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This page from *Judge* contains several brief humorous anecdotes satirizing lawyers and the legal system, plus short golf jokes, and a longer editorial commentary on corporate deception. The lawyer jokes mock legal sophistry: one depicts a railroad magnate hiring a lawyer to prove an existing law unconstitutional, only to learn the lawyer already uses that same law in his favor. Another shows a judge hiring a lawyer to convict someone, then reconsidering. The satire targets lawyers' willingness to argue any position for payment—their cynical opportunism. The editorial criticizes transportation companies (likely street-car monopolies) that lie about profits and service quality to evade regulation. It calls for transparent disclosure of facts to the public as a "test of public sanity." The golf jokes are light filler—typical period humor about the sport as tedious or marital-disrupting. The cartoons (drawn by Cesare Pissara) depict vehicles and social situations but lack sufficient context for precise identification of specific referenced figures or events.

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