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This page from **Judge** magazine contains primarily **advertising and humorous anecdotes**, not political cartoons. The dominant feature is a **Prudential Insurance Company advertisement** promoting affordable life insurance with guaranteed features. The scattered jokes are social humor rather than satire: - **"To Be Investigated"**: A riff on food safety scandals (Louis Ferrari's milk prosecutions), joking that inspectors become paranoid about all dairy products. - **"All Had a Turn"**: Slapstick humor about a wife, sister, and nurse each secretly shortening the same pair of trousers, progressively ruining them. - **"Artifice"**: A passenger rings the bell twice to trick the conductor into moving him forward. - **"HER LOOKOUT," "HE CLASSIFIED IT," etc.**: Brief domestic and professional misunderstandings. The only identifiable reference is to **Louis Ferrari** and milk-purity investigations, reflecting Progressive Era food-safety concerns. Otherwise, these are generic situational jokes typical of early-20th-century humor magazines, with no major political significance.

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TO BE INVES- TIGATED. “Since Louis Ferrari began the prosecution of these impure milk cases,” | remarked one of | group at the Olym-| pic Club, ** he’s sus- | - picious of anything wees rome that Looks like milk." How so?" ventured one of the lis- Well, one of the fellows had a bottle » stuf, It jon of cod-liver oil, whi vilest dope a man ever tasted, in a plain, big-neck 1 ere'd they get that stuff?” ari. I think,’ null id Andrew Glarner, ‘1 son got it from his broth- | imed Ferrari, ‘1 don’t care if Jack is a member of the club; I'm going after his brother's dairy. I put some of that milk in my coffee this morning, and it was all to the bad.’ '* San Francisco Chronicle, ALL HAD A TURN. Mr. C. W. Holloway recently ordered a pair of trousers from a tailor. On trying, them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on Satur- day night, the tailor’s shop was closed, and Mr. Holloway took the trousers to his wife, and asked her to cut the sur- plus off and hem them over. ‘The good lady, who was ill at the time, snappishly refused. The same results followed applications to the wife's sis- ter and the trained nurse in attendance. Before bedtime the wife, relenting, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches from the legs, hemmed them up ly and restored them to the closet. f an hour later the nurse, taken ut with compunction for her conduct, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches, hemmed and replaced them, an additional surgical operation on the garment. When Mr. Holloway appeared at break- fast on Sunday morning, the family thought a Highland chieftain had ar- rived Philippines Gossip, ARTIFICE. J the conductor an- Do that you,”" “you rang up a fa nd 1° put you off. The small man standing jammed in the middle of the car promptly rung up an- other fi Thereupon the conductor d him through the crowd and to the elge of the platform. said the little man. ‘any other way to get out. Here's your dime." Philadelphia Pub- We Ledger, i} don’t die of a slight cold, So + the Hous called in the doctor, ch? Well, After another long pause, the farmer him gladly if it will make you f. ‘easier, observed: ** Say, you ain't & lawyer, or Which one is it? you'd Iking; you ain’t a doctor, | ‘It isn’t the doctor, dear,’ was the | ‘cause you ain't got no satchel; and you The control of dandruff can be best swer, “Tt's Mr. Dave Englebert, the shore ain't a preacher, from the looks of accomplished by the systematic use of -—life-insurance —agent."" — Philippines yor. What is your profession, anyhow * Gossip. “Tam a politician,” replied Lorimer, PACKER’S TAR SOAP ANA j a The nder gave # snort of dis- rope 5 . . n American speeding over the ~ geust. nlities ain't no profe Proper cleansing and intelligent ma- | nent of Europe in his automobile asked politics fs a disonder,” Kenate City nipulation of the scalp are always im- perative. A. good lather of Packer's Tar Soap well rubbed into the scalp tsnot only a perfect cleanser but an unexcelled hair tonic. ACKER MFG. CO. NEW YORK CITY ™ of his cl whe A young wife husband one night tleman in to you, Who is you so much of late, and is coming on, worried 1 she threw her arms a wou! m In Oh, nv fTeur, aris,” , and the dust flew. er mind th bly screamed the Am “*T mean what continent? NE MORE LIFE INSURANCE LESS MONEY Annual Cost Whole Life Policy Per $1,000 Age 20 + $14.96 Age 25 16.77 Age 30 + 19.08 Age 35 + 22.10 HER LOOKOUT. in Ma said to her My dear, there is a rlor. He wants to nthe f it? Do you know?" the husband asked. ** Dear,” forgive m id the wife, ‘you must but that cough has bothered ¢ hot season id oh! if you knew how : been about you!’” And ound his neck. Id Ido if T were to lose anced. id the young ma tenderly," M “ Where are " shouted the the Argonaut. THE W Low Cost Policy Gives with Every Feature Absolutely Guaranteed. Send your specimen policy. Sta Address Dept. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America JOHN F. DRYDEN, Home Ottice: President. VARK, N. Je birthday tor occupation. HE WAS SO SORRY. Wi, Repre: who is for a tramp along the conduit road lead- ing from Washington, when, after going few miles, he sat do * Want a lift, mister natured Maryland far but I hate to haf my wife sl floor.” Brons News. grood- driving that | A LABOR-SAVING SCHEME. ou,"” responded Mr. Lori-| + John,'* said the newly-married busi- I will avail myself of your kind | ness may | ** Yessir,” re ice-boy. » in silence for « while. | “Call up my wife every fifteen min- amster asked: ‘ Pro- ute lovey-dovey tootse wootsey about seven or cight times ed Lorimer, who was Eechange, thinking of a bill he had pending before Independent, it self-control not to ar to a pretty girl when his wife is with him — Ev. comicbooks.com