Life, 1929-01-18 · page 16 of 44
Life — January 18, 1929 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains international news briefs and two cartoons satirizing domestic life and contemporary issues. **Top cartoon**: Shows a couple in a living room. The husband, relaxing in a chair, says to his wife: "John, I do wish you'd complain to the grocer—I think he's cutting his near beer." This jokes about Prohibition-era "near beer" (legally non-alcoholic but supposedly nearly so), suggesting even this weak substitute is being watered down further—a commentary on how Prohibition's enforcement led to widespread fraud and inferior black-market products. **Bottom cartoon** ("Breakfast Table Chat"): A husband and wife discuss violent crimes from newspapers, mentioning murders in Squeedonk and a hanging in Saskatchewan. This satirizes how sensationalist crime reporting dominated newspapers of the era, making such violence seem commonplace in conversation. Both reflect 1920s American anxieties: Prohibition's failures and crime's prevalence.
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Ne SS Headlines of the Week LABORITES CHIDE CHAMBER- LAIN FOR HOLDING OUT LO- CARNO PEACE FACTS—GERMAN NATIONALISTS DEMAND STATE- MENT OF WAR GUILT BE MADE PENAL OFFENCE — THREE COUN- TRIES SIGN NEW TRADE TREATY WITH CHINA—CHINESE OFFICERS ENCOURAGE OPIUM TRAFFIC— REVOLUTIONARY PLOT UNCOV- ERED IN MUSSOLINI FOR RAZZING FACISTI—EXPERTS SAY GERMANY ABLE TO PAY UP— BRITISH COAL MINERS GROWING | DESTITUTE. PEPING, China—Marshal Feng Yu- hsiang has been denying himself to visi- tors lately, and it has been disclosed that during his seclusion he was composing over 1,000 ballads which he has adver- tised for sale at $50 a piece to provide funds for famine relief. Maybe that’s what Hoover was doing down in the Mississippi valley. Life Abro Ee CONSTANTINOPLE — | JUGS EX-MINISTERS ad. a7] ® BUENOS AIRES — The government has agreed to limit the shipment of arms to Bolivia during the Paraguan crisis. They want to hold it to a little war.24750 a SAPELO ISLAND, Ga.—Presiden, Coolidge, on a deer hunting expedition, was paralyzed by buck fever when ber ers drove doe within few feet of him. Sy. | fering from an old complaint, in other words. LONDON — Leading British brewers and distillers are taking out insurance policies at Lloyds against the possibility of prohibition in this country. Why dos’: our bootleggers take out policies againg the repeal of our law? “John, I do wish you'd complain to the grocer—I think he’s cutting MOSCOW-—In a drive against vodka the anti-alcoholic league plans to provide 300,000 peasants’ homes with radio sets. Enough to drive any one to drink. Breaxrast Taste Cuat. Mrs. Dooptums: Oh! Wasn't that a weird murder in Squeedonk!! Mr. Dooo.uM: I see that slayer in Saskatchawan was hanged! LONDON — King Amanullah’s dres reform, over which his Afghan subjcs revolted, is failing. Mrs. Carol Isaacsoa, the bride of an American, who ws wounded while leaving Kabul, Afghao istan, during a rebel attack, told the Daily Mail’s Peshawar correspondent today. She said that her husband had writes her a letter from Kabul, stating that Ev | ropean clothes, which were introduced by {King Amanullah, virtually had bees dropped by the natives. I must have bees quite a sight. LONDON—Gen. Bramwell Booth, ft sixteen years head of the Salvation Army, has finally been told on his sick bed # Southwold that the High Council has bes called and that there is a movement © | depose him. Tt was a great shock to the aged gc eral who said: “Whatever people mi think of the army, they must feel this 5 rough on me.” A man may be down bs he’s never out. comicbooks.com