Judge, 1908-03-28 · page 13 of 16
Judge — March 28, 1908 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and short humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content includes: 1. **"Odds Even"** — A joke about neighboring apartment tenants both forming committees to ask each other to stop playing the flute, satirizing bureaucratic absurdity. 2. **"Prickly Heat"** — A crude dialogue about a man covered in cactus spines in Suisun (California), playing on the double meaning of "heat" as both discomfort and attraction. 3. **"Wouldn't He, Though!"** — Dark humor about a death-row prisoner asking to shave his executioner, the district attorney. The remaining content is **advertising**: liqueur, whiskey, cleaning machines, and art schools. The page reflects Judge magazine's typical format of mixing lowbrow humor with commercial promotion, aimed at early-20th-century readers seeking light entertainment and consumer goods.
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