The Centennial of Cartoons Magazine marches on, with our third installment of extracts from its March 1912 issue #3. Today’s sampling involves cartoons whose subjects are all over the map, but which I found too interesting to just skip over.

Above, a variety of topics, from French, German, and British sources (the latter featuring W.K. Haselden), but applicable everywhere. Below, a cartoon by John Campbell Cory, concerning a bill being debated in Congress, involving a promised Pension for Civil War Veterans that Congress had been avoiding honoring.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read the captions.

Below, one-hundred years ago, debate over how to save a troubled U.S. Postal Service (in the days of nothing but “snail mail”)!

Next, from San Francisco, Denver, and New York City, cartoons about crime. Including one each by W.A. Rogers, and Nelson Harding.

Finally, A Pictorial Sermonette, by John T. McCutcheon, “Showing that people don’t always mean exactly what they say”.

Doug Wheeler

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