Judge, 1906-04-14 · page 7 of 20
Judge — April 14, 1906 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains multiple satirical pieces: **"They Missed the Treasure"** mocks train robbers who plan to steal an ice car, only to learn the valuable cargo travels separately under guard. The joke relies on period-specific knowledge of railroad security and theft. **The Panama Canal reference** appears to joke about dubious engineering schemes, likely contemporary to the canal's actual construction (early 1900s). **"The Old Fogy"** contrasts modern actors' obsession with newspaper coverage of trivial personal details (cars, dogs, clothes) versus older actors judged solely on theatrical performance. This satirizes emerging celebrity culture and the press's shift toward lifestyle coverage. **"An Act of Charity"** presents dark humor: a boy claims beating a peer so badly he can't attend school constitutes charitable behavior. The satire targets either the boy's moral confusion or—less likely—parental hypocrisy about "charity." The top cartoon's specific political reference remains unclear without additional context about "the burglar" and the Easter bonnet reference.
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‘a i | iN ( Hi li TOO LATE. Tue surctar—" Drat my luck! THEY MISSED THE TREASURE. BURLY TOM, the train-robber, with his band of trusties oehind him, plunged down over the locomotive-tank in the black of the night, thrust his horse-pistols into the face of the engineer of the mid- night express, and compelled that individual to bring his train toa halt. + Now," said Tom after the train had stopped, ++ you kin cut off dat car loaded wid ice an’ pull it down de track a piece, where me an’ me pals will unload it.” At these words the face of the engineer brightened. ‘Aha! you are mistaken,” he exclaimed joyously. train was sent along in the daylight under heavy guard. nothing on this train but packages of money.” Seeing that the treasure he was lying in wait for had slip- ped through his fin- gers, the robber turned pale with an- ger. The air turned a robin's-egg blue with his curses as he and his companions leaped from the loco- motive. “The ice- There is ++ HAVE you heard Ferdy’s great scheme for digging the Panama Canal quickly 2” “No; what is it?" an army of riers and yell *rats."" WHAT THEY ESCAPED. First cuicx—" Say, brother, what luck for us that we got here before Easter! If we hadn't we might have been hard-bolled and decorated like that now.” The Easter bonnet has just been paid for!" MUST BE SO. s4GENATOR GOTROX says that when he started out in life he only made $1.35 per week.” +Gad ! who would ever think that old Gotrox started out in life as a poet?” THE OLD FOGY. 44] SUPPOSE,” says the modern actor to the stately old relic of the s of the stage, «that you got a few press-notices when ntioned fifteen times in the papers this ¢s of my new automobiles, three items stories about what I like for dinner, and with one paragraph about my trunks being lost on palmy day you trod the boards? I ar morning. There are four about my dog being lost, f two mentions of my taste in cravats, * sighs the old-fashioned, out-of- date actor; "1 got a few notices—but they were all based on the played well my part.” AN ACT OF CHARITY, Mother (during Lent) —* Well, Wil- lie, I hope you have done some charitable act to-day.” Son—« Yes, ma. I licked Johnny Bul- ger so bad that he won't be able to go to school again for a week,” comicbooks.com