Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 61: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains four brief humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons: 1. **"Overheard in a Hospital"**: A joke using racial dialect humor (common in 1920s publications) where a Black woman expresses relief at being only engaged rather than married. 2. **"Homeopathic Dose"**: A barber-shop dialogue mocking someone's request for hair tonic in exchange for a nickel when hair tonic sells for a dollar per pint—absurd haggling humor. 3. **"Fleas Be Fleas"**: A wordplay poem using circular logic about why insects are named as they are. 4. **"Quick, Doctor!"**: A joke about Yellowstone Park's geysers, where a tourist asks if the boiling lake freezes, leading to a darkly comic punchline about a woman scalded by hot water. These are generic jokes rather than political satire, typical of Whiz Bang's lighthearted humor approach.