St. Louis Argus: December 22, 1916
The St. Louis Argus was a weekly African American newspaper published in St. Louis in 1916, serving its local Black readership with news, advertising, and community notices. This December 22 Christmas edition pairs local business advertisements, including hair-care and patent-medicine notices, with a holiday greeting banner and a pair of cartoon panels satirizing a bulldog-like figure and a cartoon Indian chief in wartime-era humor. For a designer, the pictures offer dense newspaper advertising layouts, bold display lettering, and hand-drawn comic panels with speech balloons that suggest period typography and cartoon framing.
