These political cartoons from 100 years ago portray flappers, Rudolph Valentino, tariffs, and egg prices. But more than anything else, cartoonists were portraying the so-called "Scopes Monkey Trial."
This one-panel comic strip from September 22, 1925 is basically an extended pun on the phrase "Chinese Boxer Rebellion." Since that event had happened right around the turn of the century, the readers of the paper would have at least been familiar with the term, even if they didn't know the exact historical reference.
Here's a "Mutt and Jeff" strip from Sept. 23, 1925.
A look at a Wisconsin newspaper from Sept. 24, 1925 shows a man getting in trouble for surreptitiously selling moonshine out of his ice cream parlor during Prohibition. Political cartoons lampoon the senator from Wisconsin and, for some reason, the General Andrews that Andrews Air Force Base is named after. My local cartoon, Kin Hubbard, who lived in Irvington, Indianapolis, did that last one. It also makes passing reference to the flapper fad of knee painting, mentioned in "All That Jazz" in Chicago.
Finally, this newspaper from Winslow, Arizona features hundred-year-old ads from Levi jeans and J.C. Penney.
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