I know politics isn't very funny these days, but here's something from a gentler time. I've seen a lot of Houdini political cartoons, but this is the only one I've seen that ties into a specific Houdini stunt. In this case, it's his Shelton Pool Test. Just goes to show how much that feat captured the public imagination.
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| Rockford Register Star, Aug 28,1926. |
The artist is actually making a second Houdini reference without knowing it. Old John Barleycorn (a reference to prohibition) is reading the temperance play, Ten Nights in a Barroom. Houdini played the lead in this play during his struggling years on more than one occasion.
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