unearths some literary gems.
From America's Humor, Feb. 1927:
Here's a not-very-good magazine that nonetheless yielded some points of interest. For one thing, this issue includes a magazine-within-the-magazine, "America's Rumor," that is a self-parody. It's even unfunnier, but I also found it hard to tell the difference.
The magazine proper includes a few droll spoof advertisements ("Goofyads"--see attached meta-ad), such as the attached plug for auto tires that churn butter.
The self-parody includes a bogus contest (see attachments), and a couple of good "continued" gags: "continued from page 0" (attached), and a column that begins with "Continued from Harper's Monthly" and concludes with "Continued in the Saturday Evening Post."
The page-gutter rift in the "continuity" headline (attached) is not an intentional gag, according to my best guess. I also thought you might get a kick out of the freckle statistics and the stunt-man proposal (both attached).
Describing someone who is completely calm and cool, a character in one of the stories says, "He was a 32-degree Fahrenheit."
