Judge — May 19, 1923 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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BIG NEWS FROM THE MAYOR OF YAPP’S CROSSING This shows the beautiful new car, equipped with every modern convenience that human ingenuity can devise, in which the Mayor of Yapp's Crossing will cross the United States Dounny Geve nae Judge's Staff Artist with the Mayor's Cross Country Expedition —aS ae, ‘ SO Yapp's Crossing, May 14, 1923 Dear Judge: I dunno who tipped you off to that trip of mine but it's true. The bus is ready and she's a beaut. Me and the missus and the kids are all set and we'll get away pretty quick now and we're goin clear across to the Pacific. We've been lookin over the maps, cussin the weather and feeding the furnace, trying to decide whether to make for Mexico, where theres a chance for warm weather this summer or takin our fur coats, a coupla coal stoves and brave the blizzards this spring crost Jersey, Penna, Ohio, etc., etc. As near as we dope it now we go to New York, Pittsburgh, to India- napolis, St. Louis, Denver, up to Yellowstone, to Bitter Root Valley, Mon., to Glacier Nat. Park, across to Seattle and down coast doin the Nat. Parks and S. Cal. Then in Spring of '24 back through Texas across to Flerida and up North. Sure we'll take Johnny Gruelle with us. That boy sure can draw pictchers, but he'll have to pitch in an help with the chores. As he shows you I've just put a radio on the bus and he's promised to paint Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy on it for me to. I wisht you was all comin. But you'll know all thats goin on from Johnny Gruelles pictchers and perhaps you'll have more fun sittin at home lookin at them than if you was out on the prairies. Yours, THE MAYOR =:—Judge learned that the Mayor of Yapp’s Crossing was about to start across the country in his new prairie schooner. As is indicated above, Judge has arranged for his Staff Artist, Mr. Johnny Gruelle, to accom- pany the Mayor’s party and report their progress in pictures. These will appear in Judge every week. Follow them regularly, every week, and you will, as the Mayor says, have as much fun as if you were aboard. 1881, at the ice at New York City,'N. Y.. under Act of March 3, 1879. $5.00 a year. 15c a copy s.: Douglas H. Cooke, Vice-Pres.; E. J. McDonnell, Treas.; W. D. Green, Secretary, 627 West 43d Street, New York, N. Y Ccomicbooks.com