Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, Vol. II. No. 13, October, 1920
AN OPEN LETTER
The Whiz Bang Farm,
Rural Route No. 2, Robbinsdale, Minn.
To Our Readers:
With this issue, Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang discardsswaddling clothes and starts bounding onits second year of existence. In this number,which we have termed “Our Annual,” the writerhas taken the liberty to review many of the storiesand poems from the 12 previous issues. It isobvious that a new publication must start withno circulation. If it strikes a popular appeal inthe heart-chord of human existence it succeeds;otherwise, it sinks into journalistic oblivion.
Thanks to a legion of loyal readers and volunteerscribes, The Whiz Bang has weathered thecolicky and diarrhoetic stage of life. Our eye-teethhave been cut and the worst is over. Thislittle family journal of uplift has no one to thankbut its readers. It is your magazine and it is youwho send in the snappy articles to fill its pageseach month. Again we extend our heartiestthanks.
We are now spread from the mackerel munchingmacaroons of Manhattan’s bright isle to thesquawking squabs of sunny California; from thewily, wicked pole-cats of Northern Minnesota tothe perk and prim creoles of feverish Orleans.
On this month, the month of our birth, theeditor feels as happy as a kid sucking a lollypopand smearing its chin with an ice cream cone. Allwe lack to complete the illusion is about threefingers in a wash-tub. Adios until Novemberrolls ’round.
CAPTAIN BILLY.
Captain Billy’s
Whiz Bang
OUR MOTTO:
“Make It Snappy”
October, 1920 Vol. II. No. 13
Published Monthly by
W. H. Fawcett,
Rural Route No. 2
at Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter May 1, 1920, at the post office atRobbinsdale, Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Price 25 cents $2.50 per year
“We have room for but one soul loyalty and that isloyalty to the American People”—Theodore Roosevelt.
Copyright 1920
By W. H. Fawcett
Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicatedto the fighting forces of the United States, past,present and future.
Skipping with the Skipper
Just one short year ago, under the above caption:“Skipping With the Skipper,” Captain Billy’sWhiz Bang exploded for the first time. It was thepublisher’s idea at that time to compile a snappy joke-bookfor former soldiers, sailors and marines living inthe immediate vicinity of the village of Robbinsdale.The demand greatly exceeded the