Judge — July 25, 1925 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Complete home joke-making outfit with full instructions. Guaranteed to comply with all blue laws.—Glum & Gloom. Sunday morning at the tabernacle, Rev. True Blue. Text: Look not on the joke when it is read. John Brown was arrested to-day for operating his car while under the influence of a joke. Blaine C. Bigler Clearing Out a Desk Drawer 6 a lot of junk in that drawer, think I'll try and get rid of some of it. Here’s a sheet of paper with some- thing written on it. Wonder what it says. Oh, it’s a letter that I never finished. It starts, “March 8, 1923. Gentlemen: Enclosed find two dollars.” . Now I know why I never sent it. “Well, for Pete’s sake! Ain't I goin’ to get scared enough to run?” anna perce en Br mepenh < postmarked August 21, 1916. 31 There’s no use saving it for her Bootleggers in Humor any longer; I don’t think I’ll ever Suz of the items we may expect KRALY KRAC find her. oO see IN Our newspapers when oy * . the blue laws get to working. oR, “ sive sentence withthe word duit here's bonles Te clipping 4 eae order. It’s dated A raid was made to-day on a news- ie p Spaghetti July 1, 191 sade: * 3 : y 1, 9, and reads: “Country stand on Forty-second street; forty . _“‘T asked an Ital- Goes Dry To-day.” ‘i y ic weekly, q tan laborer the ty Seay copies of Chestnuts, a comic weekly, ti : ’ Ame ~ s fi rime, and he said, That’s a good joke. were seized as each copy contained “No spaghetti Oh, and that remind more than the 1 7-10 per cent. of Engleesh.” pene Oey reminds ae . humor allowed by law. The con- R. C. O'Brien tents of the magazines were emptied into the gutter to the great joy of the gutter rats. s Government officers _ to-day searched the attic of Mr. Million- bucks. Many jokes, some of them of ancient vintage, were found. Most of them were high in humor content so the lot was confiscated. John Jones was arrested while crossing the Canadian line with a bunch of jokes. Mrs. De Style, who recently re- turned from London, was caught try- ing to smuggle an English joke into this country. The judge, on passing sentence, said that was carrying a joke too far. z Officers recently searched the attic of Algernon Scribe during his ab- sence. A complete joke-making out- fit was found, consisting of some cheap paper, a stubby pencil and a battered typewriter. The outfit was promptly seized. Many of our former jokesmiths have now turned their attention to other things; some of them are in Congress helping to make j—, pardon me, I mean laws. “Any chance of the United States picking a war with the Eskimos?” & comicbooks.com