Judge, 1925-10-10 · page 7 of 37
Judge — October 10, 1925 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains advertisements and humorous testimonials rather than political commentary. The main cartoon depicts "Officer Cassidy" becoming interested in golf—a joke about an Irish policeman adopting an upper-class sport. The "Unpublished Testimonials" section parodies product advertisements, with fake customer endorsements for items like "Sickle's Salve for Vanishing Viruals" and "Flabbergoff's Famous Fizz for Falling Teeth." These mock real advertisements' exaggerated claims about miraculous products. The Alexander the Great section appears to be a humorous historical piece, while "You Tell 'Em" and "Krazy Kracks" are standard joke features. "Funnybones" is an advertising placeholder. The overall tone is light, domestic humor typical of Judge's satirical-but-not-overtly-political content from this era.
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After Officer Cassidy became interested in golf. Unpublished Testimonials Or Why the Ad Men Have to Write Their Own Sickle’s Salve for Vanishing Victuals Tre falls back I suddenly dis- covered my husband had a habit growing on him. We tried every- thing from swimming the English Channel to Chinatown and the Bowery but our happy domestic life seemed about to be broken up. Finally, as we were walking under Brooklyn Bridge one night someé- body dropped a box of your Sickle’s Salve for Vanishing Victuals on the old man’s habit and knocked it for a row of crepe de chine igloos. Now we are all happy and can fight on an in like we used to s I was constantly being od by my great height, breadth and width as well my chormous size until it got so bad I couldn’t even Jook the poor man in Soviet” i, “Dinner was am ready, sorict.” a . . . Jepce Nominates for the | Hall of Fame | ut the age of twent; one, he had thoroughly ma tered Greek; because he refused to pose for the Roto-Sections with a miniature globe in_ his hand; because he originated the | idea of cutting the knot instead of laboriously untying it and sav- ing the string for future use; but most. of all because he never attributed his success to a Busi- | ness Correspondence Course. the face. By four o'clock the water had risen to the upstairs windows and it looked like a sure draw at the end of the eighth inning. Suddenly we heard a frightful rending and gnashing of eyebrows like a great pile of feathers rolling up a steep hill—and_ there stood the beautiful fairy all clothed in a pale purple light. Several months previous I tried Flabbergoff's Fuzz for Falling Teeth and after taking the stuff for less than two weeks I saw my mistake. Of course, it was too late then, but it made me feel so small I got a job as a dwarf in a passing circus and am now healthy, happy and hysteri- cal. Richard S. Wallace You Tell "Em Oh, dry is dry, And wet is wet. And what we want, We'll try and get! Funnybones You don't hace to be a broadcaster to get the air. ‘Frdge will pay $5 for each one printed comicbooks.com