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The suffering doesn't even end after you're dressed
Feb. 9, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] You suddenly realize your patent leather shoes are built on lines that were popular ten years
ago. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Why do they call people in office public servants?"
volume 1964.047 v.12--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Effingham Sobb gets the ladies all excited about doing hospital work…
Feb. 8, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want to thank the members for assisting me in the noble work that I have undertaken" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What two men have no reason to be jealous of one another?"
volume 1964.047 v.12--ffALB, folder 09
They certainly get out of trouble easy in the movies
Feb. 2, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Three years elapse and the dawn of a new day comes with the soothing… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is the difference between a sausage factory and a laundry?"
volume 1964.047 v.12--ffALB, folder 09
[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies hire an intellectual uplifter to save them the trouble of…
Feb. 1, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now that I've finished reading extracts from America's most popular novelist…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, incumbent"
volume 1964.047 v.12--ffALB, folder 09
Every great brain meets its water loo
Feb. 7, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "After thinking the matter over for two minutes…. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "What is dignity?"
volume 1964.047 v.12--ffALB, folder 09
Life's little jokes -- number 700,691
Jan. 29, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Eddie Cement had a powerful chin… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "What does it mean when a friend invites you and…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Hello, Harry, I just heard you were sick…"
Jan. 27, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You know me-don't hesitate to let me know…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "What is the height of extravagance?"
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The only way to be noticed at home is to stay out
Jan. 26, [1921]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm glad to get home after a hard day's work…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is etiquette?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
Life's little jokes -- number 793,886
Apr. 29, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a necktie that's elegant, stylish and nifty…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] Two drummers wanted for Jazz band--must furnish their own drums.
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
Another high-salaried dictator takes new office
May 31, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Col. Amos J. Scowl, supreme head of park spooning… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Did it do any damage?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
[Our own weekly radio ravings] Abba Dookus K. Opp, world authority on political monotony…
May 30, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Russia's great problem since the war has been how to get ice picks to chop…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Here's my ticket…"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
Life's little jokes -- number 731,988
May 27, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Each on of these cops has a forty inch chest… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Here comes SI Clutch--we owe him $3…"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
Weight doesn't seem to have much to do with eating
May 26, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been living on two peanuts and a thimble full of birdseed a day for a year…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Got your awnings up for the summer?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
[But it doesn't mean anything] "My sweetheart ran off with a piano-tuner -- my heart is broken…"
May 25, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My life is as empty as the Russian Treasury…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Mike, where are we running to?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
He who laughs -- and so forth
May 2, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The greatest joy that can come to the owner of a Tin Lizzie…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Are you fellows trying to move that car?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
A fight fan should control his enthusiasm
May 19, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Felix, I saw a great boxing bout last night." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"What was the trouble--was it anything serious?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
[But it doesn't mean anything] Farewell appearance -- Madame Screechmore in La Balogna -- Positively last time in public
May 18, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I paid seven bucks for two tickets, but it's worth it because this is the last…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "All set -- ready, go!"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 01
The only people ahead on this deal are the doctors
May 17, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm afraid you've got a nervous breakdown from trying to make money…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Got your rubbers on today?"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Wavelength: two splashes and a ripple…
May 16, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] " 'I'm through with life's grim battle,' said the ruined scrambled egg…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Watch it grow… Bozo Bozo Zowie!"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
Straw hat economy
May 14, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hooray! After hunting five hours and twenty-six minutes…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Having your head size taken?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Lathrop, my son, when you decide to get married, pick out…"
May 11, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Lathrop wired me that he got married and is coming here with his wife…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I might as well get him out of the way before I start work…"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
Four styles in straw hats that are always popular
May 10, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The kind that doesn't fit in the back… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Buying a straw hat, Pete?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
At that, maybe golf is a form of insanity
May 8, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He almost murders a caddie for losing a ball in grass ten feet high… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is this the first hole?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
Life's little jokes -- number 769,530
May 6, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When Willie was little, his Ma always said… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "O, boys, we'd love a drink of fresh water from the brook.."
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Here' s a letter from my son, Paul, written on the stationary of the swellest hotel in Seattle…"
May 4, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope he won't be ashamed of his poor old father after all his success…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "An ordinary carpenter's saw…"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] A new bug gives a radio party and, as a price of admission, makes each of the neighbors bring
something…
May 2, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't know the first thing about this--but I hope I can keep on hammering…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Good-night, boys, excuse me if I don't come out in the hall to hand
you your hats…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There's a friend of mine downstairs who wants to sell me his automobile…"
Apr. 27, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "She's worth $2800--but, if you take it now, I'll let you have it for…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] Ike, I can't think of a single thing to say today…"
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The day of uniforms seems to be just starting…
Apr. 26, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I'm glad the people of the world are gradually stopping all wars…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is this the stocking counter?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 03
Life's little jokes -- number 39,574
April 22, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Yours truly, J. Standing… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"If you don't pay your rent this minute, I'll throw you out in the street…"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Broad casting station, Sausagecake, Wisconsin…
April 18, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "And now, my alert listeners, we come to that important point in our country's history…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "She's a queen and she's giving us the eye…"
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Every man has only one collar that fits his evening shirt
Apr. 17, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm afraid I can't go with you, dear--I haven't a collar to wear…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Opening a can of sardines, Julian?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 03
Life's little jokes -- number 490,733
April 15, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Said John, who was going to marry Miss Snowitt… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I'm in love with a girl but she won't tell me her age…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 792,885
April 8, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Owen McCracken spent most of his youth, getting all prettied up in a manicure booth…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My dear, you've got me on the ropes…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "My wife said she'd step inside for a minute to buy an Easter hat…"
April 13, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "She must be buying a dozen hats and boxes, shelves, and everything…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I like that flat hat…"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] The radio apparatus is all set for the daily bedtime story…"
April 4, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Once upon a time a little boy asked his mother where the moon…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Here's where I make some money…"
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Ball players are not the only ones who train for the season
April 3, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The yearly memory course… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Catching a
fly, my friend?"
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Read this slowly and carefully
April 1, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at this man--now don't forget his face…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"O, my poor man, did they shave off all your hair?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Now get this right--I want some beef stew and a cup of coffee…"
Mar. 30, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Some class to me, having five waiters take my order…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "My brother, Ike, will now render for your approval…"
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A photographer's price is whatever he can get
Mar. 20, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We want to have a picture taken--how much will it cost?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Do you shine your own shoes?"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Wave length ZKXTMVOBLAA…
Mar. 28, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dad said he bought that radio outfit for me and he hasn't…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "There's one thing I can't understand, Ike…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'm ninety-nine and the doctor says I can't live another year…"
Mar. 23, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They knocked forty years off my life--now I can start all over again…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My brother, Mike, will now render the song of the puzzled child…"
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'Give me liberty or give me death."
Mar. 22, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Sampling of a new bottle of hooch. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Did
you find out where to get it?"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Angelotti Schreecherino, the infamous Italian tenor, sings the sausage…
Mar. 21, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ker chwa twa jee bazwoop la frankfurter…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "I haven't been feeling very well lately…"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes -- number 763,308
Mar. 18, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Effie McReal looked as fresh as a rose each morn when she woke from her nightly repose… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Dad and brother like their scotch…"
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A business day is composed mostly of lunch
Mar. 15, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He spends the morning getting ready for lunch… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Aren't you getting wet without your umbrella?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes -- number 391,884
Mar. 11, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a vocalist named Otto Cabbage McDove, who always sings beautiful ballads…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, are you good in mathematics?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Here's a good one--three traveling men were playing cards on a train…"
Mar. 9, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Did you ever hear the one about the man who found a beltbuckle…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "All the scandal in the paper makes me think of a question, Mike."
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Life's little jokes -- number 888,888
Mar. 4, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Tarkington Chambers Sinclair Bennett Booth was an author who looked very rough and uncouth…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is the first thing a man with a large family
should do to…"
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[So he took it out on his wife] Censored on account of the children
Feb. 28, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Not even fit for grownups to hear. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "I'll let you have this fine old imported stuff for $18…"
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Yes, everything you put on is wrong!
Feb. 27, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "After looking over all my socks for an hour, this is the best pair I could find…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Hey, are you the window cleaner?"
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News Story: Prize fighters are now ambitious to go to college
Feb. 24, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Fighters are studying for college between rounds. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Is he down?"
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History doesn't repeat itself in this case
Feb. 22, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It says here that Washington was successful because he never told a lie…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Willie, who was George Washington?"
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[So he took it out on his wife] I didn't know a man could be as sick as this and still live
Feb. 21, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish somebody would do me a favor and throw me overboad…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I can't tell Mike and Ike apart, which one are you?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "It makes you feel more comfortable in a strange town when you know…"
Feb. 16, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm Aunt Tillie's cousin's son, Joe--don't you remember me?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, we ought to do all we can to restore harmony in the world…"
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Life's little jokes, number-79,863
Feb. 11, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Henry McSoft spends his time in the slums, being friendly and kind to unfortunate bums… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I feel like doing a kind deed today…"
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[So he took it out on his wife] "After a day of hard work there's nothing I enjoy more than riding home in the car…"
Feb. 7, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, if it isn't my old friend Joe Applesauce…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, Aunt Tillie left us a million in her will…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The boys got together and bought you this two-quart cocktail-shaker…"
Feb. 2, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We also have another, little surprise, a little book that tell you how to mix…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] Just as the boys are going to try to bump themselves off for the fifth
time…
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As long as they're coining a peace dollar, why not let it mean something?
Jan. 30, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not put Grandma's face on the peace dollar? // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Are you ahead, Doc?"
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Life's little jokes, number-893,774
Jan. 28, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Archibald Smith sat from eight until five… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] The two heart-broken simps lie on the railroad track for six hours without realizing…
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 06
[But it doesn't mean anything] "This old fire extinguisher has been on here so long…"
Jan. 26, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The little hammer is missing--I guess I'll try the fire bucket…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] The poor nuts, still all broken up over their disappointment in love…
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Life's little jokes, number-741,990
Jan. 21, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Johnny Fitzgerald O'Sullivanstein was a genius in any mechanical line… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] Now that they've decided that Mike is to get the girl they find her in the parlor…
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They all seem to pass their evenings the same way
Jan. 20, [1922]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I live in a big apartment house…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"O, have you got twin beds?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "His excellency, Ludwig Emil Gustav Wilhelm Otto Carl Hans Hugo Friedrich Maximilian Johann…"
Jan. 19, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll stand up here so I can get a good look at him…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] The two poor love-sick fish decide to fight a duel with carving knives…
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[So he took it out on his wife] "I missed a lot of fun when I was a kid, but it's never too late…"
Jan. 17, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "If I fall down I guess it won't hurt me…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] What's this she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not stuff?
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Yes, girls, men are certainly a brave lot
Jan. 16, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got a terrible headache--I hope it's nothing serious…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Are you the carpet layer?"
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A woman really needs a caddie to carry her things
Jan. 11, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Come on dear--we'll be late for the theatre…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"You wouldn't rob me, would you?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 06
Life's little jokes, number-931,880
Jan. 7, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] John Henry Linoleum Chowder McWorth took long trips every year… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My borther, Ike, will now render the hardware song…"
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Bundles are like insurance men -- you can't escape 'em
Jan. 4, [1922]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "If there's anything I hate it's carrying bundles…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Hey, Porter, are you busy?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 749, 601
Nov. 12, [1921]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This actor, we know for a positive fact, just laughs all the time… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Blind boobs] "Stop kicking that dog-I'll have you arrested"
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A college boy can do no wrong
Nov. 21, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A college student can swipe a $1000 lamp shade from a swell theatre. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is he being helped off the field?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Be careful of the steps, dear"
Dec. 9, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Order anything you like, sweetheart" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, what is a business conference?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 07
Some men are harder to reach than the north pole
Dec. 12, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, is this Applesauce 6662? I want to speak to Mister Raspberry" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Do you burn a candle?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 07
Around Christmas every man should own a delivery wagon
Dec. 16, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "John, I don't want to tire you by making you tramp through the stores again…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Do you still wear a pigtail?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 07
It's getting harder and harder to know where to hide Christmas presents
Dec. 21, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I see by the papers that Borneo has become a republic" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Is this the toy department?"
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The only bad thing about Christmas presents is that you have to use them
Dec. 26, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I guess I'll have to have my clothes made over so I can carry my seven pen knives, four match
boxes and six fountain pens" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Got a Christmas tree, sonny?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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The Payer's perpetual calendar -- have it over your desk
Dec. 28, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is appropriate for any week, any month, any year, any century. // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Does the first fall on a Sunday?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 07
A sad case
Dec. 31, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hey, this is no time to commit suicide--everybody should be glad to be alive because it's New
Year's…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Seeing the old year out, boys?"
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And he'll be completely well if he survives the doctor's price
Jan. 2, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You can get up now--your temperature is almost normal." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Has it been snowing around here?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 08
They say the masses are beginning to appreciate grand opera
Mar. 11, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The overture from chow chow." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Am I disturbin'
you?"
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You can get away with anything, if you time yourself right
Nov. 4, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "How dare you try to put your arm around me! I'll call mother!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Pardon me--did I step on your foot?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 08
Life's little jokes -- number 91,376
Oct. 15, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's an office with beautiful titles galore, very glaringly plastered all over the door." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "I wonder if that poor sap realizes how funny his legs look."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Phil, have you got that important paper I spoke to you about yesterday?"
Oct. 13, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Wait a minute, I'll find it--it must be in one of my other pockets." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "That poor nut will catch his death of cold going out in the rain without an umbrella."
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[So he took it out on his wife] "Yes, I believe in disarmament -- there's enough suffering in this world without war…"
Oct. 11, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, doctor, you nearly killed me--but I'm glad it's over anyway." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "I don't understand what people see in baseball--they must be crazy."
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After all, they're the same on both sides of the fence
Oct. 7, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm Napoleon!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is he out?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The first day out we covered 310 miles--we made the jump from chipmunk to tangerine in four
hours…"
Oct. 6, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We had to take a detour when we reached Pottsville…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind
boobs] "The Smiths are the stingiest people in the world--they don't even give their maid enough to eat."
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[So he took it out on his wife] "Well, everybody tells me business is starting to pick up again--I'll go in an sell my old
friend…"
Oct. 4, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mr. Crabflake, I'm glad things are getting back to normal again…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Blind boobs] "How could she marry such an awful looking thing!"
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And the story was never told
Sept. 26, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, tell the folks that story we heard the other night about the two chinamen…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is 'murder' being shown here?"
volume 1964.047 v.13--ffALB, folder 08
Campaign photographs guaranteed to fit any candidate
Aug. 24, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Note: cut around dotted lines and insert head of your favorite candidate. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Use 'evidence' in a sentence…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, that guy must have a wonderful brain…"
July 28, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He hasn't said a word for hours…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "What is the only difference between a one-piece bathing suit and an evening gown?"
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At that, there's no harm in kidding yourself
July 29, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It never gets warm in this house-no matter how hot it is…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Feedin' yer hoss, eph?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 5,739
July 30, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I anticipate some more inclement weather" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "My brother, Ike, will now sing that sad refrain…"
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A few ways for a bashful man to start a summer romance
Aug 5, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hurt this arm in an accident and I always have to hold it in this position" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "So that's an elephant, is it?"
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Give 'em the earth and they want the whole solar system
Aug 8, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It says here that Babe Ruth just scored his 165th home run for the season" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Are you kids playing with that hose again?"
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Every automobile has its official noise-discoverer
Aug 17, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I hear a knock in the motor" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "She heaved a sigh, and then a groan, she gave a shriek…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Here's a picture my niece had taken by the best photographer in town"
Aug 18, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, she's a wonder-I'd like to meet her" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "Ike, can you use the word, Annapolis, in a Dutch sentence?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 6,472,903
Aug 20, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby McBraid wore a uniform bright… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "O, where does love's fond feeling start…"
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A man who's afraid isn't always a coward at heart
Aug 22, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He's afraid to go automobiling. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look
alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the name of King Solomon"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Mrs. Effingham Sobb buys two shares of stock in The Holdup Oil Company…
Aug 23, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Is there any stock on the list that pays 500 percent interest? I'm careful" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, I'll bet you can't make a sentence with the word Borneo in it"
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Ex-champions of all branches of sport give expert opinions on fight
June 15, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Brussels G. Sprouts, ex-champion pancake tosser says… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Out rowin', Ira?"
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The same argument comes up every night at the dinner table
June 17, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, who's the boss in this house? I'll call him " Carpen-teer", he's fighting for American
money-isn't he?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Got your dog muzzled, Jim?"
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The ladies appear on the golf course and almost start a riot…
June 21, [1921]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't watch the ball-I'm too busy laughing" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, superior"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I never saw business so terrible in my life…"
June 23, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I guess I'll have to sell the car and move to a cheaper apartment…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, Babylon"
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[Primary panel is blank, no title given]
July 4, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] [Mike and Ike rolling out dough]
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] One of the members gets a new sewing machine…
July 19, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "These attachments came with the machine" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "My brother will now sing a sweet little ballad, entitled…"
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"I never played golf before but the game is a joke…"
July 21, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll hit that poor little ball so far the caddie…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the work, "alternate""
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A traffic cop's legs need exercise, too
July 25, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Two readers, named Erich Best and Dale Van Pelt, say that… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Did you bump into the wall?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies attend the glassblowers picnic and a member…
July 26, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you mean to insinuate that I'm fat!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, liquid"
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Suggestions for summer drinks that are within the law
July 27, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Door-knob cocktail. Drop an old door-knob in a glass of shellac… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Aren't you downtown today?"
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This competition with movie heroes is terrible!
April 8, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm mad about Wallace Reid" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Well, well,
Horace-got something on your hip?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I can't hear or see very well so I'll get my ticket…"
Apr. 14, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Give me one $2.00 ticket for next Thursday…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike
- they look alike] "Stock brokers transact all their business standing up…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I observe all the rules of politeness because I'm a gentleman…"
April 28, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I never forget to remove my hat when a lady enters an elevator…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is an efficiency expert?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The husbands of the members take a night off to play poker, and promise…
May 10, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's strange-my husband looked happy when he came home…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Has a poor man got a right to own an automobile?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 69,307
May 20, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When this here gazebo plays poker he never displays any sort of emotion… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "It's good stuff and only $4 a bottle"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies take an indoor lesson from a golf professional…
May 24, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Keep your eye on the ball, don't get your ears out of alignment…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What are the two most important things in golf?"
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Rube Goldberg's Boobs…To say nothing of the solid "one-piece" brain…
May 28, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] While the reformers are busy attacking the one-piece bathing suit… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is love?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The husbands, as usual, start the summer season by buying…
May 31, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every year the man in the hat store sends my husband home…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My brother Ike will now render that pathetic little ballad entitled…"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] Prince Achmed Panatella Stogie gives a serious talk on the political…"
June 14, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just as in your own country, my government is divided into three parts…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, make a sentence with the word, vladivostok"
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How should he know it was an evening dress?
June 10, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hurry up, Phillip, and change your things-I'm all ready" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Is your radiator leaking?"
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"Every man must be his own book-binder
May 12, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is fine--now that I've got a little spare time I can start reading my new book."
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Training stunts to keep ball players honest this season
Mar 9, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Some of the politicians ought to do this, too" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "Why do judges wear long, flowing robes?"
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Also, it's the difference of opinion that gives every girl a chance to get a husband
Mar. 14, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm lonesome so I think I'll take in a show tonight…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "Why does every nobleman wear a ribbon across the front of his shirt?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The ladies discover that the amount in their husbands' income tax reports
is more than they accounted for…
Mar. 15, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "According to my husband's income tax statement…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "What is the scarcest form of animal life?"
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Infant prodigies are again springing up all over the place
Mar. 16, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Warren McFrown-six years old-he can play twelve games of marbles at once… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike, what is an infant prodigy?"
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[It costs too much to live and you can't afford to die] "It's twins!"
Mar 17, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What the use? I think I'll drink myself to death" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "What are the two causes of nervous prostration?"
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When you go into a phonograph store be prepared to spend the day
Mar 18, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My wife asked me to stop in here and buy a record…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "What is a member of the leisure class?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 941,650
Mar 19, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The season's most notable social event was the wedding… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "What is an unfortunate man?"
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] A college professor is invited to the club to pull a heavy talk…
Mar 22, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mine is just a simple little creation with $500 worth of paradise" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is poetry?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, I'm glad I'm a musician-I'm all wrapped up in my art and I just hate business"
Mar. 24, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I love my violin with all my soul and have no time to bother with the commercial world" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What did the little boy answer when the teacher asked…"
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Now that they're dumping all the confiscated liquor into our rivers
Mar 25, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This one is on me, Sam" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike]
"What is a war indemnity?"
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Life's little jokes-number 590,007
Mar. 26, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Muriel Marguerite Alice Magundi bought a beautiful bonnet to wear Easter Sunday… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What is the first thing a man must be in order to be great?"
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The golf bug takes out his clubs and starts practicing at home
Mar 30, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "When I give the signal you rush in and do the job quickly…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "What are the three most important features about women's styles?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, I'm happy tonight-I'm going to receive a visit from a war hero…"
Mar 31, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here he comes now, just as big, strong and handsome…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike
and Ike - they look alike] "What is a humorist?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 695,201
April 2, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Septimus Wells was an expert on soil… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] "Ike, what is a doctor's prescription?"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "President Harding says to come right in…"
Feb. 13, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the biggest moment of my life" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I've
got to fire the cook and I'm afraid she'll kill me"
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"Will you try a plate of our hot soup, sir?"
Feb. 15, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine! I just feel like having a plate of hot soup" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "This is the fourth time this hash has been sent back to the kitchen"
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"Too many cooks"
Feb. 16, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is what would happen if you took the advice of all your friends… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I must perform an experiment in surgery right away"
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Life's little jokes -- number 39,880
Feb. 17, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Paul Soupmeat Malone on his birthday each year… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"I wish I could get out to that poker game"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "At last I'm strong enough to go home after being in the hospital for 46 weeks"
Feb. 20, [1921]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The doctors said my operation was one of the worst in surgical history…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "This is the first time I ever went hunting…"
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You can't get a job on the American stage if you speak English
Feb. 21, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The biggest and most popular things on the American stage now are done in Russian… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "That wild horse threw me fifteen times"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The jury awards you $10,000 damages from Joe Stilch"
Feb. 23, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Oo, great!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "It doesn't seem quite cold enough
for skating today"
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It's good there's enough air to go round
Feb. 26, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll take in a good show" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I found
this old razor and got a job as a barber"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "It's a boy!"
Feb. 27. [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, Ezra-I'm the happiest man in the world-I'm the father of a seven-pound boy!" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I haven't pinched anybody for speeding today"
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Look out or you'll be dragged into the dope ring
Feb. 28 [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm groggy from trying to balance my check book" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"My worst enemy gave me this awful cigar"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Yes, I looked at 306 different kinds of cars before I decided…"
Jan. 30, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the steepest hill in town and we're taking it on high" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "There's still a lot of work to clean up here at the office…"
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Why stop dancing during business hours?
Jan. 31, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It is important that we take up the matter of the importation of toothpicks from Algeria' //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Somebody's got to take the fat girl home"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Yes, I'm the fastest stenographer in town…"
Feb. 1, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Great! I'm very lucky to get you" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "The police
saw me swipe this watch and I've got to get rid of it"
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Making a speech isn't as bad as waiting to be called on
Feb 2, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Somebody sent me a ticket to a dinner where there are going to be twenty-eight speakers"
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Life's little jokes -- number 5,790,306
Feb. 3, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A speedy, young athlete was Hanniford Blair, for he won every race as he flew through the air.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I'm thirsty, but I'm afraid of this stuff"
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Rubbers
Feb. 5, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's raining and I can't find my rubbers" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"I must appoint a committee of one to call on 26 sick lodge members"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Darling, I'm the happiest man in the world…"
Feb 6, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Congratulate me, boss-I'm going to marry Susie Succotash…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "You'll have to carry this bundle, madam-we don't deliver"
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It isn't so funny when it happens to you
Feb. 7, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't quite figure it out-but there's always something…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "This snow reminds me of the days I used to throw snowballs"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I want to buy a suit of clothes I wear size '36'"
Feb. 8, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is too small" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "This canyon is 6000 feet
deep"
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Above the grave
Feb. 12, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And so they buried Lincoln? Strange and vain…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Today's a holiday and we only need one man in the office"
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Life's little jokes -- 910,397
Jan. 14 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Saladin Bupp was a man of great might… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they
look alike] Look at the two saps sitting up at three in the morning…
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Nobody has time, and still the barber shops are crowded
Jan. 15, [1923?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must get a haircut today-I look terrible" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Hello, Steve-don't you know…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Listen, Sam, Henry Gish told me that…"
Jan. 18, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He did, did he!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Cousin Steve, the best
people are all moving…"
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It takes time to find out how to save time
Jan. 19, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I must hurry over to the lunch club…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Now,
cousin Steve, the owner of this lot…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 498,773
Jan 20, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Knockout Jack Dempsey Jess Willard McBinns made a living… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Cousin Steve, isn't that a beautiful site for a home? It commands…"
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Unlike Coue, just say these things once and they'll be true
Jan. 22, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Day by day in every way I'm getting poorer and poorer" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "It's a funny thing about me-I like to be made a fuss over…"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Hello, Phil-I just got back from my first trip…"
Jan. 23, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I visited England, France, Germany, Belgium…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Hello, Steve-I hear you bought a lot"
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Who said there's a coal shortage?
Jan. 24, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man, who lives within five minutes… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I
suggested this movie party and paid for the tickets…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Look, Dear-I bought myself the lovliest woolen…"
Jan. 25, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's what I call sensible" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "There's old
Steve Himself"
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Life's little jokes -- number 9,307,886
Jan. 27 [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a giant cigar that is terribly strong… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"I thought they gave me this desk near the window…"
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Appropriate clothes for New Years parties
Dec. 29, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It is advisable to wear your oldest suit so you won't have to worry about your clothes… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "It's 4 A.M. but I'll go over my speech again for the thirteenth time…"
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A happy new year and a cup of coffee!
Jan 1 [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A happy New Year to you, mister newspaper reader…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "The New Year's party of the Sunshine Social club…"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Clyde, I want to show you my new house…"
Jan 2, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, it's all our own idea…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Steve, a man
of your looks, reputation and financial position…"
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Life of a screen idol when movie game is "cleaned up"
Jan 3, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Is awakened at seven A.M. by 88-year-old nurse… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Hello, Steve-sorry I can't stop-got to catch a train…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I've been washing dishes in this lunch room…"
Jan 4, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "John, just to show you how much I appreciate your wonderful services as dish-washer" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "My mail this morning is full of real estate ads…"
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You can't tell whether a woman is stylish or just has a headache
Jan 5, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, were you mixed up in that free-for-all fight, too?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "What's that crowd doing out there in the ante room? I didn't advertise…"
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Winter sports
Jan 8, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Making love to my daughter is one thing-but burning my electric…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Steve himself] "Miss Tillinghast, if any real estate men come…"
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Hello, Lem-I'm celebrating my 88th birthing today…"
Jan 9, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I'm 88 today and I was never sick a day in my life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Hello, Steve-it's lucky we met you…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "At last I'll have enough lights in my home…"
Jan. 11 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I guess the new chandelier is all in place now…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "O, Steve, I'm surprised that a man of your standing…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 469,008
Jan. 13, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Lucifer Bolivar Lancaster Brown on the street was the busiest guy in the town… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Steve, it's certainly fine to have you come out to spend the week-end…"
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[Sure, I know, everything is great!] "The temperature of the water doesn't seem just right…"
Nov. 15, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He goes through this performance every morning… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of
this guy] If you have been riding on a slow train all day…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I read all the new books as fast as they're published…"
Nov 16, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "'Rita Coventry', 'Where the Blue Begins'…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this
guy] If you twist your neck out of joint looking at an aeroplane.
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Life is just one sanitary paper package after another
Nov. 17, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Meet my future wife, Joe-I'd like to give you a…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this guy] If you can't find a comfortable chair in the house.
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Life's little jokes -- number 8,390,007
Nov 18, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This illustrious name on a Vaudeville bill was so big… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this guy] If you're upset because your fountain pen has gone dry…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I've had to twist my head in forty-four different directions."
Nov. 23, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "To get out of my own shadow…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this guy] If the
bath room is always occupied every time…
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[Sure, I know, everything is great!] "Say, do you think I'm John D. Rockefeller? Is there any law…"
Nov. 29, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] How he expressed his views to the family… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this guy]
If you have to eat veal instead of turkey…
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People we envy
Dec. 15, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Great joy is supposed to have come into this man's life… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "That's my last bottle"
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The Grand Canyon is the only place where you can really hid Christmas presents
Dec. 21, [1923?]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Daddy, who's that man with the blank expression on his face?"
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A merrry Christmas and a restful day!
Dec. 25, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This Christmas holiday stuff is great… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Mr.
Butz, I must have an advance of $50 for the table…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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The least important part of a calendar is the calendar
Dec. 27, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a calendar, with the compliments of the bank" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "Listen, Alice, I'm late in asking a girl to the New Year's party…"
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Planning "the little home"
Sept. 8, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Darling, our greatest ambition is about to be realized…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Think of this guy] If your husband's whiskers tickle.
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Life's little jokes -- number 983,335
Sept. 9, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] John Strong, up and down the whole continent's length… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this guy] If they're building next door and the noise bothers you.
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] The Smiths pick up a humorous monologue on domestic strife…
Sept. 12, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And I don't want any more of your hungry relatives…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this guy] If you've had your salary reduced.
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"The doctors are coming to my office today to examine me for life insurance"
Oct. 13, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Your heart has a leaky valve and your diaphragm has carbon" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Think of this guy] If you're tired of being the underdog.
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Why is a head waiter?
Oct. 12, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been sitting here in this restaurant trying to attract that…" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Got a gun, haven't you?"
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[Where have I heard that stuff before?] "These parties kill me - I don't like to drink…"
Oct. 25, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I was out on a wild party last night and…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this
boob] If you haven't a very strong chin.
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Life's little jokes -- number 39,880
Oct. 28, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In college, when football was played, Johnny Mears…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this boob] If your hair isn't the kind that can be dressed…
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[Where have I heard that stuff before?] "It's just my luck to arrive at this wedding just two minutes…"
Nov. 8, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why he got left when the food was served. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this boob]
If you kick because the laundry runis you shirts.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Dear, it's cold outside-you'd better wear your fur coat"
Nov. 9, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My new fur coat just arrived…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this boob] If your
wife carries on an innocent flirtation with the butcher.
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You can't build a house & attend to business, too
Nov. 10, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But I want to give you an order" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this boob] If
you imagine you're up against an embrarrassing situation.
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Life's little jokes -- number 398,711
July 29, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A mean motor cop was John Raspberry Hopper… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do
with Grandpa?] It's about time the strange detective or burglar…
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[Sure, I know, everything is great!] "I haven't slept a wink since I've been commuting…"
Aug. 2, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A few remarks by a gentleman trying to get some sleep in the country. // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [What'll we do with Grandpa?] Grandpa throws all his medicines and pills out the window…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Is ze lady ready yet?"
Aug. 3, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just take a seat, count…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Are they fixin'
the road, mister?"
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Summer ailments
Aug 4, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Beach-neck. An acute pain in the neck… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"You lazy good-for-nothing, are you still in that hammock?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 643,880
Aug. 5, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Neptune Ulysses Othello McForce, when out on the ocean… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Has she got three smokestacks?"
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Hiram J. Scrape, the multi-millionaire soup-ladle manufacturer…
Aug. 15, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Making money is the easiest thing in the world…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of
this guy] If you think it's hot where you are.
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Manufacturers of scales can have this idea for nothing
Aug. 18, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "According to the scales, I can allow myself only one more green pea for dinner" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this guy] If you think you're getting old.
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] The head of the house goes downtown to buy…
Sept. 5, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You see, last night, we were listening to Madam Whosis sing…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Think of this guy] If you kick because your wife makes you carry home a loaf of bread.
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Original postcards, appropriate for all occasions
Sept. 4, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Dear Jack: Having a swell time. Wish you were here. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think
of this guy] If you think you're risking your life when you climb a step-ladder to hang a picture.
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[Where have I heard that stuff before?] "Henry, it's our tenth anniversary so I ordered this $1500 pearl necklace and had
it charged to you"
Sept. 6, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I didn't even know it was our anniversary…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Think of this
guy] If you get only a week's vacation.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Thanks very much for the invitation to dinner…"
July 6, [1922]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, it's twenty-one minutes to seven…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do with
Grandpa?] Just as you are about to call up…
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The sociable week-end guest
July 10, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You take a guest home to the country… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do with
Grandpa?] After making you hunt all over the house for his pipe…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "On the left we have the home for deaf and dumb cats…"
July 13, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Straight ahead is the old Chinese church…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do
with Grandpa?] After hiding that favorite old painting of grandpa's…
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A married man enjoying his summer independence
July 14, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The wife's away in the country and I've got the house all to myself…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [What'll we do with Grandpa?] Grandpa raises an awful howl about his missing cuff…
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Life's little jokes -- number 469,831
July 15, [1922]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When these young married people appear on the street… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll
we do with Grandpa?] After spending five hours assorting all your bills and papers…
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Every man has at least 5,000 friends in the insurance business
July 17, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Bill-let me write you a little insurance policy…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[What'll we do with Grandpa?] "There's a train leaving in 15 minutes"
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Boobs for light summer reading-very light
July 24, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Sinclair Fruitcake, author of "Nothing means less than zero"… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[What'll we do with Grandpa?] Can it be true? Sure it can…
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] Henry J. Parch, prohibition missionary from Sahara…
July 25, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Most of the corners where saloons once stood…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we
do with Grandpa?] Suffering pig's knuckles! He's back already…
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[Sure, I know, everything is great!] "For you're driving me wild, Ma-rie"
July 26, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're jazzing your poor old dad into the poor house…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll
we do with Grandpa?] Ever since grandpa took that overnight trip to the sea shore…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Wolf McLevy, the Argentine assassin"
July 27, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Murderous O'Malley, the Montana monster" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do with
Grandpa?] Even while grandpa eats, the mysterious stranger…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Listen, Phil, I'm 88 years old and I've…"
June 1, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're right, Uncle" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "Ike
will now recite 'domestic smoothness'"
volume 1964.047 v.14--ffALB, folder 09
Consolation for those who don't get any vacation
June 2, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll tell the girls I got this playing golf" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Is the water shallow?"
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Life's little jokes -- number 798,331
June 3, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You think, from this honking, it sounds the approach of a twenty-five passenger gasoline coach.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "My brother, Ike, will now render one-"
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Four men keeping a golf date
June 5, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you expect me to follow it to the laundry and back like a detective?" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Did it go in the water?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I must rush home and tell my wife…"
June 8, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's lovely, dear-I've got everything…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike -
they look alike] "What's the trouble, Mike? You look worried"
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Guide for city folks on vacation in country
June 12, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is a cow-it gives milk, none of which ever reaches the city… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Daddy, are we in the country now?"
volume 1964.047 v.14--ffALB, folder 09
[Our own weekly radio ravings] The radio nut "cuts in" on a piano solo by Bangoffski…
June 13, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The only difference I can see is that the kitchen music is costing me more money" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and Ike - they look alike] "The telephone's astonishing"
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At that, Europe is only a guess
June 16, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This great scholar has been studying conditions in Europe… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "What's the matter, don't you feel well?
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[Our own weekly radio ravings] The summer boarding house manager makes special arrangements…
June 20, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After swallowing the fish-bone, go to the zoo…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Mike and
Ike - they look alike] "This season of the year is best"
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One of those nice chummy help-yourself wedding parties
June 23, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got enough salad down my collar…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Is there a wedding going on here?"
volume 1964.047 v.14--ffALB, folder 10
Life's little jokes -- number 473,880
June 24, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Benjamin Alec Nebraska McPeet despised every person that… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Mike and Ike - they look alike] "I've practiced seven years or more"
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There's only one place to have a picnic in comfort
June 26, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We can't stop here-there are too many mosquitoes" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Did you bring your lunch along?"
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The radio is getting to be a dissipation, too
June 29, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Phil, you've been staying out late and losing…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "You look angry, Henry-aren't you glad to see me?"
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[Sure, I know, everything is great!] "Say, you didn't sell me a car…"
July 3, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She's a wonder-gives me 36 miles to the gallon" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll
we do with Grandpa?] Just before the company arrives for dinner, when the house is full…
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Watching the Independence Day parade
July 4, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here I am surrounded by all the merchants and store-keepers…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[What'll we do with Grandpa?] Of course, grandpa is given one of those luke-warm, hope-you-don't accept…
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Summer sports
July 5, [1922]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Rowing, fishing, automobiling… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [What'll we do with Grandpa?]
"They don't print as well as they uster"
volume 1964.047 v.14--ffALB, folder 11
An important word like "stance" should not be confined to golf
May 4, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In golf, the stance is the position you take for your shots. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Is this the golf department?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 01
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Every time I invite the Smiths for dinner…"
Nov. 21 [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Great idea, dear"
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[Steve himself] "Paprika, dear, the country's the only place…"
Nov. 22 [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Steve, it's wonderful out here…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 01
[People who put you to sleep] "Your winters here seem to be a trifle warmer…"
Nov. 21 [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The uncle from Kansas City who does nothing but talk about the weather.
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 01
[Steve himself] "The people here in assessment manor are all…"
Dec. 13, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If we could only find some well-meaning…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 01
Life's little jokes -- number 837,651
Dec. 15, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A clerk in a bank was Alonzo McShirt…
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 01
[Steve himself] Steve himself-otherwise, everything is great
Dec. 20, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What more do we want, Paprika? Electric light…"
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You can't get away from it
Dec. 27 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I've got a clear conscience…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Telephonies] "Yes my
child is very careful with his toys"
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Christmas greetings from all our little boobs
Dec. 25 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, boys, all together!"
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Our yearly art calendar
Dec. 28, [1923?]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I need coal"
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Life's little jokes -- number 587,663
Dec. 30 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Andrew Saltpeter Svengali McCarty went the limit arranging a New Year's Eve party. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "As president of our little club…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
Announcements for the coming concert season
Oct. 31, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Misha Squeakoff will appear this season… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Good night, is this one of those there piano recitals?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'm certainly proud of my boy, Ralph…"
Nov. 1, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ralph, my boy, I'm proud of you…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "You see,
dear, the lower classes here…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
Life's little joke-number 439,851
Nov. 3, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When you see this tremendous big truck on the road… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "Now, dumb Dora, repeat after me…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
Wives buy expensive furs and husbands suffer
Nov. 5, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Wilbur J. Spendmore just bought a beautiful… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "What, are you wearing furs again?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[People who put you to sleep] "Now, England is making a big mistake…"
Nov. 6, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The bird who has been over in Europe… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I brought
that nice ignorant wife over here…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Ah, here's one of those magazine ads telling…"
Nov. 8 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sure enough, it worked! I've now got…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I
brought paprika over to this country…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 761,873
Nov. 10, [1922]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a wonderful mirror where in should… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"I'm afraid the happiness I expected to get…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[People who put you to sleep] "We have a combination life-accident-and-health policy…"
Nov. 13 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The insurance nut who butts into…
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[But it doesn't mean anything] "Hello, Joe, let's take a walk together and enjoy each other's companionship"
Nov. 14, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fine, Jim-there's nothing I enjoy more than a nice long walk with a pal"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 02
[People who put you to sleep] The traveling man whose whole life is centered around a discussion of food
Nov. 20 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If you ever go to Seattle don't stop at the…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 03
Trick bats that may be used in world's series
Sept. 21 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When the batter swings on the ball… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Are
you in the upper?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 03
Picture of a nervous man leaving for a trip
Sept. 26 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see-I don't want to forget anything…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions]
"Say, mister, are you the lamplighter?"
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The new bell-shaped trousers make us look like a nation of sailors
Sept. 28 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The wide-bottom trousers they're now wearing furnish… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "You bum, did you grab the rocking-chair again?"
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[People who put you to sleep] "You see, the bath-room's here right next to the…"
Oct. 2 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The poor nut who is building a house. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] Dunce
McVacuum, the great detective, working on the Steve…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I want to see Mister Dunglebuzzer…"
Oct. 4 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You can't see him-he's in conference" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] Peter
J. Baloney, the mysterious relative who showed up to claim…
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[People who put you to sleep] "I am glad to have this opportunity to talk to so many millions…"
Oct. 9 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The male movie star who gives a talk over the radio… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] Dunce McVacuum, the brainless detective, having exhausted all clues…
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The right of way
Oct. 10 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Boxing, European muddle, racing… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is he
sliding to his base?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 03
You're no lounge lizard unless you wary patent-leather hair
Oct. 22 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The boys with the highly-polished, lubricated hair… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Is that a sextette?"
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[People who put you to sleep] "Yes, this is some bus-I've gone 38,643.9 miles…"
Oct. 23 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The goof who asks some friends out for a ride… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"So that's Steve Himself!"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I met a wonderful girl today and fell in love with her beautiful hair…"
Oct. 25 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I love you, dear, sweet Marguerite…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Kalushka
zump gazook"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 04
[Life's little jokes] "The Consolidated Prune Company has been making a profit…"
Aug. 25 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A careful galoot was Emanuel Fox, for he figured… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Steve's books are very easy to balance…"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 04
Expert answer question: is bobbed hair going out of style?
Aug. 27 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Simpina Fussbox says:- I'm afraid to bob it and I'm afrain to let it grow… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Exercisin', son?"
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[People who put you to sleep] "Hello, dearest sweetheart honeybunch…"
Aug. 28 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The engaged daughter who calls up her sweetie… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Did Steve owe you anything when he disappeared?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, What an honor! I'm one of the officials…"
Aug. 30 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "All those bums from the office will turn…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"This is a relief to me"
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The sticky drawer, or, why some men commit murder
Sept. 3 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I feel great today-I'll put on my collar and get down to the office early" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Are they having a scrap?"
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[People who put you to sleep] "Say, you birds think you've got big buildings and hotels and movie theatres…"
Sept. 4 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The traveling salesman who is always boasting… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
Steve still missing!
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[But it doesn't mean anything] Lucille Applefritter in A Daughter's Mistake
Sept. 6 [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm tired of seeing stupid pictures all made according to the same formula" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Ah ha! My years of training along lines of scientific deduction lead me to…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I've worked and saved for twenty-four years and it's about…"
Sept. 13, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just think of it-$1200 in cash…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "There's
one thing certain- if Steve's near he can't be far…
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The price of gasoline is as changeable as a woman's mind
Sept. 17, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The price of gas changes so often the gasoline man will soon have to hire… // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Shall I put the gas in here?"
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If they only knew how they looked themselves!
Sept. 19, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's this world coming to? Women walking around…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Are you wearing those knickers again?"
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So, children, be careful when you swat the fly
August 24, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This man committed suicide on account of jealousy because…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Are you wearing those knickers again?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I've got the finest vegetable garden in my neighborhood…"
Aug. 23, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sam invited me out to see his place…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Police
receive mysterious letter giving clue to Steve's whereabouts…"
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[People who put you to sleep] "The goof who always mixes his own salad dressing to the accompanyment of an unimportant but
scientific lecture on the subject."
Aug. 21, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a funny thing about me--I've been all over the world and only met one person who could
really mix good salad…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Steve still among the missing--police put blood
hous on trail…"
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This looks like a fifty-fifty preposition
Aug. 17, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "As long as each one writes every day and appears to be sufficiently lonesome, there's no harm
done." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Have you got a tennis court here?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "You ought to meet my darling husband…"
Aug. 16, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My Alfred is such a stunning man…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "The police
get a clue to the lost Steve's whereabouts--but they forgot to study Chinese when they went to school."
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[People who put you to sleep] "The girl whose brain would be lost on the head of a tack, but who is always talking about her
wonderful family tree."
Aug. 14, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My mother was a Vandersquash--her uncle was the famous General Loafmore…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Steve's mysterious disappearance is broadcast over the radio--where is he, or don't you care?"
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The leaning golf crook
Aug. 13, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This ball is practically in the hole so I won't putt it out…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Are you wearing one of those silly sun helmets, too?"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 05
Life's little jokes, number 73,841
Aug. 11, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "On land Eddie Turnip had courage galore…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"No trace of Steve yet? 463 clues have proven false--where is he? Can you guess?"
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The smaller the drink, the greater the commotion
Aug. 8, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll go out to the pantry and fix you up a drink, Bob." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Wearing furs in this hot weather?"
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This cartoon could go on indefinitely
Oct. 3, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Give me Lumbago 6479."
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Life's little jokes number 9,734. "Annabelle Joy was quite anxious to get something funny and light on her radio set…"
Aug. 4, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Officer, where's Steve? He's been gone from this square for nearly a week"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Dear, have you got a postage stamp?"
Aug. 2, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think you'll find one in my handbag." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Have
you any idea where Steve is?"
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The country's richest men of the future
Aug. 1, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "News item: Dempsey asks cool million for next fight." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish
questions] "Is this a heavyweight bout?"
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[People who put you to sleep] "The bird who struggles through a whole bridge game a week after it's over."
July 31, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I made it a heart, Fred Saltpeter who sat next to me…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "I've been looking all over this square for Steve and I can't find him--I wonder where he is."
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Golf expert shows details of his famous "miss-shot"
July 30, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "In addressing the ball, keep the eyes closed tightly and think of nothing in particular…" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "O, did you miss it?"
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Life's little jokes, number 8,377
July 28, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Queenie McPep's first appearance before us was made in a very small part in the chorus." //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I've been managinbg that bum fighter, Flop Simpson, for a week and he hasn't
been awake long enough to put on a pair of boxing gloves."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "My name is up for membership in a very exclusive golf club…"
July 26, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Congratulations, old man--the membership committee has passed you…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Now, Flop Simpson--I'm your manager and I'm going to train you to fight Dempsey--order a light
lunch."
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Suggestions for useful prizes at ladies' bridge parties
July 25. [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A mallet for hitting your husband on the back when he chokes on a fish-bone…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is that a folding bed?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The girl who talks nothing but clothes
July 24, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I saw the loveliest dress in Dunkwasser's today…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "Don't you remember me, Steve? I'm Flop Simpson, the worst prize fighter in the world--I need a manager."
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Life's little jokes, number 41,776
July 21, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Rutherford Turnip Asparagus Coots always covered his legs to his knees with his boots…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I always land in the front of the boat where the motion is the greatest!"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Say, Mister, how long does it take to get to Banana City from here?"
July 19. [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We've been riding over half an hour as fast as we can go and we're not there yet--let's ask
someone else." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I left the towel down at the other end of the house and
the hall is full of people."
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News of prominent men at popular summer resorts
July 18, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Paul Pinchpenny is spending a very unpleasant two weeks at the Robber's cave house…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Is that a bird house?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The woman who insists on telling the plot of the eight-reel movie she saw the night before
July 17, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's a big shipwreck scene and only two…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"Just my luck to be sitting under a little boy in the gallery eating peanuts."
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Just one of those things
July 16, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It will always remain one of the world's great mysteries why the man with the smallest camera
always specializes in crowds. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Oh, look, is that a snake?"
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Life's little jokes, number 77,006
July 14, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This aristocrat's son, who was Boris by name, was brought up so he'd wed a society dame… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "All the girls seem to like it when the other fellows walk right…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Where is a good place to spend your vacation?"
July 12, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Up at Whangdoodle Falls." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "They invite me
down over the week-end for a rest and then make me a sleep six in a bed."
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The sleveless era for women
July 11, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Women's sleeves are still useful even if they don't wear 'em. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Did you put up the screen, dear?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The woman, who, for no reason at all, starts a long speech about her operation
July 10, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The hospital doctors didn't think I could pull through on account of my frail constitution…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "The first time I put on a pair of new shoes she has to propose a twenty-mile
hike!"
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Life's little jokes, number 8,593
July 7, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Benzoate Mandamus Josephus McSteltz was just coocoo on fishing… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "You're under arrest for poaching on private property."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Hello, Skidmore--haven't seen you in years--what are you doing now?"
July 5, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You look prosperous." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "And I put all my money
in there yesterday!"
volume 1964.047 v.15--ffALB, folder 08
A safe and sane fourth for the children
July 4, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Wasn't that a great idea to have the children hear the noise of the fire works over the radio?"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Celebrating the fourth, my little man?"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- 4th of July
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[People who put you to sleep] The daffy parent who needs no encouragement to bust out with a long speech about his kid - with
illustrations
July 3, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of course, I realize that all fathers are proud of their own chidlren…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "My bathing suit is torn and those two people haven't moved in five hours."
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Get one of our new shine-protectors
July 2, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] For places where everybod steps on the other fellow's feet. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Are you still sitting on the porch?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The bozo who sits down after a golf game and describes all his shots without missing one tiresome
detail."
June 26, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "On the seventh hole I topped my drive and landed in the rough…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "If there's one caddie in the club with a cold, I get him!"
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Enjoy the summer right in your own office
June 25, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The only way to keep the office force from sitting around deaming about their vacations is to
put hammocks right in the office… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Oo, is that lightening?"
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Life's little jokes, number 49,851
June 23, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] From the athletic build of Socony De Rolfe, you would think he was very well fitted for golf.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I've been planning for this day off for six months and as soon as I get
out on the links see what happens!"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I wouldn't marry a girl unless she had eyes like the stars…"
June 21, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I haven't seen Phil for a few years--I'll bet he married a movie queen or an artist's model--his
ideal was perfect." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "And this is the first time I wore this new Palm Beach
suit!"
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"Summer sports."
June 20, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Killing the strange bug that appears on the ceiling just before you get to sleep. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "O, is this the zoo?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The bird who tells the long-winded story of a six-weeks' automobile trip without missing a single
one of the unimportant details
June 19, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "After breakfast, consisting of eggs…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Mister,
I'm lost and you gotta take care of me."
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Sharing the day's catch with the neighbors
June 18, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is the season when lucky fishermen like to share their good fortune with their neighbors.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Does my smoking annoy you?"
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It's a waste of money for some men to pay office rent
June 15, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I feel ambitious today--I'll call on a lot of customers and do a big business." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "That's the first long drive I ever made in my life, and see where I have to play it for
the next shot!"
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Don't forget the cat!"
June 13, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When you lock up the house and go away for the summer, don't forget the cat must keep on eating
to remain alive during your absence… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Why do all the rough kids choose
me as the object of their 'cute' tricks!"
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In the long run, a car is cheaper than walking
June 11, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you think I've got a gold mine concealed in my pants' pockets?" // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Steve himself] "And I took an afternoon off for this!"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Battling Applesauce is a bum--he was knocked out in one round…"
June 7, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I'm glad a punk fighter like Applesauce will never get any of the public's good money
again…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Each of us is supposed to bring an equal share of lunch to the
picnic but I'm the only one that brings enough to eat!"
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Chic way to protect your husband from the one-piece bathing beauties
June 6, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Aw, can't I have just one look?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "What's
that, an electric sign?"
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More marathon champions
June 5, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Horatio Underbrush, who has been arguing with his wife for 58 years--it is still undecided who
has the last word in his family as they are both still talking. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Every
time I walk under a window someone is emptying a waste basket or an ash can!"
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Getting in trim for the summer picnics
June 4, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Take a few bites on the flat-iron every day to strengthen your teeth for picnic sandwiches. //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "You brute, did you kick that dog?"
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Life's little jokes, number 19,384
May 26, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Pilaster Linoleum Tassel McPrime went away for a wild and hilarious time… While Van Sickel Tecumseh
Asbestos Gabest left the whirl of the city for absolute rest… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "If there's
one chunk of chewing gum on the sidewalk and 4000000 people walking past, I'm always the guy to step in it!"
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Picture of a man enjoying a movie
May 25, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Disturbed by a person in back… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "O, is
your house right on the water?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "There goes Henry Goode, the most highly-respected man in town--I wish I had his reputation…"
May 24, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, here I am in New York all alone…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "There
are 40,000 people in the grandstand and I get hit by a foul ball!"
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After all, the face is the most important
May 23, [1923]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You can't blame the men for being curious --but the girls are making it very difficult, with
their hats and neck-pieces--to see their faces at all. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Have you got
shock-absorbers on your car?"
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Aw, give a guy a chance!
May 22, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I was certainly sorry to hear your were so sick…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "I'm so glad I found you in--I'm taking up a collection for the starving horse doctors of Venice."
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Life's little jokes, number 93,864
May 19, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a caddie with muscles like wrought iron bands, he can lift a grand piano in each of his
hands… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I always reach the shower just behind one of those guys that stay
in there for an hour splashing around for no reason at all!"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Smoking has carbonized your valves--you must cut down on your smoking to only one cigar a
day."
May 17, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thanks, Doc, you know best--it's a sacrifice, but I'll take your advice." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "If there's one chair in the room with an uncomfortable back, I get it!"
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It isn't so bad if you lose both of them
May 16, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I lost an earring and the other one isn't any good without it!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Foolish questions] "Did you drop an earring?"
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It isn't so funny when it happends to you
May 15, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's another poor bimbo who allowed himself to be talked into a comic Valentine straw hat."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Mister Steve, I gave your new straw hat to another man by mistake--but
here's a hat that nobody has claimed--you can take it."
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Man has no place on earth during house cleaning week
May 11, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Cut the bottom out of your golf bag and hang out the window like this, so you won't be in the
way while your wife is house-cleaning. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Say, are you still in the house?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "At last they're starting a golf club that doesn't cost a fortune to belong to…"
May 10, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I can go to my golf club without feeling that I'm robbing my children of food and shoes
every time I hit the ball" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "If there are two fat women on the course that
play as fast as a couple of crippled snails, I always play in the back of them."
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "I'm worried about my daughter, Jane…"
May 8, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm worried sick, Sam--it's three in the morning and Jane isn't home from the dance yet…" //
[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "There's a taxi, Steve--I live 16 miles out in the country."
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The bind that break the long-distance dancing records
May 7, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The long-distance dance champions. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Tired?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "You loafter! If you don't get up early in the morning…"
May 3, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Let's see--where's the place to stop that noisy thing?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "Whenever there's any shooting going on, I'm always the 'innocent bystander' that gets hit?"
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At least there's a handy way to carry your keys
April 27, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] An outfit like this would enable you to put your finger on the key you want and avoid all that
trouble of fumbling…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Look, Uncle Steve, we named the baby after you."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "O, Dixie, O, Dixie, that's the place I wanna be…"
April 26, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've always wondered where 'Dixie' really was--I'll go and ask that singer to tell me…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Say, are you the organist?"
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Early to the movies isn't early enough
April 25, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That was a great idea of yours, dear, to have dinner…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "It's always my luck to get here at a time when they're showing everything but the main picture."
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Life's little jokes, number 765,990
April 21, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The office of Sassafras Rutherford Chase is a spacious and costly and beautiful place." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I've been working here fifteen years and no matter what time I come in the hat rack is
always full…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "My son, I put up that 66-story office building to make my name last forever…"
April 19, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor old dad has passed away and I don't know a thing about running the big building…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Whenever it's my turn to listen to the radio I always pick up some fool thing like a
talk on basket-weaving in India."
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Life's little jokes, number 593,881
April 14, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The press printed pictures of Homerun McNear and the experts pronounced him the find of the year.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Let me hold your umbrella, Steve--I'm the tallest."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Let me see a $10,000 pearl necklace."
April 12, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's one that was worn by Princess Takyahatoff, third cousin to the late Czar." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Have a candy, Steve."
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A study in the facial expressions of cocktail drinkers
April 11, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When you nearly strangle on a cocktail your host mixes with furniture polish , hair oil and ink…"
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "You look sore--don't you like to come here?"
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It isn't funny when it happens to you
April 10, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The funniest thing in the world is a man playing bridge with his wife." // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "It was certainly nice of you to come motoring with us, Steve."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I want to marry a good-looking girl but I don't seem to have any luck in meeting one…"
April 5, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's my chance--I'll grab the first beauty that comes out." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Hello, Steve--I just stopped in for a minute because I'm lonesome for you."
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Another bedtime story for the little ones
April 4, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Once upon a time there was a cake-eater whose protruding ears supported a brown low-cut derby
hat…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "Steve, there's something about you that draws people to you."
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It isn't so funny when it happens to you
April 3, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's the biggest laugh I've had in years--Old Joe Flannelcake pushing a baby carraige! Ha
Ha Ha!" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "This invitation says only a few of the biggest men in town are
invited to the meeting."
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Life's little jokes, number 734,932
Mar. 31, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Now, a fine country boy was Young Nicholas Muir, he was raised in the fields, where the atmosphere
pure… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I'll leave my new pin cushion on the couch while I go in to wash
the dishes."
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Time-saving devices for busy business people
Mar. 30, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Cup of coffee attached to the typewriter so stenographers will not have to stop work for lunch.
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I wonder if that paint is still wet[?]"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventions (Goldberg machines)
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "It's like taking poison for me to go and speak at…"
Mar. 29, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This place is full of the worst-looking bunch of dumbells I ever saw…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I'll catch a bear in this trap sure."
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Aw, give the guy a chance
Mar. 27, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My good man, how did you get yourself in this predicament?" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "I just escaped and I've got to get new clothes quick."
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Spring is here and Father knocks the dust off his golf clubs
Mar. 26, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think the long winter layoff has improved by stance…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "This check looks phoney to me."
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Life-saving apparatus for people who ride in taxicabs
Mar. 23, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Heavy spring under high hat to keep you from knocking your brains out when…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I charge the highest taxi rate in town…"
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One way to get even with the noisy family upstairs
Mar. 21, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, everybody, when the clock strikes two…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself]
"My last neighbor went nutty listening to me practice on the cornet and jumped out the window."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Gee, I'm glad to get home after working like a dog in the office all day…"
Mar. 22, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, I feel like a ship that has been all knocked to pieces…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "That mirror's in the way but I'm afraid to move it if I break it, it means seven years' bad luck…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I believe we all should obey the law no matter what our private opinions might be…"
Mar. 15, [1923]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm proud of you, Joe--I'm glad to know one man who's not a hypocrite…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "This income tax blank is so complicated it's got me dizzy."
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A woman's idea of a home is a house full of fancy cushions
Mar. 14, [1923]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look, dear, I put a few cushions around the room to make the place look cozy…" // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "That mysterious package came in the mail this morning."
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Don't breathe--I'm tuning in with a distant station--I've been monkeying with these jiggers for
fibe hours."
Mar.13, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hooray! This instrument is a wonder…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "That
dog looks vicious…"
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Noted Egyptologists interpret hieroglyphics on Tut's tomb
Mar. 12, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Professor Ingomar T. Sausage says: - I translated the inscription…" // [Additional panel(s)
on sheet:] [Steve himself] "It's raining outside and I have no umbrella…"
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The lives of movie stars furnish ninety-nine percent of our conversation
Mar. 9, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Even the atmosphere of the operating room isn't too sacred for moving picture gossip. // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "I need a movie actor to jump out of a seven-story window."
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[Aw, give a guy a chance!] "Hurray! After exercising like a dog for six months I've lost 42 pounds."
Mar. 6, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Congratulate me, Phil--look at my waist-line--I took off 42 pounds in six months." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "We have to leave one man behind on the sinking ship as there's only room for six of us
on the life boat…"
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[BLANK]
Mar. 6, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] [BLANK] // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] [BLANK]
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It isn't so funny when it happens to you
Mar. 5, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You certainly see some funny sights along the road…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve
himself] "The first ball of the season and I knocked it over the fence."
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No one else knows how to pronounce it either
Mar. 2, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Everybody's talking about the great discovery of the tomb of that old Egyptian king who spells
his name…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Steve himself] "That rock has stood for 500 years like that without falling…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Young man, I'm 64 years old and I know what I'm talking about…"
Mar. 1, [1923]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They're all alike--as soon as a woman comes into your life…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:]
[Steve himself] "Everything in the hotel is taken exept Room 13…"
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Our 1925 cross-word calendar
Dec. 31, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Horizontal: what you have in your head when you wake up New Year's morning.
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[People who put you to sleep] The flat-chested string-bean who tells all the office giants how to keep in shape
Dec. 30, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I go to the gym every afternoon, play handball with some big business-men and then walk two
whole blocks to my home…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Mister Butts, I want to introduce you to everybody here so you'll know them next time
you meet them."
Dec. 29, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm not very good at remembering names."
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Out country's name is now Crosspuzzleland
Dec. 26, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You Americans have wonderful statuary in your parks."
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Our Christmas card to you
Dec. 25, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Dear readers: We want to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas…
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[People who put you to sleep] The bird who buys himself a lot of Christmas presents and then fills up the office force with
a lot of boloney about his popularity
Dec. 23, [1924]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I got this cigarette case from a big United States Senator and a bunch of boys got together
at the…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Mornin', Mistah Butts--I'm de Elewatah boy--any Christmas donation will be duly appreciated."
Dec. 22, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I never saw you before--but here's a dollar."
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Our own rules for Christmas shopping
Dec. 19, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If you stand around for an hour without being waited on, it is perfectly all right to help yourself
to anything on the counter and walk out.
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[People who put you to sleep] The female tightwad who feels like the world's greatest philanthropist…
Dec. 16, [1924]
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Looking ahead to Christmas
Dec. 5, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Working up courage to say "no" when his wife asks him for a diamond necklace for Christmas.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, don't forget to stop at fishcake brothers' department store and buy that perfume
for Aunt Lucy's Christmas present
Dec. 18, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "And, Bozo, I want you to get me 25 Christmas cards and a few hundred…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I've got a little cold--but I'll over it by tomorrow the best cure is not to think about
it."
Dec. 15, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bozo, I see you've got a cold--be careful--I buried a cousing of mine…"
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Happy fathers look forward to a great Christmas
Dec. 12, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Aristotle J. Banjo says: "My wife wants a piano, my son wants an auto and my daughter wants a
fur coat…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "In the hazy light of approaching dusk, the wild-eyed Hindu, with a fiendish chuckle…"
Dec. 11, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "She closed her eyes as the swarthy arms of the brute closed about her…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm not familiar with the stations on this road--I've got to meet a man at Elmsfor about
a big…"
Dec. 8, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The next station is BLAASKOOF!"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Hello, is this the consolidated meatball company? I want to talk to Mister John McOnion."
Dec. 4, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, hello--is this Mister John McOnion's office boy--I want to speak to Mister McOnion."
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Radio is destroying the art of conversation
Dec. 3, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boo, hoo--he hasn't spoken to me in two years."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Uncle Bozo, I wanted to get you something appropriate for your birthday…"
Dec. 1, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "O, thanks--that's just what I wanted."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, dear, give me a word meaning 'an Hawaiian breakfast food', in three letters ending
with 'I'."
Nov. 20, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Papa, what is 'an ancient warrior's undershirt' in two letters beginning with 'Y'?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The lazy bird who pays no tax at all and stands around all day…
Nov. 18, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look at John T. Beanblower, the carpet-tack king--he only paid a tax…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, dear, we have to call on Aunt Jenny tonight--she's sore at us because we haven't
been…"
Nov. 17, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "But I want to stay home."
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Football is more than a college game
Nov. 14, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Goals are being kicked in our downtown offices every day.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Now that you've had a shave, you ought to take a massage."
Nov. 13, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "No, that's all--I'm in a hurry."
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Rube Goldberg's books… no brains, no brains!
Nov. 12, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can save seven hours on this job if I go without lunch every day for a while."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I want to buy some toothpaste."
Nov. 10, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fourth floor--carpets, jam, sardines, lawnmowers, hot water bags…"
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[People who put you to sleep] The terrible individual who tells you where he gets all his clothes and what he pays for them
Nov. 11, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just feel that tie--it cost me $3.10 at Fishcake Brother's…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I want to buy some toothpaste."
Nov. 6, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You'll find them up in the hardware department on the sixth floor."
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[People who put you to sleep] The woman who acts as though the whole future of the government depends on her vote
Nov. 4, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Shall I write in pencil or ink? Can I take this ballot home and send it back with a messenger
boy?"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "This elevator has passed me nine times--getting out of this building is worse than breaking
out of jail."
Oct. 20, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There he goes down again."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I made a 93 but I missed six easy putts."
Oct. 27, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "On the fourth hole I made a beautiful drive but it landed in a trap…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Gee, I'm happy--I've got a nice, comfortable seat here in this movie theatre…"
Oct. 22, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I've missed the beginning and lost the meaning of the whole story."
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Now that gasoline is so cheap…
Oct. 24, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Now that gasoline is so cheap, why not put a couple of twin beds on the automobile and save rent?
"Mary, dear, I'll drive down to the office -- then I'll get up and you can run the car over to the park and get little Oswald
ready for school."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "This is terrible--everybody in this neighborhood is learning to play the saxaphone."
Oct. 23, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This music is driving me coocoo--I closed the window and I can still ear it."
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[People who put you to sleep] The doctor who likes to sling the medical terms all over the sick-room and make a slight attack
of indigestion look like a world calamity
Oct. 21, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This case is more serious than I thought it was…"
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The cross-word puzzle mania is getting serious
Oct. 20, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Doctors stop right in the middle of an operation to work on a cross-word puzzle.
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At that, all speakers are pretty much alike
Oct. 17, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fellow voters, as a candidate for a very high and distinguished office, I rely upon you…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Well, I'm all ready to learn how to play Mah Jong-- how does it go?"
Oct. 16, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think we should allow one Chow."
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The next big invention will be the collapsible automobile
Oct. 13, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The people in my office will think I'm dead--I've spent the whole morning roaming around…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] TONIGHT SIX ROUND CONTEST: DEADLY DUGAN … VS. CUT-THROAT CURTIS…
Oct. 9, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Those fellows must be like a lot of wild animals--Iguess it isn't safe to be with them unless
you're armed."
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The bobbing habit is getting real serious
Oct. 8, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Father can't be dignified any more.
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After moving into the new apartment
Oct. 6, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Henrietta, where's my pipe?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'd give my right hand for a taste of home-cooking--the only kind of people I ever meet are
waiters and hat-boys…"
Oct. 2, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Susan, my love, your eyes shine like a new set of dishes and your hair…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Where is there a writing desk in this hotel? I want to write a letter."
Sept. 25, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Up on the next floor, the fourth corridor on the left at the end of the hall."
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[People who put you to sleep] The speaker at the big luncheon club who tells how he made his wonderful success in the butter
and egg business
Sept. 30, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My career should be an inspiration to all you young men who are trying to do big things in this
world…"
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Waiting for an empty telephone booth
Sept. 19, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I came here as a little boy to call up my parents and tell them…"
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Children should be trained for apartment house life
Sept. 17, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Cram your little boy into an ordinary bucket every day so he'll feel fairly comfortable…
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[People who put you to sleep] The bozo who thinks a long speech must go with every bottle he opens
Sept. 16, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I hope you guys appreciate what I'm giving you--this is very special prewar stuff…"
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Don't throw your old straw hats away
Sept. 15, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not try putting your old straw hat on the phonograph? There may be a tune in it, at that!
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Why not let the polo ponies do something between polo games?
Sept. 12, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Running the bases on horseback would make baseball more exciting.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Every time I come home I find nothing but bills, bills, bills!"
Sept. 8, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry, Joe."
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An idle woman can certainly keep busy
Sept. 8, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, the boss told me I could take an afternoon off this week--isn't that fine!"
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Winners of our new bathing beauty contest
Sept. 5, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Miss Ohow Dumb, whom the judges crowned Queen of the Bath Tub…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "This road-map shows a fine, straight road into Ash-can Valley--it is just fifteen miles from
here…"
Sept. 4, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the ninth detour we have had to make."
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[People who put you to sleep] The candidate who thinks all he has to do to show his qualifications for office is to call his
opponent a bum and a crook
Sept. 2, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My opponent in this election is a liar, a horse-thief, a firebug and a wife-beater…"
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The further away from home the better the score
Sept. 1, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Jim--my golf improved a lot on my trip--I made an 88 over in England."
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It's all right to lie if it makes you feel cooler
Aug. 29, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Whew! It's hot in this house! I think I'll call up some of my neighbors and see how they are…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Phil, here are some books to read on your ocean trip."
Aug. 28, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thanks--you're so thoughtful!"
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[People who put you to sleep] The bird who classes himself among the world's greatest heroes because he cut out smoking
Aug. 26, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I used to smoke fifteen cigars a day--but the doctor told me I'd have a nervous breakdown if
I didn't cut out smoking…"
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Counting a Mah Jong score is worse than settling a war
Aug. 25, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Dawes Plan conference was a kindergarten class compared to an ordinary Mah Jong game…"
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More foreign fighters to visit America
Aug. 22, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mohamet Balogna, the terrible stoogie of Turkey, weighs 382 pounds and is here to fight…"
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"Dearest, I know that you haven't suspected what has been on my mind all these months…"
Aug. 21, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I've rehearsed that proposal 44 times and I know every word of it by heart…"
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Crowds and crowds
Aug. 18, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] They rush away from this… "Aren't these crowds terrible -- I don't see how they can live in this
congestion."
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You guessed it -- he's running for office
Aug. 15, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Shake, Senator--don't you remember me? I'm Henry Sausagecake who used to sit next to you in…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Say, you bums back there, close your faces--we can't go any faster."
Aug. 14, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Stop crowding us, you poor idiots."
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Consolation for those who don't get vacations
Aug. 13, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If you don't get a vacation--think of the guy who comes back from one all tired out and finds
a month's work piled up on his desk.
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Why postpone the inevitable?
Aug. 11, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, I can't quite make up my mind--sometimes I want to have my hair bobbed and sometimes I
don't…"
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Don't try to answer this
Aug. 8, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it when you make a beautiful shot like this there's never a soul looking…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I'm tired of staying indoors playing Mah Jong--I'm going to the country…"
Aug. 7, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Balogna House Bus, sir?"
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One of those acrobatic direction-givers
Aug. 6, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister, will you please tell me how to get to Blinkville?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The girl who married an imitation of a man and thinks she has to keep boosting him all the time
to keep people from seeing what a terrible flop he is
Aug. 5, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't he a darling! He doesn't look so well tonight because he had sucha busy day…"
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Society is enjoying the hardships of dream [?] travel
Aug. 4, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The rich Mister Oofington Plunk is traveling very simply…
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Why do they always keep reminding you of it all the time?
Aug. 1, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Doctor, I'm dying from the heat--what shall I do?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "You're the sweetest, most adorable, most beautiful, most wonderful, most bewitching…"
July 31, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sweet heart, my vacation is over and we have to part for the present--but your image is engraved
upon my heart and my love for you will…"
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You can't blame the poor kid
July 30, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, my son, don't act so fidgety--never jump up and down like that--learn to keep quiet."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Our country is in wonderful condition--we are now passing through a great era of prosperity…"
July 24, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's worth $50,000,000 and he ought to know what he's talking about…"
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Everything grows in the country but not water
July 23, [1924]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've only got eight more days to wait for this water to get warm."
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Why there are two political parties
July 18, [1924]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I tell you, the Republican Party is the only party and any man who votes the Democratic ticket
is a bum."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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Gossip from our summer hotel
July 16, [1924]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Puddlesauer's husband comes down for week-ends and gives her a chance to get away from the
boys for a little rest.
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Enjoying a new house
July 11, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think I'll go home early today and see how my wife is enjoying the new house I just furnished
at great expense."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "I've got to get away to the mountains for a few weeks--they heat in the city is killing me."
July 10, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, this is beautiful and cool--I'll be at the hotel in half an hour."
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Country beds change the shape of the human race
July 9, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is how you look after going to a summer hotel and sleeping in one of theose beds with a
hill in the middle.
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[People who put you to sleep] The bug who expects people to think he's got brains because he memorizes a lot of unimportant
facts
July 8, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, do you guys realize that all the oceans in the world cover…"
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Only way to save time and travel while touring
July 7, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not arrange the seats like this so your guests can read all the direction signs and save
you…
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Safety first!
July 4, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "STAND BACK!"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- 4th of July
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "So long, Ed--I'll leave you in charge of the office--I'm going away for the week-end."
July 3, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's been away four days already and I'm nearly dead from doing two-men's work."
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"Ain't nature wonderful!"
July 2, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's wonderful to be out here in the glorious country where nature reigns in all her primitive
glory."
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[People who put you to sleep] The pest who insists on telling you where to go for your vacation
July 1, [1924]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, John, there's only one place in this country to go for a vacation and that's Lake Poppledunk…"
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It's good two faucets weren't leaking
June 30, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah, a slight leak in the faucet--I'll call the plumber just to be on the safe side."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "The Cheeseville 'Happy Six' will now sing 'Apricot Days.'"
June 26, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My girl ran off with another, my life is a total wreck…"
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Three generations -- and still in the hole
June 25, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Our forefathers dug a hole and fought off the serpents of the earth with a club…"
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Valuable vacation hints
June 23, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When going away on a vacation, it is always a good idea to take a tooth-brush along--you may
need it to clean the magneto on your car."
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New York hotels are bursting with statesmen
June 20, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The New York hotels are so full they'll have to use the check rooms.
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Another candidate is notified of his nomination
June 13, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Dad is nominated by acclimation to be the family goat.
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A short story about an elevator
June 11, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Going up--floors please!"
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Importance is only a matter of geography
June 9, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The delegate leaves for the national convention.
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This looks like a fifty-fifty proposition
June 6, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Aw, Joe, come on home--it's one-thirty and I'm half-dead."
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Why is an investigation?
June 4, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pardon me, but could you tell me what happened to the oil scandal?"
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[People who put you to sleep] The goof who hangs around the race track picking winners--but never cashed a bet in his life
June 3, [1924]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I was talking to a guy who knows a guy who knows a bimbo who knows a bird…"
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Even greatness has its disappointments
June 2, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A prominent man, arriving in town, feels flattered when he is asked to pose for forty or fifty
photographers who meet him at the station…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "It's six A.M. and I still have to get up to call for the boys in my car--our golf foursome
arranged to start at seven o'clock to avoid the crowd."
May 29, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll be with you as soon as I finish dressing and eat breakfast and get an important long-distance
call on the phone."
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[People who put you to sleep] The saleslady who gets all wound up on one of those "I says--she says" spiels
May 27, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "And I says to her, I says, 'Don't put on any dog with me--I knew you when your hair was black'--and
she says…"
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Two citizens discuss government affairs
May 26, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a crime the way congress is letting the tax matter drag along."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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Is Sunday motoring a pleasure?
May 23, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Notice the expressions on the faces of the Sunday motorists as they crawl along the crowded road…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "And I want to say that Candidate Jones is a liar and a crook and a menace to the public welfare."
May 22, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fellow voters, look out for that bum, Candidate Smith--he's a sneak and a scoundrel and should
be sent to jail."
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[People who put you to sleep] The bug who invites you to his house to tell you the history of all the antiques he "picked
up" in Europe
May 20, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I picked up this chair for 86,000 Francs in a little shop in Bar-Le-Duc, France--Napolean used
to sit in it when he had one of his…"
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[People who put you to sleep] The girl who tosses this line of chatter over the phone and keeps you standing around…
May 13, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello--guess who this is--aw, go on, try and guess--don't you recognize my voice?"
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Life's little jokes, number 789,630
May 10, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a golf score that's good in the snappiest crowd, and the fellow who made it should feel
very proud…
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Spring poetry and romance are in the air
May 9, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] In spring, romance hits all classes alike.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "We four guys control the town--who'll we nominate?"
May 8, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We have a lot of fine men in this town--I hope one of them runs for office."
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[People who put you to sleep] The girl whp knows more about the movie stars than they do about themselves
May 6, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, girls--I have a friend who is very close to one of the big film producers…"
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Which shall it be -- radio or movies?
May 2, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The biggest problem in life these days is whether to go out to the movies or stay at home with
the radio.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "My good man, how can you look so happy after just being knocked down by an automobile?"
May 1, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have an accident insurance policy that will cover all my expenses."
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Great orators rehearsing for big conventions
Apr. 30, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Privately rehearsing different positions that will make an impression on the crowd.
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[People who put you to sleep] The deadly sap who can't be stopped from describing one of his "Big Parties."
Aug. 29, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I'll tell you it was some party--first we stopped at the club…"
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Who said dancing was dying out?
Apr. 28, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why can't a cop have a little pleasure, too?
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The only time they have to rest is during business hours
Apr. 25, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hey, Rip Van Winkle, wake up--what do you think this office is, and opium joint?"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Dear, I'm going to bed and read my book--there's no greater pleasure than reading in bed."
Apr. 24, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's been reading that book in bed every night for a week--I'll ask him to tell me the story
of it…"
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There are still a few honest men left in this country
Apr. 21, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man's name will no longer be dragges into the oil investigations--he has a clean record--he
hasn't a nickle, never have and never will have."
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Every father has the habit
Apr. 16, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Those boobs have been standing in the middle of the street for an hour--I'll have to run 'em
all in for blocking traffic."
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "Ah, here's just what I want--bring me some of that stewed tripe."
Apr. 10, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry sir, but we're all out of that--is there anything else you'd like?"
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This suspense is terrible
Apr. 9, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Seventeen anxious fans have already starved to death waiting for the score board to go up.
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[People who put you to sleep] The girl who is dying to have her hair bobbed but hasn't the nerve
Apr. 8, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Do you think I'd look well with my hair bobbed? You know, Leonard thinks my hair is one…"
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The Teapot Dome scandal has at least put a new phrase in our language
Apr. 7, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The words "teapot dome" have had a great effect on jazz.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "It's time to get up and go to work, Jim."
Apr. 3, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's my wife calling me on the phone--I'm too tired to answer."
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Different varieties of handshakes
Apr. 2, [1924]
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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 like a man pumping up a bicycle
tire.
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Our great international puzzle
Apr. 1, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Study the picture carefully and get it well fixed in your mind.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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The story of a window
Mar. 31, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This breeze is great--there's nothing like working near an open window."
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Dark horses for presidential nomination announce their platforms
Mar. 28, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Gilbert J. Celluloid says…
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Men have nothing they can call their own
Mar. 26, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The women are crowding us out of our barber shops.
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Going radio advertising one letter
Mar. 24, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The radio is being hooked up with all kinds of advertising gags…
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It's hard to remember names at a party
Mar. 21, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It is hard for the guests at a big party to remember one-another's names…
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "You'd think my friends had a contract with the city to remove all the dirt in town and smear
it over my best carpet."
Mar. 20, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the biggest door-mat I could buy--I'll put it out here right in front of the door where
they can't help but see it."
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[People who put you to sleep] The woman who thinks her dog is the only thing in the world that counts
Mar. 18, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Suzanne is a full-blooded Swiss-chocolate spaniel--she's the darlingest thing--my hustand
threatened to leave me because he objects to Suzanne sleeping with us at night…"
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It's alll in making the break
Mar. 17, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen here, woman--if you eber bob your hair I'll get so wild you'll drop dead of fright before
I have a chance to kill you…"
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If you dislike carrying bundles, don't learn to play mah jong
Mar. 14, 1924
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When you go calling they alwayd ask you to bring your mah jong set with you--so why be burdened
with carrying a big bundle when you can fix up an arrangement like this?
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The social outcast
Mar 7, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Right now, it's just a question of how long the old bridge fiend can hold out against the ever-increasing
ravages of mah jong." "Am I the only one in my family that's got any intelligence left! Night after night they sit around
playing with little Chinese blocks…"
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "She's kept me waiting here two hours while she's primping herself up--she must think she's
going away on a trip."
Mar. 6, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We're pretty late for the show, but I guess we'll catch the last part of the second act anyway."
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Life is just one date after another
Mar. 5, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The day's work is over and I'm all fagged out -- now for dinner and a nice early hay." [On back:
sketches of peoples' faces in pencil.]
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[People who put you to sleep] The goof who trots out the old family photographs without the slightest bit of encouragement
Mar. 4, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's a picture of me taken when I was four years old--the fellow standing next to me is either
Joe or Sam--no, I think it's John…"
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Exercise shouldn't interfere with business
Mar. 3, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A business man doesn't have to go to a gymnasium to get exercise--why not do this and keep in
trim without neglecting your business?
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Every bachelor should take leap year precautions
Feb. 29, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If you're afraid a girl is going to propose to you, take a dummy along so she'll think you're
not alone. "I hope you won't mind if I bring my friend along with me."
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[Steve himself] "I'll never be unkind to dumb animals again--now I know what it means to be a horse--if I got $50,000 a year
for this job I'd still be underpaid."
Feb. 28, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "A little more pep, Steve."
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[People who put you to sleep] The clerk who spends his working hours telling the rest of the office force how little the boss
kows about his own business
Feb. 26, [1924]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Did you ever see such a sap as the boss? He just got where he is today through dumb luck--he
doesn't know any more about running a business than a fish does about mountain-climbing…"
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If truthful George Washington were alive today
Feb. 22, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] What Washington would say on going out to dinner. "Well, here we are for dinner, Mrs. Jones --
we would rather have stayed home, but we came as a matter of duty."
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[Steve himself] "Hey, you, get off the sidewalk with that chariot--all vehicles must travel in the street."
Feb. 21, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "But this is my Uncle Bozo from Walla Walla." [Title addition:] "now he's a human taxi."
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[Steve himself] "Here I am pushing Uncle Bozo around all day and what do I get out of it? Nothing but laughs from the neighbors'
children and a lot of work for my shoemaker."
Feb. 18. [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What are you thinking about, Steve?" [Title addition:] "He tries to commercialize his talents."
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Something new in trousers
Feb. 15, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Have you seen those latest-style English pants with the tucks around the waist? Why worry about
future wars? The men seem to be getting more ladylike all the time.
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To our Valentines
Feb. 14, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] There isn't much outside your head, there's less inside your dome, but still, although there's
nothing there, we need you in our home.
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[But it doesn't mean anything] "They'll look me over very critically at Mrs. Van Platinum's party tonight so I must look my
best--I'll spend two hours shaving so I'll look perfect."
Feb. 13, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I had this suit made specially for the party -- when they take in all the details of my swell
clothes they'll know I'm class." [Some printed text is on the back of cartoon.]
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[Steve himself] "Steve, wheel me over to the bureau--I want to get a handkerchief."
Feb. 11, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Uncle Bozo." [Title addition:] "Uncle Bozo is quite a care."
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Only way to keep hair tonic off the parlor chairs
Feb. 1, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The oil and hair tonic people are putting on their heads spoil all the nice silk upholstery on
the backs of the parlor chairs…
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Who said "peace on earth"?
Jan. 25, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The noise of that mechanical piano drives me crazy--I'll go in the next room."
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[Steve himself] "Come in, Steve and Paprika--we're going to have sixteen for dinner."
Jan 14, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Great Scott, I spilled a shaker full of pepper in one of the cups of coffee and I forgot which
one -- an I haven't got time to pour out fresh coffee." [Title addition:] "A hot one on Steve."
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Life's little jokes -- number 399,751
Jan. 12, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Eric Van Bean was a diplomat great who could settle big matters of country and state…"
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[Steve himself] "Yes, I'm the most jealous husband in the world--if I ever find any other man in this house I'll shoot him
deader than King Tut's grandfather."
Jan. 10, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My memory is as long as a snake's eyebrows--Paprika asked me to stop at Mrs. Swivel's house
for her lemon squeezer and I forgot the number--I'll go in here and ask the lady if I can use her phone."
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[People who put you to sleep] The woman who thinks the only important thing in the world is the trouble she has with her maids
Jan. 8, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "You have no idea what I've gone through with servants--the last maid I had was a Finn named
Blunka--she wasn't a bad cook, but she was so extravagant…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 87,398,541
Jan. 5, [1924]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a fine husky fellow with legs quite as shapely as those of Apollo…
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And so the four bums wandered down the path of time into history
Jan. 1, [1924]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "On your way, bums, on your way."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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And this man is considered perfectly sane
Aug. 31, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "John, here's your suitcase. Now you can pack for your two-weeks' trip." "I wouldn't carry a
thing like that for a million dollars -- you know I hate packages and bundles."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 27, [1925]
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1 drawing
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Help, help, HELP!" "Gee, that was a narrow escape -- no more ocean bathing for me -- what's
the use of kidding myself? I can't swim, I get chills in the waters and I have a punk time."
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They're long distance calls because the goat is far away
Aug. 26, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Zilch, you're wanted on long distance." "Now, I wonder who could want me on long distance
-- it must be important -- maybe my uncle in Indianapolis is dead."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 25, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Van Scribble, I feel honored to meet a great celebrity like you -- I've read all your
books -- this is a big moment for me." "What a disappointment -- I thought he'd say something worthwhile -- no more celebrities
for me -- they all look good when they're far away."
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Rain seems to be purely mental
Aug. 24, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When she wants to go to a movie. "Say, are you crazy? Look at that rain! Nobody but a deep-sea
diver would want to go out on a night like this…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 709,883
Aug. 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] J. Caesar Wrangdoodle McDeuces de Pout was so busy at poker he never went out… …while another
gazabo, named Ozone McClure, liked the great out-of-doors where the air is so pure!
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Father's and daughter's ideas are a little different
Aug. 21, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Young man, you say you want to marry my daughter -- are you educated? Do you come from good
people? And are you respectable?" "I'm a college graduate, my father is a minister and I never smoked or drank."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Run along with your young friends and don't bother about me -- I had my fun when I was young
like you -- I belong to another generation." "I've got a flask and I know a great joint where they play wonderful jazz."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 18, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I could kick myself for wasting the afternoon at a ball game -- the umpire's a robber and the
players are all bums -- I'm through." "Henry, things are quiet in the office -- you can take the afternoon off."
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Life's little jokes -- number 694,301
Aug. 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A bird by the name of Doremus McTosh to the laundry each week sent this bundle of wash… …while
the bundle sent out by Polemus de Coke was so small that the laundryman throught it a joke?
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If they cut it any shorter they'll be bald
Aug. 14, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It's very puzzling to a child. "Daddy, will you please raise a beard so I can tell you and mother
apart."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 13, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thank goodness that's over with! I never want to see another dentist as long as I live. I was
in the chair six hours." "I'll keep trying this corn till I get a tender piece."
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Everybody's trying to master the "Charleston."
Aug. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Society women spend most of their time in the kitchen taking "Charleston" lessons from the cook
-- it does some good anyway -- it gives them a chance to see the kitchen. If the "Charleston" craze keeps spreading we'll
all be walking that way."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug.11, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "No more Sunday motoring for us -- here we are getting home at ten o'clock at night after crawling
along crowded roads all day -- it's terrible. "No king has anything on me -- I've got everything I want right here."
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Golfers, brooding over disappointments, end lives
Aug. 10, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This golfer had a score of 94 for 17 holes--her was sure of breaking 100 for the first time in
his life--on the 18th hole he took 7 to get out of a trap and got a 12…"
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 7, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The doctor said if I was any more sunburned they could put some onions on me and serve me as
a steak--if I could walk, I'd go to the phone and turn in a fire alarm--I'm burning up…"
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Our barber has only two hands
Aug. 4, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got the best barber in town -- I'll give you his name if you don't tell a soul -- just
go to the Blitz Hotel and ask for Peter." "Now promise me you won't tell any of the other girls about it -- but if you want
the best bob in town go to Peter at the Blitz Hotel."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Aug. 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of all the tramps in the world, Kid Thicklip and Battling Gooseneck are the worst -- those two
bums have done everything but kiss eachother -- why didn't they bring their mah jong sets…" "I see where Kid Thicklip and
Battling Gooseneck are matched for a return bout."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 31, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If I ever buy a second-hand car again, I'll have it thoroughly tested before I pay for it --
I've had this car two weeks and the only time it went was when it went to pieces." "Gee, dear, it's terrible to be without
a car on Sunday -- I've read the papers over four times and I don't know what to do with myself."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 29, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "What a boob I am! Here I bring Susie to the dance and she's so popular she hasn't even got time
to look at me -- no more good-looking girls for me." "Next Saturday night I'm going to pick out the homeliest girl I can find
and take her to the dance -- then I'll at least have her for myself."
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How to overcome crowded golf courses
July 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] You could cut the time in half by making two dubs use one club. Shower-arrangement to get slow
foursomes off the green after they've finished putting.
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It was a tough job -- but I took off forty pounds after dieting for six monthts." Eat at the
"Broken Bottle" -- all you can pack in for 50 cents.
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Life's little jokes -- number 591,382
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Far out to the country went Brewster McZesh, for he wanted the food that he ate to be fresh…
…while Reuben de Corn had enough of the land, so he went to the city for food that was canned…
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 17, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's our Assemblyman -- he promised us everything before election and never lived up to a
single promise." "Next election we'll pick out a real, fine man who has the interests of the people at heart -- they won't
fool us again with phoney election promises."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Doctor, I'll never touch another drop of liquor again -- that last drink nearly finished me."
"You're flirting with death when you take a strange drink."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There isn't a word spelled right in this whole letter -- I'm through with beautiful stenographers
-- they're all dumb -- I'll advertise for one with brains." "I was secretary to the head of the Steel Trust for fifteen years."
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Life's little jokes -- no 709,883
july 11, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The eyes of Adolphus de Cammembert Steele were as large as the lights on an automobile… …while
the eyes of John Fay were so terribly small you were almost convinced they were no good at all…
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 10, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Erick, I want you to meet my niece from Indianapolis -- she's beautiful." "Gee, I'm lucky --
beauty in a fine, aristocratic, wealthy family is a rare thing."
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It takes a landscape gardener to play golf
July 9, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They're very fussy about the rules around here." "I guess I took a litle too much turf."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 6, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You two ought to be ashamed of yourselves sitting around here gossiping about everybody in the
hotel." "Yes, I told them how terrible it was to talk about people all the time."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 3, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll start with some clams, soup, fish, chicken, salad, fruit, ice cream, cheese…" "At a rough
estimate, that will cost about $23.15."
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A natural mistake
July 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's a man over there taking his exercises right on the street." "I've tried a lot of different
ways to reduce but I weigh even more than ever."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
July 1, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "How can you be so dmb! You bid hearts without the ace, king queen, jack…" "Aw, go sit on a tack
-- you make so many mistakes I get dizzy trying to keep track of them."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
June, 29, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been in this summer hotel a little over a week and I've been bitten by everything except
the proprietor." "It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see three or four alligators fly in here and eat up my bed."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
June 24, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've been in Europe two months getting gypped out of all my money and now I'm so seasick on
the way back I'm nine-tenths dead -- the only part of the trip I enjoyed was thinkong about it before I started." "Back to
the good old U.S.A. at last! I'll never go further away from home again than the corner drug store."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
June 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I got it stright from a guy who knows an uncle of one of the jockeys -- play 'Cheese-cake' in
the third." "I never made a bet before -- but it sounds reasonable."
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Life's little jokes -- no 55,938
June 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A bird by the name of A. Fingerbowl Pipp studied pamphlets and maps when he went on a trip… while
a goof named McScoot, when away he would fly, simply put on his derby and mumbled 'goodbye'…
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They never have your size
June 18, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want size '9-C'." "Try this 'Business Men's Nobbly-toed Hustler' -- you can wear size '8 1/4-D'
in this style."
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The dance of life
June 16, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The new-comer arrives without a girl. "I guess I'll have to cut in."
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[They all come back for more] "I guess I'll have to cut in."
June 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, there's a sale of dresses at Fishmeyer's -- it opens at 8:20 -- I'll be there at 7: 15."
"360 other women got here before me -- they must have been here all night."
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Life's little jokes, no 491,835
June 13, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When he went to his lunch, J. Asparagus Gore stayed away from the office three hours or more…
…while, when out to his lunch went Ignacius Winnets, he was back at his desk in a couple of minutes…
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more: "And, now, I will devote the next two hours of my speech to
a discussion of the Impsk, the little Egyptian insect that is gradually eating its way into the pyramids."
June 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Awful! I can't stand it."
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Where to stay for your vacation
June 11, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If you don't like crowds and want a real , quiet, cool vacation, go to the North Pole. If you
want to take a vacation within your modest means, go to jail -- there are many simple ways to get there, which you can figure
out for yourselves.
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
June 10, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Judge, she threw me down the stairs and bounced a grand piano off my head." "I grant you an
absolute divorce."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
June 8, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't do that -- don't you know there's a law against getting the park all messed up?" "I have
nothing to live for -- I invested all my money in a fake stock to make diamonds out of sawdust and I'm more busted than a
toy balloon among a lot of cigarette butts."
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Ocean bathing should be very popular this summer
June 3, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a shame to dump all this liquor overboard -- but law is law." "Where did he get it?"
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Those short skirts don't behave when you sit down
June 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not put curtains on chairs to avoid embarassment from short skirts? When a young man calls
on you, you can put his head in a brace so he can't look down.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Keep your head down and follow through."
June 1, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You seem to be moving everything but the ball."
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Life's little jokes -- no 859,370
May 30, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A fighter named 'Slaughterhouse' Billy de Mille fought each night and gave everyone thrill after
thrill…. While the chamption just loafed like a lazy old thing, and not once in a year did he enter the ring…
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm getting on to a few of the fine points in golf--I'll follow that player for one hole
and see if I can't learn something about keeping score."
May 28, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's been in the water four times."
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Movie stars appear in person -- why not others?
May 26, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Just as in the movies, business in the drug store could be boosted by the personal appearance
of stars. John Whiteneck, President of the Whiteneck Soap Company, will be in here in person and wash his own neck with a
cake of Whiteneck soap at 2:15 this afternoon.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Yes, Bozo, if you want to join a golf club it will cost $500 for the initiation fee,
$175 a year for dues and there are always a lot of extra assessments."
May 25, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why should I go broke playing golf? I'll play on a public course."
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Somebody said, "comparisons are odius."
May 27, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'm the happiest man in the world -- I just had my salary raised to $50 a week -- nobody
can say I haven't made good." "It says here that Dempsey is gonna get $6,000 a week for a theatrical engagement over in Berlin."
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Life's little jokes -- no 703,924
May 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The nose on the face of Cadwallader Hall, when viewed from the front, looks both chubby and small.
While this view of the nose on Horatio Bing shows his beak as a large and a prominent thing.
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Life's little jokes, no 509,883
May 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a face that's the Acme of every man's dream, it's the zeabra's pajamas -- the peaches
and cream… …while here is a mug that's an awful disgrace, for it looks like an omlet instead of a face…
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There's romance in this beautiful spring air
May 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "George, I have some important business for you to attend to." "Doris, this spring weather gets
into your blood…"
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Spring fever
May 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, this beautiful spring weather makes me feel lazy -- I can hardly keep awake." "Hold up
your hands!"
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They should hold some of the June weddings in November
May 19, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look, Josie -- I've got $150 in the bank, just enough for a nice two weeks' vacation for the
both of us this summer." "That's grand, Otto -- we both need a change -- it'll be a second honeymoon."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "How peaceful everything is out here in the country!I'ts wonderful to be alone amidst
the quiet charm of the beauties."
May 18, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fore!"
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That's right, you're wrong!
May 8, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ha! Ha! Ha! Carrying an umbrella on a day like this -- Joe, I thought you had more sense --
it can't rain today -- not one chance in a million." "Don't you know it never rains when the sky is light blue and the wind
is north-easterly by south? Any fool knows that."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "This is the first afternoon tea I've ever been to--but I've got to start sometime--I
won't ask any questions."
May 7, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Have a piece of cake with your tea, Mister Butts." "Thanks."
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, number ninety-eight
May 5, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The girl who trots out all the old photographs that have been in her family for the last fifty
years. "There's my grandfather in his civil war uniform -- he slept with General Grant -- and here's my uncle Rutherford who
started John D. Rockefeller…"
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Life's little jokes -- number 690,841
May 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A wealthy galoot was Josephus De Rose who on week-days was dressed in the finest of clothes…
..while a garbage-collector named Amos McShove plied his trade in the clothes you see pictured above…
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New collars for sensible men -- just out [?]
May 1, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The 'looseneck' for men who are bothered by the back collar-button can also be worn as a belt
or carried as a spare for the flivver. The 'noiseless' fits well around the ears and shuts out all sound -- very popular during
after-dinner speeches.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm giving a party and I bought plenty of 'buffalo' cigarettes for my guests."
Apr. 30, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Have a 'buffalo.'"
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no ninety-seven
Apr. 28, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The gabby woman who reads all the unimportant news out loud. "What do you think of that? A man
in Syria shot his wife because she refused to lift the piano while he looked…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, don't exercise that way--it's bad for your chest--I'll tell you how I do it every
morning."
Apr. 27, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bozo, don't do that--it's bad for your heart--let me show you my way."
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Life's little jokes -- no 708,661
Apr. 25, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Years ago, we are told, popularity's race was won by the girl with the beautiful face… …while
the girl with a face like a busted tin can didn't have any chances to capture a man…
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A quiet business conference
Apr. 24, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's hard to talk over big business matters here in my office -- there are too many interruptions
-- let's go up to my house for a nice, quiet conference." "Sure -- this deal is important."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "There's nothing like having the best plumbing in your office--it not only looks neat
but it's very useful."
Apr. 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Bozo, you've certainly got a swell office here--I wish you luck."
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[People who put you to sleep] The sap who took a trip to Havana and played the races for the first time--and came home expecting
everybody to get all excited over the story of his $2 bets
Apr. 21, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You see, I was forty cents ahead in the third race--so I said to myself, 'You never get anywhere
unless you take a chance," so I bet two dollars on 'Sloppy Joe' in the next race."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm in a hurry--I want some toothpaste."
Apr. 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Certainly, Mister Butts--what kind do you want."
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They can't get thin enough
Apr. 17, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] They're so weak from dieting, you have to drag them along. "Darling, if you get any thinner,
people will think I'm alone."
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The latest in Easter bonnets
Apr. 10, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The shopping hat -- this will make your male escort pay the bills more pleasantly as long as
he doesn't have to carry the bundles. The flask bonnet -- this will increase the popularity of the girl who wears a large
head-size -- no worry if it leaks alcohol is good for the scalp.
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 08
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I feel like relaxing so I think I'll stroll into a nice, quiet movie--there's nothing
so a soothing as a movie."
Apr. 9, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They've closed the doors till the next show and I can't move one way or the other--I guess I
can stand it till I get in--side and flop into a nice, comfortable seat."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'd like to go to the ball game today, but I've got to call on a man on business--I'll
just have to keep my mind off the game."
Apr. 16, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Bozo--going to the ball game today?"
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The teacher has no cinch these days
Apr. 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They're looking straight at me but they don't seem to be listening to a word I'm saying--I wonder
what's the matter with them."
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[People who put you to sleep] The megaphone man on a sight-seeing wagon who tells you all the unimportant things and overlooks
everyhthing you want to know
Apr. 14, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We are now passing the spot where Herman J. Guzzlebeer stood and thought of the idea that made
him the great fleapowder king."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm tired out and I'm going to sneak away to Havana--don't tell anybody I'm going."
Apr. 13, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Havana is no place to go this time of the year--why don't you go to California?"
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 08
Life's little jokes -- number 799,006
Apr. 11, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Slugger Smith was a newly-found, ball-playing youth, who the papers all said was another Babe
Ruth… …while a slumsy recruit they called Kangaroo Hall, in the pre-season news got no mention at all…"
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That's that
Apr. 1, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll be ruined if I don't get there on time…" "I'm not thinking so much of myself -- it's the
women and the children…"
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, number ninety-nine
Mar. 31, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The fight manager who signs up a longshoreman for coffee and doughnut money and then challenges
Dempsey. "I ask you, why doesn't Dempsey answer our challenge? He's afraid of us -- he knows we'll slaughter him if we just
want to show…"
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 09
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'm cutting myself all up but I have to hurry to the Van Swells for dinner--they told
me to be there as six sharp."
Mar. 30, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I've lost two minutes looking for my shirt studs--I don't want to insult the Van Swells
by coming late."
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A study in trousers
Mar. 27, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] At the age of six his trousers are very short, having developed from no trousers at all when
he was born…. …at the age of twelve he is proud of the fact that his trousers have progressed to below his knees…
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Uncle Bozo, what is a waterfall?"
Mar. 26, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "A waterfall is a lot of water running over the side of a hill."
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Now the trouble starts
Mar. 25, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hey, are we moving?" "Ah, I found it? My favorite golf ball!"
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 09
[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no ninety-two
Mar. 24, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The gink who raves about the beauties of the country and then takes a ten-year lease on a two-room
flat in the heart of the city. "Yes, there's no place like the hills and the woods and the beautiful valleys…"
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 09
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Gee, what a queen! I guess she's the only one in town who dares to wear her skirts as
short as that."
Mar. 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Great Scott! Another even more beautiful than the first--I didn't know there could be two like
that!"
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Life's little jokes -- no 609,881
Mar. 21, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Homer McRugg had luxurious hair, and you'd think that it needed attention and care… …while Doremus
de Smooth was a queer-looking gob, with a very few hairs on the top of his knob…
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"Never out of order."
Mar. 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll tell you, Dick, I've got the only radio made--it's a nine-bulb super-turpentine and does
everything but jump up and kiss you…"
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 10
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, dear, I want a diamond ring for my birthday."
Mar. 19, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "All right--I'll order it today."
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No baseball scandal this season
Mar. 18, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A pitcher and catcher will be allowed to talk only in the presence of a witness. "I'll give the
big bum three fast ones and make him strike out."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Well, I've got it all set for a nice concert and I won't touch it any more."
Mar. 16, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Where did that come from?"
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Life's little jokes, no 730,884
Mar. 14, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mary Elizabeth Juliet Downs incessantly talked of her beautiful gowns… …while a girl by the name
of Luella McBlair very sadly remarked she had nothing to wear…
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 10
So your wife taking dancing lessons, too?
Mar. 13, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When a man comes home at night he is apt to be greeted by an accidental kick in the face. "The
dancing instructor says this is good for the muscles of the knee."
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 10
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Well, after working six days and nights I've got my income tax all made out and I have
nothing more to worry about."
Mar. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Bozo--I know a man who went to jail for forgetting to report a dime in his income tax
four years ago."
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"Distance lands enchantment."
Mar. 8, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "She still is everything to me, a shrine where love abides, though they took away her tonsils
and her adenoids besides…" "Get me out of here before I kill that guy."
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It isn't hard to meet people these days
Mar. 11, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'm lonesome--I don't know a soul in this town--I'm as much alone as a guy with a bun on
watching a prohibition parade."
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no ninety
Mar. 10, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The ocean-traveling galoot who is always worrying about where the ship is and how fast it's going
and other foolish seafaring details over which he has no control.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "O, Bozo, I dropped my glove."
Mar. 9, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "All right--I'll pick it up."
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You've got to be dead to get real keep
Mar. 6, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Our old friend, Mike Zook, is down and out and I think we ought to do something for him to help
put him on his feet--what will you give?"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "According to that clock, I've only got two minutes to catch my train."
Mar. 5, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good night! I guess I missed my train--I'll have to hurry to catch the next…"
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Now you can cross the street without worrying
Mar. 4, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here is a simple way to protect yourself against reckless drivers--as you fly through the air,
the little fans on the cameras revolve and snap a picture of the license number of the car…
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no eighty-nine
Mar. 3, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The fried who calls you up for no reason at all while you are in the bathtub hurrying to get
ready to go out to dinner. "Hello, Ethel, dear, I've owed you a phone call for ever so long and I don't want you to be angry
with me for…'
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "He's got his bundles on the extra seat--I won't disturb him."
Mar. 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Madam, is that seat taken?"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Gee, I'm happy--I've saved up some money and I'm going to buy a piece of real estate
on Succotash Ave. It's very cheap and I think Succotash Ave. has a great future."
Feb. 26, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Be careful, Bozo--my grandfather lost all his money in real estate."
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"Three o'clock in the morning."
Feb. 25, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I had to stay up till three o'clock in the morning to do it, but I've got real distance
at last." "They won't believe me at the office when I tell'em about this."
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[People who put you to sleep] The saleslady who has to take care of a lazy father and two stupid brothers and tries to make
the other girls think she comes from an aristocratic family
Feb. 24, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Of course, I don't have to work--my uncle has the biggest toothpick factory in Walla Walla and
my father drives two cars (both freight)…"
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He thought he'd see how Washington's stuff worked
Feb. 23, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] You can't blame the child -- his ffather told him to be like Washington. "Father, I cannot tell
a lie -- I did it with my little hatchet -- I didn't have a cherry tree so I thought I'd try it on the furniture."
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Life's little jokes -- number 793,841
Feb. 21, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Cicero Caesar Napoleon Bates got a wife on account of his home -- loving traits… …while a rollicking
night-owl was Rudolph McLout, and a girl married him for she liked to go out…
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You can't tell college boys' trousers from balloon tires
Feb. 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "For the first time in my life I'm in style." The wide, loose, low-hanging trousers make social
equals of two extreme ends of civilization.
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "The next speaker will address you for ten minutes on the condition of the herring industry
in Scotland."
Feb. 19, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah, that's great--only ten minutes."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, look up, order 69032, file 374x, serial number 53082, department J."
Feb. 16, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "And also go to cabinet z-3 and get me number TM-34 out of lot 9, 882,627."
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We need a new Lincoln to free this slave
Feb. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ye Gods! How long will I have to slave my life away on this crossword plantation?" "Keep moving,
you poor boob! You're my property and your children will be my property!"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Julie, bring the laundry here--I'm going to wear my evening clothes."
Feb. 11, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "It'll take my fingers six months to heal up after picking the pins out of this shirt--I'm on
my 379th pin now."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I'd like to know what I'm ordering--I can't understand these fancy names--what is 'veal
suzette.'"
Feb. 9, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a sort of a--well, you know--it's shaped like this."
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no eighty-four
Feb. 3, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The bird who knows where to get everything wholesale and who hasn't a thing on that fits.
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 12
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Come out to my country place for dinner on Wednesday night, Bozo--the place is easy to
find…"
Feb. 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Is this 53,874 Flannelcake Ave.? I'm looking for Rollo Horseradish."
volume 1964.047 v.17--ffALB, folder 12
[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Here's the radio set, Mister Butts--the little book tells you how to set it up--it's
very simple--little children twelve years old understands all about it."
Jan 29, [1925]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Connect the five 1.5 volt dry cells in parallel positive to positive and negative to negative…"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Friendship is like the sweet scent of pressed rose petals--it mellows with the years
and clings gently through worldly strife."
Jan. 26, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, well, if it isn't my pal, Bozo Butts! How's the boy? What's new? You're good for sore
eyes."
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The short-skirt screen for modest husbands
Jan 21, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Come in -- everybody's here already." "Some class!"
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Bozo, lend me a pencil."
Jan. 19, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the only one I've got--please return it."
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Women only dress up when they go to bed
Jan. 16, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "What's the idea of putting on a hat this time of night? Are you going out?" "No, dear -- this
is a boudoir-cap and it's keeping my hair from getting mussed when I'm asleep."
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The short skirt is the crossword puzzle's only rival
Jan. 09, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] There's too much to see for one pair of eyes. "Between the crossword puzzle and the latest style
short-skirt, I'm getting bleary-eyed…"
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Prohibitionists have another job on their hands
Jan 7, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Just like booze, it's landing them in the gutter. "I've got it -- a word in four letters meaning
'something indefinite' is h-a-s-h."
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no eighty
Jan. 6, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The old bachelor who keeps his speech from being a flop by handing the salve 'to the ladies.'
" -- and as I look about me and see the sweet, angelic faces of nature's noblest creatures, the ladies…"
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They're not over it yet
Jan. 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This man used up sixteen cakes of ice and he hasn't recovered from his New Year's party yet--he
intends to spend next New Year's Eve at the North Pole where ice is cheap.
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A radio is out-of-date before you get it home
Jan 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want to be up-to-date -- I'm going to exchange my phonograph for a radio." "I want the very
latest thing in a radio set."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Gee, I'm happy--I'm building my own home--I know exactly what it is going to cost and
when it will be finished."
[1925?]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Boss, the men who handele the door-knobs have gone on strike--it'll delay the job a couple of
months."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Now, Mister Butts, hold your chin up a little higher--I don't want to take the picture
until I'm sure the pose is exactly right."
[1925?]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The left ear ought to be pushed in a little more--ah, that's better."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "I've got the blank for my automobile lincense all filled out--they told me to come to
this window."
[1925?]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll stamp it--then you take it to window 68."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Hello, Bozo--Gee, you keep your office hot--why don't you let a little air in here?"
[1925?]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "All right--I'll open a window."
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[Bozo Butts -- they drive him nuts] "Gee, I feel immense--not a pain or an ache and I haven't a worry in the world--I ought
to live to be a hundred!"
[1925?]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Bozo, you look terribly thin--those bags under your eyes are a bad sign--your liver must
be in bad shape."
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There's nothing very important about conversation
Jan. 25, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The conversation of those who have nothing to do with running the country. "I'm in favor of entering
the world court provided Bulgaria pays us what she owes."
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It's different when it happens to you
Jan. 30, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's a disgrace to this country the way the younger generation is acting--it's terrible the
way boys and girls stay out till all hours dancing and drinking and spending their parents' money!"
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They always come back for more
Jan. 26, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You naughty boy! Getting yourself all dirty after me spending an hour getting you ready for
the party -- I'm ashamed of you!" "Your poor daddy has to work so hard to make money to buy you such nice clothes -- and this
is how you appreciate it."
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Now they're even doubting history
Feb. 22, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Some of the hard-boiled modern historians say that George Washington was just a regular kid who
told a lie once in a while. "George, who chopped down that cherry tree?"
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Now you see what's important
Feb. 19, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, this is big news--'nations of the world greet United States as a member of World Court--all
wars now thought to be ended and millions of lives saved.'"
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Feb. 16, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, I want you to meet my uncle Anthrax, my aunt Malaria and my uncle Sawdust -- they're going
to spend the evening here -- I know you won't mind." "When I call on a girl I want to be alone with her -- if I have a love
affair I don't want it to develop into a mass meeting."
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Just another of those educational contests
Feb. 15, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Rearrange names and noises so they fit the right animals! Test your knowledge of zoology, boobology
and monotony -- find out where your brain is, if any.
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 01
Life's little jokes -- no 708,991
Feb. 11, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] In mechanics, this kid was ahead of most boys, for he built a great bridge with mechanical toys…
…while right from the time that he started to walk this kid was a wizard with pencil and chalk…
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Beauty is getting a tough break
Feb. 8, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] What's the use of having beautiful eyes when men so seldom look in that direction anymore? "As
the poet says, 'The eyes are the windows in the parlour of the soul.'"
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Force of habit
Feb. 24, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The radio announcer's work has this effect on his private life. "The program for tonight's meal
consists of soup, stew, horseradish, pickles and pie -- after that will be home -- work by the children and then we sign off."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
Life's little jokes -- no 499,382
feb. 25, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Lucinda van Ozone de Frisky McChalk when a man takes her out is delighted to walk… …while Josie
van Creampuff McDelicate Raxie won't go anywhere without taking a taxi…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
One is better than none
Feb. 26, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, it's slushy out -- guess I'll have to wear rubbers." "I can't remember when I wore 'em
last -- they're not in here."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
Big real estate boom at North Pole
Mar. 10, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Five polar expeditions are going to start for the North Pole this spring--as real estate booms
are popular where the crowd's flock, it is only natural that the next big boom will come off in the polar regions--take our
tip and get in early.
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The golf germ is in the air again
Mar. 12, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] An olive isn't safe on the table with the head of the hous gradually realizing that the golf
season is close at hand. "Watch me hole this putt right into the butter dish."
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That guilty income tax feeling
Mar. 15, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] There are a lot of guilty-looking people walking around the streets today. This man thinks he's
going to be arrested any minute because he didn't declare $165.10 in poker winnings.
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Life's little jokes -- no 921,843
Mar. 18, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] On a mean, cloudy day cautious Solon McStrong took his bone-handled, silken umbrella along… …while
the weather was fine in a far-away town -- no umbrella was needed by Rutherford Brown…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
It's different when it happens to you
Mar. 20, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm worried to death -- I'm getting bald." "What's the difference! Don't be a baby, Joe -- some
of the greatest men in history were bald -- look at Shakespeare, Bob Fitzsimmons and Garibaldi."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
Coughing in the theatre should be against the law
Mar. 29, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The cop arrested the wrong man. "Your Honor, he coughed right in my ear in the last act just
as the leading lady started to make the big speech on which the whole plot hinged."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
Too many movie theatres don't seem to be enough
Mar. 31, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Standing room only." "We'll go over and try the 'flicker.'"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 02
The animal that made these tracks was the divot-hound
Apr. 7, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, students, these are undoubtedly the original footprints of the mammoth known as the hunkadunkus--it
is very fortunate that our geology class has come upon this scientific phenomenon--let us investigate further."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 03
The last arrival always has the inside seat
Apr. 15, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Please stand up and let this gentleman pass through to that empty seat." "Hey, can't you let
a guy get comfortable?"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 03
It's different when it happens to you
Apr. 17, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "O, you sweet piece of angel cake -- I don't see how I can live through the day without seeing
you -- my little rosebud from the garden of love!" "Say, are you coo-coo? Spilling such rot over the telephone for more than
an hour?"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 03
Life's little jokes, no 709,334
Apr. 22, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] As a child little Aaron McMonnigal Gold when around little girls was exceedingly bold… …while
a kid by the name of Jay Noodlesoup Bly in the presence of girlies was painfully shy…
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It's different when it happens to you
Apr. 24, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, stupid, what do you think this office is, the restroom in the old sailors' home? I'm not
paying you a salary to look like the chief attraction in Gran's tomb--go back to your desk and stay there."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Apr. 27, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor Hennessy -- this finishes his career as a fighter -- he'll have to go back to plastering."
"I foolishly ate a big steak before the fight and I wasn't myself when I entered the ring…"
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The apartment house child sees steps for the first time
Apr. 28, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, my child, we are now looking at some of the world's greatest wonders--these curiosities
are handed down to us from thousands of years back."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
May 4, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're not only blind -- you're dumb, paralized, crooked and childish -- if you're an umpire
I'm Mary Pickford." "You're suspended for a week."
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A study from life
May 5, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want you to try some new stuff I've got here--it's very special."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 03
It's different when it happens to you
May 8, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Go on -- say something, you poor nut." "Why-er-well-now (gulp gulp) er-a-I'm glad -- Abraham
Lincoln -- (gulp gulp)."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 03
Don't ever get excited over a big package
May 7, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "At last they sent me something worthwhile for my birthday -- it's about time my family appreciated
me -- I wonder if it's a piano or a set of furniture." "There seems to be an awful lot of paper and excelsior in this box."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
It's different when it happens to you
May 25, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor Henry! I never thought I'd live to see you pushing a baby carriage -- and to think what
a wow you used to be with the women!" "None of this chauffeuring for an ugly brat for me…"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Box office pests
May 26, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The fair damsel who shoots the box office man a phoney smile through the wicket and expects to
get a $3.30 ticket for $1.80. The guy who goes to the box office and says, "Hello, Harry -- I used to go to school with you
in Frisco…"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes -- no 704,993
May 27, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] In the wintertime J. Abercrombie McSlush hurried hither and yon with a comet-like rush… …while
a bird, strangely named Palpingheimer McBed was so dopey you'd think he was hit on the head…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Signs of summer
May 28, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It's a sure sign of summer when you feel too lazy to throw out an insurance pest. "Now I can
save you twenty-five per cent on your life insurance -- the insurance game is really a science I can make your children independent
in 98 years."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
May 29, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't ever buy me any clothes again -- these pajamas are size 48 and I wear 32 -- hereafter
I buy my own things." "Boo hoo -- you don't appreciate me!"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
You can't look a girl in the face now
June 2, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The men have to work together if they want to see the faces of the girls in the big hats. "Well,
Dick, how does it look?"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
It's different when it happens to you
June 5, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor Paul, he's always the goat -- ha ha -- I wonder where he dug up that elephant -- he sees
me laughing at him but I can't help it -- ha ha." "I feel as though I just carried a grand piano from Alaska to Russia."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Charleston spoiling nation's feet
June 7, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Youre the head of a big business, you're seventy years old, you have perfect healthy and a high
social position and you're worth $30,000,000 -- to what do you attribute your great success?" "I'm not a success -- I'm a
failure -- I've taken 50 Charleston lessons and I can't get on to it at all."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Life's little jokes, no 409,338
June 10, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Plunkus Bohunkus Gazunkus van Lux purchased very fine glasses for thirty-five bucks… …while Reginald
Blinkmore Salubrious Blenn picked his specs from a tray at the old five and ten…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 04
Learn to swim at home
June 18, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It is essential that all young people should learn to swim if you can't afford to take your son
to the sea shore… "Now, just imagine you're 30 miles from shore, in 1,000 feet of water, and there's a shark after you."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
White flannel trousers are an awful care
June 21, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The big surprise of the year always comes when you put on last year's flannel pants. "I wonder
if there's such a thing as a pants stretcher."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
They always come back for more
June 22, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This is the highest any human being has ever climbed -- but I'm still 841 feet from the top
-- I think I feel something slipping." "With the aid of these splints, ropes, hooks and pulleys I think I can get his broken
bones mended in about six months."
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You can speak freely after the game
June 25, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, Cornelius, how do you lie?" "I lie 5."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
It's different when it happens to you
June 26, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Jones, I have to tell you, but I can't let you have any vacation this year -- personally, I'd
like to give you a month off -- but the President of the company says business is bad…" "Well, I handled that poor boob all
right -- I'll tell the President how cleverly I handled the vacation situation."
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They always come back for more
Sept. 1, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gentlemen of the press, this job as Governor has shortened my life -- in my efforts to serve
the people, I have neglected my family and spent my family fortune -- I am now down to my last stiff shirt." "There is nothing
in fame and popularity…"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
The language that motocycle cops understand
Sept. 4, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This man is caught going 80 miles an hour and gets off… "I'm a friend of judge meatball."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Spet. 8, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's nothing serious, madam -- just an upset stomach -- be very careful what you give the child
to eat." "O, Doctor McThorax, you're wonderful."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
Life's little jokes, no 483,006
Sept. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Joe Brown wed a girl named Miss Millicent Blair for he loved every wave of her beautiful hair…
…while Millicent, likewise, got married to Brown, for she worshipped his hair which was all plastered down…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Sept. 17, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "These love-letters of yours are sufficient evidence--the young lady wins her breach of promise
suit and you must pay her fifty thousand bucks."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 05
Three well-known golf tragedies
Sept. 18, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He has a swell foursome all fixed up with all kinds of side bets and everything when, at the
last minute, his wife decides to play a twosome with him! "Joe, dear, I've got a little surprise for you -- you and I are
going to have a nice little game together."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night shieks
Sept. 19, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, Soup and Fish--we'll go out in my car tonight and tear the town wide open."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
And all for what?
Sept. 22, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll have to keep on punishing you until I get you to take an interest in your reading lessons."
"Ow!"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Sept. 24, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I'm glad the craze for mah jong, crossword puzzles and the radio has died down--now I
can get my friends to give me a little time."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night Shieks
Sept. 26, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I tell you, fish, I feel like a million dollars tonight--with my pockets full of salary and
my head full of ideas, I'll be luck if I don't get arrested."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Sept. 29, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm tried of living in this two-room dungeon -- the ceilings are so low I have to walk on my
knees to keep from fracturing my skull -- Mary, it's about time we had a home of our own." "O, George, that would be wonderful
-- I've always longed for a little home out in the country among the eggplants and pickle vines."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
The voter loses, no matter how you look at it
Sept. 30, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Republican candidate speaks to the voter. "If I am not elected, the grafter's will take the
shirt off your back."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 1, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "At last my hair is long enough again so I can really do something with it -- bobbed hair is
so common it's a relief to be different." "Dear, I'm so glad you've gotten over this bobbed haired nonsense -- you're your
own sweet, dignified self again."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
Soup and Fish--The Saturday night slicks
Oct. 3, [1920]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, yes, I hear you -- blonde with blue eyes and dimples -- tall -- beautiful figure -- 2313
Jazzbo Avenue -- ask for Marcia -- 8:30." "Listen, Soup -- tell her to bring a friend -- just say your pal handles a loose
pocketbook."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 06
The end of a perfect moving day
Oct. 5, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Movig and arranging the stuff in the new apartment is enough aggrivation to put in the hospital
-- but when a couple of sap neighbors take it into their heads to pay you a social call in the midst of your agonized confusion…
"We just dropped in to welcome you to the neighborhood."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 6, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I followed the expert opinions on the World's Series last year and I lost my shirt -- this year
I'm going to use my own judgement." "My big boy."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 8, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The World's Series is the bunk -- they know exactly who's going to win -- it's all fixed --
just a money-making scheme -- they'llnever get me interested in it again." "What's the score?"
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
Football is more of a language than a game
Oct. 9, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The cheerleaders are snooping around in strange places to get new ideas for college yells. "Ah,
a wonderful word -- it will inspire our football team to great deeds."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Oct. 10, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fish, I'm going to paddle my own canoe tonight -- I've got a heavy date with the Queen of the
World -- she wants me to be her king. "Don't worry, Soup -- I've got a big date, myself -- a rich friend of mine is throwing
a party that won't be over till the last man is carried out."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
Columbus isn't the only man who discovered something
Oct. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A guy in New Orleans just discovered, after being married 12 years, that his wife had bow legs
and big years. "Darling, I'm afraid we'll have to separate till long hair and long skirts come back in style."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 13, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "It's taken us four years to build this house and I'm about dead -- its been a terrible night
-- Mare -- I wouldn't build a dog house again -- I never want to see a painter or a carpenter again." "I'm ready for the hospital."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
Life's little jokes, no 930,886
Oct. 15, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A real estate expert named Valentine Potts was a student of acreage, buildings and lots… …while
a dreamer and poet, named Byron McCake didn't know a town lot from a creek or a lake…
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 07
Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Oct. 17, [1925]
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1 drawing
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, girlie -- I'm not exactly a big butter-and-egg man -- but, when I look at a dream much
like your, money means as much to me as a glass of water means to the ocean -- and today is pay day -- meet me on the corner
of Fifth and Main at…" "Say, kid, I got paid today -- meet me on the corner of Fifth and Main at eight o'clock and we'll put
my salary to work -- I've got nothing do do but let you walk on my neck."
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A full-dress suit gets funnier with age
Oct. 19, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hamilton, we've just receieved an invitation to a swell wedding -- you'll have to wear your
full dress suit." "I haven't worn it since our own wedding."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 20, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This boy is through for the season -- his collarbone has been driven down into his ankles and
it'll take months to get him unraveled." "I've been in the hospital a month and I'm dying to see my beautiful Dora -- the
poor thing must have been awful lonesome without me."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Oct. 27, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "That's all for today -- you've jumped out of a 44-story window and let six elephants step on
you and I don't need you for the next scenes -- go to the cashier and collect your $5." "I'm tired of being an 'extra' and
doing all the dirty work while the stars sit around and collect big salaries."
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Oct. 24, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Soup, lend me ten bucks -- I have to pay the first installment on my uncle's operation." "Sure,
Shorty -- I'm so sorry for you -- you don't get as much fun out of life as Fish and I do."
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There's a limit to what a person can believe
Oct. 28, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I predeict that in less than fifty years people will be flying around without the aid of aeroplanes."
"That's possible."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 08
Life's little jokes, no 703,331
Oct. 29, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Lulu hooked up with a prosperous guy, for she liked all the comforts that money could buy… …while,
when Susie got married for love, people spoke -- "She is silly to marry a bozo who's broke."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 08
Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Oct. 31, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fish, old boy, let's just spend a quiet evening together -- we never seem to have any luck with
women." "You're right, Soup -- if you don't expect anything you can't be disappointed -- when it comes to beautifl women I
guess we're poison."
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Women's only interest -- reducing
Nov. 2, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] What women talk about at an important club meeting. "I lost 18 pounds in three weeks by dieting
on lamb chops and sliced pine-apple."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 08
Fun is all right in its proper place
Nov. 6, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "That last picture of Harold Lloyd's was a scream--I thought I'd die when he mistook a man's
derby for a football and made a touchdown with it."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Nov. 10, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's so much room in the world and here we are getting ourselves squeezed to death -- there's
no sense to it." "I feel as though I was run through a sausage machine -- I know when I've had enough."
volume 1964.047 v.18--ffALB, folder 08
Life' s little jokes -- no 741,903
Nov. 12, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Very high in the air worked brave August McBeth -- he took all kinds of chances and flirted with
death… …while a guy by the name of Van Jellycake Granger would quiver with fright at the least bit of danger…"
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Nov. 14, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We saw you standing here so we took the liberty of talking to you -- we haven't a thing to do
all evening -- my name is Soup -- tjhis is my friend, Fish." "I tell you she's mine -- I saw her first."
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We're coming to this sure
Nov. 16, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as it is considered the proper thing for women to powder their noses, comb their hair,
rouge their lips and perform other delicate feminine duties in public places… "Would you mind giving me a shave?"
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Nov. 17, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] I'm through -- you're not going to make a sap out of me any longer -- our engagement is off --
you'll never hear from me again." "Boo hoo -- you're a brute -- I'll never speak to you again as long as I live."
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Something should be done about these after-dinner pests
Nov. 20, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The sap who admits he is not a speaker and then talks for two hours. "I am only a modest businessman
-- public speaking is not my game…"
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Nov. 21, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Soup and Fish like girls, music and lights, but they never seem to connect -- you know how it
is -- anyway they get a letter from an old friend saying his daughter is arriving… "Fish, we'll both meet her at the station
-- but we'll deal five cold hands to see which one of us grabs her for the rest of the evening."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Nov. 24, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mr. and Mrs. Updike are not home -- they had to go out of town to sit at the bedside of a dying
uncle who may linger for months." "Good."
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Now that the opera season has started
Nov. 27, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] An opera enthusiast doing her marketing. "Tra la la la -- this fish isn't fresh."
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Nov. 28, [1925]
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1 drawing
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Oo, great! Here's an invitation to the hotsy-totsy masquerade -- you don't need an introduction
to anybody at these affairs -- you just rush right in and grab a dame -- I'm going to keep my costume a secret." "Soup, ol'
boy, we'll have the laugh on shorty with all his swell dates -- I feel wild already."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Dec. 1, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm bid $5 -- gentlemen, in the back bids $10 -- lady over there bids $15…" "I've been bunked!
Nobody was bidding against me -- I was the only person in the place."
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What this country needs is longer blankets
Dec. 4, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This man likes the blanket up around his neck on a cold night -- when he pulls it up, see what
happens to his feet. This man likes the blanket tucked in around his feet -- but when he pulls it down, see what happens to
his neck and shoulders.
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He did his Christmas shopping early
Dec. 7, [1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "On the advice of a good many smart people I am doing my Christmas shopping early -- give me
that diamond bracelt for my sweetheart." "I hate you. I hate you, I hate you! I never want to see you again! I'm in love with
a big real estate man -- goodbye!"
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Dec. 8, [1925]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "According to law you are ipso facto e pluribus unum pajamas -- this legal advice will cost you
$50." "What does that make me?"
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Dec. 12, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fish, we've got a date with a couple of beautiful sisters and I've got $31.60 to throw away
-- I call this a perfect start." "Here, Soup, take my $29.80 -- you'll be the banker and I'll think up wise cracks."
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Dec. 19, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, Fish, I guess this will be just another one of those things -- we'll go to the party,
stand around like a couple of ornaments and the other guys will grab all the swell-looking girls." "You're right, Soup --
I've given up hope -- King Tut and I are in the same condition -- he'll never have another romance, either."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Dec. 22, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear Christmas is a nuisance and a lot of unnecessary expense -- let's not give eachother any
present this year…" "You're right, Phil -- let's be sensible for once."
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The kids have a real kick coming
Dec. 26, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The kids hold a mass meeting to do something about parents who play with their children's toys
all day on Christmas -- the kids… "Santa Claus gave me a puzzle for Christmas -- my only man not only worked on it all day
yesterday but he took it to work with him this morning."
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Our Christmas card
Dec. 25, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish Santa Claus would quit practicing the Charleston and get to work." Dear children: You
can't blame Santa Claus for being a little late in getting around to your house this year…
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Our 1926 sporting calendar
Dec. 29, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Jan: Red orange does not make any eighty-yard runs. Feb: Jack Dempsey does not fight Gene Tunney.
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Life's little jokes -- no 709,356
Dec. 30, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Last New Year's Adolphus Asparagus glue took an oath to stay loving and constant and true… …while
a bird named Rococo Mockturtle McSloan made a firm resolution to go it alone…
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A happy New Year and all the rest of it!
Dec. 31, [1925]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "In wishing all my readers a very happy New Year I just want to say that last year hasn't been
so bad for any of us--you may not have made a pile of jack in stocks or real estate or gotten a break…"
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Cartoon follies of 1926--another great man honored
[1926?]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The sodafountain owners dedicate a monument to the man who discovered how to cut cold meats so
thin that the cost of prducing a sandwich… "Gentlemen, we are gathered here to honor the menory of the man who showed us how
to get a thousand sandwiches out of one ham…"
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The old New Year spirit is still with us
Jan. 1, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Some of our streets will enable you to stagger home without the aid of a New Year's drink. "Lucky
dog -- I wonder where he got it."
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday night sheiks
Jan. 2, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fish, you can't plan a great adventrue -- if we just roam around and put ourselves in the mood
for something exciting it's bound to happen." "They say the French King, Louie the Fifteenth Met du Barry while roaming around
in his garden."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Jan. 5, [1925]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pardon me, isn't your name Elsie Stutz? I think I met you in Frisco -- or was it Vienna?" "Officer,
officier?"
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Notice that only one of those people is smiling
Jan. 6, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] These people are out having what is generally considered a good time at the movies. These folks
are having what is said to be an enjoyable evening playing bridge.
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Life's little jokes, no 409,336
Jan. 7, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] During business Sylvannus Delirium Hocks is the liveliest person in forty-two blocks… …while
a dope in his office, named Bozo McNutt, is as dead as the bird in the tomb of King Tut…
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How a man with big ears feels with a fresh haircut
Jan. 8, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Jasper, you have to speak at that dinner tonight and you look like a lawn that hadn't been mowed
for years…" "Well, for the love of billiard balls, what happened to you? Did you fall asleep in the barber chair or did your
head take fire? And those ears!"
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday Night Shieks
Jan. 9, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Fish, those two heiresses will be here soon -- I've written a poem that ought to put me in right
with the one I grab -- I'll recite it for you." "Soup, that's funny -- I've written a poem too -- I'll let you hear mine when
you've finished yours."
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Midwinter Society notes
Jan. 11, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Last Sunday night Mister Sturgis Hopp gave an exclusive dance for his daughter, Marjorie -- Miss
Marjorie was the lif of the party. Mr. and Mrs. T. Humidor Smith left town yesterday for the winter -- they were followed
closely by the landlord and sheriff."
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They always came back for more
Jan. 12, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Doctor, this pain is killing me -- I'll do anything you tell me if you cure me." "It's only
a bad case of indigestion -- be careful what you eat and eat very slowly."
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Life's little jokes, no 509,926
Jan. 14, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Mohamet Casaba Aplaca de Slow read the future at twenty-five dollars a throw… …while Johnathan
Plootz was delighted to pay, and would marvel at all that Mohamet would say…
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A lawyer must impres his client with his large office force
Jan. 15, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "As your lawyer, I must go into all the points of this case very carefully -- I'll call my stenographer."
"Stenographer, make a copy of contract number 813 in file 71."
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Soup and Fish -- the Saturday Night Sheiks
Jan. 16, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "She had such a beautiful , sincere face -- she siad she'd call up at seven-thirty -- it's exactly
seven-thirty now." "Maybe's she's having a little trouble digging up another girl."
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[They all come back for more] They always come back for more
Jan. 19, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Aw, just one little kiss." "How dare you, sir! Now I know why you kept saying you lost your
way."
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Life's little jokes, no 490,882
Jan. 21, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This child had a head that was roomy and round where you'd think all the brains in the world
should abound… …while this little head didn't seem to have space that was able the smallest brains to encase.
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A man's hat is a terrible burden
Jan. 22, [1926]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now I can put my hat on." "What -- another!"
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Sweet revenge
Sept. 21, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A bunch of school kids are out on a picnic and happen to run across their most hated teacher
taking a golf lesson -- what could be sweeter? "Say, what makes you so thick anyway? I've told you the same thing a dozen
times and it's made about as much impression on you as it would on a deaf jellyfish -- I didn't know a man could live without
a brain now, listen, dumbbell!"
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Happy New Year!
Dec. 31, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear readers: we've been hearing an awful lot lately abou men who have suddenly made fortunes
in the stock market and in big business -- it is natural for us to envy them a little…" "That sounds reasonable."
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Christmas shopping isn't quite over yet
Dec. 28, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It doesn't seem right, after being so careful not to hurt each other's feelings… "Darling, you
don't know how much I appreciate this -- it's exactly what I've wanted for years."
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Select your Christmas card
Dec. 22, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Of Christmas Joy I hope you have a full and flowing cup, I surely wish that all your stocks go
up and up and up! Here's a Christmas salutation, that I send to every gink -- be careful when and why and how and where and
what you drink!
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That's different!
Dec. 21, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I made a cleanup in the market -- I bought International Coathanger ten days ago for 36
and sold it this morning for 99." "It's the softest thing I ever saw -- I made $3000 on a quick turn in General Clothes-Pin."
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A beast of burden
Dec. 15, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It doesn't seem right to ask a husband to carry home a lot of Christmas bundles when he has had
no experience as a pack-mule… "You're doing fine, George -- you'll be able to carry all my Christmas bundles home in one trip."
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You can't get away from it
Dec. 13, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This red tape is driving me mad -- if we make a sale of ten cents it takes fourteen clerks to
make a record of it." "Here are carbon copies 13x992 4MJ."
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The blindfold test
Dec. 11, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The advertisements tell us that the blindfold test is the only method of selecting a good cigarette
-- so why can't this method apply to other things? For instance…" Selecting a bride.
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Christmas worries already begun
Dec. 7, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] With Christmas shopping right on top of us it's almost impossible to keep our minds on big business.
"Now, about that $4,000,000 merger we are going to put through -- if we pool our holdings we can clean up $500,000 for ourselves
alone."
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Grand Opera spreading like mumps
Dec. 6, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Grand Opera season is in full swing and every screech and groan is looked upon as a contribution
to heavy music. She thinks everything foregin over the radio must be Grand Opera.
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You can't get away from it
Dec. 5, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I have to laugh at these men over forty getting fat around the stomach -- I'm forty-six and
I've got the figure of an athlete -- I know how to take care of myself." "A few setting-up exercises, a brisk walk to the
office, some good active work and your waistline can stay the same for a hundred years."
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Bobo Baxter -- Snoop McGoop, the great detective
Oct. 15, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Miss Magnolia, I'm from the Eagle-Eye Dectective Agency -- I believe you phoned for us to locate
a valuable diamond bracelet that was stolen -- I'm Snoop McGoop…" "Oh, do come in, Mr. McGoop -- I'm nearly frantic."
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Radiator-cap ornaments still useful
Dec. 4, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Now that automobiles are going in for simplicity, you are perhaps wondering what to do with that
big ornament off your radiator cap. It would make a lovely center-jewel for your wife's necklace.
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Woman's place is at the telephone
Dec. 3, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, can I have the phone? I have an important call to make." "Certainly, darling -- I have
just one more word to say to Nellie."
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Training for Thanksgiving Dinner
Nov. 29, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Athletes go through a strenuous course in training for important events -- so Father should likewise
be allowed to get himself ready for the big "carving-the-turkey" event on Thanksgiving Day. "This will give me control so
the turkey won't bounce up and hit me in the eye while I'm carving."
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Bobo Baxter -- very deceiving
Oct. 27, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ruth will be surprised to see how tall and handsome I've grown." "Bobo, after you wear these
stilts for a while you'll be able to work them just as easily as though they were your own legs."
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Bobo Baxter -- a rough reception
Oct. 18, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Professor Swivel, the funniest thing happened -- when I called on Ruth to tell her I loved her
in spite of everything…" "Serves you right for mixing with women."
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Bobo Baxter -- in a hole
Oct. 17, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This palooka, Baxter, can't escape Snoop McGoop, the great detective -- I'll trail him to the
end of the earth till he confesses the theft." "I see all, hear all, know all."
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Bobo Baxter
Oct. 16, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "What a break! Just as I was about to tell Ruth how much I loved her she discovered her diamond
bracelet was missing…" "I know a guilty person when I see one -- I'll trail this bird Baxter around until I get the goods
on him -- Snoop McGoop never quits till he gets his man."
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Bobo Baxter -- another interruption
Sept. 15, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, Bobo, I am ready to tell you about the great invention I am working on -- not another soul
in the world knows about this…" "I can't wait to hear about it, Professor."
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Bobo Baxter -- The "Demi-Tasse" flies again!
Sept. 14, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Just think, Mr. Magnolia -- Bobo is alone in those woods with a nut inventor -- Lord knows what'll
happen to him." "If we walked in there looking for him we might get shot."
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Bob Baxter -- They're really worried about him
Sept. 13, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nosedive, I hope no har, has come to Bobo since he went back into those woods after capturing
Greaseball McGinnis." "He said he was gonna devote the rest of his life to science, whatever that meant."
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Bobo -Baxter -- Sh! It's a secret!
Sept. 8, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look, Professor Swivel, here's the $2000 reward I got for the capture of Greaseball McGinnis
and it's all yours to help you finish your invention." "What!"
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Bobo Baxter -- Professor Swivel's story
Sept. 11, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Professor Swivel, the whole world should know about a mechanical genius like you." "Eighteen
years ago I was engaged to marry a beautiful girl -- she told me she loved me and I was the happiest man in the world."
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Bobo Baxter -- A mechanical genius
Sept. 10, [1928]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, Professor Swivel, tell me about your great invention -- the one that will be a great help
to mankind." "Bob, first let me tell you how I happened to renounce the world and take up my abode in these woods."
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Bobo Baxter -- The Professor overlooks nothing
Sept. 12, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bobo, as I told you yesterday, I didn't have much time to entertain my fiance -- she met a handsome
Spaniard -- he was a fine tango dancer…" "And?"
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Bobo Baxter -- A contribution to science
Sept. 7, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mr. Baxter, on behalf of the people of Sawdust County I hand you this $2,000 reward for the
capture of Greaseball McGinnis, the assailant of Old Man Smathers." "Thanks, Sheriff."
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Bobo Baxter -- Out of the woods
Sept. 6, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] For days, the sheriff's posse has been standing around, afraid to enter the woods where the murderous
desperado was hidden. "It'll break me poor mudder's heart when she finds out that I'm not really woikin' in a ice cream parlor
as I wrote her."
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Bobo Baxter -- A big hand
Sept. 5, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Thanks, Professor, for helping me catch this fugitive from justice -- you're a great inventor
and the world should know about you." "Leave me to my great experiment, Baxter -- I will have to spend a great many years
in my laboratory to finish the big invention I am working on because I have so little money."
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Bobo Baxter -- It worked!
Sept. 4, [1928]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dat's de silliest machine I ever seen." -- And Greaseball McGinnis steps on a hidden spring
that causes the following event to take place…
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Bobo Baxter -- the professor is up to something
Sept. 3, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "So dat's de machine Professor Swivel rigged up fer me -- it looks goofy but I guess de old bird
knows what he's doin'." "It looks slightly cucoo to me, too."
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Bobo Baxter -- The Professor is getting hot
Sept. 1, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dis nut inventor, Professor Swivel, ain't a bad guy even if he is goofy -- he's riggin' up a
swell machine for me to catch a deer an' have venison wit' me dinner." "Professor Swivel, why are you going to all this trouble
for such a low person as a hunted criminal?"
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Bobo Baxter -- A big brain starts working
Aug. 30, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, who are you anyway?" "I'm Professor Lorenzo Swivel and I separated myself from the rest
of the world so I could devote all of my time to my great invention."
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Bobo Baxter -- A stange character
Aug. 29, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Looks like some nut scientist to me." "Hello, kid, you scared the life out of us -- but it's
all right now -- go ahead and play with your bottles -- if a guy is nuts dat's his own business."
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Bobo Baxter -- A discovery
Aug. 28, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] An innocent little wanderer in the woods meets up with a hunted criminal and is forced to accompany
the murderous scoundrel to an uncertain destination. "It's bad enough to be along with you, Greaseball McGinnis, let alone
doing without all the modern conveniences."
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Bobo Baxter -- He didn't stop to think
Aug. 27, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here, runt, take dis cannon -- if de sheriff finds me an' starts shootin', you just let him
have it right in de whiskers -- you're wit me to de last ditch, see!" "Under the circumstances I suppose there's nothing for
me to do but accept."
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Bobo Baxter -- Eel Crawford thinks fast
May 26, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dey're getting' wise to me racket around here -- I'm hired by Blake to put Baxter, Kelly, and
de "Demi Tasse" on de blink an' if I don't woik fast I'll be getting' de bum's rush…" "Just as I thought! The hired assassin
in the act of consummating his foul purpose -- I feel like the hero in a play -- I just arrived in time!"
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Bobo Baxter -- Just as we thought
May 25, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, daddy, I'm sure that man they call Eel Crawford who runs the hot dog stand out at Bob's
Aviation Field is up to some mischief…" "Maybe you're right, Ruth -- I'll go out and see."
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Bobo Baxter -- He gets the needle
May 24, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Eel Crawford has been planted in Bob's camp to prevent him from taking off for Europe in "Demi
Tasse" -- Thorton Blake, the real scoundrel… "Yes, Eel, I've got the little crate almost perfect for the big transatlantic
takeoff -- you wouldn't think it, but the helium gas in the two small balloons on the plane is as expensive and important
as anything in the whole flight."
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Bobo Baxter -- A literary upset
May 23, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bobo, those doughnuts I got from Eel Crawford yesterday must have been washers from locamotive
wheels -- my insides feel like Mount Vesuvius." "I'll get a doctor -- you can't get sick with the big flight so close at hand."
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Bobo Baxter -- Rubber donuts
May 22, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look, Kelly, someone swiped the tires off the ship -- it looks to me like some kind of a plot
to prevent me from taking off for Europe." "There's no one around by Eel Crawford and he's our friend -- he said so."
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Bobo Baxter -- A spy in Bobo's camp
May 21, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, Nosedive, I want you to help me look over the map and figure out the route I am to take
over the Atlantic in the "Demi Tasse" -- here's the way Lindbergh went." "I don't think the route matter so much as long as
you keep on going."
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Bobo Baxter -- Everything's joke
Feb. 11, [1928]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, Bobo, when the parachute burned up I saw the dog land right on the roof of this house."
"Nosedive, it was all our fault and if there's any way to help the poor animal we're gonna do it."
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Bobo Baxter -- Hot dog!
Feb. 10, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The poor little dog we sent up in that new parachute is probably lost -- maybe he dropped on
a railroad track and is a boloney already." "Bobo, let's go and look at the fire -- works they're having to celebrate the
building of the city's new fire hydrants."
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Bobo Baxter -- Plenty of company
Feb. 9, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nosedive Kelly, I'm going up in the 'Demi-Tasse' and rescue that dog -- we had no business to
try out that new parachute on him." "No, Bobo, no, you can't afford to do it -- if you take a flop in the 'Demi-Tasse' now
it will spoil everything for the big flight to Canada"
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Bobo Baxter -- A quick thinker
Feb. 1, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll have to keep these stolen pearls out of sight until I get safely across the border into
Canada in Bobo Baxter's gasless plane, the "Demi-Tasse." "Gee, here's a cop coming this way -- it seems to me I'm seeing nothing
but cops lately -- I've got to do some fast thinking."
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Bobo Baxter -- A bitter pill
Jan. 31, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Thorton Blake dropped the stolen Van Ness pearls in a convenient bowl to avoid suspicion -- and
Nosedive Kelly, always looking for something to eat, thought they were preserved cherries. "Hellup, Hellup, I'm choking!"
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Bobo Baxter -- Dangerous, but safer than something else
Jan. 28, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've signed up to fly to Canada in that hatrack with Bobo Baxter because I've got to get across
the boarder with the Van Ness pearls…" "They tell me there's $1000 reward out for the recovery of the Van Ness pearls."
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Bobo Baxter -- Another endurance record broken
Jan. 27, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We never heard a better speech at a Woofs' Club luncheon." "Great!"
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Bobo Baxter -- Nosedive Kelly steals the glory
Jan. 26, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Bobo and Nosedive Kelly went off to a big luncheon right in the midst of giving Thorton Blake
a lesson in flying upside down. "Fellow members of the Woofs, our distinguished guest of honor will be introduced with a few
brief remarks by his mechanic, ground manager and pal, Nosedive Kelly."
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Bobo Baxter -- Their first invitation
Jan. 25, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nosedive, I'll let Blake hang another fifteen minutes so he'll get used to the perils of aviation
-- he's got to be dizzy-proof if he wants to be my passenger." "You're right, Bobo -- he can't be too tough for the big flight
-- I bet a nickel."
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Bobo Baxter -- Indoor flying practice
Jan. 24, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, blake, if you're going to make the big flight with me in the 'Demi-Tasse' you've gotta
do some real serious training for the air." "Do I have to be a trapeze performer, too?
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Bobo Baxter -- So far, so good
Jan. 23, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] One day a man named Thorton Blake walked in and told Bobo Baxter he would like to be his passenger
on the big flight to Canada in the 'Demi-Tasse.'" "Do you realize you'll ne making history like Columbus, Washington, and
Gene Tunney?"
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Bobo Baxter -- A peach blows in
Jan. 7, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nosedive, I advertised for a female passenger to fly with me to Canada in the 'Demi-Tasse' --
I said she must be brave, thin, beautiful and sociable." "The word 'sociable' wasn't necessary -- you'll be too busy up there
to even hold hands."
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Bobo Baxter -- The doctor's mistake
Jan. 5, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Are you Doctor Leffingwell, Chief Medical Examiner of the Nevercroak Insurance Company? Well,
my friend here thought -- " "Certainly -- I'm the doctor, himself."
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Bobo Baxter -- Bad news
Jan. 4, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen, Nosedive Kelly, I'm getting a little nervous about making that flight in my plane 'the
Demi-Tasse' with a passenger -- do two people drop quciker than one?" "Bobo, it isn't the drop that hurts -- it's the sudden
stop."
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Bobo Baxter -- "Oh time and chance!"
Jan. 3, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Bobo, if you're gonna to take a passenger along on your Canadian flight in 'the Demi-Tasse'
you've gotta have somebody very thin and light…" "Get her, Nosedive, ger her -- she's my passenger."
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Bobo Baxter -- Weather good, everything else bad
Jan. 2, [1928]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This is 'the Demi-Tasse,' the famous cycleplane in which Bobo Baxter intends to make a flight
to Canada with a passenger to prove that… "What is it -- the framework of a broken umbrella?"
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A merry Christmas to you all -- as ever, your loving son
Dec. 24, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Friends and fellow boobs: Allow me to pause for a mintue to wish you all a merry Christmas and
thank you for standing for my nonsense…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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Take the bell of the door and your won't be disappointed
Dec. 23, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The Christmas presents ought to bhe arriving now -- I'll stay home and answer the bell." "I
cam to read the gas meter." // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind boobs] And she just bought him a folding toothbrush
for traveling.
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Life's little jokes -- no 998,761
Sec. 17, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Valentine Turnip el Paso Cadore had a nose like an awning in front of a store… …while the nose
of Magellan peninsula grant was as small as the head of an African ant… // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "I've
got to keep on the job to stop motorists from endangering the lives of the public."
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Cameramen control history
Mar. 22, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If they had news reels in the olden days, history would have an entirely different complexion.
If Columbus had stopped to pose with Queen Isabella, he might have missed the boat and America would never have been discovered.
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That Dempsey-Tunney thing looks permanent
Nov. 30, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Tunney and Dempsey are scheduled to meet again next year -- it looks as though this thing will
go on indefinitely. "Back, everybody, make way for Gene."
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Life's little jokes -- no 7,984,209
Nov. 26, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It appears that this girl is prepared for the cold, as the furs warm and heavy, her shoulders
enfold… …while, on any cold day you'll discover this Miss, with her neck and her arms all uncovered like this… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "Yes, she's the gabbiest thing I ever saw--if she isn't talking about herself she's talking
about everybody else…"
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Life's little jokes -- no 47,621
Oct. 22, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When this bird condescends to appear on the street, he is perfectly dressed from his head to
his feet… …while here is a guy who's so carelessly dressed, that his slovenly look makes you very depressed… // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Blind boobs] "look at her, smoking in public--I don't see how some women can be so brazen."
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Life's little jokes -- no 47,368
Oct. 8, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a chair that is pretty and shiny and new, all upholstered in purple and yellow and blue…
…while here is a seat that is falling apart, it belongs without doubt, in the garbageman's cart… // [Additional panel(s) on
sheet:] [Blind boobs] "There goes that terrible Mrs. Brown--I don't see how she could ever allow herself to get so fat."
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A holiday seems to work both ways
Sept. 5, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] What Labor Day means to the office clerk who is in the habit of getting down to work at 8 every
morning. "I hope my mother won't think I'm dead just because I'm going to sleep from Saturday night till Tuesday morning."
// [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Welcome home, my boy--are you sunburned?"
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Golf is a gentleman's game -- though they think what they like
Aug. 22, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's that bum, McRadish -- I wonder how he got in the club…" "There's that awful piece of
cheese, Van Plopp -- he don't know the first rules of decency…" // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "O,
Mister Bezitz, are you bow-legged?"
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Cartoon Follies of 1927
Aug. 8, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns "Tea is served, sir -- yes, sir -- thank you,sir."
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Cartoon Follies of 1927
Aug. 6, [1927]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "My wife is up on deck writing letters of thanks for the fruit our friends
sent us, and I'm busy throwing it overboard…"
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Cartoon Follies of 1927
July 19, [1927]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Hello, is this the fishcake life insurance company? I'd like to know how
much insurance my husband is carrying…"
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The first night in the country
July 15, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Getting a complete knowledge of all forms of insect life. Lying awake all night listening to
the musical springs. // [Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Foolish questions] "Hello, Pete, are you getting stout?'
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Cartoon Follies of 1927
July 1, [1927]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Us bums don't stand so well with society but, after all, the best people
don't work, either -- now, as one bum to another…"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 23, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Here it is two days before Christmas, and you haven't even started your
Christmas shopping -- doesn't Christmas mean anything to you? Do you hear me?"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 22, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "If I don't buy my wife a Christmas present she'll get sore -- and if I
do buy her a Christmas present she won't like it…"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 21, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Here's the tree, dear."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 18, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Look, darling, isn't it wonderful to believe in Santa Claus!"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 17, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Doctor, I'm in a bad way -- my wife won't let me start a fight with her
-- the happy atmosphere around my home is getting on my nerves…"
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The Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 15, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "But, Brown, I don't see why you should feel so sad just because you say
your wife is happy all the time -- you ought to be tickled to death that she's not a crab like my wide."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 15, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Say, Miss Sanders, my wife calls me up every fifteen minutes to see how
I feel -- it ain't natural -- I'm scared."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 14, [1926]
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1 drawing
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "I'm just a kid again, doin' what I did again, singing a song when the red,
red robin comes…"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--It's different when it happens to you
July 25, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "To me there's nothing funnier in the world than two fellows bumping into one another." "You
always see the funny side of things."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--An influential pal
July 21, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "A cop just pinched me for speeding and I wasn't going over 25 miles an hour." "Give me that
summons -- I've got a friend in the police court -- I'll fix it for you -- I'll go there myself in the morning."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--They always come back for more
July 20, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You took me in that bum hammock on purpose -- I don't ever want to see you again." "How can
I help it if the hammock breaks down."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Dec. 13, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The Battling Browns. "Everything's wrong in this house -- I can't find my shirts, the food is
terrible, there isn't a comfortable chair to sit on…"
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Sneaking the presents into the house
Dec. 1, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] You take a chance when you try this. "I'm sneaking these Christmas presents in the back way so
my kids won't see 'em."
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Conversational profits
Sept. 10, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Sam, I've taken advantage of the big real estate boom all over this country -- I made $10,000
on a $500 investment in Hokus Pokus City." "I'm in on it too, Joe -- I made $15,000 on a bum deal in Bumview Park."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Sept. 4, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Where are your eyes, caddie? This is the fourth ball I've lost today -- it's a wonder your folks
ever bothered to raise an idiot like you." "Say, Andy, the caddie can't help it if you're a rotten player."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--Life's little jokes -- no 391,640
Sept. 2, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Here's a letter that makes you a jubilant guy and you don't want to lose any time to reply… …while
here is a letter that makes you feel small, so you'd rather not bother to answer at all…
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--Just one of those things
July 14, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The bird who yells blue murder when he has to follow his wife around the corner will… …follow
a professional golfer aroun for thirty-six holes and then kick because it's not eighteen holes more.
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Cartoon Follies of 1926
Aug. 31, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "No more tight shoes for me, Phil -- I'm through torturing myself just to be stylish." "Laura,
I'm glad you've got some sense at last."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--He didn't find one
Aug. 30, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We'll have to get that guy -- he's nuts." "Sure he is -- he's been walking all over town from
one moving picture theatre to another and he's never stayed more than two minutes in one theater."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--It's different when it happens to you
Aug. 28, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My wife orders a dress for $125, sends me the bill and then expects me to smile -- she's deliberately
trying to give me high blood pressure and low bank balance." "Listen, Ben, be sensible -- every woman loves nice things --
after all, your wife wants to look beautiful for your sake -- she's your Cinderella and you make good money."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--Life's little jokes -- no 430,996
Aug. 26, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A guy by the name of Van Porterhouse Moose went away to a summer resort to reduce… …while a skinny
gazabo named Skeleton Blaine went away to the great open spaces to gain…
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--They always come back for more
Aug. 24, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't it beautifu! There's Old Man Bankroll -- he's raised a fine family, is a great-grandfather,
and is now finishing out his life close to nature in peace and contentment." "A pip, boys, a pip!"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--It's different when it happens to you
Aug. 14, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Isn't my engagement ring gorgeous, Peggy? Charlie is such a darling -- he's the handsomest,
sweetest, dearest, darlingest boy in all the world." "Julia, you make me sick with all that silly love talk…"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--Maybe there's something in that stuff after all
Aug. 13, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll prove to a lot of foolish people that there's nothing in all this foolsih bunk about superstition."
"Here's what I thin of the mirror scare."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--He took his vacation but didn't know it
Aug. 11, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now let me think -- when and where shall I spend my vacation." "I could go this month but I
think Spetember will be much cooler -- still, there isn't much going on later in the season."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--They always come back for more
Aug. 10, [1926]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Come on up here and help me with these rivets." "I'm not crazy -- if I want to kill myself I
can afford to buy a gun -- I quit!"
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--They always come back for more
Aug. 3, [1926]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm through with this bathing stuff for life -- oceanbathing isn't what it used to be -- there
are more people in the water than there are on land…" "Paul, you look bad -- the thick air and city crowds are ruining your
health -- what you need is some fresh air and ocean bathing."
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Cartoon Follies of 1926--You've been there yourself
July 26, [1926]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] What you say when you're in back of some awful players. And what you say when you meet them on
the next tee.
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Looking over the new queen
Dec. 31, [1929]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Miss 1930." "I don't think I'm going to enjoy her company much -- she's too hard to find among
all these clothes."
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New Year's Eve is a great responsibility
Dec. 28, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Invitations are not so plentiful this year because the boys still feel a little hollow in the
region of the pocketbook. At that there will probably be a lot of last-minute customers.
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda-made club."
Dec. 27, [1929]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Ladies of the "I woulda-made club" hold an afternoon tea for a Christmas post mortem and
a general discussion about New Years Resolutions. "I told Ralph that Christmas was only a matter of sentiment with me…"
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Simplifying a yearly problem
Dec. 26, [1929]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as the systeem of exchanges is used to transact big business, why not establish a Christmas
present exvhange in some public place on the twenty-sixth of December? "Will be glad to exchange a nice pair of hand-painted
shoe trees for a can of pipe tobacco or a wind shield wiper."
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The unbreakable parent
Dec. 25, [1929]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mother was thoughtful enough to give father a suit of armor for Christmas so he could allow the
children to go as far as they liked with their destructive toys. "That's fine, boys, don't hold back -- let everything go."
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The Christmas outlook is often decieving
Dec. 23, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Boys and girls, don't jump at conclusions -- this boss is happy because he's really broke and
doesn't haveee to bother about distributing any Christmas dough among the employees. While this boss is miserable because
he made so much money he simple has to give a chunk of it to the office force to cut down his income tax and also ease his
conscience.
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The big bundle parade
Dec. 24, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A Merry Christmas.
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Registering a package
Dec. 21, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I spent an hour wrappinjg this Christmas package to make sure nothing would happen to it…" "I'm
sorry, Miss, but I can't take it this way -- the wrapping paper is folded the wrong way…"
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A brilliant thought at last
Dec. 20, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Every year it's the toughest job in the world to think up a good idea for a Christmas card."
"Let's see -- a picture of Santa Claus wouldn't be bad but it's a little old."
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The weekly meeting fo the "I woulda-made club."
Dec. 18, [1929]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Santa Clauses of various shapes and sized meet on the street in the pursuit of their noble profession
and hold their annual meeting of the "I would made club." "Hello, Sam -- where ya been all year? I just sold my seat on the
stock exchange."
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The Christmas list
Dec. 17, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Well, I've got my Christmas list made out at last -- it seems a little long so I think I'll look
at it over again." "I haven't seen Henry Woggle lately so I'll cross him off and, come to think of it, Joe Gunk and Alice
McPiff didn't give me anything last year to I'll cross them off…"
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Advanced education
Dec. 16, [1929]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as out educational institutions are trying to direct us in all kinds of popular endeavor,
why not fill a crying need and start a school to teach people to eat grapefruit… "Now, pupils, bear in mind that grapefruit,
like machine guns or bean-blowers, can be aimed in any given direction…"
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Dec. 11, [1929]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The girls at the telephone exchange hold a meeting of the "I woulda made" club while throusands
of customers have to fight… "I've only had six proposals on the phone today -- business is falling off."
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A Christmas poem
Dec. 10, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It's about time the kids were relieved of reciting 'Twas the night before Christmas' and other
old favorites… "I'm tired of the poetry they ask me to recite…"
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Only one answer
Dec. 7, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm still trying to find out the reason for the big Wall St. washout." "Sh -- don't tell a soul
-- but I heard that the Wall St. panic was caused by the drug interests who drove the market down so people would get headaches…"
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Everything is relative, anyway
Dec. 5, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'm the most miserable man in the world -- I was worth $100,000 and I lost $95,000 in the
stock crash…" "I got a terrible sock in the market -- I lost everything but $839.15 and an automobile that goes only two miles
to the gallon."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Dec. 4, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The windowdressers of the city's biggest department store hold a meeting of the "I woulda made
club" while dolling up the big window… "My mother wanted me to be a portait painter and look at me now."
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Wanted:an up-to-date phone book
Dec. 3, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ahh, here's the number I want -- it is Shoestring 8009." "Central, give me Shoestring 8009."
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Cleaning up after the party
Nov. 30, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Come back in a couple of moths and I'll have some hockey players to carry away."
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Still cause for Thanksgiving
Nov. 28, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The bow-legged girl gives thanks for long skirts. "I've had three proposals already."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Nov. 27, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The chauffeurs in the garage hold a meeting of the "I woulda made club" while they wonder whether
their bosses will be able to pay…" "My boss went broke and told me I could have the car…"
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Tough on the wife
Nov. 26, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It's pretty hard on a wife who didn't get her fur coat before the break in the stock market…
…she hasn't the heart to bring up the subject while her husband is in his present mood…
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One-way speed
Nov. 25, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I want to insure my house." "Certainly, Mr. Winkle -- I'll take down the particulars and be
back with the policy in a jiffy…"
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You can't get away from it
Nov. 22, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Why, Joe, did you buy out a five-and-ten cent store?" "No, dear -- I'm sick of having visitors
drop ashes all over our carpet -- so I bought enough ash trays to cover…"
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Hidden charms
Nov. 21, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It's tough after learning to recognize them by their lower extremities. "I've seen her before
-- but with that long skirt on I can't quite place her."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Nov. 20, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The circus freaks get chatty between shows and hold an informal meeting of the "I woulda made
club." "I lost my job as a floor-walker because the customers couldn't see me."
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Nothing seems to be worth anything now
Nov. 19, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Stock market victims are selling everything at any price. "I'm ashamed to offer you such a small
price -- but I'll give you $10 for the car."
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The latest claim to greatness
Nov. 18, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I don't' see why he should be so swelled up over losing $400,000 in the stock market…" "My uncle
blew his brains out -- but that's hardly worth mentioning."
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Where is the English language?
Nov. 16, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] College of World Languages "Professor, I wanted you to go to America and make a careful study
of how they speak the English language in places where people congregate…"
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You can't get away from it
Nov. 25, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got just ten minutes in which to make my train -- I'll miss it if I'm held up one minute."
"Driver, take me to the Banana Street Depot -- drive like made because I've got a train to catch."
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Is there a doctor in the house?
Nov. 14, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Stock speculation is so hard on the nerves and general health that some brokers are thinking
of having a doctor on hand… Henry Ouch, member of the stock exchange.
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Nov. 13, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] During a lull in the crime wave the members of the police department hold a special meeting of
the "I woulda made club" and express themselves… "I woulda been chief of police if I'da been willing to marry the boss's homely
sister."
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The principal we use for a rug
Nov. 12, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Madam, this genuine turkish rug is a bargain. I'll let you have it for $378. 55." 'George,
dear, it is exactly the right size for our living room…"
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The dumbness of it all!
Nov. 11, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This is what happened in the great war… …and now, eleven years later, there isn't one man in
ten thousand who can tell you why it happened!
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Nov. 8, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The champions are beaten by a scrub team and hold a special meeting of the "I woulda made" club…
"I wasn't myself -- I was worried about my astronomy lessons."
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You can't get away from it
Nov. 6, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, listen, you guys -- be ready when I call for you -- it's the toughest thing in the world
to get four birds started for a golf game on time…" "I want to thank you boys for being ready on the dot -- this makes golf
a real pleasure."
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A candidate makes two campaign speeches
Nov. 4, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It's certainly lovely of the candidates to talk about the public welfare in their eloquent campaign
speeches… But it's strange they don't evenmention the public welfare when they're alone with their henchmen.
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You can't get away from it
Nov. 1, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of being with people who think only in terms of their fists." "I'll save my money and
read a lot so I can get away from this low crowd -- I admire brains, not brawn."
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That changeable waist line
Oct. 31, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You're supposed to hold a girl around the waist during a dance… But it is almost impossible to
find her waist when…
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In this age of publicity
Oct. 29, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] You often wonder how they get those actual photographs of accidents in the papers -- it must
happen something like this. A man has a murderous battle with his wife…
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Just like a woman
Oct. 28, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dolly, dear, I don't approve of you buying stocks, but if you insist on it I advise you to buy
Amalgamated Doorknob -- it's the soundest investment on the market." "I've investigated it thoroughly -- the company earned
$80,000,000 last year and will double it this year…"
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You can't compete with the radio
Oct. 26, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] With the radio going all the time, both in and out of doors, we'll have to find ways to make
ourselves understood above the terrific noise. They'll have to work out a series of signals to communicate with one another
-- two shots mean "good-bye, dear" and four shots mean…
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You can't get away from it
Oct. 25, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can't believe I was once as foolish as these college boys who go wild during the football
season…" "Look, Dad -- I managed to get a couple fo tickets for the football game and you're going along with me."
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Telephone efficiency
Oct. 24, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Miss Blitz, get Mr. Smith on the phone." "Malaria 9546 -- Hello, is this Mr. Smith's office?
Mr. Jones wants to speak to Mr. Smith."
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It's the same boy, too
Oct. 23, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Eric, put on your overcoat -- it's very cold out today." "Aw, Mom, don't make a sissy outa me
-- I don't wanna lug that heavy thing around -- I won't catch a cold, Mom."
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The morning mail
Oct. 22, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Here's your morning mail, Sir." "Gee, what a wonderful stack of mail -- I'm certainly getting
popular!"
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Women at the bottom of everything
Oct. 21, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Son, I'm glad you're throwing your shoulders back and walking erect after all the lectures I've
given you." "Only a few weeks ago you were walking with a terrible stoop in your shoulder and always looking down as if you
were afraid to look your fellow man in the eye."
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Keeping young
Oct. 19, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Darling, I'm so glad you're going out for a llittle golf -- you're stale and worn out from business
-- what you need is a little pepping up." "Yes, dear, I mustn't allow myself to get old."
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You can't get away from it
Oct. 18, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, listen, Dick -- I've got a proposition to make building material out of oyester shells
-- there are six hundred million oyster shells going to waste…" "Darling, I had lunch with a man yesterday who talked my ear
off and took up most of my afternoon…"
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Make long dresses safe for pedestrians
Oct. 16, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The girls are starting to wear those long trains again and there is grave danger of another traffic
conplication--they should be made to carry a series of bridges…"
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Another triumph for science
Sept. 28, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] When they get the portable-movie-talkie camera down to a point where every man can carry one
with him all the time, then the courts won't be… It will look a little bulky but…
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You can't get away from it
Sept. 27, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, I sold out my business to my employees and now I can retire to my country estate and enjoy
life -- no more worries -- no more responsibilities!" "A man's a fool to keep his nose to the grindstone after he's made a
success -- I've got everything here on my $500,000 estate -- I'm a king in paradise."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Sept. 25, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A special meeting of the "I woulda made club" is held on the 8:10 to the city to discuss the
carious games playes the night before. "If I'da called his two-dollar bet I'da won the $62 -- pot -- I'm sure he on;y had
a pair of deuces."
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Living in that perfect apartment you've discovered at last
Sept. 19, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] They spend weeks in finding an apartment with all the advantages they demand… Then they shut
out the air and light with heavy draperies…
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In the rough
Sept. 17, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This golfer has spent so much time in the rough this summer he now can't feel at home anywhere
else… He has his egg served in a flower pot every morening to keep in form.
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Back to school
Sept. 9, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A little boy shouldn't worry over the fact that he can't concentrate on school -- maybe the teacher
can't either. "What a fine man he was! I wonder if he was telling me the truth."
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Getting the stock reports at home
Sept. 23, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Today's stock market quotations up to two o'clock are: American Whistle…" "Gee, I'm dying to
know what my stock is today -- I'll have to listen carefully."
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Another problem solved
Aug. 31, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of having people borrow my pencils and forgetting to give them back -- I've got an
idea." "Hello, Bill, let me borrow your pencil for a minute -- I want to jot down a memorandum."
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Speed, speed and more speed
Sug. 30, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Everything today is speed! Steamships, trains, aeroplanes… Making time is so important in modern
life they start rushing for a train right in the middle of a wedding.
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She reads a book
Aug. 10, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] She says, "I brought this book to the country because I was too busy all winter to read it…"
"There's that fat bleached widow chasing around again with that skinny kid who looks young enough to be her son."
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You can't get away from it
Aug. 9, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] 'Listen, I heard of a peach of a story last night." "Here's a brand new one."
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A waste of time
Aug. 3, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This fellow won't be happy till he burns himself to a crisp with a trick lamp. This girl thinks
she can't be contented unless she sits in the sun and bakes herself to a dark brown.
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Aug. 1, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The chorus men's branch of the "I woulda made club" holds a meeting while doing their dance to
give the start of the show a chance to change her costume. "Hey, you guys -- stop talking and earn your thirty-fove a week."
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You can't get away from it
July 31, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of this hot dog game -- I wish I could go somewhere and get a little touch of refinement
-- hot dogs are so vulgar!" "Why, hello, cousin Eric -- I haven't seen you in years -- I'm a millionaire and I want you to
come out to my home to a party tonight -- my wife's in society."
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Those new small bills
July 30, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Her allowance looked small even with the old dollar bills -- so, now with the new small ones,
it looks like nothing. "Dear, here is your allowance."
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The problem of white flannel trousers
July 29, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "If they get any smaller I'll look like an acrobat." The shrinkage that takes place in a pair
of white flannel trousers is always a great summer problem -- so we have figured out two ways to overcome this.
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The consoling golf companion
July 20, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Not so good, Phil, but don't worry -- that shot won't hurt you -- you can get back on the fairway
on your next." "Too bad, Phil -- just a little more stuff and you'da been over the trap -- but it's all in the game -- that
shot won't hurt you -- take it easy and you can pitch right to the green."
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You can't get away from it
July 19, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This hand-to-mouth existence is terrible -- always worrying about money -- I wish I had a million
so I could have all the luxuries in the world without a single…" "It is my great pleasure to inform you that your uncle died
in Holland and left you a million dollars."
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Maybe they didn't want you to come anyway
July 18, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now listen carefully, George, and I'll tell you how to get out to our house -- go along the
main road…" "Thanks."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
July 17, [1929]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Before going to sleep, the bums who have paid ten cents for a night's lodging in a "flop house,"
hold a meeting… Last man up in the morning will have nothing left but his dandruff.
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A common weakness
July 16, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wonder if this little lighter really works -- the guy who sold me the car said it never fails
but I don't believe everything I hear…" "Ouch! I burned off the tip of my finger -- Gee, people will think I'm a terrible
sap when they find out what I did…"
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A vacation is hard on the hands
July 15, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] It takes a tug-of-war champ to open a door in a summer hotel. When they put windows in summer
places they lined them with glue.
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You can't get away from it
July 5, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "The only way a fellow can appreciate his home is to get away from it once in a while -- I'm
going to Turkey where I won't see anything American for…" "Gee, this is restful -- strange scenery, strange faces, strange
language…"
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Independence!
July 4, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The old-style Fourth of July orator is still telling us this. "Our forefathers bequeathed tous
the sacred heritage of independence -- on this great day we commemorate the birth of freedom…"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- 4th of July
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Shopping on the radio
July 1, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ralph, turn on the radio -- I want to listen to the ads and see if I can pick up any bargains
here in Duluth." "Sure, dear."
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How to quit playing golf
June 29, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "My golf game is so terrible I'm the most miserable human being on the earth -- I've quit the
game forty times but I always weaken and come back to it." "If I only had the nerbe to kill myself -- it's no use -- there's
no way out…"
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There are kisses and kisses
June 27, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The best man kisses the June Bride and the groom is tickled silly. "Certainly, Bill old Pal --
go right ahead and kiss my beautiful bride -- she's too wonderful to keep to myself…"
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
June 26, [1929]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A few bush league ball players hold a meeting of the "I woulda made club" just before a local
game between the "Yellow Palookas" and the "Brown Derbies." "If I had the pitchers all acared like Babe Ruth has I would made
twice as many home runs as he did last season."
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The pride of ownership
June 15, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He pays $100 down on a $4000 car and talks as though he owns it. "My car can pass anything on
the road."
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He also shakes dice
June 17, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A man has himself all shaken up in a bumpy old taxicab. And shakes hands so often his shoulder
is twisted out of joint.
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Getting the time on the radio
June 4, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Get your watches ready, folks -- I will now announce the correct time -- but let me interrupt
for a few seconds to call your attention to the fact…" "that 'Wipeclean Dish Rags' give your cups and saucers a glow like
the light of…"
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You can't get away from it
May 16, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I can step with any of the young fellows -- we've been dancing for hours and I'm just getting
warmed up." "Here's to eternal youth -- I feel younger today than I did fifty years ago and I hate to go to bed…"
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The "traffic signal" craze
May 4, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The original idea of traffic lights was to keep motorists from bumping into one another… "The
red light is on, dear, so I guess we'll have to stop -- but there's been no cross-traffic here since the last covered wagon
galloped west…"
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You can't get away from it
Apr. 26, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mary, you're better lookin' than all the movie queens put together." "Aw, go on!"
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Apr. 24, [1929]
Physical Description:
1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A private meeting of the "I woulda made" club is held this week by the musicians of the Idle
Hour Theater while tuning up for the ninth show of the day. "If I'da stayed with Sousa I woulda made enough jack to quit fondling
this clumsy bungalo."
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Everybody's satisfied
Apr. 12, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Senator, I'm glad to say that prohibition enforement is at last a complete success -- the
law has won a complete victory." "Judge, I am extremely gratified to know that the people have become educated after a ten-year
campaign of enlightenment."
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They're purifying the stage again
Feb. 8, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Now that they're "cleaning up" the stage again, the chorus girls will have to work behind screens.
"I"ll bring an x-ray with me tomorrow night."
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Elevator trip will soon be an overnight jump
Feb. 2, [1929]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] With the new skyscrapers rising to hundreds of stories, the elevator trip becomes an endurance
contest. "Boy, wake me up when we reach the 236th floor -- I've got a date up there this evening."
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Experts make glowing predictions for 1929
Jan. 2, [1929]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Paul Lipstick, noted creator of women's styles, says: "In 1929 women's styles will astonish men
more and more…" J. Margin Pool, financial wizard, says: "1929 will be the biggest year business has ever known…"
Comics: 1930s (estimated)
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[That's life] A sad sad story
Aug. 25, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Vincent Lather invented a new shaving soap and tried to think of some way to put it on the market.
He thought it would be a great idea to have his congressman endorse the shaving soap -- so he arranged and expensive party…
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[That's life] Even when the poor little private citizen puts on a bright uniform and marches in the parade to celebrate this
great day of freedom and independence…
July 4, [1931]
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: cartoon
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A sad, sad story
May 21, [1931]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Hannibal Zinc was all fed up with his nagging wife -- she drove him frantic with her constant
bickering and jabbering… So he bought a plane and decided to go far, far off where he could find peace and quiet…
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More speed records to be broken
Mar. 7, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] While they are breaking automobile, aeroplane, motorboat and running records, there are still
a few things that ought to be sped up. Waiters don't seem to know we are living in a fast age.
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People we should be sore at
Mar. 21, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as we are making a list of 'public enemies' we shouldn't forget to include these. Amos
Cramp, designer of the theatre box, which is responsible for most of the stiff necks in the world.
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Why is it?
Mar. 16, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it -- a man never notices his wife's clothes… But he can describe a perfectly stange woman's
costume right down to the very last detail -- why is it?
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Why is it?
Mar. 6, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it -- a man's memory is very foggy when his wife starts to ask questions… But when it
comes to making out his income tax his memory is simply astonishing -- why is it?
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A sad, sad story
Mar. 5, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Lucille Winkleduff was not a good-looking girl -- but she read all the movie magazines and developed
a great ambition to make a name for herself in pictures… So she spent a good part of her savings having herself made beautiful
and used what was left of her money to get to Hollywood…
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Well, that's different
Mar. 4, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no modesty anymore -- everybody is publicity mad -- people think of nothing but getting
their names before the public." "If a man gives five bucks to charity he wants it advertised all over town…"
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A sad, sad story
Mar. 3, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Harrison Cornflake was a poor businessman and could hardly make a living so he decided that his
son should take up a profession… The son studied dentistry and kept his mind free from all business knowledge so he could
become proficient in his chosen profession…
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The man who can't sleep
Feb. 27, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Get up, Leroy, and go to work -- you're half an hour late already." "Mr. McDrowsy, I've been
waiting three hours for you to dictate those letters."
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A sad, sad story
Feb. 26, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Oscar Bloot conceived a brilliant idea that would revolutionize the peanut industry… He rushed
downtown to present his idea to the head of the peanut business -- it meant millions for all…
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Sound pictures also have sound audiences
Feb. 25, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Movie audiences have developed such great efficiency in coughing and bellowing it is impossible
to hear a word that comes from the screen. "Enamel, dear, I love you."
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A sad, sad story
Feb. 24, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Henry Hammerdinger went away on a business trip and promised his wife he wouldn't even look at
another woman… He got so lonesome in the hotel far away from home he phoned the bell boy for a little liquid joy to cheer
him up…
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Celebrating Washington's Birthday
Feb. 23, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] He starts the day with a fib… "I'm all dressed Jim -- I'm just leaving the house."
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no eighty-six
Feb. 17, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The father of twelve grown children who tries to make the manicure believe he's young, single
and wild. "Yes, it's pretty tough on a young fellow like me being alone in a big city without even a hand to hold while sitting
in the movies…"
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Society is suffering, too
Jan 17, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Society is making great sacrifices on account of the financial depression. "Wah!"
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Backgammon is close to perpetual motion
Jan. 16, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Married couples are so engrossed in Backgammon these days they haven't time to notice visitors
-- so they have adopted this method of hospitality. "Dear, that makes 347 games for your and 353 games for me."
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There are haircuts and haircuts
Jan. 14, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When a man gets a haircut he simply goes into a barber shop and gets a haircut… "Haircut, barber."
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A sad, sad story
Jan. 13, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Lizzie McSoft fell in love with a crooning tenor radio voice that belonged to Lawrence van Wheeze…
They met, became engaged, and were married after a whirlwind courtship full of sweet and mushy love songs…
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How long will it last?
Jan. 12, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A man has put this invention on the market to keep crying millionaires from flooding the streets
with their tears. "Poor fellow -- he's down to his last million."
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Winter golf
Jan. 10, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Don't let your gold clubs lie idle and rust during the long winter months -- there are plenty
of ways to keep them busy. Always keep a set of clubs in the bathroom -- they will come in handy for retrieving the soap.
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They can have it
Jan. 9, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "There goes Professor McFraction, the greatest statistician in the world -- he is a wizard on
figures." "Gee, I wish I had his brain."
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A sad, sad story
Jan. 8, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Jonathan Floop suffered from the cold, wintry blasts and was greatly worried about his health…
He decided to go south where he would feel safe in the soothing warmth of the tropical sunshine…
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Those tri-cornered hats
Jan. 7, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Those new three-cornered ladies' jats need a surveyor to get them properly centered. "Now, around
about three-sixteenths of an inch to the left."
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A sad, sad story
Jan. 6, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] For years Newton J. Concrete withstood the advice of his friends to buy stocks -- he kept his
money in the bank… When stocks crumbled and his friends lost all their money Newton felt that he had proven himself to be
the smartest man in town…
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A hint to the movie magazines
Jan. 5, [1931]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] We're tired of reading about the private lives of movie stars -- why not give a little attention
to people in other walks of life? They're just as human and interesting. An evening at home with the McGoofys -- when Mr.
McGoofy finishes delivering his ice during the day he rushes home to his darling wife -- she always keeps the table clear…
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Out of danger
Jan. 2, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah." "You can get up now -- you're much better."
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Fresh customers
Jan. 1, [1931]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Say, you can't sit through two shows--you'll have to make room for these nice people."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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Making the world safe for New Years parties
Dec. 31, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A diver's helmet would protect your ears from noise tonight. Why not have an animal handy to
try your liquor on before you take a chance yourself?
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A sad, sad story
Dec. 30, [1931]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Eric Broccoli met a beautiful young lady and invited her to go to a New Year's party with him
-- he wrote her name and address on his cuff to be sure not to forget it… While Eric slept late and dreamed of the glorious
time he was going to have with his new-found love on New Year's Eve, his fond mother innocently sent his shirt…
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Our 1931 Reducing Calendar
Dec. 29, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I weigh 156 -- I must reduce." "I'm down to 143 already -- it's grand."
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The penalty of Christmas
Dec. 27, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The worst part of Christmas presents is that you have to use them. Trying to do the right thing.
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A sad, sad story
Dec. 26, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Little Eric wanted a mechanical toy for Christmas but his fond parents said it was foolish to
spend money on a toy so they bought him a nice useful book… Eric was so disappointed he kicked up a fuss and let out a terrible
howl…
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A well-earned rest
Dec. 25, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Cartoonists also get tired out from Christmas shopping -- so pardon us if we take a snooze, upset
the ink bottle and let the ink do the rest. A Merry Christmas.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Christmas
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No sympathy for him
Dec. 24, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] One hit-and-run driver who happens to be right. "Serves you right for trying to get in my way."
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A sad, sad story
Dec. 23, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Paul Nutmeg wanted to give his wife ten dollars in cash for Christmas -- but she said there would
be more sentiment in it if he went shopping and bought her something… Floor walkers directed him from one department to another
until he was dizzy…
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The clerk has all the fun
Dec. 22, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Is there anything you want?" "Yes -- your job."
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Your Christmas card
Dec. 15, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This will save you the trouble of fussing around to find an appropriate Christmas card -- buy
as many copies of the paper as you can… I cannot send a costly gift, a Christmas token rich and rare -- I cannot send you
pearls and furs…
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A sad, sad story
Dec. 11, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] T. Lemuel Shivver worked five nights on speech he was to deliver at a banquet for the first time
in his life… He was scared to death on the night of the banquet as he sat waiting his turn…
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Her idea of economy
Dec. 10, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, I'm going shopping for a winter coat and I won't pay a cent more than you can afford to
spend." "Darling, you're so considerate!"
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[People who put you to sleep] People who put you to sleep, no seventy-six
Dec. 9, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] The two-hundred-pound stenographer who tells the office force what a cute baby she was. "As if
anybody cared."
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Our All-American team of unholy liars
Dec. 8, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Abner V. Grunion, who says he bought stocks at the bottom and sold at the top. Minerva Nutmeg,
who says her sweetheart promised her a more expensive present this Christmas than last.
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Giving everybody an even break
Nov. 27, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why not apportion the turkey by a family lottery? "It'll be just my luck to get the neck."
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Jobs for the unemployed
Nov. 22, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] There should be plenty of jobs like this for the unemployed. "I can't find parking space and
I can't leave it in the middle of the street -- here, my good man, drive my car around till I finish my work."
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They can have it
Nov. 21, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, maybe we stay home too much -- I wish we were popular like the Doakses." "I'll give a
party and maybe people will get to like us."
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After all, a cocktail is a cocktail
Nov. 19, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, Freddie is coming over to call on me and I haven't got a drop of anything with which to
make a cocktail." "Here are a lot of old bottles that have been standing around in the pantry for years."
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A sad, sad story
Nov. 18, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Antonio Pigaletti, a singing teacher, passed a shabby house and heard a beautiful voice coming
from the throat of a poor little girl who was washing dishes… Antonio took her in hand and spent years cultivating her voice
for a great career…
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Crooning through a megaphone
Nov. 17, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Tenor singers use megaphones to put sex appeal in their voices -- why not let other men use the
little megaphone to win the sympathy of the fair sex? Making dicatation a labor of love.
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The college influence
Nov. 15, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I'm glad I can afford to send my son to college -- college brings out a young man's individuality
-- it makes him different -- it gives him a chance to develop his own…" "Hello, dad."
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They can have it
Nov. 14, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, look at the King -- he gets the best of everything -- I think I'll start a revolution and
see if I can get a few breaks myself." "Follow me into the palace, comrades -- we'll throw the king out on his ear!"
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A sad, sad story
Nov. 13, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A woman told her husband she was dying and he rushed madly out for a doctor… In his mad rush
into the street the husband was knocked down by the car of a big banker who was on his way to an important conference to settle
a financial crisis…
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There's no business, anyway
Nov. 12, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A business man's chief thought during the morning is where he is going to eat lunch… Lunch itself
takes his time from twelve to three.
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A sad, sad story
Nov. 11, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] An ambitious young man named Esau McPlugg would let nothing interfere with his rise to fame and
wealth -- he said he would enjoy life after he made his fortune… He worked nights and went ahead of all his friends who were
out late at night dancing and carousing…
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They can have it
Nov. 7, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'd like to get married but they don't make 'em as beautiful as Ted's wife anymore -- Ted's
a lucky guy." "Ted's wife is the best looking girl here -- she spoils me for all the others -- I think I'll go out and take
a smoke."
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Announcing as a national pastime
Nov. 6, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Radio announcers give themselves a break by repeating their own names every few minutes… Why
not give trainmen a chance for a little personal publicity…
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A sad, sad story
Nov. 5, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Phil Small was very anxious to become a big shot among cultured people -- he read the classics
and all the latest books so he would be able to discuss literature… He went to Grand Opera so he would be able to discuss
music fluently…
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Making up a voter's mind
Nov. 4, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A voter will spend days before election listening to noble speeches so he can cast his vote for
the fairest candidate… And make his final decision on a speech like this…
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Two women hurrying to vote
Nov. 3, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, Louise, dear, I'll meet you in front of the election booth and we can vote together."
"Louise, you look stunning in your new coat -- I always said you look best in black and white."
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A sad, sad story
Oct. 9, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Johnathan Q. Wind, dry candidate for congress, made an eloquent speech on upholding the eighteenth
amendment… He grew very dramatic as he swore to enforce the laws of the country if elected to the great office for which he
was running…
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The football panic is on
Oct. 4, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A man fell out of a 22-story window and dug a hole in the concrete pavement without getting hurt
-- six big colleges are after him to play football this season. The scouts are out again looking for husky-lunged cheer leaders.
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They can have it
Oct. 3, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sorry for you saps that have to keep on working -- I've retired -- I've got mine and I'm
going to enjoy life -- so long, Paul." "Arthur, you're a lucky guy."
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A sad, sad story
Sept. 30, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Luther Crunch didn't want to be selfish and let his wife sit home while he was playing golf --
so he gave her a set of clubs and told her to take lessons… She thought the professional had lovely eyes and stayed so late
taking lessons every afternoon that…
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They can have it
Sept. 26, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Joe, why don't you make a fuss over me like that? Whose two are the most loving couple in town
-- they're always saying sweet things." "You're right, Mary."
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Heroes who really deserve banquets
Sept. 24, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Cyrus T. McTruffle is entitled to greatness because he borrowed a paper of matches and gave it
back! Ohm van Garlic deserves the title of hero because he pulled his feet out of the way when somebody crowded past him in
the movies!
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There isn't much logic in the names of summer
Aug. 27, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sea view cottage." "The Idle Hour."
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[BLANK]
Nov. 10, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
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Life is just one bridge game after another
Aug. 17, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A man spends thousands of dollars taking his family on a sight-seeing trip through Egypt and
they spend all their time playing bridge. "Five spades."
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A sad, sad story
July 31, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A certain heiress fell in love with a beautiful male voice that came over the radio every night…
So she put an ad in the personal column of a newpaper asking the man with the soulful voice to come and call on her…
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They can have it
July 30, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Herman, every fellow I know has a car but you -- why don't you buy one?" "I can't afford it
but I'll buy one for your sake, dear -- I deserve a little enjoyment out of life."
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A sad, sad story
July 28, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Luke Simmons had one ideal -- a girl with blonde hair, long eye-lashes, and a beautiful complexion
-- and she must be tall and slender… After looking over the whole face of the globe he finally found a girl who lived up to
everything his fondest dreams could picture…
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Pajamas are cute at that
July 26, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] With the girls wearing pajamas all day at the beach and on the street things seem a little confusing.
A natural mistake.
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A sad, sad story
July 24, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This man took out an accident insurance policy so he would be fully protected in case he got
hurt… He went through an earthquake without getting a scratch…
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They can have it
July 23, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I wish I was with the firm long enough to get a vacation like Joe -- look at him -- he's
just leaving and he's the happiest man in the world." "Here I am in a stuffy, gloomy office while Joe is up ther ein the beautiful,
green mountains inhaling fresh air…
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A sad, sad story
July 22, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A salesman had been trying to sell Old Man Jones some stock for a long time but he could never
catch Jones in a good mood… So he decided to take Jones out for a game of golf and let him win -- then he would make the sale
while Jones was happy…
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The new education
June 7, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Junior, you'll have to pay more attention to your lessons and quit going to movies all the time."
"But, daddy…"
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A sad, sad story
June 6, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] A certain young man was fed up with having too much family around him -- he couldn't sneeze without
spraying three grandparents and six uncles… So he proposed to a nice young lady just to have his own home and lead his own
life…
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They always go you one better
June 4, [1930]
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1 drawing
: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Gee, I'm happy -- in two more weeks I move to my beautiful place at the seashore." "Joe, I saved
and saved for years until I could afford a nice little summer cottage at the beach -- that's my idea of real living."
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A sad, sad story
June 3, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A big businessman got sick from sticking too close to his desk -- the doctor said he would die
if he did not… So he joined a very exclusive golf club and it cost him $3500 for initiaion and dues…
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More protection for the public
June 2, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] As long as they have censors ti regulate our various activities, why not have a board of censors
in each hat store to keep us from buying… "His expression calls for a blue hat band with pink stripes."
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They always go you one better
May 29, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Out you go! You owe four months rent!" "Gee, Mister, I've got troubles -- my wife left me, I
got sick and lost my job, my son is in jail, my watch is in hock…"
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A sad, sad story
May 28, [1930]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] This farmhand was so sick of being surrounded with chickens he decided to quit the farm and go
to the city… He read an ad in the paper: Wanted a bright young man to work as assistant to proprietor of city store in heart
of business section.
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Open phones in a dry store
May 27, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] They're doing away with telephone booths in drug stores and putting in open telephones -- this
will make phoning about as private as radio announcing. If you tell a secret over a drug store phone you may as well announce
it to the whole town.
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The poor letter carrier gets no credit
May 17, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A letter carrier walks ten or fifteen miles over hard pavements… Walks up and down stairs all
day in thirty and forty story buildings…
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There's no answer
Apr. 1, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it that barbers, dentists and masseurs insist on talking about poltics, world affaris
and art when you're in no position to take the slightest bit of interest? "Gloop!"
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The boys learn about George Washington
Feb. 22, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My son, you should try to be like George Washington -- familiarize yourself with the things
that were associated with his life." "I think I'll visit some antique shops and look at a lot of things that belonged to him
-- that will give me a good idea of what he was like."
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The wealthy enjoy golf in the South
Feb. 21, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Big businessmen, glad to get away from the barren city pavements, ligner in the foliage while
out on the beautiful golf courses. The millionaires, when they find that their clubs are not suited to the southern courses,
do not hesitate to change right away.
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Those early morening radio exercizes
Feb. 20, [1930]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Good morning, everybody -- how are you all this beautiful, bright sunny morning -- it's exactly
six…" "I don't see how that guy can be so cheerful so early in the morning."
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Oscar, hand me that ax
Feb. 19, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mister Gimpwaffer is outside to see you -- I'll tell him to come in for a minute -- take it
easy -- you're still a very sick man." "Thanks for coming to see me, Gimpwaffer -- it's nice to have your friends think of
you after a serious operation."
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A sad, sad story
Feb. 15, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] This young man worked night and day and made a fortune -- his idea was to get a nice wife, make
a lot of friends and become popular… So he married a beautiful girl, built a fine house, and prepared to make himself the
center of social life…
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Figure skating
Feb. 13, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It seems a shame to let all the fancy ice-skating go to waste -- here are a few ways in which
this beautiful pasttime can really be made useful. A chance for the tailor to remind a customer of an unpaid bill.
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A woman's privilege
Feb. 11, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Jack, dear, I bought that piece of bulgarian porcdfelain for the house…" "What's the dofferemce
as long as you're satisfied, dear?"
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An awful jolt!
Feb. 8, [1930]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll take off weight if I have to go through every exercise ever invented!" "This dieting is
a terrible hardship -- but it'll be worht while when everybody notices how thin I've gotten."
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A logical thing to do
Feb. 10, [1930]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, I've been flat broke ever since the stock crash and things are getting worse…" "The grocer
refused to deliver the eggs and the butcher was here with his lawyer."
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A hundred per cent efficiency
Feb. 7, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, where is that girl again? Every time I want to dictate a letter she's always on the phone!"
"I'm sorry, Tom -- I can't see you tonight -- I'm going out with Phil and Mazie and Jack -- but I've got Monday night open
-- all right…"
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Getting some sleep on a train
Feb. 6, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Many people hav etrouble getting to sleep on trains -- here are a few suggestions to help them
out of their difficulty. Just press a button and this attachment is guaranteed to put ou to sleep in any berth on any road.
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[The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' Club] The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Feb. 5, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A dozen members of Kid Dynamite's staff of managers hold a meeting of the "I woulda made club"
while… "If de kid would take my advice I could make him a hundred grand in no time."
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Herman, hand me that ax!
Feb. 4, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got the most marvelous dentist in the world -- this wonderful new set of teeth makes me
feel great!" "Look, old man, did you ever see any dental work like that? They're better than my own teeth…"
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A sad, sad story
Feb. 3, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Once upon a time a young man made $1,000,000 and decided to buy an expensive foregin car to go
out and win the girl he loved. Another young man loved the same girl -- but he was poor and had to walk out to her house to
woo her.
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All in the point of view
Jan. 31, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Look, Raplh, isn't that a swell little ashtray! I swiped it from the Sleeplight Hotel in Detroit."
"I copped this little cream pitcher from the restaurant in the Hotel La Goof in Chicago when the waiter wasn't looking."
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Jan. 29, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The bald headed division of the "I woulda made club" holds it's weekly meeting… "It's not so
terrible to be bald, sir -- look how happy pollywogs are."
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Otto, hand me the ax!
Jan. 28, [1930]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "This new radio has the most beautiful tine I ever heard -- I can't wat for my friend, George
Woggle…" "George, did you ever hear anything like it? It's the very latest model Wonderola Special."
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Musicians should not lose heart
Jan. 27, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] With canned music beign used in most of the theaters the poor musicians have to look around for
other… A piccolo player can always get a job impersonating a whistle on a peanut stand where they sell cold peanuts.
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A great favor
Jan. 25, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, I have an uncle who has a friend who knows a man in the automovile license bureau…" "Marvelous,
Dick -- I'll appreciate that more than anything in the world."
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Sneezing time in the talkies
Jan. 22, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When you're a little hard of hearing. "Your honor, as foreman of this jury, it is my solemn duty…"
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An evening together
Jan. 21, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He really means this. "Goodnight, Joe -- I'm always glad when the day's work is done so I can
get home to my sweet littl wife."
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Why be lonesome?
Jan. 20, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Pullman Company ought to do something about their timid people who are too shy to start a
conversation on a train. Why not have a hostess on trains to get all the passengers together like one big happy family?
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Which will win out
Jan. 16, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The biggest question bothering the women today is whether or not long skirts are here to stay
-- this question, if you don't mind our saying so, is also bothering the men. "Dear, if I buy you a long dress and then they
go back to short dresses you'll be out of luck because I can only afford one dress this season."
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You can't get away from it
Jan. 15, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of eating all this cold food every night but I can't afford to go to a restaurant --
this hall room stuff is terrible." "Hello, Mr. McSandwhich -- we want you to come to our house to dinner tomorrow night."
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Where are you going this winter?
Jan. 11, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mr. T. van Scratchmore Payne has decided to stay in town this winter and devote most of his time
to settlement work -- he will begin his activities by settling with his landlord. Mrs. Henry J. Lumbago of Washtub-On-The-Floor
has so much to occupy her at ome this winter she will not be able to visit Florida or California -- her devoted husband is
constantly at her side.
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The weekly meeting of the "I woulda made club."
Jan. 10, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Pullman porters on a transcontinental train take a little time off their strenuous duties
and hold a special meeting of the "I woulda made club." "Dey don't seem to be coinin' no more money larger dan dimes."
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Long gloves are back again
Jan. 9, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The girls are wearing long black evening gloves again just as in grandma's time. "Pardon me,
Miss -- but you forgot to take off your kitchen gloves when you finished washing the dishes."
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The perpetual pupil
Jan. 8, [1930]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You're doing wonderfully with your golf lessons, Mister Wilkus -- every shot you've made is
equivalent to a 250-yard drive." "Jim, I've taken twelve golf lessons and perfected my game at last -- my swing, my pivot,
my stance, my follow-through, my timing, are all perfect -- I'm dying to get out on the links and show you what I can do."
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Our great telephone wire untangler
Jan. 7, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The only way we can figure out to keep from getting all tangled up in the telephone wire every
time your pick up phone is this… Attach the wire to a trained snake and get him to stand at attention every time the phone
rings…
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Who said stocks?
Jan. 6, 1930
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The man used to study the stock quotations -- but now that he doesn't look at them anymore he
has a little time to play with his child. This broker used to be the most popular man at all social affairs when everybody
gathered around him and asked for stock tips -- now nobody notices him and he has to sit around and count his fingers.
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The talkies rule the nation
Jan. 4, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The talkies have grown to be the most important thing in American life and some of our prominent
citizens put in a squawk. Abbott Dillwhistle says: "Since the talkies arrived my wife hasn't been home on time to cook me
a single meal -- I think the picture theatres should equip every seat with a kitchenette."
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Modern furniture
Jan. 3, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Comfort and modern furniture don't seem to fit in the same room. He knew there was no use in
kicking about the artistic lamp his wife brought home -- so he experimented until he found a position in which he could read.
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You can't get away from it
Jan. 2, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sick of riding in from the country every day -- I spend so much time riding to and from
work I'm always tired out -- I'm going to move into the city to avoid all this traveling." "Gee, this city apartment is swell
-- now I can sleep that extra hour I used to spend riding on the train."
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An old Spanish custom
Jan. 1, [1930]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Can you think of anything worse than this happening on New Year's Day? Just as you are about
to curl up for a long snooze after an all-night party you hear the voices of your uncle and aunt downstairs announcing… "Tell
Mister Twillinger that his uncle Abner and aunt Agatha came all the way from Appletown to wish him a Happy New Year -- we'll
wait."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holidays -- Miscellaneous
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That's life
Dec. 15, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If you don't want your neighbors to know you can't afford to do any Christmas shopping this year,
just borrow a lot of empty boxes and carry them home. "When we return these boxes I hope they let us keep the string."
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That's life
Dec. 1, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Whose deal?" "Whose deal is it now?"
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That's life
Dec. 7, [1932]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] If they keep on singing popular songs in that queer hotcha language they'll soon have us talking
that way. "Beedla bong oppidy opp ta ta udda ug g zong."
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That's life
Dec. 6, [1932]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Hannibal Butts was wondering how he could support his family on his small income… He picked up
a paper and saw cooks advertised for $20 a month, 12-room houses for $30 a month, suits for $15…
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That's life
Nov. 28, [1932]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Every big fighter now has a dozen managers we can expect them to be conducting fights with conferences
very soon. "Let's tell him to lead a left."
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That's life
Oct. 31, [1932]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm dying to see the picture." "These seats are pretty far back but we'll watch for better ones."
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[That's life] Why is it--when the Butts Family had money they went to a swell place and had a dull New Year party…
Dec. 30, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ten dollars a head to be miserable!" "Is it against the law to smile around here?"
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[That's life] Advice to Christmas shoppers
Dec. 17, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When selecting presents for the children, blindfold yourself and make a grab -- you'll be wrong
anyway… Do a littlbe balancing every evening at home so you'll become proficient in carrying Christmas packages.
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[That's life] Public enemy no 30: The man who invented Christmas cards
Dec. 16, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, half the people on our last year's list are dead and we're mad at the other half." "We
have to get rid of 100 cards -- let's get some new names out of the telephone book."
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[That's life] "Get the doctor quick! There's a speck of dust in my wine glass."
Dec. 14, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it -- this woman is mortally afraid of germs at home… But will "simply adore" eating at
a roadside joint -- why is it?
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[That's life] Romeo Butts wanted to surprise his girl for Christmas so he bought her a beautiful pearl necklace…
Dec. 13, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He was so happy thinking about the way she would look with the pearls around her neck, he took
a ride out into the country… Suddenly, turning into a back road, he saw his girl spooning with his best friend…
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[That's life] "This is terrible--only three weeks for my Christmas shopping--I've got to go to the crowded stores and select
gifts for Joe…"
Dec. 3, [1932]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "Hello, hello, this is the bank--there isn't a nickel left in your account--you're absolutely
broke."
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[That's life] Public enemy no 28: The man who invented corks
Dec. 2, [1932]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "We've been pulling on this cork for an hour." "Maybe it's put in with cement."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 29, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mary Butts went to the hospital -- her friends sent her beautiful flowers but she was too sick
to know they were there… In a short time the flowers wilted and the nurse had to throw them away…
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It's very tough to hold a girl these days
Nov. 26, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] If he takes her to a football game she falls in love with the fullback… "What a gorgeous neck!"
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[That's life] Tomb of the unknown turkey who made the world safe for cranberry sauce
Nov. 24, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "All the castor oil in the world can't spoil the great joy you have given us on Thanksgiving
Day."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 22, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] J. Plodder Butts, a letter carrier was weary from walking, walking, walking… He saved every penny
so that he could buy an automobile and rest his weary limbs…
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[That's life] You can't deprive children of the pleasure of practicing football around the house--so why not dress accordingly?
Oct. 29, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I see where a candidate in Wisconsin came out for light wines and heavy women." "Gee, Pop, I
made a perfect goal."
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[That's life] Who says there's no advantage in a college education?
Oct. 22, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He gets his diploma and wonders what to do with it. In a few years his life is a complete flop…
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[That's life] Public enemy no 23: The man who invented keys
Oct. 28, [1932]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I've got forty-two keys on my key-ring and I don't know what one of 'em is for." "I lost my
key and I'm afraid to ring the bell for fear my wife will think I'm drunk again."
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[That's life] Publicly enemy no 22: The man who invented tipping
Oct. 21, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Did you enjoy your stew, sir?" "Everything satisfactory, sir?"
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Will Rogers says the candidates would get more votes if they'd croon their speeches over the radio
Oct. 20, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Rudy puts sex appeal into his campaign for mayor. "Good-night, sweetheart, will we meet tomorrow,
elect me, sweetheart, and I will banish sorrow…"
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[That's life] "The safety-value of democracy is the ultimate good judgement of the people to select competent men to public
office."
Oct. 19, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it -- a women's civic club spends a year studying the fundamentals of government… "Correct
-- we need a business administration."
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[That's life] All the colleges are striving to make football more refined this year
Oct. 15, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mechanical face-wiper to get perspiration out of player's eyes. Mud guards to keep ball clean
on sloppy field.
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Here are a few more ways to economize in running the government
Oct. 13, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Don't let the president waste valuable time going fishing -- he can fish during business hours.
"The hot dog situation is growing more acute by the hour."
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[That's life] Public enemy no 21: The man who invented the alarm clock
Oct. 14, [1932]
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: cartoon
Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] "I wish that thing would fail to go off some morning so I could oversleep and lose my job and
become a bum and enjoy life." "Ha ha! That bell will drive you to work till you're so old you'll have to go in a wheel chair."
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[That's life] Why is it--this woman will pay a masseuse to pound her till she's black and blue all over…
Oct. 12, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Harder, Peterson -- give me the rabbit punch." And then yell blue murder when her husband hits
her with his elbow by accident -- why is it?
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[That's life] Christopher Butts, old-time bartender, waited around since 1918 for prohibition ro be repealed…
Oct. 11, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He was delighted when he read that both political conventions had come out against the eighteenth
amendment…
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[That's life] People are gambling again--but only on a small scale
Oct. 10, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A little bet with the minister. "I'll match you whether we pay you double or nothing."
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[That's life] The football influence is being felt in the political campaign
Oct. 8, [1932]
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Note
[Additional text (excerpt):] Voters organize a cheering section. "Zip boom ah. Zip boom ah, brown for congress, rah, rah,
rah."
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[That's life] Public enemy no 20: The man who designated theatre seats
Oct. 7, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ugh! I sat in a was of chewing gum!" "Stop breathing down my neck!"
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[That's life] Scientific study showing different moods of a golfer as he uses the various clubs
Oct. 1, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Expression of a golfer right after his drive. Expression of same golfer after using his brassie.
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[That's life] "The fate of this country is in the hands of us women--we must discard the puny weaklings and find physical
and mental giants to lead us on to victory."
Sept. 28, [1932]
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: cartoon
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Why is it -- this woman political speaker says this country needs a big, strong man… Generall
goes home to a husband like this -- why is it?
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Sept. 27, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Hazel Butts was invited to a swell party but had nothing to wear… She found a beautiful old gown
of her grandmother's which the family had kept for thirty years for sentimental reasons…
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This year the colleges are going to concentrate less on football and more on studies
Sept. 26, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Who's the guy they're making such a fuss over?" "That's Luther Smart, who got the highest mark
in astronomy."
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[That's life] "I'm in the rough."
Sept. 17, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm in a trap."
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[That's life] Wear one of our soundproof helmets to keep from going crazy from advice while driving an automobile
Sept. 10, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm sure this is the wrong road -- that cow wasn't here last year." "Stop and ask a policeman."
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[That's life] Public enemy no 16: The person who invented lipstick
Sept. 9, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I had one dance with a girl and came away looking like a wounded soldier." "I think I've got
lipstick poisoning."
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[That's life] Gene Tunney is being sent out by the National Democratic Committee to campaign for Roosevelt
Sept. 8, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The president crisis has shaken the very foundation of our economic life." "We need strong leadership
to extricate us from this morass of political intrigue."
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[That's life] Big hearted husbands take their wives to see a beauty contest
Sept. 3, [1932]
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[That's life] Public enemy no 14: The man who invented window shades
Sept. 2, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I spend so much time untangling that cord every day I'm neglecting my business." "I took a four-year
course in engineering and I still don't know how to wind one of these jiggers."
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[That's life] Making it a little easier for the well-dressed summer man
Sept. 1, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A trough of white-wash here and there would help you to keep your white shoes white. Simply way
to keep from getting messy when you carry your wet bathing suit home.
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[That's life] Why is it--a woman will delight in a terrific din of female conversation all afternoon…
Aug. 31, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] And then throw a fit when her husband opens his mounth in the evening--why is it?
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Aug. 30, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It was the last round of the great championship battle and kind butts had the champion in a bad
way… The kid's manager saw visions of millions as he screamed for the kid to knock the champion out…
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[That's life] Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, a.k. invents simple way for wet-dry straddle candidate to please everybody…
Aug. 29, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Repeal.
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[That's life] When you set up the table for a game of bridge you have to rearrange all the furniture in the house
Aug. 27, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear, bring in the big upholstered chair for Mrs. Plump." "Mr. Butts, did you play polo over
the weekend?"
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[That's life] Public enemy no 13: The man who designated modern furniture
Aug. 26, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ha ha! I've made everybody uncomfortable -- ha ha ha!" "How do you talk into this?"
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[That's life] Now that the big cities are chopping salaries…
Aug. 25, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The only way teachers can eat. "Children, tomorrow we study food -- I want you to bring some
stake, potatoes, spinach, prunes, spaghetti, ice cream and coffee."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Aug. 23, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Hennessy Butts, who made $1,000,000 bootlegging, decided to turn square and settle down to a
respectable life… He met a beautiful, refined girl at a dance and proposed to her -- she accepted him and…
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[That's life] Talk is gradually becoming unnecessary--you can expres anything important by simply pointing the thumb of the
right hand
Aug. 22, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] In a movie theater it means, "There are pleanty of seats upstairs in the back." At the door of
a speakeasy it means, "Okay -- right through to the back room."
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[That's life] An inventive child saves his parents the trouble and expense of taking him out to enjoy the tortures of an amuesment
park
Aug. 20, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Well, what in the name of…?" "Look, Mom -- when I reach the bottom I kick the broom and it knocks
the bucketful of broken glass right on top of my head…"
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[That's life] Why is it -- these people are bored with the finest food that money can buy…
Aug. 17, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] While these people are overjoyed with a few cents worth of hotdogs and hamburgers -- why is it?
"Rather amusing."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Aug. 16, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Adolph Butts, big movie producer, went to Europe to find a new star… He offered Mitzi Noodlehof,
a great Hungarian actress, $10,000 a week to come to America…
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[That's life] "Gee, I'm invited to a swell estate for the weekend--this is the first chance I ever had to relac and enjoy
the luxuries of life."
Aug. 15, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Mrs. Van Spender says you are to have the blue room overlooking the lake, sir." "This is marvelous!
I can take it as easy as a king."
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[That's life] The most lonesome man in the world -- the guy who doesn't play bridge or backgammon
Aug. 13, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Pass." "One club."
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Public enemy no 11: The man who put sand traps in golf courses
Aug. 12, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Help! I just buried myself and I'm not dead yet!" "Ha ha! Their suffering is delightful! Ha
ha ha!"
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[That's life] "Oh, dear, I'm so scared! One of these tough-looking hitch-hikers might turn out to be a robber or something."
Aug. 11, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Don't worry, dear -- I've arranged for that." "Ride, buddy?"
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[That's life] Why is it--this young man who never moves faster than a prison sentence when at home…
Aug. 10, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Breaks the world's record for the 100-meter sprint in Olympic games -- why is it? "You're so
slow you'd come in second to a man who was standing still."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Aug. 9, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] An Olympic shot-putter put the shot so far it went through a window and hit… a lover who thought
it was a bomb thrown by his halted rival…
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[That's life] The first victim of the Olympic Games
Aug. 8, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "What happened to that athlete?" "This isn't an athlete -- just a spectator who busted his neck
trying to watch all the games at once."
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[That's life] "Haven't seen you in months. Joe--we ought to spend some time together."
Aug. 6, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "How about a game of golf, Ed?"
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[That's life] Public enemy no 10: The man who designed the windows for railroad trains
Aug. 5, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Next time I travel I'll take along a stick of dynamite." "Thanks -- but I had a facial massage
before I left home."
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[That's life] It will be hard to keep the Olympic Games free from international complications
Aug. 4, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The Italian athletes will have to be careful or some of the other runners will get tangled up
in their spaghetti. The shot put is a dangerous event because the shot is liable to get lost in the whiskers of the French
spectators.
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[That's life] Why is it -- the man who can't stand any pain himself…
Aug. 3, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Will go to a fight and encourage the boys to torture each other -- why is it? 'Doctor, doctor,
I can't stand it -- how can you stand there so coldblooded and watch me suffer?"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Aug. 2, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Air Isaac newton Butts got a fish on his line weighing 1000 pounds and ten feet in length… He
battled with the monster for seven hours and after a terrible struggle, finally subdued him…
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[That's life] The girls are so crazy about Olympic athletes that the average suitor has to make love in the athletic manner
Aug. 1, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "May I drop in?" "Sure, angel."
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[That's life] More intrepid aviators are poised for record-breaking flights
July 29, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Hamilton Sniffter is all fueled up for a record flight down a flight of speakeasy stairs. Grabba
Cashmore, the great movie actress, is all set to fly into a tantrum when she starts her next picture.
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[That's life] Public Enemy no 9: The man who first thought of putting important ushers in unimportant movie theatres
July 28, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ha ha! The idea is to keep the best seats empty -- ha ha ha!" "There are plenty of seats in
the fifteenth balcony in the rear."
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[That's life] Wh is it--this man goes wild if he has to wait a few minutes for a fish in a restaurant…
July 27, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] But will sit patiently for days waiting for a fish in a stream -- why is it? "I ordered a broiled
bluefish four minutes ago and it's not here yet -- do you expect me to spend my whole life here?"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
July 26, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Martini G. Butts spoke on the evils of prohibition eight years ago and people looked upon him
as a dangerous character… He was discovered taking a glass of wine with his dinner and was arrested for insulting the constitution…
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[That's life] News item: Needy society women are renting advertising space on their sunburned backs
July 25, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You see, this adhesive tape, put on in the form of letters, leaves the skin white underneath.
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"I'm driving to Sausage Lake and I want you to looks over my car -- it might need just a little tuning up."
July 23, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The crank case is a little worn -- I'd better put in a new one to make sure." "We might as well
change the differential to be on the safe side."
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Public enemy no 8: The man who insists on mixing his own salad dressing
July 22, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Now, will you tell the maid to get me some manchurian truffle sauce and a few widgetts." "Why
not throw it on me direct and save time?"
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[That's life] Experts say that summer animals will contribute largely towards the breaking of Olympic records
July 21, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The sudden appearance of a snake is a great inspiration for broad jumping. Association with bears
will eventually lower the marathon mark.
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[That's life] Why is it--this fellow will kick all winter about the old-fashioned plumbing at home…
July 20, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] And in the summer take great delight in a cracked bowl and a leaky pitcher -- why is it? "They
haven't fixed these faucets since the house was built -- they must think we're savages."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
July 19, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Cleopatra Butts achieved her great ambition by winning a beauty contest as "Miss Hoboken." Her
face and figure became famous and she got a job in a big revue called "boop hot-cha badoop."
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[That's life] A puzzling situation--opposite sides are right for the same reason!
July 18, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The wets think the eighteenth amendment is a failure because they can still ge liquor… The drys
think the eighteenth amendment is a success because they can still get liquor!
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Mar. 24, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The teacher told little Oswald Butts that the most glorious form of achievement was to become
President… Oswald grew up, worked hard, made millions of friends, and was elected President…
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[That's life] A delicate social problem--you send for a man to fix the radio and he stays for hours listening to everthing
on the air, on your time!
Mar. 25, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I think he's charging us two dollars an hour." "Shall we call a cop?"
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[That's life] Why is it--Mrs. Butts will become panic-stricken when her husband drives 30 miles an hour…
Mar. 23, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] But will be perfectly calm when someone else is driving 75 miles an hour -- why is it? "Look
out for that tree, you fool -- don't drive so close to the edge -- let me out -- I think a tire exploded -- use your head
-- we'll be killed -- help!"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Mar. 22, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] It took Sacha Butts twenty years to save up for a $30,000 violin… On the strength of the fine
tone of his violin he was engages in vaudeville at a huge salary…
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[That's life] In a view of national disarmament, that great thinker, Tobias G Butts, suggests personal disarmament, also
Mar. 18, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] People who are inclined to pick fights should be made to wear sponges on their fists. Upholstered
tips for shoes to save injury to bill collectors when being kicked out.
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Mar. 17, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] With great care and expense, Toby Butts raised a beautiful prize hen… The hen laid 400 perfect
eggs which Toby took the fair to shell for a high price…
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Mar. 15, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Butts pulled a cigarette out of her daughter's mouth because she thought the girl was smoking
too much… She threw the cigarette out the window in a fit of high-minded indignation…
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[That's life] "This is Tobais G Butts Sr sending his regular weekly broadcast from station BOLONEY
Mar. 14, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] You will now hear that great explorer, Livingston Scoot, who just completed a trip in the New
York subway. And now we continue our great family serial, "Papa and Mamma."
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[That's life] Chinese laundrymen all stopped work to talk about the war and out friend, Tobias G. Butts Sr., had to go to
the lodge banquet without a shirt!
Mar. 11, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "My friends, these are times when we must see things in the light of the naked truth." "So I
notice!"
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A sad, sad story
Mar. 10, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Butts secretly hid her pearls in a flower pot for safey at night… A burglar came in, found
nothing and left -- Mr. Butts spied him going out and…
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Mar. 8, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Lucy Butts bought a new dress and the saleslady told her it was the only one of it's kind in
town… She described the dress in an enthusiastic letter to her sweetheart, not knowing the saleslady had sold 20 like it…
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[That's life] "This is Tobias G Butts Sr broadcasting his regular weekly program from station BOLONEY
Mar. 7, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Ah, hear the chimes followed by announcement of correct time by courtesy of the Turnip Watch
Co." "It is now exactly 4 1/2 minutes to a quarter after half past."
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[That's life] Olympic athletes area already in this country getting ple
Feb. 27, [1932]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Pole vaulters are keeping in trim trying to get into crowded movies. Champion sprinters are developed
terrific speed escaping from holdup men.
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Bundles, bundles, and still more bundles!
Dec. 21, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Getting home is largely a matter of guesswork. "Say, mister, will you please tell me which way
I'm going I can't see a thing."
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[That's life] These days, when a man is badly shaken up, the only things that fall out of his pockets are cards with addresses
of speakeasies and bootleggers
Dec. 5, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There's no use in stopping--they're probably the same cards as I've got myself."
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[That's life] The Butts family all got indigestion from rushing through dinner to get seats at the movies--so Mrs. Butts asked
the manager of the movie theatre if she could bring her…
Dec. 4, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'm afraid this chicken won't be done before the main feature starts." "Ma, I've got time to
eat another plate of soup during the news reel."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Dec. 3, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby Butts Jr. worked for days on a speech he was to deliver at the firm's annual banquet. He
rented a tuxedo to make a hit with the boss -- but at the last minute he discovered that the coat was a terrible fit…
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[That's life] Why is it--Mrs. Butts will call her husband a fiendish brute for neglecting the goldfish…
Dec. 2, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] And then take flowers to a criminal who murdered his whole family with an ax -- why is it? "Tobias,
you forgot to feed the goldfish! There's no excuse for such inhuman hearlessness! Goldfish have feelings! You're a wicked
man!"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Dec. 1, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Leo Butts, a nephew of Tobias G. Butts Sr., was a husky truck driver but business was bad and
he made very little money… So he decided to go into the prize ring for one night for $1,000 and buy his mother some warm winter
clothing which she needed badly…
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[That's life] The dunking habit has crept quietly into our American life until it has become one of our great national pastimes
Nov. 30, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The guilty dunker barracades himself in his room so nobody will discover his secret vice. "There's
no law against it but I might as well play safe."
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[That's life] Toby Butts Jr., forgetting that the football season is over, takes his girl to the football stadium from force
of habit…
Nov. 28, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] 'Will you promise not to look at another man till I get rich and famous enough to ask you to
marry me?" "You angel!"
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[That's life] Why is it--Prof. Lucifer G. Butts, brother of Tobias G. Butts Sr., has no trouble in finding a planet hundreds
of millions of miles away…
Nov. 27, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] But can't find things around the house when they're right under his nose -- why is it? "There
it is as clear as a wart on your nose…"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 17, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby Butts Jr. heard that a big firm wanted a representative to go to Italy so he decided to
study Italian… He took an expensive correspondence course and learned to speak Italian like a native…
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[That's life] Every morning Tobias G. Butts spends ten minutes adjusting the faucets in the shower bath and then some one
turns on the water in another ppart of the house…
Nov. 16, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Now he has installed a button which blows a siren telling the cook to shut off the water in the
kitchen while he is taking his shower.
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[That's life] Professor Cheeseborough comes upon Toby Butts Jr and another student after they both failed intheir memory and
concentrations test
Nov. 14, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "And they couldn't remember who wrote Hamlet!" "Notre Dame had their best back field nine years
ago when Stavovik ran the ball…"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 26, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A large and a small gentleman turkey were hated rivals because they were in love with the same
lady turkey… The large turkey bullied the small turkey and ate up all the food in sight so he would be still larger and more
important in the eyes of the lady turkey…
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Aunt Cyanite comes all the way from Swamp City to spend a happy thanks -- giving with the Butts Family and monopolizes the
conversation with a detailed account…
Nov. 25, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You remember Josie Popple, that nice girl with the red hair? Well, her stove exploded and kille
dher and her five sisters--and cousin Agatha was bitten by a rattlesnake…"
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 24, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby Butts Jr. loved Susan Glutz -- their parents forbade them to see one-another -- Toby told
her he'd pin a note on the branch of a certain tree telling… He pinned the note on the branch -- it told Susan to meet Toby
at the train the next day and they would elope…
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[That's life] All women like to believe certain things about themselves--why not arrange things so the ladies will be permanently
happy?
Nov. 20, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] No lady's shoe should ever be marked over size two. "Sure, madam -- it's size two -- see, it's
marked in black and white."
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A sad, sad story
Nov. 19, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The young king of maleria was deeply in love with Tessie, the daughter of an ash car repairer…
But the youn king was forced into a marriage with the homely Princess Frightina of the neighboring kingdom of Piffia for reasons
of state…
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[That's life] Why is it--Mrs. Tobais G. Butts Sr. gets angry at Tobias for telling his little grandchild spooky stories…
Nov. 18, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "…and they took out black Pete and hung him to a tree…" "You idiot, don't scare that child he'll
never sleep tonight."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 12, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Tobias G. Butts Sr. started on an expedition into the jungle to make a name for himself -- his
dog, Lulu, just before the start, ate an iron bolt… Tobias used his trusty compass to give him the right direction -- but
the bolt inside the dog attracted the needle so that it pointed the wrong way…
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 10, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby Butts Jr. walked across the Canadian border into the United States without being questioned
by the revenue offiver… It started to rain so he decided to go back and wait under the customs shed till it stopped…
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[That's life] It is always so hard to get the last man for a bridge game that the other three players are not particular under
what conditions he shows up
Nov. 9, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Stick'em up!" "Ah, a fourth for bridge!"
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[That's life] Why not let the spectators use regular football tactics so they'll have a chance to reach their seats in the
overcrowded stadiums at the big games?
Nov. 7, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Nice interference, boys--I'll reach my seat in one down."
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[That's life] Toby Butts Jr has figured out an arrangement of automobile mirrors so he will not miss anything in feminine
beauty that happens to pass in his direction
Nov. 6, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "There doesn't seem to be any slump in peaches."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 5, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Toby Butts Jr. caught a mouse but let it go because he didn't have the heart to see it suffer…
The mouse crawled into a box of candy that Toby bought for Lucy Waffle, his best and only…
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[That's life] Why is it--Mrs. Tobias G. Butts will not listen to her husband when he tries to explain to her about conditions
in America…
Nov. 4, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "You see, our government is facing a deficit due to a sharp rise in the budget and the shrinking
of income taxes -- now Hoover says… "Tobias, how can you waste your time on such dry stuff? Let's go out."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Nov. 3, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The doctor left some large white pills with Mrs. Tobias G. Butts Sr. for her husband to take
-- she put them in the cabinet next to the moth balls… When she put her fur coat away for the summer she loaded it up with
the pills instead of the moth balls…
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[That's life] Songs, announcements, speeches and advertising talks are all being sent over the air in crooning, whispered,
sweet, loving tone's -- they'll soon have us all talking like that
Nov. 2, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Waiters are using those soothing radio tones to improve business. "Our health-giving, thrill-provoking
caviar is gorgeous today, beautiful one."
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[That's life] Tobias Fizzle Sr wonders why he keeps going to football games--he has attended every big game for the last twenty
years and hasn't really seen on yet
Oct. 31, [1931]
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[That's life] Dempsey is coming back, Benny Leonard is coming back: Princess Eugenie Hats and puff sleeves are coming back:
old songs…
Oct. 30, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Maybe they'll revive the old eighty and ninety-round prize fights -- it's about time the captains
of the cauliflower industry went to work. "Come on -- don't act like sissies -- this is only the 68th round."
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[That's life] Why is it--Toby Fizzle Jr. will buy a second-hand tire to save six dollars…
Oct. 28, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I'll take that one over there -- you don't catch me throwing my dough away." "Certainly, Mister
Green."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 27, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Tobias Fizzle Sr. bought a country place and waited forty years for the land to go up -- but
it went down instead… Finally when a man came along and offered to buy the place for half of what he paid for it Tobias jumped
at the chance -- he took the money and moved quickly to the city…
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[That's life] Mr Tobias Fizzle Sr hasn't the heart to refuse the favors his many friends are asking--so he had a phonograph
record made to answer all phone calls
Oct. 26, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] No!
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[That's life] A good folfer never knows what to do with all the cocktail shakers he wins in club tournaments why not save
expense in furnishing a new apartment?
Oct. 24, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, it's the modernistic influence." "I'd get dizzy if I sat in that chair."
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[That's life] News item: Prodessor Shcarles Gray Shaw of New York University says that people who whistle are morons
Oct. 23, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Listen dear -- this is terrible our child has no brains!" "Let's call in a specialist."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 22, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "'Freight-car' Smith's mother made him quit football because she was afraid he'd get his skull
dented…" "She decided to give him a party so he'd meet a lot of new people and forget about football…"
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[That's life] Why is it--a man will sacrifice all pleasures and slave for years so he'll have enough money to extertain the
girls…
Oct. 21, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When it's simple arithmetic to see that, when he has the money he'll be so old the girls won't
pay any attention to him -- why is it? "I'll work till twelve tonight and start again at five tomorrow morning."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 20, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Jasha Poundkeys practiced for years to make his debut as a great pianist… When the great day
arrived his relatives got together and decided to make a fuss over him because they had hopes of sharing his future riches…
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[That's life] Many people think the streets of Mahatma Ghandi's political success is his striking appearance due to his lack
of clothes…
Oct. 19, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I stand before you as your candidate for controller of fish markets on a platform of brotherly
love." "He's not skinny enough to excite any sympathy."
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There are constant rumors that beer is "just around the corner."
Oct. 17, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Taking no chances. "Dear, you haven't taken a glass of water in days."
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[That's life] Why is it--nothing ever happens to a cheap piece of crockery that you hate…
Oct. 16, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Can't we get rid of this lopsided five-cent cup? It gives me the willies!" "I threw it out six
times but the ash man always brings it back."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 15, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Ezekiel Oak was a maker of bars for saloons -- when prohibition came along he thought his business
would be ruined… So he sold out and became a Wall St. broker…
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 13, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Winston Blunk took his new car out for a slow spin because the salesman told him he would ruin
the car if he went more than 30 miles an hour at first… A fleeing bandit jumped on the back and forced Winston to go seventy
miles an hour…
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[That's life] A new dictator comes into power in the world of sports
Oct. 12, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I decree that all college boys shall wear funny hats and reccoon coats and sit in stadiums…"
"Make the most of it while it lasts, kid -- they'll kick you out in a few months, too!"
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Now they're going to change the official golf ball again -- we wish they would make up their minds and keep 'em made up!
Oct. 10, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Things move fast in the golfing world. "What's your hurry, Jim?"
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[That's life] Why is it--a businessman goes to the trouble to put all this in an ad for a secretary…
Oct. 9, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] When he makes his choice purely on a basis of feminine charm -- why is it? "Wanted: efficient,
intelligent, experienced, industrious girl for a private secretary."
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A sad, sad story
Oct. 8, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Mrs. Van Swank hated her neighbor, Mrs. Dunk, because she was loud and vulgar and common… So
Mrs. Van Swank rented an apartment in a swell neighborhood so she would not meet any more low people…
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[That's life] Why is it--people will spend a fortune to get an education in European travel…
Oct. 7, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] And, when they get over there, they spend all their time indoors playing bridge -- why is it?
"I've been dying to see Westminster Abbey all my life."
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A sad, sad story
Oct. 6, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Willard Strong commanded great respect in business because he had such a strong face… His manly
chin covered by a pugnacious beard, made people stand in awe as he passed by…
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[That's life] You can shut off the radio if you don't like the program--why not put this arrangement in movie houses so you
can shut off the picture if…
Oct. 5, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "This feature picture is terrible--I'll shut it off till the news reel comes on."
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[That's life] It is our pleasure to announce the new golf club, "the Pusher-uppa," invented to make the game a real pleasure
on goathill golf courses
Oct. 3, [1931]
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[Additional panel(s) on sheet:] [Sapograms] What well known father of his country does this represent?
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[That's life] Why is it--when you plan a party it generally turns out like this…
Oct. 2, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Poor things! They musta lost a relative." "If the music would only stop I could at least take
a nap."
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Oct. 1, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Eric McRelic wouldn't trust anyone but himself to move a $5000 vase that had been in his family
75 years… He carried it safely into his new apartment after a trying day with the moving men…
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[That's life] Why is it--this girl will out walk all the members of her party on a summer hiking trip…
Sept. 30, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] I'm in a tough spot -- I can't go ahead and I can't quit." "It takes fifteen or twenty miles
for me to get my stride."
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[That's life] "Ah--something fine and beautiful over the radio at last!"
Sept. 28, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "The infinite glories of the azure firmament are the the heritage of mortal man." // [Additional
panel(s) on sheet:] [Sapograms] What red-headed movie star does this represent?
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Sept. 25, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Colonel Guzzleton bet his last nickle on his horse Corkscrew" -- he went to the paddock and told
Corkscrew he would be at the rail cheering him on to victory… Corkscrew, anxious to hear his master's voice at the finish,
led the race from the very start…
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[That's life] A sad, sad story
Sept. 10, [1931]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Lowell J. Moon, determined to get a good night's rest because he was going to a late party on
the following night and wanted to make a hit with a certain young lady… His phone rang at 1:00 a.m. by mistake and he had
such an argument with the operator he didn't get to sleep again till 4: 15…
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[That's life] "Dear, how about taking me out tonight?"
Jan. 5, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Sorry, Love, but I've got to stay home to listen to the 'happy porous plaster seraneders' on
the radio." "How about tomorrow?"
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[That's life] Why is it -- the man who buys a $500 car shops for months…
Jan. 4, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] But the man who buys a $6,000 car makes up his mind in a few minutes -- why is it? "It looks
good -- but there are 37 other makes I'm considering before I finally make up my mind."
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[That's life] Why is it--a foreign judge will send a man to jail for not paying his debts…
Jan. 12, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] But later, when he becomes a statesmen, will advise his country to default on the money it owes
the United States -- why is it? "You only own ten Francs but it is a debt of honor -- ten years on the island!"
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[That's life] "Let's all go to a movie!"
Jan. 14, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "We'll put on our things." "Swell!"
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[That's life] With the movies idealizing brute strength, all you need is a good body to be a male star
Jan. 16, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] He has to appear like this in public so they'll recognize him. "I've seen your chest so often
on the screen."
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[That's life] With the return of good beer, tailors are allowing for expansion in the region of the waistline
Jan. 21, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "I expect to drink fifteen glasses a day." "His regular measure is thirty-six make, make it forty-eight."
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[That's life] Why is it--a great celebrity signs his name in your guest book like this…
Jan. 25, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] While a nobody signs his name like this--why is it?
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[That's life] It's easy to court a girl these days because they don't expect much on account of conditions
Jan. 28, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] A liberal caller. "A gumdrop, darling, and it's all for you."
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[That's life] Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts A.K. invents simple way to determine what percentage of alcohol makes beer
intoxicating…
Feb. 25, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Dear (hic) you can have a new (hic) fur coat."
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Commuters don't mind communiting when they don't commute
Apr. 5, [1933]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "So you don't mind commuting at all?" "Not at all -- if I get the express in the morning I can
go from my home to this office in forty minutes."
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A few ways to keep your automobile from being stolen
[ca. 1920-1925]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "He's be sitting there for five hours…"
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[That's life] New jobs must be created for the latest crop of college graduates
May 27, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Official foam-blower in a beer hall. "I'll send the foam-blower over right away."
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[That's life] Cheerful Carrie (just a little ray of sunshine)
May 30, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Oh, Professor, it was simply divine! Of course, I don't know a thing about music and the actual
playing may have been terrible as far as I know--but your hair looked so musical!"
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[That's life] Public Enemy no 57
June 16, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The man who started the roller skating craze among old folks whose joints have been stiff for
years. "I stayed on for a minute and was laid up for a month."
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[That's life] Public Enemy no 58
June 23, 1933
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[Additional text (excerpt):] The fellow who invented those sixteen-course midget portion summer boarding house meals. "Now
let's see if I've brought everything -- onions, peas, spinach, oatmeal, codfish cakes, corn muffins…"
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[That's life] Cheerful Carrie
June 27, 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Just a little ray of sunshine -- she waits outside while her friends take the most thrilling
ride in the amuesment park. "Enjoy yourselves -- but be careful-the highest point doesn't look any too strong to me…"
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[Doc Write] Here he is
Jan. 29, 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "A nine-pounder! Well, ain't that nice! Now you hurry and get into that warm footbath I got waitin'
for ye' an' then t'bed!" "Yes, siree, Hettie -- an' I'm goin' t' sleep straight through till t' Fourth of July."
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[Doc Write] What it's about
Mar. 5, 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] Susan Miller came to live in Fairville as the ward of Doctor Wright and his motherly housekeeper
Hettie… Their lives were tranquil and undisturbed until a strange boy came to town and asked Jed Stone, the hard-hearted groceryman,
for something to eat.
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Doc Wright---It's Jerry
Mar. 12 [1934]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Could yer git a swig o'apple? I'm plum gone"
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Doc Wright---Susan is moping
Mar. 13 [1934]
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "That apple warmed up my olde stummick-now, Doc, seein' is I represent th' law-
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Doc Wright--Nearing town
Mar. 14, 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Jus' take it easy, Jerry-'taint nuthin' serious…"
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Doc Write - The Indignant Citizen
Mar. 15. 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "They're pullin' up to th' court-house in a sled-guess that nosey Constable's arrested the boy
at last - Constable's is orn'ry critters"
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Doc Wright - In Conference
Mar. 16 - 1934
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[Additional text (excerpt):] "Yes, Judge, that's him, al right - I'm sure he was in with th' robbers!"