Olive Oyl says she'd been cleaning her clothes with gasoline. The primary dry cleaning solvent in the early 20th century was, in fact, gasoline.
One of the few times Wimpy is seen actually working, with a suitable enticement - hamburgers - of course.
Remade in color in 1946 as House Tricks? (1946) with Bluto competing with Popeye to build Olive's house.
One of a number of Popeye shorts sent to Asia in the 1980s to undergo a redraw and colorization process.