Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #45 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The first story mocks Prohibition-era hypocrisy: the author attended a temperance play in Nassau that was so preachy it nearly converted him—until an advertisement for "Gilby's dry gin and whiskey" appeared between acts, undermining the message's seriousness. The second anecdote features Ring Lardner (a well-known American humorist), who encounters two drunk men in Miami. Believing each lives in the building where he finds them, Lardner helpfully deposits them in successive apartments upstairs—a joke about mistaken identity and good intentions gone absurdly wrong. Both stories satirize 1920s American excess and social contradictions during Prohibition.