Perennial Caption Contest Winner

D.D. Degg at Daily Cartoonist yesterday dug up what may possibly be the first example of a Cartoon Caption Contest.

The contest appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal of January 6, 1913 and was won by a certain W. H. Crossland of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who submitted the immortal side-splitter, "A Fool There Was."

Honorable mention went to Wilbur Eitbach of New York, Wisconsin.

(Just kidding.)