Life, 1911-04-13 · page 15 of 44
Life — April 13, 1911 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate pieces: **The Main Cartoon** ("Passing of Hubby's Den"): A domestic humor illustration showing a wife proudly displaying a man's decorated study/den she's created for him. The caption jokes that despite her effort to give him a comfortable space to relax, he's an "unappreciative brute" who doesn't use it much—a common marital complaint about husbands ignoring wives' domestic improvements. **The Political Article** ("The State Should Pension Toth"): A serious opinion piece about Andrew Toth, a Hungarian immigrant imprisoned 20 years in Pennsylvania's Western Penitentiary for murder. A witness later confessed to lying; Toth was exonerated. The article argues the *State* of Pennsylvania—not industrialist Andrew Carnegie—should compensate Toth for wrongful imprisonment, since the state caused the injustice. The author sarcastically suggests Toth should be invited to raid the state treasury directly, criticizing both Carnegie's limited gesture and Pennsylvania's inadequate responsibility.
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WHICH HIS LITTLE WIFEY FIXED UP FOR HIS VERY OWN, AND BE PERFECTLY FREE TO DO AS HE LIKED. The State Should Pension Toth NDREW TOTH, a Hungarian, once a workman in the Carnegie Steel Company's mill at Braddock, Pennsylvania, got a life sentence of im- prisonment for killing another workman and has spent twenty years in the West- ern Penitentiary, A man confessed the other day that he had lied, out of petty Kit. L fadipy i ay) | it coke PASSING OF HUBBY'S DEN spite, when he identified Toth as the man who killed his fellow, and Toth has been pardoned, his innocence being established beyond any question. The paper says there was two weeks’ pay due him when he went to prison, and that the Carnegie Company is go- ing to send it to him (has done it, doubt- less, before now) with accumulated in- terest at four per cent. for twenty years. WHERE ME COULD SMOKE, LOUNGE, BUT HE'S AN UNAPPRECIATIVE BRUTE AND DOESN'T USE IT MUCH READ, AND FEEL AT HOME That’s nice, except that under the cir- cumstances five per cent, might not have been too much, There is a disposition to have Mr. Carnegie pension him, Why Mr. Car- negie? The State of Pennsylvania has done this man a frightful injustice. Toth ought to’ be escorted into the State treasury and invited to help him- self. comicbooks.com