Judge, 1920-09-25 · page 19 of 34
Judge — September 25, 1920 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This is a "Bad Breaks" section—Judge's humor column featuring absurd news clippings revealing unintentional comedy in newspaper reporting. The text header explains Judge pays contributors $1 for such oddities. The cartoons at top and center satirize carelessness and mishaps. Examples include a woman whose handbag flask breaks but an egg survives intact; a coroner's examination where a dead man is described as having "walked west" after death; and a bandit robbery report that somehow involves someone's mother. The final item mocks Prohibition-era reporting: federal officers discovered a "150-gallon still" and confiscated "500 gallons of BEEF"—clearly the newspaper's absurd euphemism (or error) for alcohol. The joke lies in the ridiculous phrasing and newspapers' awkward attempts to discuss illegal liquor under Prohibition laws. These "breaks" expose how careless or evasive journalism produces laughable contradictions.
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