Life, 1925-07-09 · page 29 of 42
Life — July 9, 1925 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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**"Skippy" Comic Strip (Top Section):** This four-panel strip shows children running a mock club. Skippy proposes nominating new members and suggests writing down "the Twelve Apostles" as candidates—a irreverent joke conflating religious figures with club membership. When the votes come in, the apostles "didn't make the grade," so the club remains merely athletic. The humor lies in children's casual, comedic misuse of formal parliamentary procedure and sacred references. **"Back in Jonesville" Article (Bottom Section):** This nostalgic piece humorously catalogs how a small town has changed: Robinson's Pharmacy is now a chain drugstore; Simpson's Livery became a garage; the affordable Smith House became an expensive hotel; the Opera House became a movie theater. The final irony: Grover Cleveland Smith, once expelled from school with no prospects, is now a bank president. The satire critiques both commercialization of small-town America and the unpredictability of success.
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Skippy: THE MEETIN’ WILL COME To ORDER; BECAUSE WE'RE GOIN’ TO PUT UP SOME NEW NAMES FOR MEMBERS, TO BE WROTE DOWN ON THOSE SLIPS 0” PAPER. VERY WELL, WE'LL VOTE ON THE TWELVE APOSTLES, Skippy: tT Sooky: 1 piv, Bec Skippy: WELL, PELLERS, THE VOTES IS IN, 'N’ THEY DIDNT MAKE THE GRADE; SO WE'RE STILL AN ATHALETIC CLUB, Skippy Back in Jonesville What You May Expect to Find on Your Old Home Week Visit OBINSON’S PHARMACY, which you swept out for a dollar a’ week, is now a chain drug store serving boiled dinners. Simpson's Livery, where you hired your first buggy, is now the Apex Garage, where you can get your car washed, oiled and sneered at. The old Smith House, where you could get a good meal for fifty cents, is now the Hotel New Trianon, where you can't get one at any price. The Grand Op'ra House is now the New Paradise Motion Picture Palace with the best-painted usherettes in the state. And little Grover Cleveland Smith, who was expelled from school the year of the Buffalo Exposition and for whom no good end was prophesied, is president of the First, Second and Third National Bank and Union Trust Company. McC. H. ORSES, pigs and fowls have road rights in England, but not dogs, which are in the same class with pedes- trians. comicbooks.com