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# "The Appalling Increase in Animal Smuggling" - Judge Magazine Satire This page satirizes early 20th-century animal smuggling via absurdist tall tales by "Dr. Theophrastus Seuss" (likely a pseudonym). Each illustrated anecdote mocks smuggling operations: **Col. Andrews Debacle**: A man crosses a desert in a steamroller to smuggle a penguin into Texas, supposedly for scientific purposes. **Scaramooch and Scarabini**: Two Oklahoma smugglers import sheep illegally, profiting via hidden tariff evasion. **Oscar Dimmiker Affair**: A Kansas smuggler vacuums fish from the Atlantic and transports them inland. **Eskimo Dogs**: An X-ray view cartoon shows dogs being smuggled into Virginia. The satire targets Prohibition-era and post-WWI tariff enforcement failures. The outlandish smuggling methods—steamrollers, vacuum cleaners, trained fleas—exaggerate real contraband problems while mocking both smugglers' ingenuity and authorities' incompetence. The regional focus (Dakotas, Virginias, Carolinas) suggests these were actual smuggling hotspots.
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