Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1921 · page 63 of 68
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This is a humor column from an American satirical magazine, likely from the 1920s Prohibition era. The jokes reflect period concerns: **"Ain't It the Truth?"** mocks the hypocrisy of St. Patrick's Day parades passing bootleg joints—illegal alcohol dealers—suggesting parade-goers stopped there longer than elsewhere. **"High Cost of Babies"** reprints a genuine newspaper ad from Idaho doctors offering "C.O.D." (cash-on-delivery) babies after October 1st, satirizing medical costs and birth expenses. **"The Tattlers"** contains mild jokes about gossiping and children's innocent observations. **"Something to Worry About"** compares Napoleon's famously low pulse rate (medically notable) with British Army regulations allowing soldiers 600 cubic feet of barracks space—joking that American soldiers eat so much they'd need even more space. This reflects American-British stereotypes about diet and body size. The column trades in topical satire, period-specific anxieties, and mild social commentary typical of 1920s American humor magazines.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 61 Ain't It the Truth? It usually takes a St. Patrick's Day parade longer to pass a bootlegging joint than any other point on the line of march. * * * The High Cost of Babies The following is an original advertisement appearing in the Genesee (Idaho) News: Eight Months' Warning. After October 1st, all babies C. O. D. W. H. Ehlen, M. D. H. Rouse, M. D. * * * The Tattlers Age and her little brother will always tell on a girl. * * * They nicknamed the baby Steamboat because they used a paddle behind. * * * A little boy wrote a composition on man and he said it was a person split half way up and who walks on the split end. * * * Something to Worry About The pulse of Napoleon is said to have made only 50 beats a minute. * * * According to new regulations in the British army, each soldier in barracks is allowed 600 cubic feet of air space, and if the diet of the British soldier is the same as that of the Yank, the 600 feet is none too much.