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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True's foul neighbor (October 5, 1915) (lemmy.world)
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Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image brightness/contrast and sharpness slightly modified; see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Mr. True went easy on this fella

I dunno, a shovel to the back of the head could easily kill someone.

I thought this was an interesting cartoon because Everett isn't objecting to the corporal punishment, but to the hypocrisy of the neighbor.

Back then, hitting your kid with a stick was considered good parenting. Nowadays, hitting your kid is illegal in much of Europe and Latin America.