Judge — May 20, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# "Belated Spring Fever at Yapp's Crossing" This satirical illustration depicts a chaotic rural or small-town scene titled "Belated Spring Fever at Yapp's Crossing." The cartoon shows numerous townspeople engaged in various recreational activities—playing, socializing, and generally causing disorder in the streets. Visible storefronts include "Lizzy Lockett Dress," "Vic Loncaker's," "Darius Gardener's Meats," and "Will Swann's Shoe" shop. The satire appears to mock the sudden arrival of spring weather causing townspeople to abandon their usual routines and decorum, creating general pandemonium. "Spring fever"—the traditional restlessness associated with warmer weather—is presented as an affliction that causes widespread social disruption at this particular crossing, suggesting both the irrepressible human impulse toward leisure and the comic disorder it creates in an orderly community.