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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons

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The Australian Panther

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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons
« on: September 25, 2020, 11:30:02 AM »

Thank you Lyons.
Re page #6. Did they really write your physical description on a train ticket?
This is great stuff. Well and expresively drawn and a window into a world that has passed.
So, you can smoke Corn Silk? page # 16.

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Captain Audio

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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2020, 03:28:58 PM »


Thank you Lyons. <br />
Re page #6. Did they really write your physical description on a train ticket? <br />
This is great stuff. Well and expresively drawn and a window into a world that has passed. <br />
So, you can smoke Corn Silk? page # 16.

Link to the book: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons

Locally there's a tree that produces long slender pods. When this dry out kids could cut the ends off and light them up. They called them "Indian Cigars". Flavor was light and no worse than some brands of tobacco.
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crashryan

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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2020, 04:07:08 PM »

A lot of kids must have smoked corn silk, because it was a familiar trope in early 20th crntury American pop culture. Looking it up on Google I even found instructions. At least it's nicotine-free, but you're still inhaling smoke. I'll pass.
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Captain Audio

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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2020, 06:51:08 PM »

Interestingly I just found out that the Indian Cigar tree is the source of several medications used to fight lung infections and other lung problems.
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Robb_K

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Re: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2020, 08:42:18 PM »


Thank you Lyons. <br />
Re page #6. Did they really write your physical description on a train ticket? <br />
This is great stuff. Well and expressively drawn and a window into a world that has passed. <br />
So, you can smoke Corn Silk? page # 16.

Link to the book: Our Boyhood Thrills and Other Cartoons

Yes.  And it didn't smell as bad as cabbage.  During both WWI and WWII tobacco became scarce, or non-existent in many places.  So, people began smoking (trying out) substitutes.  In North America, kids (not allowed to smoke cigars and cigarettes) smoked corn silk, among other weeds and unused parts of plants.  In The Netherlands, too, during WWII, they tried smoking other plants.
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