Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1923 · page 27 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #44 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine contains several brief jokes and quips typical of 1920s humor: The "Broadcasting Program" mockingly lists absurd radio content, including references to "Ku Klux clucking" (likely a joke about KKK visibility during that era). The voter fraud joke satirizes electoral corruption: a man arrested for voting eight times expects payment rather than punishment—suggesting bribing voters was an accepted practice. "Happiness in Every Box" is a flirtatious rhyming verse about a candy-obsessed woman named Mandy who'll trade kisses only for sweets. Other items poke fun at everyday annoyances: a boy's patched pants, and a shoemaker whose shoes smell so bad after removal that he can't light his pipe nearby. The humor is gentle, observational, and rooted in 1920s urban/rural American life and contemporary social issues like electoral corruption.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 27 Whiz Bang Broadcasting Program Closing market on dog biscuits by Pequot School of Expression. Pawnship time; signals. Any old time; signals. Ku Klux clucking by all the chickens. Musical raid on Pedro's stall by Olaf, with ukelele and shovel. Good night song, Hark, the lark, and other bedtime yawns. *** Happiness In Every Box Said a maiden demure, by name Mandy, Who was simply devoted to candy, “My kisses shan’t be sold For silver or gold, But candy,” said Mandy—“That’s dandy!” *** Our Monthly Fruit Lesson Lots of pairs are found under the trees in Minneapolis parks in the summer months. *** “What am I arrested for?” “You are charged with having voted eight times.” “Charged, eh?” muttered the prisoner. “That’s queer, I expected to be paid for it.” *** One touch of humor makes the whole world grin. *** A patch in the seat of a boy’s pants is something new under the son. *** Olaf says that our Robbinsdale shoemaker is surely going to kill himself, because he lit his strong pipe the minute Olaf pulled off his shoes to have them fixed.