Judge, 1889-07-06 · page 10 of 16
Judge — July 6, 1889 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes sensationalist newspaper journalism through mock "dispatches" from various cities. The cartoons and text mock how newspapers fabricated or exaggerated trivial incidents as major news stories. The dispatches ridicule this practice: a plaster chip falling at a dance becomes a dramatic "panic," a stolen necklace is reported by an opera singer who sneaks it into the story, and absurdly bureaucratic solutions (awarding grass-cutting contracts to a firm that previously "removed water from the Schuylkill River") expose municipal incompetence. The bottom cartoon depicts working-class dialect humor typical of the era—two men in a train accident scenario. The page mocks how newspapers sensationalized minor events while also reflecting period attitudes toward race, class, and immigrant speech patterns that modern readers would find offensive. The overall satire targets journalism's tendency toward exaggeration and fabrication.
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JUDGE wis debut WESTERN THEATRICAL NOTES. THOSE BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL DISPATCH (From the attic to the Daily Gust.) Harrissurc, Pa., April 42d.—At eleven o'clock last night, while the annual ball of Hope engine company was in full swing at Bolton's hall, a piece of plaster nearly three inches square fell from the ceiling and struck Miss Minnie Zieglef. A great commotion ensued and for a few moments things looked like a panic, Fortunately the band struck up a waltz and order was restored. Miss Ziegler’s corsage bouquet was ruined, but driver Bill Leggett gallantly presented her with a huge sunflower that had been a prominent feature of the mural decorations. Newark, N. J.—Minnie Edgefields, the prima-donna of Daven’ blonde beauties, reported the theft of a diamond necklace at police head- quarters to-day. The troupe have been playing here all this week before large audiences, containing representatives of the oldest fami- lies in the beer and iron trades in town. Miss Edgefields says she has the smallest foot among the favorites of the comic-opera stage, and, as she is paying for this dispatch: her say ought to be printed. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The bids for the contract of cut- ting the grass in Chestnut street were examined to-da the grant was awarded to Sweitzer & Kummlicker. same firm recently secured the contract for removing the water from the Schuylkill river. ce iled the 7:20 from Jersey City to-night, and three hens belonging ta Jacob Hunter were killed. It is feared that Leviticus Lazarus's four-headed calf, which was in the baggage-car, was fatally wounded on the left nostril of the west head and cannot survive. A large party of Princeton university students will have to spend the night in this city. NN.—A terrific storm ‘raged her all day, doing much damage to early wheat and swelling all the streams in this vicinty. ‘The lightning was preceded by heavy banks of dark mist that rolled up from Battle valley and soon completely overshadowed Minstrel Tor. Farmer John Jansen lost a new hen-coop, and several roses were blown from the vine in front of the Methodist church. F two dollars’ damage was done to the stock at the railwz lunch-counter and the milk was rendered a dead loss. believed the storm was incendiary. Itis Mk. Simons —"' Hi, dar! whad's you doin Mr. Hoxus— R e ter leab my hat on d’ track so’s she'll fink I's be'n runned ober en kilt. in whad's kimmin’ ‘Il mangle hit all up.” Tro: of this maiden lad) by a negro, ance labors of Miss Spriggs in her immediate neighborhood roused the ire of Sam, who repeatedly expostulated with the lady, but to no purpose. At six o'clock, or thereabouts, } iggs Went to an outhouse to get some milk for her pet cat. This outhouse lies in a north-westerly direction and twenty feet from the dwelling. When she returned to the house she found the body of the cat lying dead on the kitchen-floor in a pool of blood. The head was missing and the tail had been chopped into three pieces. No trace of the heartless miscreant could be found; and as Inspector Smith is ill the other constable is powerless. The greatest sorrow is expressed for the unfortunate lady, and business is practically at a stand-still. Y.—A horrible murder occurred at Muttonville, ‘a suburb y. early this morning. Miss Martha Spriggs, an estimable lives in a small cottage near a miserable shanty occupied nown as Black Sam, asa saloon, ‘The unremitting temper- NOT NECESSARY. Doan’ gub me ‘way, Gawge. I's had a row wiv de ole woman, an’ I's Dat ‘freight- comicbooks.com