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# Judge Magazine, April 30, 1927 - Analysis The main cartoon depicts a man discovering another man with a woman in/near a house, with the caption: "Why didn't ye tell me de guy wot lives here runs a public garage!" The joke satirizes infidelity and mistaken identity. The implied scenario is that a husband has discovered his wife with another man, but the intruder claims he thought the house was a public garage—a deliberately implausible excuse suggesting the man was caught red-handed and is making absurd excuses. The surrounding text items mock marital discord ("Spouse Flays Mate," "Mate Flays Spouse"), divorce trends, and relationship problems affecting America. The magazine positions itself as "The World's Wittiest Weekly," using humor to comment on contemporary social issues, particularly marriage instability and infidelity during the Jazz Age.
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LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS T JUDGE. WEATHER FORECAST (for next week's Tabloid Number Hot Stuff WORLD’S WITTIEST WEEKLY SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927 SPOUSE FLAYS MATE In parts of Armenia girls who have reached the age of seventeen and are still unmarried are tor- tured. It is the same in America, although the torture is more insidious. According to the New York World, a typewriter has been stolen from the Queens County Courthouse. Very likely the thief decided to give up burglary and write his reminiscences. “Why didn’t ye tell me de guy wot lives here runs a public garage!” L__. ne L JUDGE, Volume 92."No. 2374. /April 30, 1927. 1879. Additional entry at Jamaica, L. I., N.Y. hted 1927, by them in the U. S. and Great Brit tal illiam Morris Houghton, Secretary,627 West 43rd St., New. A Chicago architect who was reputed to be a millionaire eight months ago, is now a bankrupt. The chances are that he tried to build a modest: home for himself. LOVER DISAPPEARS A Viennese who was pushed over a 100-foot precipice by her husband has refused to testify against him. She probably thought he was only bluffing. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881, at the Post-Office at New York City, N. ¥ 95,00 a r 1 jorman Anthony, Vice-President; Joseph T. MATE FLAYS SPOUSE The pastor of a New York Presbyterian church says that the comic strips in newspapers add to America’s divorce rate. Another thing that adds to it is marriage. A Princeton student deprived of using an automobile by the ruling of the Board of Trustees has purchased an aeroplane. These college boys are always getting up in the air over something. comicbooks.com ~ under Act of March 3; eat. 1c a copy. Published Weekly by judge Publishing Co., Inc., 627 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y., and copy= L. Rogan, President; N ‘York, N'Y. Particul der the provisions of Sec For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe & Company, ‘ooney, Asa’t Treasurer and Aas't Secretary, attention is called to the fact that every article and picture appearing in JUDGE is protected n 3 of the Copyright Law of the U. S. 3 Inc., New York: 25 Vanderbilt Avenue. Chicago: 225 North Michigan Avenue.