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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several humorous vignettes satirizing rural/small-town life and contemporary social issues around 1910. **"Railroad Notes from the Dingbat Bugle"** mocks rural complaints about railroad corporations—locals grumble about fares and service while the editor plans to write protest letters to the president. **"Bringing It to a Climax"** is a romantic sketch where a persistent suitor is called out by the woman he visits nightly; she correctly guesses he wants marriage. **"Ladies and Congressmen"** references **Carrie Chapman Catt**, the famous suffragette leader. The joke ridicules congressmen's ignorance about women's suffrage activism, suggesting they don't understand what suffragettes are doing or "where they are at." The other sketches mock small-town confusion and misadventure (wrong shops, barbers, railroad mishaps). The satire targets rural naïveté, railroad monopolies, and male politicians' obliviousness to the suffrage movement—a live political issue of the era.

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RAILROAD NOTES FROM THE DINGBAT BUGLE. EDITED BY HERMAN DE COSTA RIEND Lew Perkins, our genial conducto corporation has stifled us long enough, and we, for on rise up and lambaste ‘em in every city of the Union. We was to the county seat last week, and paid our fare going. and coming. oBvious. lemand rich declare we Y going to passed through the town on the modation I The boys were out HILE so to cheer him as he vant te foods extol “ ne ie ke lowly doughnut taken the prize rele rain For being truly holesome, stopped for water at the tank yesterday. BRINGING IT TO A CLIMAX. Jim Brown, a 66] KNOW what's passing in your mind," suddenly said the maid- switchman on the I] nas the habitually silent caller stared at her. ‘ I know, too, rowl, is staying ter why you are calling here night after night, appropriating my hum this week. He — time to yourself and keeping other nice young men away. You want had to lay off account me to marry you, don’t you? of getting a “TL [dot gasped th young man, in his eye. Jim says “T thought so. Very well; I will.” it’s a durn lie that be got suspended, DURING THE ORDEAL. The local stop- 66 BREAKER is the most absent-ininded chap T ever met.” ped here one day last ** What did he do?” week to put off a “The last time he got into a barber's chair h trunk. E paper round his neck and began to read the tow was down to s was coming, and was considerable excited, We was all disappoint- ed, though, for the trunk was taken away the next day, It was put “off by mistake, The editor of the /ugle wants to thank a thoughtful but un- day's accommodation for a tr As the train went a-hummin’ past the d “r throwed a bag doughnuts outer the winde they landed. Hiram Baxter ix trying to get up a committer to complain to the Interstate on the night train always blows her whistle nl Hiram’s cow ast time and run over into the next county, You ble, Hi t's messy * pinned the n known passenge ‘on yest po the passe and we was a-standin’ right by when mmerce Commission, sew Low when she ps up a good deal to print it from town The Presi of excitement round these diggs and we we didn’t h it all, Hank t deserve to be lambasted that letter to the president of the re term for Teddy The editor « enough types but a paper ¢ nk temder, says the He's going to write a rs, our grenial t silroads telling, him he's atin a third the Hayle 4 to the county seat and they told him that the law This looks chlaw. Wi nterprise, ‘This bloated t the surprise of his life today when PH RIGHT ORDER, BUT THE WRONG sito Mrs. Neselysted “ Dwant to buy a steak rh sus Lambe rman—" Nie ash P Mrs. Noch c lumber yar n issuinge any mi pie not At this town needs is allroad, we with more wl that in the bateher shop. “This is a GETTING HOME. 66 LOW did Mes. Peterkin come to fall in love with her chauf- “Quite naturally, ‘They were foreed to take long walks te gether.” he LADIES AND CONGRESSMEN. . CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Is a le sulfragatte / Who, with others, has been at hat ‘ | yrressinen to tell them that pngressmen are t know such things as And they re Down, right bh A i through his ha ‘ic chat, ‘h one talk a diplom: THE BRIDGE CRUSH * Great spa wks! what's it all 4 feveitedlyy—"" Phey must be a-hol thin’, in them there cars Hold the while 1 git to the front an’ see!" reels, Hiram, comicbooks.com