Life, 1913-12-18 · page 10 of 40
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This page contains satirical commentary on Alabama's educational and labor conditions, plus unrelated jokes. **"Another Lie Nailed"** criticizes Alabama's "traductors" (detractors) by reproducing a newspaper notice from the *Choctaw Advocate* advertising for families with children to work in cotton mills near Mobile. The article argues this contradicts claims Alabama lacks educational facilities—the mills are near schools and churches, offering good wages. The satire suggests critics exaggerate Alabama's deficiencies. **"Sammy's Christmas"** and **"Original Shock-Absorbers"** are unrelated cartoons: the first appears to satirize compulsory military vaccination policies (comparing typhoid inoculation to smallpox vaccination), while the second shows people carrying a sedan chair—likely mocking an invention or social practice. The page is primarily argumentative rather than purely satirical, defending Alabama's conditions against contemporary criticism.
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1102 Another Lie Nailed THAT Alabama has been cruelly wronged by her traducers is amply proved by the following photo- graphic reproduction from one of her papers: THE CHOCTAW ADVOCATE TERMS: - $1.00 Per Annum, (IB ADVANCE.) Eatered at the Post Office at Butler. Chico: if coanty, Ala., as Second-Class mail R, N. MOODY, - + +--+ -- Editor. Wantep :—Families with ol twelve years of age and ap to work eatton Mill. Good pay, regular work, comfortable houses, healthy lncation ear City, convenient to schools and obarches. Apply: MosILe Corron MILLa, 43-40. Mobile, Ala. In the face of the above, what be- comes of the charge that Alabama is niggardly with her educational facili- ties? Here it is seen that they have schools even in the vicinity of cotton mills, where the children are too busy to use them. Incidentally this looks like a pretty good chance for those of us who have children of twelve and up to get them regular work at good pay. (Confiden- tially, a few years younger can be managed with a little lying). We are sure the Mobile Cotton Mills wouldn’t discriminate against healthy and willing applicants even if they didn’t come from Choctaw County. ORIGINAL SHOCK-ABSORBERS SAMMY'S CHRISTMAS Government Medicine Law says the soldiers and sailors must be inoculated against typhoid, Result, according to British com- mission—a great increase in tuberculosis, which is worse than typhoid. Law says you must be inoculated against smallpox. * Result, according to government figures—7oo per cent. increase in cancer where law is enforced. —Homeopathic Envoy. H, come now, Uncle Sam! Give the boys a chance. The Serum Fiend is a heap sight worse than any foreign foe. Small wonder at all the desertions, and the trouble in getting recruits. TEACHER: Tommie, this great man about whom we have been reading is called an unconscious humorist. What is an unconscious humorist? Smaut Boy: A joker that’s fainted away. comicbooks.com