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This page from *Judge* magazine contains two distinct sections: **"Observed Through a Crack"** (left column) is a humor piece satirizing rural Kentucky life through fictional news items from "Hogwallow Kenkum." The jokes mock small-town ignorance and absurdity—a teacher worried the Panama Canal will mix the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a man trying to sell firewood to someone already planning ahead, prohibition on livestock in town. The satire targets rural backwardness and simple-minded logic common to American regional humor of the era. **"The Old Band"** (poem below) is nostalgic verse about someone returning to their hometown after twenty years, lamenting that the new brass band, though technically skilled and formally dressed, lacks the charm of the old amateur musicians who played by ear. It's sentimental commentary on modernization and loss of community character. The right side is entirely **advertising** for *Popular Electricity* magazine. No political figures or cartoons appear on this page.

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Observed Through a Crack The following items are from George Bingham's Hogwallow Ken-| kum published at Mayfield, Ky. While in atmosphere they may m local, in verity they hit the universal human animal: seem og Hostetter Hocks has pulled off her gold band ring, as it is iss 5 <y i h for the ladies to wear much this summer. : ‘An increased attendance is expected at the Hog Ford church next Sunday, 88 the preacher is going to try out a new sermon. The Wild Onion school teacher predicts a terrible mix-up of the ‘Atlantic and Pacific oceans when the water gets to running back and forth through the Panama Canal. He advocates that the government should adopt some plan to keep the water separated. The sun doesn’t shine only on pretty days. Another barrel of licker at the Hog Ford moonshine stillhouse has been opened. While the licker still shows considerable strength, it is rot expected to survive long, on account of its extreme old age. Mrs. Tobe Moseley will spend Saturday in Tickville. She will take her spyglass along and inspect all of the bargains. Columbus Allsop’s wagon broke down on the road leading to Hog Ford Tuesday morning. He has not yet decided whether he will have it repaired or not. . The corn crop and the mail carrier’s buggy are needing rain very Me Aman from the Calf Ribs neighborhood was in Hogwallow yes- terday and tried to sell the postmaster a load of wood for use next winter. That gentleman should sit down somewhere and take a good long rest, a3 he is living entirely too far in advance. The main street at Tickville looks deserted since the hogs and cows have been prohibited from running at large. There is talk of another paper being launched at Tickville. The editor of the Tickville Tidings, who always takes a firm stand on all pablic questions, has come out in an editorial as being opposed to it. He says if Tickville had another paper the people would get too far behind with their work trying to help run it. The mule rode by Yam Sims was seen hitched for several hours at the fence in front of the home of the Widow, in the Calf, Ribs neigh- borhood, Sunday evening. Yam is so slow he should put his mule on the pasture when he goes courting. A man can never expect to grow a heard as long as he shaves twice a week. Some of the candidates in the recent Kentucky primary made the race ‘solely on merit and qualification,’ and then got defeated. The Old Band It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore, Considerin’ I've be’n away twenty year and more. Sence I moved then to Kansas, of course I see a change, A-comin’ back, and notice things that’s new to me and strange; Especially at evenin’, when yer new band fellers meet, In fancy uniforms and all, and play out on the street-— . « What’s come of old Bill Lindsey and the Sax-horn fellers—say? I want to hear the old band play. What's come of Eastman and Nat Snow? And where’s War Barnett at? And Nate and Bony Meek, Bill Hart, Sam Richa’son and that Air brother of him played the drum as twicet as big as Jim? And old Hi Kerns, the carpenter—say, what's become o’ him? I make no doubt yer new band now’s a competenter band, And plays their music more by note than what they play by hand, And stylisher and grander tunes; but somehow—anyway, I want to hear the old band play. seh anes, as “John Brown’s Body,’’ and ‘‘Sweet Alice,’’ don’t you now; And “The Camels Is A-comin’,’’ and ‘‘John Anderson, My Jo’’; And a dozent others of ’em—'Number Nine’? and ‘‘Number ’Leven”’ Was favo-rites that fairly made a feller dream o’ heaven. And when the boys ’u’d saranade, I’ve laid so still in bed I've even heerd the locus’ blossoms droppin’ on the shed, When “Lily Dale’ er “Hazel Dell’? had sobbed and died away - . - I want to hear the old band play. The new band maybe beats it, but the old band’s what I said— It allus peared to kind o’ chord with somepin’ in my head; And, whilse I’m no musicianer, when my blame eyes is jes Nigh drownded out, and Mem’ry squares her jaws and sort 0’ says She won’t ner never will fergit, I want to jes turn in And take and light right out o’ here and git back West ag’in— And stay there, when I git there, where I never haf to say I want to hear the old band play. | What is the ¢ Aurora Borealis Warrea i. Miller, NORTHERN LiGH TRICITY and the WORLD'S ADVANC! ow little you knew of this: fascia bis article and wonder ‘ctober.. You'll Into th of the Et MO Ee 0a. A brisk w isk South fo the Bloe Ridge Mouatalas and A Marvel of the Age is presented, in the romantic story of an revitalized and made over by a monster immense district modem power development. 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