Xpress’ annual tradition returns. As part of our Humor Issue, we are looking back exactly 100 years to see the local and national issues cartoonist Billy Borne parodied and satirized in The Asheville Citizen.
Topics featured in Borne’s 1924 collection include concerns about tourism, that year’s presidential campaign (which involved the emergence of Robert M. La Follette as a third-party candidate), lack of funding for local education and police, anxieties over real estate and the pressures on everyday citizens due to the high cost of living.
Dear reader, for those of you who have been following this feature closely each year, it might seem redundant to ask the question again; nevertheless, we raise the inquiry all the same: Are you not recognizing a certain pattern to this strange thing we call life?
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- April 6, 1924
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- April 25, 1924
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- April 29, 1924
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- May 4, 1924
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- May 9, 1924
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- May 13, 1924
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- June 12, 1924
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- June 25, 1924
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- July 6, 1924
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- Sept. 1, 1924
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- Sept. 28, 1924
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- Dec. 12, 1924
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