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Puck, v. 57, no. 1464

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A Kansas David in the field

A Kansas David in the field

Henry Harrison Tucker Jr., as the youthful David with sling, confronts John D. Rockefeller, as Goliath, holding a large club labeled “Standard Oil.”

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In the same way that history largely remembers Thomas W. Lawson as a crusader who wrote his articles and book “Frenzied Finance” as an expose of Wall Street corruption — but was actually a non-apologetic bit of revenge on his former partners in mining trusts — so is Henry Harrison Tucker, Junior, often recalled (if at all) as the little David of the oil fields challenging big, bad John D. Rockefeller. So in Puck cartoonist J. S. Pughe depicted the blonde-haired loner.

The diversions of high society

The diversions of high society

A large crowd of men and women, all wearing formal evening clothes, and the women draped with stunningly sparkling jewels, are at a ball given by “Mrs. Gaster.” Caption: Central office at Mrs. Gaster’s Ball.

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Puck magazine and others, especially as the Muckraking Era dawned, criticized the excesses of the wealthy society denizens of the Conspicuous Consumption class. In fact the Gilded Age — the term having been applied by the eponymous, scathing novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in 1873 — was dying. Its gaudy death throes were exemplified in ostentatious events like the ball depicted by cartoonist Albert Levering. The “400,” the exclusionary term coined by the social arbiter of the wealthy in the 1880s in his Social Register, was more commonly seen by the public as the Idle Rich, and worse, instead of model citizens.