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The Stay-at-Homes were people who stayed home over the summer rather than go to a cottage or summer hotel.
This is another Early Jim comic from World War 1 before he signed up.
The “4.4” mentioned here refers to the the sale of a beer with a maximum alcohol content of 4.4% under the revised Prohibition laws which were still in affect at the time, which gained the nicknamed “Fergie’s Foam” after Premier George Howard Ferguson. In the subsequent 1926 election the Conservatives ran on a platform of repealing the Ontario Temperance Act, which they did.