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<meta name="description" content="Original P24 editorial cartoon in classic editorial-ink style: a state Corn Marshal confiscates a cob and outlaws the cob holder as a 'cheating device.'" />
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<div class="cap"><span class="q">“Row by row only, citizen. Step away from the cob holder.”</span></div>
<div class="sub">P24 Cartoon Desk · in classic editorial-ink style (device: the looming authority) · on the Kansas story “Statewide Row-by-Row Only Zone, Cob Holders Banned as Cheating Devices.” Invented satire.</div>
<div class="back"><a href="index.html">← Back to the Cartoon Desk</a> · <a href="reference/index.html">the editorial-ink style reference</a></div>
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