Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1923 · page 67 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #44 — page 67: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents what appears to be advertising disguised as editorial content for *Whiz Bang*, a satirical magazine. The actual content is a formal business letter from Chas. E. Lewis & Co. (a Minneapolis stocks and commodities firm established 1888) describing shipment of a Holstein bull calf named "King Ormsby the 8th" to a lodge in Minnesota. The satire is subtle: the headline mockingly suggests "more bull" (excrement/nonsense) is coming to the magazine's fictional "farm," while the letter itself is entirely earnest business correspondence about livestock. The joke appears to be inserting legitimate commercial content—even soliciting what readers might assume are paid advertisements—into editorial space, perhaps satirizing both commercial farming practices and the blurred line between editorial and advertising content in 1920s publications.
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More Bull for Whiz Bang Farm Homely but well-bred holstein calf—King Ormsby —joins Pedro and Rosebud in Whiz Bang family circle. Here is the good news if your optics are good: CHARLES E. LEWIS TODD W. LEWIS LEONARD S. ALLEN Chas. E. Lewis & Co. ESTABLISHED 1888 STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN & COTTON MAIN OFFICE LEWIS BUILDING, 2ND AVE. SO. AT 6TH ST. MINNEAPOLIS MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BALTIMORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE MINNEAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DULUTH BOARD OF TRADE WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE BRANCH OFFICE 415-16 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAIN OFFICE TELEPHONES MAIN 0250 " 0251 " 0252 " 0253 " 0254 " 0255 " 0256 December 28, 1922. Mr. W. H. Fawcett, c/o Breezy Point Lodge, Pequot, Minn. Dear Sir: At the request of my nephew, Leonard S. Allen, I shipped you yesterday from my Seven Pines Farm at Lewis, Wis., a Holstein Freisian Bull Calf. His name is KING AKKRUMMER ORMSBY the 8th and I will have the transfer and registration papers made up and forwarded to you later. It usually takes a month or six weeks to get them from the association