Judge, 1914-11-14 · page 14 of 24
Judge — November 14, 1914 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines local humor with period advertising and a comic strip series. The top section features "Egg View Notes"—humorous small-town gossip from what appears to be a rural community, poking fun at local characters through absurdist situations (a man wearing goggles on a truck, a lawyer opening shop over a blacksmith, a grocer's teeth marks on a found coin). These are gentle, small-town satires typical of Judge's "Americana" humor. The main feature is "Judge's Motion Pictures: Taking No Chances"—a multi-panel comic strip depicting a domestic drama. The plot (evident from panel titles) follows Jerry Hick's girlfriend Lizzie and a rival named Hungry Hawkins competing for her affection through food, culminating in food-related indigestion humor. The subtitle's pun—"the way to a man's heart may have something to do with indigestion"—satirizes the cliché about cooking and romance while suggesting the messier reality of courtship and jealousy. The tobacco talk illustration at top appears unrelated advertising content.
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Egg View Notes ITT LARCOM rode around in Pollywog all day Wednesday, on a big auto truck, wearing a pair of green racer goggles. The back to Erny Neff’s barber chair give away Mon- day afternoon, waking and jarring him badly. Burglars entered the home of Tink Nitz Friday night, enabling him to forget about his bunion and the war for a while. Truman Bilge has opened up a law office over the black- smith shop, where he hopes that several things will be placed in his hands, includ- ing money. Ote Gimber found a half dollar in the road Sunday morning and is quite sure it’s bad, as it showed too plainly where the teeth of Bill Waite, our grocer, had been at work on it. —Leslie Van Every. A New Line Heck—I hear that in the Southwest the farmers are abandoning crops for stock raising. Fleck—I see; they're beat- ing Wall Street to it. A Boy Scout “Young Jones made love toall the girls here this sum- mer, but did not get engaged to any of them.” “Just sort of a boy scout, apparently.”” Pau 2 . bite t fc tongue JERRY HICK, UZZIES FELLOW] COMES TO CALL HUNGRY HAWKINS STEALS LIZZIES) PIE TO TAKE NO _ CHANCES TAKING NO CHANCES: Or, How the Way to a Man’s Heart May Have Something To Do with Indigestion.