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Monday, July 30, 2025

Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 11

We close the July 1912 review of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with a potpourri of Old Time Toons.

Above, Fontaine Fox making fun of the Ice Delivery Man — from a time when daily delivered blocks of ice, was how ice boxes (home refrigerators) “worked”.

Below, James H. Donahey and others, on modern romance…

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

Above, kids and summer vacation, by Clare Briggs, R.D. Handy, Fontaine Fox again, and more.

Below, Billy DeBeck, on the trap for customers, set by those running summer boarding houses.

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