Life, 1924-10-02 · page 13 of 41
Life — October 2, 1924 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **Top Section:** "Facts in Favor of Chicago" and "Mecca" present humorous anecdotes praising Chicago's business ethics and popularity as a pilgrimage destination. A portrait shows Wallace ("Lias Wire") Voll, described as having "figured out that the skyscrapers over the Chicago River would be a good place to dry the [electric] trains." **Bottom Cartoon:** Shows two figures in a rural setting—a "Bird Lover" confronting a "Sportsman" (hunter). The joke satirizes their conflicting values: the bird lover objects to shooting birds, while the sportsman dismissively claims he shot a rabbit with feathers, mocking the lover's sentimentality about wildlife. The satire reflects early 20th-century tensions between conservation-minded urbanites and traditional hunting culture.
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Facts in Favor -of Chicago “THE FACT THAT: Her taxi-drivers didn't immediately try to rob me. Her hotels never charged any mys- terious extras on my bills. I was never molested by lawbreakers or policemen in Chicago. No Chicago landlord ever raised my rent—much. Chica bootleggers never sold me any poison liquor. Chicago business men, speaking gen- erally, never broke an agreement with me. The climate of Chicago never seemed to affect me unfavorably, I was never in Chicago. Sherman Ripley. Mecca T was in the Elysian Fields. Mahomet was boasting to a crowd of listeners. “Do you know,” he was saying, “that thousands of people make the pilgrim- ge yearly to the city in which I was and hundreds of them remain there until they di “Pooh!” said a cow that was grazing close by. “Thousands and tens of thou- sands of cows make the same pilgrim- age to the city in which I was born and horn MEN WHO HAVE MADE CHICAGO Wallace (“Lice Wire) Volt, who figured out that the drawbridges over the Chicago River would cause the North Side commuters to miss their trains and thereby be kept in the Loop longer, perhaps for life, thus laying the foundation for Chicago's tremendous retail shopping district. all of them stay there until they die.” “Who are you?” cried Mahomet. “I,” said the cow, calmly taking an- other mouthful, “I am Mrs. O'Leary's cow, who set Chicago on fire.” Life Lines CIENTISTS are devising a thirteen- month year with a “floating day” to be known as New Year's Eve. New Yorkers remonstrate that practically no- body can stay afloat on New Year's Eve. aL “I'd give a lot to learn to play really good poker,” the Prince of Wales is quoted as saying. And there's a hun- dred million others like him, LL Governor Charles Bryan urges boys to stick to the farm—the implication being that, if they don’t, they may turn out to be presidential candidates on the Republican ticket. LL Our frontier towns are gone, but we still have front-page towns, like Her- rin, Ill. LL According to an advertisement, the rail- roads of the United States pay out $190 “every time the clock ticks.” The simplest way to check this reckless ex- penditure would be to stop the clock. LL An American actor traveling in Ger- many refused to drink, These theatri- cal people certainly know how to get publicity. DID I HEAR A SHOT? WHY SLAUGHTER OUR LITTLE FEATHERED FRIENDS? The Sportsman (unlucky) : YAH! SLAUGHTER-ME-EYE! HAS A RABBIT GOT FEATHERS? comicbooks.com