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Distributed by King Features Syndicate , it ran for 87 years, from January 12, , to May 28, The strip is also known as " Jiggs and Maggie " or "Maggie and Jiggs" , after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November The humor centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage known regionally as " Jiggs dinner " and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing and rolling-pin wielding harridan of a wife, Maggie, their lovely young daughter, Nora, and infrequently their lazy son, Ethelbert, later known as just Sonny. Also a character presented in the strip portrayed as a miserly borrower was named fittingly Titus Canby.

Early comic strips were frequently single-theme enterprises. Their humor resided in little more than a single situation, presented time and time again, each presentation a slight variation of the first, and basic, situation.
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