Winnie Winkle in rent trouble
One hundred years ago today … It was New Year’s Day, and Martin Branner’s Winnie Winkle the Breadwiner cartoon strip, entering its second calendar year, marked the occasion with a comment about problems paying the rent.
Daily News, 1 January 1920, p. 19. Chronicling America.
Note: read our feature of Winnie Winkle’s September 21, 1920 debut here.
Also one hundred years ago today . . . News readers found this useful calendar on the paper’s back page.
Daily News, 1 January 1920, p. 20. Chronicling America.
– Jonathan Goldman, January 1, 2021
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