Judge — April 26, 1919 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "It Ain't Him! It's The Mail!" - Judge, April 26, 1919 This cartoon satirizes postal delivery during the immediate post-WWI period. An elderly man with a telescope peers skyward while a woman and child look upward excitedly. The caption suggests they're watching the sky, expecting something—likely an airplane or aircraft. The joke appears to reference either: 1. Early airmail experiments (the U.S. Post Office began experimental airmail service in May 1918) 2. Anxiety about receiving mail during postal service disruptions common in 1919 The family's excitement and the man's vigilance with a telescope suggest they're desperately awaiting mail delivery via an unconventional method, humorously implying that standard postal service had become so unreliable that sky-watching seemed necessary. The satire targets postal inefficiency of the era.