Category: Life’s Little Comedies Page 2 of 7
Flivver is slang for an automobile.
Five-pin bowling is a Canadian game invested in 1909 when customers complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous.
This is the first appearance of Pigskin Peters.
Ontario was still in the midst of Prohibition when this was published.
This comic references Prohibition where someone is trying to smuggle a liquor filled pumpkin across the Detroit river between Canada and the United States. Though Ontario had Prohibition at the time, it did not ban the manufacture of alcohol so there was still smuggling from Canada to the USA.
The Big Coal Strike of 1922 was a general strike of miners in the US and Canada that lasted 163 days.