Judge, 1929-11-09 · page 7 of 36
Judge — November 9, 1929 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine Satirical Content This page contains several unrelated humor pieces rather than a unified political cartoon: 1. **"The log-game hunter who went gunning in a treeless country"** — A visual joke about poor planning; the illustration shows someone attempting to hunt in an obviously unsuitable landscape. 2. **"Ad in a Furniture Store"** — A wordplay joke about "D.C." (Washington, D.C.) standing for "Dry Congressmen," implying members of Congress don't work and lack funds. 3. **"The Back-Seat Driver"** — A domestic humor piece where a passenger critiques the driver's golf game through backseat driving metaphors, ending with them accidentally driving into a lake. These are typical Judge magazine filler pieces mixing political jabs with general domestic humor, rather than hard-hitting satire.
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Compensation A prison. sentence nowa runs for the time set. A twe year sentence runs for twe The only break a convict et is to be committed on standard time and released on daylight savi Astounding Assertions When somebody yells “Fire in a crowded place, more people lose their heads than did during the French Revolution. If no news is good news, then some cubs must be good reporters. A lot of U. S. citizens arc passing through the U. S. on their way to Cuba from Canada. It's colder in the early fall than it is in the dead of winter in some places, and one of them is our apartment, —R. C. O'Brien Ad in a Furniture Store We will feather your nest with a little down! Dora, in speaking of Washing- ton, D. C., says she thought D. C. stood for Dry Congressmen. Nitt—They toil not; neither do they spin. What does that mean? Witt—It means they don't work; so they haven't’ cnough money to buy hooch, The Back-Seat Driver “Now do be careful, John. Don't drive recklessly or you'll spoil the afternoon for me... . Ob-h! You just about hit th man! Watch’ where you're driv- ing! You warned him to get out of the way? Well, what of it?— perhaps he didn’t hear you... . Now remember what I say. Keep your cyes straight ahead here- after or something may happen. This is a rough place and you'll have to be y careful. Are you listening, John? ... John, watch out! Oh-h-h! Good heavens, you've driven the lake! That means a perfer good golf ball is lost, just be you didn’t pay attention to me.” —O. R. “Have you ever had the feeling that you have been in a certain place at some other time? TI feel that now.”