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You can't trick Everett True (October 30, 1915)
(lemmy.world)
Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!
I love the answers by Cynthia grey section of the newspaper. Ig that's how ppl googled in the early 20th century.
Does anyone understand the punchline of the racist caricature panel?
Which part are you struggling with?
If it's the panel itself, it seems to be a Chinese person with a queue braid operating a telephone switchboard. It seems to be connected to the line below where they provide some fortune-cookie wisdom in broken english about pessimism. I could be wrong, but I think the only funny there is racism.
If it's the story below about the couple in the park, I think where it reads "- punch" might be to indicate that was the punchline, the joke is rather dry so it's telling the reader that "yes, this was a joke." The joke there is that the man is on a date with a woman, but is more preoccupied with looking like a good citizen to a veteran / recruiter
It was the panel itself that I was confused about. Thanks for the explanation.