Get Behind and Smoke a Homo - Illustrating the Fluid Nature of Language

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Add the caption and it's at least 1008 words.

I'm speechless.

Get Behind a Homo - 

Smoke the Homo Cigar!!!

The Times (Munster, Indiana), May 8, 1916, page 2.

In England they smoked "fags" (still do, although that's just a cigarette), so I shouldn't be too surprised.
 

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan), August 7, 1929, page 30.

 Betty Carstairs smokes a "fag" as she lands in New York after trip from her native England, all set for her attempt to win the Harmsworth speedboat races in Detroit.

But I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence.

Still . . .