Judge, 1926-01-02 · page 24 of 36
Judge — January 2, 1926 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated humorous vignettes typical of Judge magazine's format. **"Something Up"** (1899): Irish-American characters Mrs. and Mr. Finnegan discuss young Clancy's expensive bouquet to Mary Ann. The joke: Mr. Finnegan spotted Clancy leaving a pawnshop, implying he pawned his overcoat to afford the flowers—a satirical comment on working-class Irish immigrants' financial desperation masked by romantic gestures. **Other brief jokes** mock drunkenness ("Confirmation"), parental pride in a non-verbal toddler ("A Phenomenon"), and marital discord. **"An Unlimited Surge"** (1903): Two Southern gentlemen (addressed as "Major") discuss wine at a colonel's wedding. The satire: comparing wine flow to "oil company advertisements" mocks the era's aggressive corporate advertising, suggesting the wedding's excess mirrors commercial hyperbole rather than genuine celebration. All pieces use ethnic and regional dialects (Irish, Southern) as comedic markers typical of Judge's era.
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J. Smith in Judge, 1899 SOMETHING UP Mrs. Finnecan—Young Clancy sint Mary Ann a five-dollar bouquet lasht noight. I tink there's something up. | Mr. Finnecan—So do I. I saw him coming out av a pawnshop yesterday, an’ I Cink it's his overcoat. Safe Confirmation .. Safe Then A Phenomenon | Minister—My poor woman, you Bigge—"Thompson seems to. be must be full of regret for the awful awfully proud of that boy of his. crime youlcommitted. . Boggs—He has a right to be. The Condemned Murderess—Yes,I boy is two -years old and hasn't See when Te sor ae sean made asingle bright remark yet, | —dJudge, 1899 —Judge, 1898 Judge, 1897 Mrs. McBride—Harry, I was be- side myself at the condition you came home in last night. Harry—Yes; it seems to me I did see two of you. T. S. Sullivant in Judge, 1903 | AN UNLIMITED SURGE | Masor Biusitup—Well, suh, I spose wine flowed like watah at the kun’l’s weddin’, suh? Masor Peprper—Like watah, suh? By gad, suh! It flowed like oil in an oil company’s | advertisement, suh. comicbooks.com