Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #45 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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This is a prose article titled "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang," not a cartoon page. The narrator ("Captain Billy") describes a rambling trip visiting various American and Mexican towns with his wife. The piece satirizes border towns—particularly Tijuana and Mexicali—as centers of drug use and vice. The author describes witnessing drug transactions at "Chink's Dope House" and observes crowds of people, including young women from California, openly using narcotics ("getting their 'shot' of 'dope'") in broad daylight. The tone is moralistic outrage at what he views as uncontrolled depravity and criminality, presented as social commentary on drug abuse and border-town corruption in early-20th-century America.