Life, 1903-03-26 · page 7 of 24
Life — March 26, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**"The Race War"** section discusses a weather office closure in Pianola, Mississippi, where an observer was dismissed after predicting identical weather for both white and Black residents—apparently offensive to local racial attitudes. **"Life's Fashions"** cartoon (left) mocks Victorian fashion excess, showing a woman in an enormous barrel-like dress. **"The Usual Question of Precedence"** (top right) depicts two figures—one appears to be a caricatured Irish immigrant and another figure—contesting position through a doorway, satirizing ethnic tensions and competition for social standing. **"Bosky River"** (bottom) shows a figure in winter clothing pointing at another swimming in icy water, with the caption mocking someone foolish enough to swim in such conditions. The page reflects early 1900s American racial tensions, fashion criticism, ethnic stereotyping, and social commentary typical of Life's satirical approach.
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263 The Race War. WASHINGTON: Tue Caited States weather ofce nt Pianola, Miss, has been closed. Recently the leading men of the place tarred and feath- ered the observer because he predicted the same kind of weather for whites and blacks, and rode him on a rail out of town. He appealed to the department and was told not to go back The President has been besought by members of Con- gress and others to order two kinds of weather predicted at Pianola, but he declines to truckle, as he terms it, to the mob element. . Feeling at Pianola is very bitter. In that climate it is difficult to live without weather, and there is open talk of throwing the Mississippi delegation to Senator Hanna in 1904. “VV BAT are your religions views?” “Thaven’tany, I ama Democrat.” LIFE'S FASHIONS, PULL REGALIA POR MB. ANTHONY COMSTOCK. Ideals. ‘CHE Mormons are saying now that they go in for wives only incidentally ; the main thing is children, Of course, the end does not justify the means, The beautiful Chris- tian thought that babies come from heaven leads naturally to their being considered as foreign im- migrants, and finally, since ¢! bring no money with them and cannot speak or write English, to their exclu- sion. We cannot suffer these Mormons to depress our domestic ideals, which call more and more for the childless home, yusst LAWYER: These people are kicking because we don’t settle the estate. Seconp Lawyer: As if we didn’t need the money as much as they! Pat: Now, WOULDN'T THAT JAN YE? JUST LOOK AT THE DUTCHMAN SWIMMIN' IN THOT IcY WaTER! comicbooks.com