Judge, 1917-11-17 · page 20 of 28
Judge — November 17, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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**Main Advertisement**: The large "Along the Auto Highways of California" travel ad promotes Santa Fe Railway routes, positioning California as a romantic destination recalling "Spanish days." This reflects early 20th-century American tourism marketing. **Right-side Humor Section**: "The Parson Testifies" presents a racist dialect joke typical of the era. Two Black men divorce, requiring testimony from the pastor who "married" them. The punchline: the pastor only performed an abbreviated ceremony (reading a Christian Endeavor pledge) because the groom reduced payment from two dollars to seventy-five cents. The humor relies on offensive racial stereotypes and caricatured dialect. "With a Happy Conscience" satirizes patriotic self-satisfaction—a soldier who generously donated to war bonds, the Red Cross, and military libraries now feels morally justified buying himself a new shirt. Both items reflect period attitudes: casual racism in mainstream humor and gentle mockery of wartime civic virtue-signaling.
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