Judge, 1910-10-22 · page 16 of 16
Judge — October 22, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a six-panel satirical comic about wartime transportation and supply-chain chaos, likely from WWI or WWII era. The panels depict increasingly absurd vehicle mishaps: 1. Leading citizens redirecting a military convoy 2. A deer-drawn cart replacing motorized transport 3. A massive pig blocking traffic ("Unable to make schedule time owing to road hogs—held up at least two minutes") 4. A character struck by a train 5. Officials dealing with "unfavorable conditions" forcing overnight stays 6. Bridges collapsing into water, with figures drowning The satire mocks wartime inefficiencies and transportation bottlenecks affecting home-front communications ("wire to folks at home"). The escalating disaster sequence suggests bureaucratic incompetence and resource scarcity turning even routine supply runs into nightmarish ordeals, all preventing simple messages home.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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