This is an early Jim drawing with a story on Lyman Melvin Jones.
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This illustration by Jim went with a story by John Herries McCulloch.
This illustration accompanied a story by Weare Holbrook, a columnist and cartoonist. It was a humourist take on the number of vitamins available at the time and the affects it could have on someone.
These illustrations accompanied a story by W.W. Winans about slang use in Toronto 100 years ago. I don’t have any information on the author. Some of the slang and their definitions in the images:
- Big Fish = Important person
- Bird = Person
- Thirty Seeds = Thirty dollars
- Kisser = mouth or face
- “Know your onions” = to be knowledgeable on a particular subject
- “Crying out loud” = expressing surprise or impatience
- Six-bits = 75 cents (also meaning “a lot”)
- Applesauce = nonsense
These illustrations by Jim accompanied an article on manners by Laura Mason. She worked for the University of Toronto Library and wrote a few articles for the Star Weekly from 1922-23, mainly travel stories. She later became head of the library, was a member of the editorial staff of Saturday Night magazine. She died in 1953.
These illustrations by Jim were attached to a story by Frank Mann Harris (also known as “Six-bit” Harris), who was a regular contributor to the Star Weekly in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He wrote often of small town life. This story was about “clockers”, who are responsible for timing workouts during morning training, recording how fast each horse runs for a specific distance.
And yes, we are back at the race track, so we are getting unfortunate stereotypes of black people. See my page on Stereotypes in artwork and stories for more information.
These illustration accompanied a story by Kerry Wood, an alias for Edgar Allardyce Wood. It was about a scheme to run a pipe between two villages from Alberta to Montana only 3 miles apart, as a part of a bootlegging operation during American Prohibition.
The Star Weekly ran a series in 1919 called “Real Stories of the War, As Told by Returned Soldiers” where prizes were awarded. Jim illustrated some of these. The first one here was about the capture of a Prussian Brass Band, which won $1.
This story was about capturing Germans while gathering food, which also won $1. ($1 in 1919 would be $17 in 2025).
This illustration went with a story by Gil O’Mourne about a snake oil salesman.
These illustrations accompanied an article by Canon F. G. Scott, “Canada’s Best Loved Padre”.
