Judge, 1917-02-17 · page 26 of 28
Judge — February 17, 1917 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and miscellaneous content page** rather than a satirical cartoon page. The page consists mainly of period advertisements for watches, books, automobiles, and correspondence courses. The only substantive editorial content is a brief section titled **"Identified,"** which discusses a humorous situation involving a poem. Judge editor J.A. Waldron explains that contributor Strickland Gillilan claimed authorship of a poem titled "Modern Medicine," but the magazine's records show it was previously published years earlier under different editorship. Waldron diplomatically resolves the dispute, noting both the magazine and Gillilan deserve credit—it's "worth republishing" and neither party lost anything by the second publication. The humor is gentle and self-referential rather than politically pointed: it's an **in-joke about attribution disputes** within literary/magazine circles of the era. The page otherwise reflects typical 1917 advertising: automobile agencies, self-help books, and educational correspondence courses.
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