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Canada’s Poets! Fix Bayonets!! Charge!!!

October 10, 1914

Hoo boy. The jingoism of the newspapers in the First World War can be a little hard to take. The dehumanizing of the enemy (Germany, and in particular, the Kaiser) was something else. You would think that he was the devil himself from the editorials, comics, and news stories. So this appeared very early in the war before the horrors were well known. People wrote the most eye-rolling, cringe-inducing poems about the noble struggle against the Hun and it was published in a full page in the Star Weekly, illustrated by Jim at the masthead.

Punkin Pie-Eyed!

October 6, 1934

The Grand Champ!

September 28, 1935

Give the Boys a Lift

September 20, 1941

It was considered patriotic to give servicemen a lift who were hitchhiking.

The Bet That Converted the Clergyman

September 16, 1911

This is one the of earlier Jim comics from the Toronto Star Weekly. It accompanied a story by Byron H. Stauffer called “The Bet That Converted the Clergyman”. Rev. Stauffer seems to have been a clergyman himself who lived from 1870-1922.

“It’s an Eight!”

September 13, 1930

“An eight” would refer to the car having an eight cylinder engine. At the time, more cars would have 4 or 6 cylinder engines, so having an eight meant that it was more powerful, and therefore more expensive.

“Meet Me at the Fountain”

September 8, 1923

This is in reference to the Canadian National Exhibition, but feels like it could apply to any fair at any time in history.

The Rate Payers Hold Their Annual Picnic Over at Turtle Lake

September 3, 1932

A Rate Payers association is another name for a neighbourhood association that advocates for local issues. The Sea Flea is a small homemade motor boat popularized in Muskoka at this time.

Full House!

August 24, 1946

This is not unlike last weeks comic, but 13 years later.

Latest Victims of the Depression

August 19, 1933

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