Gas saving slogans and crooked clocks in wartime humor
A collage of humorous verse and notes on fuel and wartime thrift. Ranging from spoof gas-saving slogans by Arthur Bott and Wallace Wright to lampooning sticker campaigns by Harold Ickes, the text also critiques windshields stickers and mentions gas rationing, aClock misreads, and jokes about automobiles in a crisis. It references beef and defense bonds, a banner about unity, and a quip about a Dodo’s auto as an Ickes mobile, plus a note on lightning safety in golf and a change to US Golf rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Ickes
Uncle Sam
Art trouble and comic exchanges in a memory vignette
A fragmented humorous dialogue references color, heart versus art trouble and a man recalling a childhood scene. The piece notes a remark about insurance and intentional acts, with a tangential line on happiness from money. It then shifts to a wartime tone highlighting smokers as favored gifts from home, naming Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco as popular items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
Adv
Toes Out Signals Montenegrin Girl’s Marriage Willingness
A Montenegrin girl signals readiness for marriage by sticking her toes out of her shoes, a gesture observed as she considers marriage offers.
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Bangs Bros. Circus
Winter Quarters
Red
Hal
ED Wheelan
Imporrry
Lala Palooza
Vincent
Rube Goldberg
Babette
Eve
Pop
Amy
By C. M. Payne
Wick
WIMS
Kiel
L. Huntley
J. Millar Watt
The
Bol) Syndicate
Gloyas
Williams
Ling
Friphillipr
Arthur Bott
Minnie Wray
TAGE
John J. Applegate
Nell
Joe
Johnson
Will
Gill
Wallace Wright
Luther
Wottaman
Barnett
Puggy
America
Hitler
Washington
Navy
Ma Dodo
Churchill
Mr. Roosevelt
United States Golf Association
Mona
Mr. Meeker
Jackie
Sniff
J. Fuller
Jerry Link
Fuller
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lice
Dou
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