Judge, 1928-10-06 · page 29 of 36
Judge — October 6, 1928 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct elements: **Top cartoons**: Two brief humorous anecdotes—one about a fisherman exaggerating a catch's size, another about a dinner guest who finds Wagner excerpts poor dinner entertainment and asks for a sonata instead. These are light social humor typical of Judge magazine. **Main content**: A full-page advertisement for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (Bell System) touting efficiency improvements in Kansas telephone service. The ad claims that by 1927, local call handling improved by 5%, average call time decreased from 2 to 1.5 minutes, and the company saved Kansas residents "twenty years" collectively through these efficiency gains. **Bottom**: Two "Scotch Grams"—brief satirical wordplay items mocking drunk behavior ("Yukon Aver Few Wander Forum Through") and criminal negligence ("Arson Sediment / Tourist Tortuous / Silvery Stole"). The page is primarily advertising, with the cartoons serving as filler content typical of magazine layouts from this era.
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Boy to sell this trout. Ingler—Well, just. let me measure him, so that I can truth- fully y how big the trout was that got away from m —Tir Bits No, mister, IT don’t want Dinner, unfortunately, was a little late, and a guest asked the whether would be kind enough to play something. Seating herself at the baby grand she executed an admirable cerpt. from Wagner. She fin ished, but there was still a few more minutes to wait, and in the rather pained silence to a deaf old right and ask sonata hostess she she turned man on her “Would before you dinner?” replic muple on the but I think I could nother,” —Wasiinxcton Post here, Willie’s girl passes his window Kansas saves ‘Twenty Years An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Morr studies are constantly. by enginecring staffs of the American Telephone and hundred ing carried on than three the research, and business Telegraph Company and the associ- ated companies of the Bell System to accomplish definite improvements in telephone service. In 1927 th not complet number of local calls the first attempt per cent. This means the better handling of 2 was reduced by ¢ 0,000 calls a year. In 19 c average time of handhin I and long distance calls was 2 minutes. In his aver- age was reduced to} ninutes, with further improvements in voice transmissic On 6,8 long distance and toll YUKON AVER FEW WANDER FORUM THROUGH calls made in Kansas in 1927 aver, reduction of half was toral ite and on each call y years saved. hese more th han three hundred as their goal definite improveme in local, toll and long distance service. It is t policy of the Bell System to fi special studies have the best possible service at the cost to the user. The American Telephone and Tele- graph Company accepts its respon- sibility for a nation-wide telepho service as a public trust. It is func mental in the policy of the that all earnings after regul dends and a surplus for fir security be used to give better service to the public, (Cn ;, SCOTCH we ARSON SEDIMENT TOURIST TORTUOUS SILVERY STOLE comicbooks.com