Life, 1924-11-27 · page 29 of 37
Life — November 27, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page presents humorous anecdotes from a fictional small-town newspaper ("The Bug"), satirizing early 20th-century social anxieties and changing mores. The jokes mock conservative outrage over modernization: a woman smoking in public gets ejected from a hotel dining room; a shopkeeper displays a scandalous ladies' bathing suit that reaches only six inches below the knee; a respectable judge's wife is mortified after having her hair cut short due to cockleburrs; police raid a dance for the "crime" of polka dancing. The satire targets the "Younger Generation" and their perceived moral decay, while implicitly mocking the older generation's prudishness. A competing saloon's price-gouging is dismissed as foolish business practice. The page is primarily **satirical commentary on social conservatism**, not political cartooning. The right side contains a General Motors advertisement unrelated to the satire.
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“Twenty Years Ago—” (Interesting Happenings in Our Midst, as Gleaned from the Files of “The Bug Ray Dovett, genial proprietor of the Hotel Central, had an unpleasant experience yesterday. He said that while the crowd from the mill were cating his regular thirty-five-cent table d'hote dinner, one young woman, whose name, for obvious reasons, is not men- tioned here, took out a cigarette and smoked it, right in sight of everybody. She was ejected, of course. eee Ed Leamy, general factotum at George Macdonald's painting and plas- tering establishment, has been awarded his fourth inerease in salary, and is now getting twelve dollars a week. Pretty good for seeing how he only has to work ten hours a day. eee Theodore Tutweiler, of T. Tutweiler & Sons, is back from a buying trip to the city, bringing with him as a sample a daring three-piece ladies’ bathing suit which he will place on display in his show windows next season. Mr. Tutweiler admits he does pot expect, nor would even consent, to sell it, as the dress reaches scarcely six inches below the knees and doesn’t go over the arms hardly at all. What is the Younger Generation coming to? eee Our hearts must go out in’ sym- pathy to Judge Catton in these hours of trial. His beautiful young wife, Frances, while gathering chestnuts a jew days ago, had the misfortune to get some cockleburrs stuck in her hair, with the result that her hair had to be cut. Mrs. Catton says she is ashamed to be seen on the streets looking like a little girl, the way she does, ee Police raided a dance given by the younger and wilder spirits of the town at Ye Blacke Beare Assembly Hall and Ball Room last night. They are said to have been dancing the polka, it is alleged, according to the police. eae Quite a few of the boys have switched their trade over from Frank Malone’s saloon to Jack Carberry’s since Malone shot the price of liquor up to ten cents straight, instead of two for fifteen. Maybe if Frank advertised in the Bugle the way Jack does, he would not have to resort to such extortion. T. B. ‘HE best humorous writers and artists in America have combined to froduce Lire’s CHRISTMAS NUM- BER. Out next week. Orgeercerme | GENERAL MOTORS, (eameren ye ny GENERALMOTORS | Send for one or all For the past year you have been reading these ie ae Facts about a Famous Family”; and you may be interested in learning more about General Motors and its products. There has been printed a series of interesting booklets, dealing with the subjects listed below. Facts anp Ficures asout Genexat. Motors Passencer Cars anp Txucxs Parts anp Accessory Companies FrvanciaL STaTEMENTS Orcanization Cuart Piants anv Propucts Srocxs—Prererrep axp Common Gentrat, Motors Accerraxce Corroration (GMAC Pitas) Genera Motors Research Corporation Detco-Licht Exectric PLants anp Fricipaine Export Orcanizations Canapian Orcanizations Any or all of these booklets will be mailed to you, if a request is addressed to Department of Financial Publicity, General Motors Corpor- ation, 224 West 57th Street, New York. GENERAL MOTORS Buick + Capac + Cuevrotet * OaKkLaND Otpsmosite + GMC Trucks comicbooks.com