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# "Judging the News" - October 15, 1927 The main cartoon depicts a boxing match with the caption "It's his devilish good footwork that beating me!" The satire likely comments on contemporary boxing or politics, though without identifying specific fighters or figures, the exact target remains unclear. The "Judging the News" section above contains brief satirical commentary on current events: complaints about American alcohol smuggling into Canada, an Akron company testing rubber roads for motorists, jazz music played for monkeys at Philadelphia Zoo, and a real estate dealer using ten-dollar bills as currency in prohibition-era New York. These items exemplify 1920s American concerns: bootlegging, automotive innovation, jazz-age culture, and prohibition's economic absurdities.
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October 15, 1927 Price 15 Cents JUDGING THE NEWS The Royal Canadian Customs An Akron company is said to A western real estate dealer Commission has complained to be experimenting with rubber sur- Washington that Americans are face roads. Sporting motorists smuggling bootleg liquor into will likely insist upon getting Canada. There ought tobealaw! their pedestrian on the first has been judged insane because he lit cigars in a New York night club with ten-dollar bills. Man- ‘ hattan liquor must have given _ pounce: him the impression they were Dr. William Mayo, the cele- icealinaeee : 3 egal tinder. brated Rochester surgeon, a Jazz music was recently played specialist is a man who knows for the mon! in the Philadel- more and more about less and phia Zoo. Phis should put an Eat, drink and be merry, for less. This also holds true for end to any belief in evolution the tomorrow we die, is no joke in our politicians. monkeys may have held. these days of prohibition. “It’s his divilish good footwork that’s beating me!” JUDGE, Volume 93, No. 2398. October 15, 1927, _ Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881, at tne Post Office at New York City, No Y. act of March 3, 1879." Additional entry at Jamaica, L. 1. Oa year. 15c.a copy. Published Weekly ‘by Judge Publishing Co., Inc., 627 West 4. Yor v and ‘copyrighted 1927, by it in the U.'S. and Great Britain: Fred L. Rogan, President; Norman Anthony and Charles Lawrence Sheldon Vi Hy ‘ooney, Secretary; 627 West 43rd St., New York, Joseph ‘articular attention is called to the fact that every article and picture appearing in JUDGE is protected under the provisions ‘of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U.S. 1 comicbooks.com