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# "A September Sorrow" - Life Magazine Analysis This page satirizes New York newspapers' sensationalism. The headline "Two Kinds of It" criticizes how the *Herald* and other dailies obsessed over a Knights Templar parade in a quiet village, treating a local event as though it were major news worthy of metropolitan attention. The "Valuable" anecdote mocks the idea that money can be found anywhere—even inside a cow—a joke playing on American materialism and frontier tall tales. The maritime sketch appears unrelated, labeled "From a Sketch by Our Submarine Artist" with a patriotic mermaid reference, likely WWI-era content about naval themes. The satire targets press sensationalism and America's provincial obsessions with trivial local events blown into headline scandals.
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VOLUME XXVI. . L. | FE E e NUMBER 664. A SEPTEMBER SORROW. TWO KINDS OF IT. E were grieved at seeing this in the Boston Herald the other day: New York's ‘provincialism’ was manifested by one of its greatest dailies in precisely eight lines to the parade here last Tuesday !" What a sensitive Hub it is! But certain local events which assume tremendous proportions in a quiet village often create no excitement in a NTS. metropolis. We were somewhat mortified at the time that the > Athens of America should lose her head over a congregation of Knights Templar, and it certainly seems unkind to rebuke us for not yielding to the same masculine blandishments. VALUABLE. =. M® CUMSO (reading): A butcher in Indiana killed a SS cow and found in her stomach several hairpins, a ° thimble, five screws and a $20 gold piece Mr. Cumso: That bears out exactly what my Uncle Jim used to say. “ What was that?” “ He always contended that there was money. stibulet 14, urope, FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SUBMARINE ARTIST. Chorus of Patriotic Mermaids: \t'S & GOOD THIXG, PUSH IT ALONG! Cross HaTcnine. comicbooks.com