Life, 1929-07-12 · page 22 of 48
Life — July 12, 1929 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two humor sections typical of Life's satirical format: **"Believe It Or Don't"** presents oddly specific anecdotes meant to amuse through their mundane absurdity—a man losing $85 at poker and arriving home at 5 a.m., a barber's customer complaining about a haircut, and a murder trial where newspapers emphasized the defendant's plainness rather than the crime itself. The humor relies on the reader finding these real (or purportedly real) situations ironically funny. **The cartoon above** depicts a domestic scene where a small man with a disproportionately loud voice apparently frightens away burglars by his mere presence/noise—his wife's humorous solution to home security. The "rejected suitor" caption at bottom suggests editorial commentary rejecting a submitted cartoon idea about a woman who couldn't get along with her husband anyway. The overall tone is light domestic and crime-related humor typical of 1920s American magazines, relying on social observation and exaggeration rather than political commentary.
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Ss SS SS SS S SSS SSSSS5 Ss Believe It Or Don’t Ike Tirpey of New Ro- chelle, N. Y., was playing poker with some friends, Saturday night, April 27, 1929, and when asked, the next morning, by his wife how he came out and when he came in, replied: “I lost $85 and got home at five o'clock.” In the barber shop of Nic Napolini, on the 14th of March, 1927, in the Bronx, New York City, Nic gave a customer a haircut and af- Life Mrs. Jones, whose hubby is a small man with a great big voice, gets an idea for scaring off burglars, terward, held a mirror behind the latter’s head to show the | workmanship. The customer | said: “It looks rotten!” A lady murderess, Mrs. Flo retta Gimp, on trial for shoot. ing her husband in Belknap, Wis., June 15, 1923, was plainly accused, by all the newspapers carrying the story, of bein; plain. —Fred B. Mann. Reyectep Surtor: OA, well, I'd a never got along with her ole man anyway! comicbooks.com