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# "Judging the News" - December 17, 1927 This satirical page comments on contemporary events: **Top section** features humorous news items: President Coolidge's acting ability, a Canadian boy's honesty problem, a couple's marital dispute involving a black cat superstition, France's tariff concerns, and a Washington windstorm. **Bottom cartoon titled "Christmas Belles"** depicts women in a chaotic scrum, apparently fighting or crowded together during holiday shopping. The illustration satirizes the frenzied, aggressive behavior of female holiday shoppers—a common satirical target of the 1920s that mocked both commercialism and women's public participation in consumer culture. The "belles" have transformed from refined ladies into combative figures, emphasizing the period's tension between traditional femininity and modern consumer behavior.
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Oa 8760457 JUDGING THE NEWS President Coolidge recently told Gene Tunney that he looked like a movie actor. Well, that ends any doubts as to Calvin's courage. A fourteen- school boy h r-old Canadian been expelled be- cause his teachers claim that he is incapable of telling the truth. If this young man dovsn't mend his ways he will likely end up in the Weather Bureau. Nowadays a real football fan is one who knows the nationality of every man on the All-Ameri- can team. According to a story in the New York World, a young couple who went to the City Hall to be married called it off when a black cat walked in front of them. This should do much toward dis- pelling the old superstition that black cats are unlucky. France has now raised the tariff on w t from 18 to 35 es. This tariff business won't actually hit home ’till they raise it on wild oats. A windstorm with a velocity of 92 miles an hour has done a million dollars worth of damage in Washington, D.C. This, how- ever, has nothing to do with the fact that our 70th Congress as- sembled on Dee. 5th. —Jack SuvurrLeworrit DES 15 927 e at. New York City, N.Y. C.. 627 West 43rd Si 3 Sheldon. Vic ph T. Cooney’, in JUDGE the provisions tof March 3, york, N.Y. comicbooks.com