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# Page Analysis: "Pleasantdale Valley" This page contains two distinct satirical cartoons from *Judge* magazine. **Top cartoon:** A man dangles upside-down from a rope over railroad tracks, with the caption "I'll show her she can't make a fool of me!" The accompanying narrative reveals he's desperate to reach Pleasantdale Valley to resolve a mystery. The satire appears to target both railroad complications and romantic desperation—suggesting the lengths men will go to for love or pride. **Bottom cartoon ("Spirit photography"):** Two men in formal dress appear to be conducting or discussing a séance or spiritualist photography session. This likely satirizes the era's popular fascination with spiritualism and fake mediums claiming to photograph ghosts—a common target of *Judge's* humor mocking pseudoscience and gullibility among the wealthy.
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Page Pleasantdale Valley E ACCOSTED me, a wild gleam in his questioning eyes. “I want to go to Pleasantdale Valley,” he sobbed. “Since the day befcre yes- terday I’ve been trying to solve the mystery of which train to take. Oh, help me, please,” he added, the tears coursing down his cheeks, as he handed me a frayed tattered time- table, marked “Pleasantdale Valley Division, X. Y. & U. L. Railroad.” I glanced at it and shuddered as this sight met my eyes: EASTBOUND & WESTBOUND Train 128) pet Prairie, Wyoming, cotelFillin the Name Yourself #84 Marked Down To @ @@|Stratford-on-Avon, England marked X are ready... antdale Valley (at last), Bay Anyoldum| WOW Gorillaville a 4% Toronto FOR) MONTREAL ti Week) WHEE: POS|No Smoking Allowed, N. ¥ 5.03 Rona nder Repair, AllOver.| 11.11 Faplavation of Sym! ole—(*)A teaspoonful before meals. (X) Does not tun at all. In case of rain game postponed. No passengers carried in or out of cars. (***) Don't feed the animals, X) Smoking-car from Pittsburgh. ())))_ This train discontinued April 5, 1888. (“%°c) Stops for thirty days now and then. (888) A. E. F Spirit photography. “T'll show her she can’t make a fool out of me!” Pullman—s0 chevaus and 8 hommes. (X) equals unknown quantity. (O) ome Hill. THIS TIME-TA| BJECT TO Ki BRONCHETIS HAY FEVER, COLDS AND CHANGE I turned to my companion and shuddered. He came close to me and we clung to each other. My mind wasablur. “Why do you want togo to Pleasantdale Valley?” I tenderly inquired. ‘Won't some other place do as well?” “No,” he sobbed, “I must get to Pleasantdale Valley. My oceupa- tion demands it. Besides, there’s a new one to get out.” “A new what?” I questioned. “A new time-table,”” he answered. “Who are you?” I grammatically albeit suspiciously shouted. “T’m the man who gets up the time-tables for the X. Y. and U. L. Railroad,” replied my companion. Arthur L. Lippmann comicbooks.com