Judge, 1915-07-17 · page 24 of 28
Judge — July 17, 1915 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page comprises mostly **advertisements and humor columns**, not political cartoons. The content reflects early 20th-century American satirical humor. The "Passing the Mustard" section collects brief jokes on domestic and social themes: a son-in-law hoping his mother-in-law takes lethal doses of strychnine (dark humor about difficult in-laws); a congressman suggesting voters might punish Congress by keeping him home; a wife buying a summer outfit upon hearing her husband is "going under" financially (satirizing female materialism); and a farmer saving money not for rainy days but for droughts (rural vs. urban perspectives). The page also advertises the Tullos Typewriting School, promoting a "revolutionary" finger-training method, and various hotels and correspondence schools. The Leslie's advertisement on the right contrasts itself with destructive forces, using a wartime metaphor: rather than "burning the whole building down," it supports constructive solutions—typical Progressive-era rhetoric about reform and improvement.
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