Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1924 · page 61 of 71
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This page contains four separate humor items from an early 20th-century satirical magazine: 1. **"Capable Catering"**: A racist joke playing on dialect. A Black cook named Hannah says she's now "capering for a Congressman"—a pun suggesting congressmen are foolish or that working for them is absurd/undignified work. 2. **"A Comeback For This Generation"**: A reprinted local news item about social visits, with a section redacted/blacked out. The visible text notes two women were college roommates, suggesting the joke (now illegible) concerned their reunion or changed circumstances. 3. **"Whiz Bang Weather Signal"**: A pun: "buoys will be buoys" (boys will be boys), commenting on buoys breaking loose during bad weather. 4. **Real Estate Humor**: A salesman's absurd sales pitch to a "Deacon"—showing a single brick as proof a house is good, suggesting gullible customers or dishonest salesmanship. The page reflects period attitudes: casual racism, small-town gossip framed as humor, and cynicism toward salespeople and politicians.
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=[Captain Billy's Whiz Bang]= Capable Catering Hannah, the young colored cook, had decided to make a change and try her luck in the capacity of cateress, feeling sure that she would find the work much easier. Shortly afterward she met her former mistress, who asked her where she was working now. “Oh, I isn’t workin’ nowhere now, ma’am,” quickly retorted Hannah, coyly; “I’se capering for a Congressman.” * * * A Comeback For This Generation (From the Galesburg (Ill.) Republican-Register) Mr and Mrs. Ouray Meyer and son Edwin, of Kansas City, spent the week-end with Dr and Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Meyer and Bailey were roommates while attend-ing Lombard College. * * * Whiz Bang Weather Signal Owing to bad weather, large numbers of buoys on the coasts have been breaking away from their moorings. But, after all, buoys will be buoys. * * * “You couldn’t go wrong buying this house even if you haven’t seen it,” stated the positive real estate sales-man to Deacon Callahan. “Why, just look at this sample,” he said, laying a brick down on the table. =[56]=