Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #25 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two humor pieces typical of 1920s satirical magazines: **"Gone Are the Dog Daze"** mocks a wealthy farmer's gullibility. The joke: Squire Green pays a supposed Minneapolis professor $3,000 to make his dog talk. His son Bycyrus, sent with the dog and money, gets drunk, kills the dog, then absurdly claims the dog insulted their father—justifying the murder. The satire targets both rural naïveté about "miracle" urban experts and the son's transparent lie. **"Wow, Zowie?"** uses a British colonel's domestic tension for humor. A Yankee captain allegedly kissed every officer's wife except one—the colonel's. The wife's witty response ("I wonder who she can be") suggests the colonel himself is the unfaithful party, reversing the embarrassment onto him. Both deploy period-typical crude humor and social stereotypes (rural farmers, "Yankees," class dynamics).