Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description: An older man tells some children about how fireworks used to be legal and how children got injured from mishandling them, but how they are now illegal in Indiana. One child complains and asks if they can go to Illinois or Kentucky.
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Wed be up at the crack of dawn. And so it came to pass that year by year more and more boys and girls were killed or maimed or injured by fireworks. So Indiana has forbidden all starting this year 1940. Our dogs scared to death to death hid all day. Old rain coat. at night father would have big displays in our yard. toy fire balloons - sky rockets etc. started fires. ambulance. Plans for the fourth. How about visiting over in Kentucky or Illinois.
Origin: 2014
Created By: Karl Kae Knecht
Source: http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/1365
Collection: Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects: Holidays
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Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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