Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, March 1924 · page 68 of 71
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #57 — page 68: what you’re looking at
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This page contains brief humor pieces typical of *Whiz-Bang*, an American satirical magazine. The jokes include: **"A Fast Train in Arkansaw"**: A traveler misses his stop because the train engineer deliberately refuses to stop there out of spite toward the station agent—absurdist humor about petty railroad dysfunction. **"Don't Crowd, Boys"**: A limerick (attributed to "Lord Jeff, Amherst") about a beautiful woman from Exeter whose husband protectively guards her from admirers' attention. **"Those Infant Industries Again"**: A satirical jab at France instituting a decoration for large families (ten+ children), with the joke being that France already had the "Médaille d'Industrie"—making the new award redundant or ironic. **"Blue Jay's Tickler File"**: Adam-and-Eve jokes: one about New Year's resolutions on Saturday (implying procrastination), another pun where a surgeon says "here's where I cut in" (double meaning: inserting himself and making surgical incisions). The page showcases typical early-20th-century American humor: ribald, punny, and satirizing social conventions.
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63 Farmyard Fun and Filosophy A Fast Train in Arkansaw A traveler on a little Western railroad, as his train roared past the station he wanted, jumped up and ran to the conductor. “Conductor,” he cried, “why didn’t you stop there? I told you that was my station.” “Oh, we don’t stop at that place any more,” said the conductor easily. “Our engineer is mad at the station agent!” All her morning sunbeam kisses turned to Johnnie’s evening moonshine smackers. Don’t Crowd, Boys (By Lord Jeff, Amherst) There was a young lady from Exeter So fair that the boys craned their necks-at-her But her husband stayed near, Keeping watch, so I fear That no one could ever get vexeter. Those Infant Industries Again A new decoration is to be instituted in France for the parents of families of ten and over, we read. We thought France already had a Medaille d’Industrie. Blue Jay’s Tickler File Adam—“Let’s turn over a new leaf.” Eve—“Why, dear, it’s only Saturday.” “Here’s where I cut in,” said the surgeon, as he applied the knife to his patient.