Judge, 1926-06-26 · page 3 of 37
Judge — June 26, 1926 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page features social and political commentary typical of Judge magazine's satirical style. The main cartoon depicts an adult telling a young boy "No firecrackers, Lionel, it's against the law"—likely satirizing overly restrictive regulations or the tension between childhood freedom and governmental control. The text snippets address various contemporary issues: the Mayor of New York closing cabarets (Prohibition-era enforcement), flexible glass invention, humorous observations about judicial sentencing in Denmark, a German physician's health advice, Senator Wadsworth's call to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment, and New York's subway expansion project. The overall tone mixes humor with social criticism, targeting government overreach, legal absurdities, and public policy debates of the period.
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JUN23°26~ ©cl 8703649 ‘*LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT oO HAPPINESS"’ JUDGE "Tors summer the Mayor of Nes York is going to close the city’s at. With) charac. teristic thoroughness, he will prob- cabarets at 2 ably close the amusement parks some time this fall. H law Rd Umorous remarks on the part of judges is to be prevented by in Denmark. In future, the Danish judiciary must confine them- selves to more sombrous sentences. sas A ERMAN physician now lecturing * * in America states that one of the greatest health secrets is to laugh and he happy while eating. This is all very well for people who aren't vaca tioning d la carte at a seaside hotel. HE latest’ important news re- ported by scientific journals is the invention of — flexible The millennium will when glass. be reached Scotchmen can turn their whisky bottles inside out and lick off the interiors, sae A noes nobleman, arrested for 4% bigamy in Atlantic City, is ac- cused of having married nearly a hundred women, both here and abroad. We understand that he has secured the best legal talent possible to insure that he won't he freed. v is estimated that the average man speaks twelve million, five lundred thousand words in the course of a year. Some statistician should now figure out for the married men, an average cert rNaToR Wapsworti has openly come out and called for the re- peal of the Eighteenth Amendment. This is the coup that cheers. tt N®™ York has started on its huge +N subway extension project. It is estimated that the new subways will be ready for people to stand in, in about three years, “No firecrackers, Lionel, it's against the law.” comicbooks.com