Judge, 1910-01-01 · page 6 of 16
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This page from **Judge** magazine presents rural humor through the "Basswood Bugle" column by Roy K. Moulton, featuring small-town gossip and observations from an unnamed village. The content satirizes small-town life and contemporary issues through folksy anecdotes: Miss Anastasia Butts's failed Shakespeare trip, burglars terrorizing locals, and technological confusion (Alvin Price buying an encyclopedia on installment). A reference to President Taft ("Taft must act") pokes fun at political expectations. The cartoons illustrate the column's humor: "A Happy New Year" shows dogs and a pig outside a storefront marked "1910," while "This Is 'Going' Sum" depicts a slate of debts. "Reflection of the Rooster" shows farm animals, with the caption implying surprise at an unusual request. Overall, the page ridicules rural simplicity, provincial attitudes, and Gilded Age social anxieties (heiresses marrying foreign counts) through gentle, humor-focused satire rather than sharp political commentary.
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bad, as s! se favor of free thing. kin b rm ber'l in Ame Hilliker's store the other night, and Constable Lem Higgins is at work on the case, He ain't got any glue as yet, but says he will stick to it, any- how. Hank Tillson says one t he the summer, After Elmer Tibbitts got through his argument with the bulldog at Miss Euphemia Hand's house where he called, his dress coat had been made over into a Tuxedo. Alvin Price has bought an encyclo- pedia on the installment plan, and says he supposes next thing he'll ha to buy an ile can to ile her up so she won't squeak when he rides her. Grandma Purdy is makin’ a crazy quilt which she is goin’ to send to her cousin for a birthday present. Her cousin is in the insane asylum. We see a paper down East says, “Taft must act.” Well, by jing! if he must, he must; but it seems as NOTES FROM THE BASSWOOD BUGLE Mss ANASTASIA BUTT: to New York te id Mr, Ez Purdy says the sugar trust is not. Abiel Hanks, propri there was a feller at hi: , but you couldn’t ness runnin’ a huttel. medicine almanac. Rev. Hotopp, of the Hardshell Church, says he is in tion plate, his congre; Miss Annabelle Frink got so scared at a burgler that her hair turned white, which is quite remarkable, as her hair was hangin’ on a hook up over the bureau. Purdy says he sees by the p: States has got a new battleship that kin make twenty-o t that all holler with her knittin’ needles. body picked the combination on the burglar-proof top of the dill pickle JUDGE by ROY K. MOULTON of our village, went down ; but she got stung Shakesp hakespeare didn’t appear at all. though its product may be refined, etor of the Bon Ton Huttel, says huttel the other day with a tele- © through it. Abiel has no busi- He should be editor of some comic | jooks of the collec ; but, judgin’ by t tion ain't never heard of such a per that the United knots an hour, but his > REFLECTION OF THE ROOSTER. “ Jumpin’ June-bugs ! is that a regular order or a New Year's present?” YEAR. A HAPPY NEW though the stage is pretty well crowded already these days. That feller out in Wisconsin who got sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary ought to git out about in time to see the Jeffries-Johnson fight. The difference between a balloon and a statesman is that a balloon ain’t no good if it lets its hot air escape and @ statesman ain't no good if he don’t. Uncle Ez Prindle wants to know why American heiresses always marry foreign counts, and Hank Tillson says it is probably because there ain’t any other kind. Just to show that he is up to date and has got a lot of patience, Abner Hanks bas been cleanin’ the ice off’n his sidewalk with his safety razor. Grandpa Bibbins was shot seven times by mistake the other day by a feller that was out huntin’ deer, but he wasn't hurt, as the bullets all landed in his whiskers. Grandpa Bibbins lost his false teeth at a candy pull the other night.