Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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The Dizzy Decade (With apologies to all concerned) (How they'll probably describe our period about ten years hence) ERTRUDE Eperte swam _ the English Channel and a lady at Rockaway Beach feigned drowning because the lifeguard had blue eyes. Walt Mason installed a new verse machine and a poet in a Greenwich Village garret shot himself. Jack THE MORNING AFTER With the back and shoulders Fuaprer (having socked the postman)—Hot dog! JUDGE for me from Bill Scott! Dempsey refused a million dollars to fight Wills and a bum on the Bowery begged a dime for a cupacawfee. Three women in Chicago shot their husbands and Peggy Hopkins Joyce was introduced to De Wolf Hopper. A taxicab driver in Boston had change for a dollar bill, a waiter in New York said “thank you” to a restaurant patron and a barber in Detroit shaved a man without sug- gesting a face message. President Coolidge caught a fish. A man was brought into the psycopathic ward at Bellevue under the delusion that the country had a Prohibition law. A salesman in a Cleveland hotel actually read three chapters in a Gideon Bible. A man was arrested in Kansas for smoking a cigarette on Sunday and John Roach Straton didn’t appear in print for nearly a week. Mrs. Here lies my laundry man, Alecander Fleet: No more he'll fix my collars up To look like shredded wheat. ga Anhiabe busted tg, ails ese ‘pay3$5 for each one printcet ct Whadycknow! A letter Millionbucks equipped her kennels with steam heat and three babies died on New York's East Side. A lady in Buffalo had her hair bobbed without weeping, Cecil De Mille produced a movie without a sunken bathtub, an original melody was born in Tin Pan Alley, a tourist drove in from Montreal, without any liquor, and a bunch of fellers dis- covered the North Pole. Arthur L. Lippmann EXPLORINGLA NEW CONT! $ OR THE LIBERTY "BOYS IN BROOKLYN “Halloo, Edgar!” said an acquaint- ance to that person. ‘“‘Where have you been for a week back?” “Nowhere,” answered Mr. Garfinkle, hurriedly, “and I tell you my back ain't weak anyways!” This effectually disposed of the “nosey” inquirer. | C comicbooks.com