Smith, who wrote the emancipation proclamation?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Marcus Aurelius Jones, in what part of the country have the bloodiest battles been fought?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
"The ocean is as smooth as a doorknob this morning"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You had better put a few nicks in the water with your knife so we can find our way back to land"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Telephonies] "Yes sir, this is the best summer hotel in the world…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
The original "Let 'Er Go" Gallagher just ate up the musical stuff as it rolled out of the phonograph
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You look awful good to father"
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It's all wrong, Louis XIV, it's all wrong
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It took me two years to make that chair-you can have it for $3"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
"At last I've got the telegram written -- "Dear Hulda, will arrive tomorrow…"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll have to get this down to ten words to save money…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
Goldberg survives fourteen thrilling innings and this is the result
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That fall is worth $1000 a week in moving picture comedies"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
Don't let the war talk scare you; battles are common
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're 3 minutes overdue with the rent"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
It is rumored that Battling Nelson is only a shadow of his former self
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The aspiring lightweights are reading of Nelson's rumored decline with much joy and clapping
of hands.
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[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a good one I can hand the cashier- my uncle Pierpont sent me to draw out a million and
I lost the check on the way over"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
The Giants got tired counting their runs in the opening game
[ca. 1914-1916]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mayor Mitchel brought the police department up to see the game.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 07
The jockeys appreciated the fact that the track was muddy
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What do they charge for mud baths in this resort?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
[What you gonna do with it?] What are you gonna do with it?
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "$37.65 is a lot of money but I need the best golf sticks in the world…" "Tell my broker to drop
that $2,000,000 deal because I'm too busy…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
[What are you kicking about?] Think of this poor deaf and dumb gazink who can't even yell for help!
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
Christmas presents must be used out of respect to the givers
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope he takes his bath at home" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I'm cured] "This mistletoe
will give me a chance"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[They all look good when you're far away] "At last my ambition is realized-my land is paid for and I can devote the rest of
my life to raising rare plants"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "With the fortune of $500 I have gathered during my business career I can now…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
"Loosen up on the fares gents -- the company needs the money as much as you do"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Every man will be carrying a nickel around in his hand to be prepared to jump on a car.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
Leonard Lewis fight in today's war news
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just what I told Sam Fishcake-the war is over here at last!"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
Charity begins at home, but you can't tell where it will end
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine! Just $28 for a swell Christmas present for Chrystobel" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[I'm cured] "If the Russians are 15 miles from the Vistula and Dixmude is occupied by the allies…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
Goldberg sees Brooklyn laid to rest in world's series cemetery
[1916]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if I've got time to call up the house and see how Dora's cold is" After the third inning
the Brooklyn players walked to the bat…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
Prunes a la dope. Take two full-grown prunes and fry for three hours in a skillet…
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Prunes d'free-lunch. Pour over pate froms a puree of axle grease; place a stewed prune…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 08
What stood between the fight fans and a good fight at the Long Acre Club last night
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Everybody sat around and tried to look unconcerned-just like you do when something tells you…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
[man in bed with thought bubble above showing cannonballs and fighting]
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bam! Zop! Boom! Zow!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [I'm the guy] "I don't see why they
keep pictures of all the phoney relatives you are trying to forget"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
A bunch of bums. Talk to a giant rooter for five minutes and you'll think…
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Taking a dill pickle from his pocket, Jack Smote another giant on the noodle and came home"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
Eddie Foy will be our next secretary of state if Lew Fields is elected president
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Diamond Jim" Brady has the weight on Taft.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
"This is the way it is one night after the other -- nobody to see, nobody to talk to and nobody to take my money away from
me"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good evening, Central, will you please tell me the time?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Did you have your beard shaved off?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
"I'm Tuesday, lad, I'm Tuesday -- this fellow Britt is the gravy and don't you forget it either"
[ca. 1907-1909?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The Western fight fan is being showered with classy matches. "Secretary Root hasn't got so very
much on me"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
"The guy that said life is one sweet song was either lying or else I've got a bum ear for music"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] No rest for the umpire.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
The real champion of all the fighters
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll show you who's smoking the cigars in this family!"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
After all, a woman is only a woman
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What ticket do you wish to vote?" "I brought a sample ballot with me"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
Extra! Brave policeman saves child from being run down by speeding autoist!"
[1911?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mamma is sending me over to the grocery store for some world's championship health food" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] "They're flooding the country with these foreign dancers"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 09
"Say, time-keeper, how many more hours does this round last?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why don't you have a phone put in so I can call you up and let you know I'm still here"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[ca. 1905-1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
They're off at Luna Park [back]
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All will be sunny, peaches, cream and honey in the sum-mer time"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[Foolish questions] "Did you strike out again, you simp?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, I'm going to the bench to answer a telephone message from my deaf & dumb uncle"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[Foolish questions] "Do the students come into the Louvre to copy the masterpieces?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, dear, they're so hungry they come in here to eat the paintings when nobody's looking"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[Foolish questions] "Are you wearing a watch bracelet?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, this is a spedometer that shows how fast the trains are moving between here and Europe"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[Foolish questions] "My good man, are you the shipping clerk?"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, you fish-cake, I'm the new president of China"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
[Foolish questions] "Goin' in for club swingin' Roul?"
1913
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, Samish, I'm mixing a cocktail for the president of the temperance league"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
"I'll hold the stamp up there till this letter goes safely through"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [Man with dog balancing on his nose]
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 10
Learn to be a runner in your own home
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Bum an onion off a dago and arrange on end of piece of heavy picture wire as shown…
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[They all flop sooner or later] Rube Goldberg's Boobs…they all flop sooner or later
Mon. Sept. 17 [ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What do you mean by trying to flirt with my wife!"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[No brains, no brains!] Rube Goldberg's Boobs…No brains, no brains!
Wed. Sept. 19 [ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There are two more trips left on my monthly communication ticket…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
"That horse ought to be fast because he's got a shape like a steam engine"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "O, I don't know-these other hot cakes are not so much to the maple syrup"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[But it doesn't mean anything] Rube Goldberg's Boobs…But it deosn't mean anything
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Waiter, I'm tired of looking at French menu cards…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
Senator Horace White is throwing a lot of business in some tailor's way
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, Horace-where's the rest of that hat?"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
A scrambled egg Posed by R Fitzsimmons
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] [A mand curled up in a bowl]
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
The world's series
1909
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A timely throw. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Slackers] The kid who relies on the boy in
front of him for the right answer.
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"This a genuine Arabian canary -- he's got a beautiful voice -- all his ancestors…"
[1917?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's worth $1.50 to keep from being lonesome-it will be delightful to sit around the house…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Silly sonnets] "I feel the sting of cupid's dart"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies have an outing-they hire a professional guide to show them the
great wonders of nature
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Below us lies the beautiful Hinkeydee Valley where…"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Twelve members, arriving at the station with forty-seven pieces of baggage
for a few…
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't mind a little inconvenience, myself-but a ride in that wagon would ruin my dog's nerves"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
The troubled fistic waters have quieted down
[1908?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Buy now, buy now! Tomorrow Bad Bess will be worth $10,000,000 a share!"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
"Will I get it or will I get it not-that is the question!"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In the shadow of the hook.
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
[What you gonna do with it?] "See Venus, beautiful Venus, in all her radiant glory tonight-visit heaven for one dollar"
[ca. 1905-1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't see anything that looks like Venus-I think I see the family entrance to a saloon"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 11
"I came to convey the sad news that your wife just committed suicide by jumping into the Harlem River"
[1908?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I tell you Britt is still a young man and at the height of his career"
volume 1964.047 v.10--ffALB, folder 12
After you finish this look at the date
Apr. 1, [1926]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Study the picture on the left very carefully for three minutes -- then cover it with a piece
of paper and answer the following questions. 1. How many soldiers are there? Are they on foot or horseback?
Comics: 1920s (estimated)
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…On what ticket are you running for President?
Feb 6, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've lost my memory-I don't know who I am"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The big trip: The ladies go into a small stationery store with the intention
of buying a bunch of picture post cards…
Feb. 3 [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, I don't like that one"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 777,920 1/4
Jan 31, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here we picture a hat that is shiny and tall, an object of beauty that hangs in the hall.
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 728,491
Jan 24, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Slugger O'Leary was known far and wide, for the way that he soaked the old spherical hide.
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
Campaign orators have voters all stirred up over league of nations
[1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Picture of a voter, at a political meeting, as a presidential candidate points out that the League
of Nations is the biggest issue of the campaign. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike,
what is a gentleman?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The big trip: The Wednesday Ladies' Club of Sappville marches down to the
depot in a body to welcome…
Jan 13, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Maybe prohibition has something to do with this feature
Jan 1, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's New Year's Day and I just woke up without a headache-I think I'll see a doctor"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[No brains, no brains!] "Do you realize that you spent a dollar and eleven cents for ice cream sodas during the last three
days?"
Jan 14, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But father------"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[They all flop sooner or later] "Look at those poor fools going to the movies at half past six in the evening-I'm going home
to dinner"
Jan 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that we've had our dinner, Angeline, we can stroll over…"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 01
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The big trip: the ladies get caught in a train wreck but fortunately nobody
is seriously hurt…
Jan 20, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is terrible! And I told the engineer my dog didn't like to have his sleep disturbed"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Here's something to help you pass the evening
April 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] To the reader:- cut out carefully around outside circle… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, pardon me a moment while I step out of my character and see what's going on in the cartoon
next door"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Big league baseball managers train hard for coming season
Mar 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll rent that building for a summer home"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "There must be something in athletics, after all…"
Mar. 18, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, I want to join the athletic club-what form of exercise do you take?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Extra! Civil war breaks out inside the club and splits it into two factions
which are ready to fight to a finish
Mar 16, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm not mentioning any names-but I know it's true because a certain party told so-and-so…
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
This is the only way we can let you know the good news
Mar 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Aw, listen, central-can't you give me a little service? I'm trying to let some of my friends
know…"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 666,932
Feb. 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This watch was an elegant thing long ago, a treasure sublime…
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[They all flop sooner or later] "See, my child-George Washington is the man who never told a lie…
Feb 23, [1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, papa"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The big trip: The ladies call a special meeting in Mrs. Van Dunkle's room…
Feb 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's strange-according to my figures each member owes herself money"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…A study in contrasts
Feb 13, [1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Arresting a crook according to the old every-day law.
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 02
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 397,406
Feb 7, [1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This child was a gentle and delicate thing, with a face just as sweet as the flowers in spring.
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 03
[They all flop sooner or later] "I've been married for ten years and there's never been one cross word between me and my wife"
May 10, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I envy you, Jabez" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike,
have you got a sentence that will fit around the word avenue?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 03
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Yes, we're all trying to TALK the country back on it's feet
May 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I tell you, Sam, the reason for all the trouble in this country is that people won't work!"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, if you make up something foolish with the word,
mandalay, I'll see that you don't get arrested"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Our lives are all more or less run by machinery
May 12, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My fountain pen is out of order-I'll have to waste three or four hours getting it fixed" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, figure out a sentence with the word Calcutta"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies feel that it's about time they did an act of charity…
May 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's give him a dozen cream puffs-he'd appreciate something rich" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of a politician?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 03
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 697,432
May 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Barney McDingle made everyone stare, when he walked on the street they admired his hair. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, spring one with the word, isolate"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Fellow citizens, if you vote for me I assure you that I shall have…"
Apr. 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I am not afraid to tell you right here tonight, fellow citizens, that I am in favor of reducing
the high cost of living" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, is the word, expectorate,
used in good society?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Why is a snappy dog?
Apr. 23, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't mind Lucile-she always acts that way in front of strangers…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, how did they ever think up a work like czecho slovak"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Crossing the home plate
April 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Just a poor guy trying to live. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, what is the definition of a profiteer?"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I could never see any sense in a high hat-it may be good enough to carry bundles in, but
why put it on your head?"
April 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nobody would ever catch me wearing one of those things-everything I do must have a reason" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you form a sentence with the word officiate in
it?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] During a lecture at the club on the subject of "can we communicate with a
dead mule", a fire break out…
April 13, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if they'll have enough sense to keep the fire going till we get there" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "The Bolshevik General said to his soldiers, as they hid behind their
whiskers…"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "It's the latest thing and makes you look distinguished -you must take it"
May 24, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I intended to get a plain straw hat-but if you insist I guess I'll have to take this one" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, picture"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 04
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…What is worse than a short blanket?
May 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You get into bed and pull the blanket up over your neck. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of an optimist?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 04
[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 741,388
May 15, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Angus Kazoof got a wonderful view from his cheerful apartment on floor twenty-two. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, thermometer"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 04
Rube Goldberg's Boobs…It all depends what you mean by "gambling"
May 14, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Consolidated doughnut went up three points…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of a lawyer?"
volume 1964.047 v.11--ffALB, folder 04
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Well I've been wearing overalls for three weeks now as a protest against the high cost of
clothing"
May 13, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's no more than right that I go down to see my tailor and say good-bye to him before he goes
to the poor house" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you use the word, pumpkin,
in connection with prohibition?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Of course you've met him -- he leads a very exciting life
July 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Oliver-how do you feel?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, what is the definition of an honest man?"
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"For you fine work here in my office I have decided to double your salary"
May 20, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I am overcome with joy" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"Ike, what is the definition of prohibition?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…There are no private citizens left -- everybody wants to be President
May 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I am not seeking office-but the people have asked me to save the country-I am ready to run for
President" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, did Shakespeare write Hamlet?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies visit a sideshow in the circus but don't seem to realize…
May 11, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My, what queer-looking people!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, what is the best remedy for the high cost of living?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies parade in overalls as a protest against the high cost of wearing…
May 11, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My wife's hat and shoes cost enough to feed Russia till the next war" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is something that you've got and you can't get?"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 91,546
June 5, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Larry McCann stayed in bed very late, for sleep he would let every other thing wait. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is a nominating convention?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…As long as congress is thinking about giving bonuses…
June 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We are the greatest people on earth" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, tell me a story with the word, pneumonia, in it"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Sir, here are some more bills for your daughter's piano lessons"
June 3, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm glad to pay them-I believe in giving my daughter a musical education" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give me a sentence using the word, cantilever"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The best part of a picnic is that the truth is so easily forgotten"
June 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The only ones that are having a good time are the insects" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, how did the word, deliver, find it's way into the English language?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Effingham Sobb, who has an imaginary illness for every one of President
Wilson's fourteen points…
June 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Girls, call my husband and four doctors-I'm afraid I can't last long…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make up a foolish sentence with the word, diplomat"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I don't see why people always want to show off as soon as they get in the parlor"
May 31, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "For the bank has failed today" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, give me a sentence with the word, surface, in it"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 337,644
May 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Little Amanda Lewella Bazish, when only eleven, could swim like a fish. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, tell me how the town of Hoboken got it's name"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Yes, I've played on the finest golf courses in this country-I've played at the swell Appawumpus
club and…"
May 27, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been over the exclusive Mulligatawney links and I've gone around the beautiful Abba Dabba
course and…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can the word, gallows, be used in a
cheerful sentence?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…This will save your wife the trouble of going to the hat store with you
May 26, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gentlemen of the jury, do you sentence him to wear it or shall I put another roof on his attic?"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you use the word, "recuperate", in a sentence?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Allow us to introduce the four members who will figure more or less prominently
in all future meetings of the club…
May 25, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Effingham Sobb, who is never happy unless she's miserable and is suffering from 17 different
ailments which she hasn't got. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is a ouija board?"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 74,299
June 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jones was elected to office last year, they gave him a hand and a welcoming cheer. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what magician can disappear from sight even quick than Houdini?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…"I'll tell the world"
June 18, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you take this squab to be your lawfully wedded sparring partner?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of a millionaire?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Yes, we guarantee the car for five years-we pay for all devective parts"
June 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine-I'll take it" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike,
how many times can you use the word, summer, in a short sentence?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…We can't think of a title sad enough for this cartoon
June 16, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Prices are down at last-now I can get what I need" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of a prize fighter?"
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A young man stops by to give Mrs. Otto Talcum a ride in his new Fierce-Narrow runabout…
June 15, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ladies, will you please excuse me-I'm going out for a ride with my nephew-poor Ira is so lonesome"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give me a sentence to show how Servia got it's name
as a scrappy country"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I'm sorry for the poor guys that always have crowds tagging after them-I hate crowds"
June 14, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Lulu-I'll be around with the car in half an hour-you know…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike give me a cheerful sentence with the word, crisis"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Everybody expects trouble but nobody knows where it is coming from
June 11, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Every man you meet wears that haunted look which seems to say… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Mike, make a sentence to show why a spanish cloak is called mantilla"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Darling, when I look into the azure blue of your heavenly eyes I hear the voices of angels
singing in my heart"
June 10, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, yes-and what else?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"Ike, make a sentence to show how the word, orchid, is pronounced"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Tobias K. Plain, the club member who is always doing some big work to
improve…
June 8, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Perhaps, girls, this small collection of books may some day grow into a great library…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show that the word, ratify, is used in connection
with other things besides peace treaties"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "What's your hurry, old man? Why don't you take things easy like me?"
June 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm a commuter and I've got only thirty seconds to catch the 5:15 train" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, show me why people don't pronounce sarsaparilla the way it is spelled"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Maybe she bought it at a bargain sale, so you can't blame her
July 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I feel so ashamed with this mole on my face-I must go to a specialist and have it taken off"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike make a sentence to show where the opera, Lohengrin,
got it's name"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Congratulate me, Dick-I just bought a home for myself and family"
July 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine-how much did you pay for it?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, use the word, major, in a song"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Caddies are paid to be picked at, anyway
June 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You poor idiot-if somebody hung a slice of limburger cheese on your nose you wouldn't be able
to find it" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what has a sentinel got to do with fertilizer?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] As Mrs. Effingham Sobb starts to tell about her operation for the 56th time…
June 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, the doctors said that no other woman could have stood the pain…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, prove that statue is a foreign word"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "There was a young man named McSneeze, who held up his nose in the breeze…"
June 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm going out to get away from this limerick craze" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a gentlemanly sentence with the word, superb"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 555,921
June 26, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The folks were delighted with little Irene, her ears were the smallest they ever had seen. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you make a sentence with the word, genuine, in
it?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The story of success is told by your key ring
June 25, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] First you get a key to the front door. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, use the word, disguise, intelligently in a sentence"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Where are you going to spend the summer?
June 23, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish I could make up my mind where to spend the summer" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show how the country of Bolivia stands on prohibition"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. J. Luther Van Scandal gets an earful of real gossip over the phone…
June 22, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's that-divorce?-well, well, that's exciting-you say she came home…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the Chinese word, liverwurst"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "It's a crime the way people kill a lunch in about ten minutes-everybody's going mad"
June 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Waiter, bring me a set of stewed beef ribs and you can take your time…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, show me how to use the word, iodine"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Most vacations consist of a room and a bunch of post cards
July 16, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Arrives at summer resort. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"Ike, make a sentence with the word, America, in it."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'm Professor de Calculate, the great efficiency expert…"
July 15, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good-I'll employ you by the month…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, use the word garbage in a nice, gentlemanly sentence"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…The League of Nations isn't as close to the voter as it is to the orators
July 14, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The League of Nations is the great issue that now stirs the American people" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, use the word, album, in a sad sentence"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. De Magneto invites the club members for a spin in her speed demon and
discovers…
July 13, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see-I've tried everything-I've turned on everything that was off…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give me a wild sentence with the word, grocer"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "People make me sick the way they rush to the mountains and the sea-shore as soon as the summer
comes around"
July 12, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I believe in working twenty-four hours a day all year 'round…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show that capsize is a sea-faring word"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, that girl looks wonderful in her riding habit-just my type, swell and athletic"
July 8, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "From the way she wears those riding togs, I'm sure she's an expert horsewoman" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "How long would you associate with a man who was intoxicated?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…How to become a campaign orator in one lesson
July 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fresh fish today" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike,
make a sentence with the word, hammer"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Icabod de Magneto, a new member who owns a car, makes life miserable…
July 6, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, she's a wonder on hills-of course, now she's full of carbon…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, is Barbara a girl's name?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…Celebrating the fourth
July 5, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish they'd hurry up and explode and let me find out what's going to happen to me-I'm tired
of waiting" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give me one with Maryland"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes, number 886,530
July 3, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Little Ophelia Marcella McBly played "Liberty's" part on the fourth of July. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, use the word, dandruff, in a sentence"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 692,758
July 31, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Thaddeus Grabb was a profiteer bold… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "I know not why the stars do shine…"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… As Shakespeare says, "It's the upkeep that hurts"
July 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] After working hard for 48 years… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "The landlord to his tenant went…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] Rube Goldberg's Boobs…But it doesn't mean anything
July 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Jazzbo, Jazzbo pajama! You are now a worshipful brother…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "The bluefish dances on the bay…"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 874,369
May 22, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Hiram Cornelius van Zanzibar Hoff worked during the day… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of the income tax?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] After an exciting bridge game…
July 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Figure out what I owe and I'll pay at the next meeting…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Now, give the ladies and gentlemen a sentence with the word, stevedore…"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "These shameless styles are getting worse every day…"
July 26, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There you are, always reading the theatrical…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what has the word, faucet, got to do with baseball?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… When you don't know what to say, sing one of these to her
July 23, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Your eyes, your lips, your ears…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Say, Miss, if you can stand punishment…"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… What's the difference, as long as the baby's happy!
July 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the proudest moment of my life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, beacon…"
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[They all flop sooner or later] 'Wherever I look, I see people spooning on benches here in the park…"
July 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's another pair of fools giving the man in the moon…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, use the word, elevated, in a sentence…"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 298,637
July 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Abraham Lincoln Fitz Washington Nye in a bathing suit… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, are you able to make a sentence that starts with the word, California?"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I can't understand why the idiots spend…"
Aug. 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's another simp all tanned up like a smoked herring" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, how did the word Massachusetts originate?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Sobb, Mrs. Plain, Mrs. Van Scandal, Mrs. Talcum…
Aug. 3, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If the league of nations is going to stop fighting…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Take raisins and syrup, some corn and some yeast…"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… A fly tale in twelve chapters
Aug. 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man took a swat at a fly and… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, can you make a sentence to explain the word, maximum?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "O, yes, I've got quite a record…"
Aug. 5, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Was attacked by 300 wildcats, saved 64 women from drowning.." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "After election things will be cheaper both for you and me…"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Babe Ruth's homeruns bring back the days of the old air raids
Aug. 6, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One more home run and I'll have enough fish-balls for supper." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what does ingratiate mean?"
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number 962,345
Aug. 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Leopold Benno Jehosophat Lee was a golfer… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "Come, Jack and Jim and Tom and Joe…"
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Maybe you know the reason -- we don't
Aug. 10, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He just gave $100,000 to charity, too…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Branding cattle, Bill?"
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[They all flop sooner or later] "I was thinking a man who wastes his time fishing…"
Aug. 16, [1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's another dead one- fishing will make a bum…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give me a sentence to show how the word, neuritis, is pronounced."
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The club members take an afternoon off and go to the bath house…
Aug. 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't forget to get the new jazz record…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, miniature, in it."
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Maybe they weren't so beautiful in the first place
Aug. 27, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All the babies I ever hear of are perfectly beautiful- but…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show that the word ceiling…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 666,999
Aug 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Paulus Octavius Reginald Ash had a long and luxurious, wavy, moustache…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you make a sad sentence with the word, surrender?"
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Did you ever try to read one of those little medical thermometers?
Aug. 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, I think I've got fever-will you take my temperature?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "The valley's full of tree's so green…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Plain has no maid-but the ladies have a luncheon at her house…
Aug. 31, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "O, no trouble at all-I'll come back for the other salt seller" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My kid thinks I'm a man of might…"
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The most imporant part of a wedding present is the trade-mark
Nov. 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When the wedding presents arrive. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, do you think it's wrong for a young man to accept a check…"
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Candidates are putting jazz into their campaigns to win votes
Sept. 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That bird has brains and class galore…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] 'Ike, make a sentence with the word, Canada."
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The show itself may have been funny, at that
Sept. 13, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I saw the funniest show last night…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, can you make a sentence to show…"
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The proper "stance" is everything in life
Sept. 10, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In golf, the position taken when… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, Studebaker."
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Well-known landlords make encouraging statements about the rent question
Sept. 8, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Gideon T. Clutch says:… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I
guess that we must face the worst…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The club is visited by one of those women…
Sept. 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't it too bad-I just heard of a woman…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, cataract."
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Maybe it's only a question of imagination-and, maybe it isn't
Sept. 6, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When you have no letters to mail… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show how the word, mahogany…"
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Helping the campaign orators "save the country"
Sept. 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish I had a newspaper to see how much I lost on my oil stock today" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Can you use the word, celluloid, in a sentence?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There goes Henry Wheatcake in his new $10,000 car-I'm glad to see he's so prosperous"
Sept. 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll stop in and tell my friend the butcher about Wheatcakes' success-he knows him well" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show how this word, ptomaine, is
pronounced"
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Prominent people have a lot of pals they never heard of
Sept. 3, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I'm in right with all the big people… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Make a sentence with the word Connecticut"
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Lifes' little jokes -- number 962,027
Sept. 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Osmund Rudolphus Lorenzo McZarm sold neckties and socks… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I can't figure out how to use the word, sedan, in a sentence"
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Life's little jokes…number 479,8333
Oct 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Humphrey McJoy was so happy that he made the neighbors all smile with delight and with glee.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Make a sentence to show the relation of the word, hygiene,
to the anatomy"
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The moving man's damage doesn't matter as long as he doesn't break any bottles
Oct. 1, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I finished the movin' job-everything o.k., sir?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smith is seen"
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We could never understand why they don't have chairs on the golf links
Sept. 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Those players ahead of us have no consideration at all-they must be paralyzed-they haven't moved
in ten minutes" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I love Grand Opera's notes so high, from
"Faust" to "Madame Butterfly"…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies get together to try to figure out what the trouble in Poland is…
Sept. 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah choo!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Make a sentence
with the word, conductor"
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When a man moves he has to part with many dear, old friends
Sept. 27, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, can I take these books of mine along when we move?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I've been reading about the city of Colon on the Panama Canal-did you ever hear of
it?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The man who sold me this safe said it would take a burglar a week to open it"
Sept. 23, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I can go to bed feeling that my jewelry and liberty bonds are perfectly safe" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Make a sentence with the word, disgusted"
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Who said, "It's cheaper to move than pay rent"?
Sept. 22, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If you don't want your heart broken… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Make a sentence with the word pygmy…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Little Mrs. De Magneto goes up in an aeroplane…
Sept. 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Statistics show that going up in an aeroplane is just…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the scientific word, pasteurize."
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You're a smart man if you can figure this out
Sept. 20, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, well - It says here that the price of everything is going down at last…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence to show that the word, insomnia…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 820,749
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Griffith McSipp, who was envied by all, had a fine private stock… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you use the word, statuette, correctly?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'll fix the busted leg of my chair…"
Oct. 7, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Everstick Glue: Won Blue Ribbon at Warsaw Exposition… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, compose a sentence…"
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Score boards to the right of us, score boards to the left of us…
Oct. 8, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] His eye is on the World Series score board. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, use the word, indispose, in a sentence."
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Life's little jokes -- number 794,382
Oct. 9, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Hamilton Bish was insured for a lot against accident…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, can you make a respectable sentence with the word, expectorate?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 697,320
Oct. 16, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Septimus Stapleton Montague Wurts wore fine silk… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a Hungarian sentence with the word, ventilate."
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The football seasons opens with the same old bird at the bottom of the heap
Oct. 18, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Just a plain citizen trying to make a little headway. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is a landlord called in China?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The husbands of some of the members appear in public for the first time…
Oct. 19, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mr. Effingham Sobb said… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"Ike, make a touching sentence with the word, anarchist."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I came to work in the store at seven o'clock on the morning of September sixth, 1876…"
Oct. 21, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And I've been getting here at the same time…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, make a nice, homelike sentence with the word, features."
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[Life's little jokes] Rube Goldberg's Boobs… Life's little jokes - number seventy two
Oct. 25, [1920]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Knockout McSlam was as quick as a fox… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [No brains] "You shouldn't
make your little brother cry…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 942,805
Oct. 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] His parents were proud of sweet baby McPlung…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Make a sentence with the word, perambulator."
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If you play golf, you don't have to be introduced to these gentlemen
Nov. 8, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The "IF" Guy. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I believe
that every good citizen should be able…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Plain reads her report at the annual dinner…
Nov. 9, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I am pleased to report that the biscuits…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] 'Everybody has heard that prices are coming down…"
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Now the old man would rather have her go out
Nov. 10, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's right, boys…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "If
Carpentier ever fights Dempsy, who do you think will lose?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "O, why did I allow my wife to send our little son…"
Nov. 11, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll never forgive myself on the way down…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "I see where they're going to tear down all the old ladies' homes…"
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Study this picture and maybe you can get something out of it
Nov. 15, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Step forward, please!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Say,
where can I find a good tailor?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 507,451
Nov. 20, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Demosthenes Waffle had pleanty to eat…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "What is lower than the regard of a man in an automobile…"
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Romance is not dead -- it's only unconcious
Nov. 22, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Darling, I lay my heart at your feet…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "What is the most difficult thing about football?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies write down a long list of names…
Nov. 23, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I won't come if you invite that stuck-up Mrs. McBanjo…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "What has the Kaiser got to be thankful for this year?"
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Sure, there are still a few reasons for celebrating Thanksgiving day
Nov. 24, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You ought to be thankful that… you can still get water without a doctor's prescription…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What part of the Turkey do you like best, Ike?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Thanskgiving
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I can't help it if I keep making mistakes playing bridge…"
Nov. 25, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I may be an aweful dumbell playing cards…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Who started the idea of giving thanks on this day?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Thanskgiving
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The turkey dinner casualties are very heavy this year
Nov. 26, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boss, there's a man outside who wants to talk over a $100,000 deal…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, did you enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner yesterday?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Thanskgiving
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Life's little jokes -- number 666,999
Nov. 27, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jonah McMumble could talk a blue streak…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "I hear Willard and Dempsey are going to fight again…"
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The car is all right -- the trouble lies with the "extras."
Nov. 29, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, mechanic, my horn is our of order--come out and fix it…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I see where a lot of men are out of work now…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The Ladies hold a rummage sale and each member contributes something…"
Nov. 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, I can't go downtown without my shoes…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "What is the only thing that stops you from asking for a raise in salary this year?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The only way to raise children is, not to give 'em their own way too much…"
Dec. 2, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every child should start to learn French, Spanish, and Italian…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What's the difference between the stock market and the fish market?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 493,760
Dec. 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Don't blush when you focus your optics on these…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, you follow styles--what are society women wearing this year?"
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These lip "refined" moving picture shows depend entirely on the Electrician
Dec. 3, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I just feel like seeing a good movie-give me a ticket." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Why don't we hear any more from the man who said the war would abolish all bitterness and hate?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies decide to spend a nice, quiet, serious afternoon…"
Dec. 4, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see--second hand low, third had high…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Just think, Ike, my children will never know what liquor is."
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Simple ways to keep warm when the coal supply is low
Dec. 8,[1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Invite some after-dinner speakers up to your house to rehearse their speeches…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the definition of Christmas shopping?"
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You always think of a good come-back when it's too late
Dec. 10, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You little shrimp!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike,
are the men out of work around the country worried about the future?"
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Every man in the office should have his own private radiator
Dec. 13, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's too much heat in this room…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "What do you think of the young man in Boston who refused to take a million dollars he inherited…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Effingham Sobb hurls her 300 pounds at the Christmas crowds…"
Dec. 14, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'm lucky--I was nearly run over…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "How do you account for the crime wave all over the country?"
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Prepare yourselves for the tortures of Christmas shopping
Dec. 15, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A little home training of this kind will get you accustomed to having people walk on your face…
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Which costs the most, war or peace?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'm always losing these studs for my evening shirt…"
Dec. 16, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good-night! I've got four mintues to finish dressing…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Mike, what is a free country?"
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Business is business, unless it isn't
Dec. 17, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A street scene in the business district six months ago when business was good. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what are blue laws?"
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The energy the kids use on their Christmas toys doesn't have to be wasted
Dec. 20, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Wasted rocking-horse energy could be used nicely for mashing potatoes. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is a blue law?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies go to a department store to finish their Christmas shopping and
spend all their time getting into imaginary trouble and then trying to get out of it
Dec 21, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "One of the sales ladies gave me a nasty look and I want her fired" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "The holiday spirit teaches us that it is better to give than to receive"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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A few suggestions for your inappropriate Christmas gifts
Dec 22, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A beautiful silver-plated tooth-pick-holder for grandpa who has no teeth and lives on milk. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What three beautiful thoughts enter your mind when you open
a Christmas present"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There's a story in this book telling how everybody used to drink strong punch…"
Dec 23, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why, half of any celebration is being able to get a pleasant…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, did you find everything you wanted in the Christmas shopping hints in the newspaper
ads?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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Give the kids a chance to say what they DON'T want for Christmas
Dec 24, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't want castor oil, rubbers, or homework" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is your greatest Christmas wish this year?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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He's been hanging around long enough
Dec. 25, [1920]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no room for you in here" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, let's remember each other and forget our troubles today"
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Life's little jokes -- number 87219
Jan. 8, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] T. Worthington Fish is a nice little runt, who appears to be beefy when viewed from the front.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, do you think civilization has gone ahead any?"
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Innocent Sunday pleasures when the Blue Laws go into effect
Jan. 5, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Crap-shooting at home will be within the law. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "What do you think about Argentina resigning from the League of Nations?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] While the ladies are holding their meeting, some new people move in across
the street and the meeting…
Jan. 4, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If that's a picture of her husband they're carrying in, she must be blind" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I see where they're putting the European kings back on their thrones"
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Extra! They're going to reduce the salaries of movie stars!
Jan. 3, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "What shal I do? Now I can only afford to keep twelve servants" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is a lounge lizard?"
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Substitutes for offering a man a New Year's drink
Jan. 1, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Happy New Year!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, give
me a quotation from the dead languages"
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Have you heard about the Dempsey-Carpentier fight yet?
1921
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here are two life-like poses of the two fighters…
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Pull down the curtain & put on a comedian!
Dec. 31, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm here to sing, and all I bring…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, do you think there is any danger in the short skirts the women are wearing now?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Joe, you've been a pretty bad egg this year and it's…"
Dec. 30, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I resolve in 1921 to smoke only one cigar a day…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I see that they recommend quite a change in the income tax"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Each one of the ladies waits a few days to avoid suspicion…
Dec. 28, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What are you doing here?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"What are the only things lacking to make steam heat a perfect invention?"
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Have one of our perpetual Hand-in-the-other-fellow's-pocket calendars
Dec. 27, [1920]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Boob, landlord, coal man… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"Ike, I see where moving picture stars won't be able to indulge…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hire a lounge lizard to give them dancing lessions…
Jan. 25, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Won't you shoot your husband some day…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "What is the first qualification of a chorus girl?"
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Once a bore, always a bore
Jan. 24, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I've got a nice family of five children…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "What's the difference between a king and a president?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 379,165
Jan. 22, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Battling McSlugg, when in training, looked spiffy… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "The modern dances, to my mind, are proper…"
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Why print intimate photographs of only movie stars?
Jan. 21, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Felix Mackerel, the fish man, finds much time, even during working hours, to devote to music.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is an apartment?"
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Don't forget, boys-this is thrift week
Jan. 19, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you dare to kiss me I'll call father" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "What is an economical man?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies suddenly realize ther is a lot of musical talent…
Jan. 18, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, every woman for herself!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Do you think a man can afford to get married on $2000 a year?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 479,326
Jan. 15, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Lend an ear to the tale I'm about to relate… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, what is a war tax?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There's an old fashioned girl after my own heart…
Jan. 13, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "None of this foolish low-neck stuff that helps buy gasoline…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I know a man who was away from his wife…"
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Like all other professions, the holdup game is overcrowded, too
Jan. 12, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boys, the new rule of the crooks' society says you have to stand in line…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Is it wrong for a married man to look at other women?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The husbands of the members discover that the ladies are entertaining…
Jan. 11, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The club is a fine thing-I'd like to go in and hear the wonderful speeches" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is an income?"
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The doctor was thinking of only one thing
Feb. 18, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, 'Ah'" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Do people break
many things when they move, Ike?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 491,376
Feb. 19, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This one is $4.00-it may be $5.00 tomorrow-they're getting scarcer every minute" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is the meaning of 'life, liberty and the persuit [sic] of happiness"?
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"We owe the Smiths a call -- I'll be glad when it's over"
Feb. 17, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The Browns came to see us last…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "How much is 'enough'"?
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Why do women all sit the same way in news photographs?
Feb. 16, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Maud Tapioca, fined $10 for running over six working men and five children. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is congress?"
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Lincoln can look out of history and smile
Feb. 12, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All public officials today are bums and boneheads…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "What else did Abraham Lincoln do besides free the slaves and preserve the union?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "If there's one guy in this world I can't stand, it's Henry Fishcake"
Feb. 10, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're right-Fishcake is a liar, a thief, and a bum" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Where do you think they'll hold the Dempsey-Carpentier fight?"