Judge, 1930-10-25 · page 7 of 36
Judge — October 25, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine This page contains three separate pieces: 1. **"Fall Hunting Notes"**: Social commentary on upper-middle-class apartment dwellers in what appears to be 1920s Manhattan, describing their weekend hunting excursions and domestic activities with gentle humor. 2. **Top cartoon**: A hunter in a tree shoot-out, captioned "Steady. Let it burn up a bit so we can see what we're doing!" — satirizing unsafe or comedic hunting practices. 3. **"Breakfast Broadcast"**: A detailed play-by-play of a boxing match (featuring "Battling Socko"), written in sportscaster style. The accompanying cartoon shows a restaurant scene where diners are being checked/examined, likely satirizing health inspections or regulations of the era. The overall tone targets middle-class leisure activities and emerging mass media (radio broadcasts of sporting events).
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| JUDGE _ Fall Hunting Notes ; ‘a nF > ke AND Mus, Cartyne X. M who moved into Trachoma ‘Tow- ers, “The Apartment House Different,” pew, 37) 6) \ “ - on October Ist, are still hunting for three Japanese vases, an onyx table | top, Mr. Mildew’s rod and reel and a | twin bed. : The tenants of The Agatha Arms spent last Saturday and Sunday hunt- ing for the superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Buchanan mat, who have just moved into apartment 10H at 1001 East 1002nd street, spent a sporting Sunday eve- ning stalking a delicatessen store. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Jay Town- send gave a hunt breakfast in the din- ing nook of their apartment morning. While | Mrs. hunted for the percolator, canned fruit and pre-sliced bread, Mr. Townsend hunted for the midget toaster, minia- ture sugar bowl, folding bridge table | and eno} elbow room to raise a spoon to his lips. ALL. esterday ‘ownsend | Definition | A football classic is one where the | spectators do most of their cheering under the grandstand. And if we give Sir Thomas Lipton « mhivueE, cup for losing, we ought to present | | some of these British heavyweights “Steady. Let it burn up a bit so we can see what we're doing!” with a set of dishes. Breakfast Broadcast “ Parttiixe Socko starts out fast with right jab! . .. He jabs in another and .+.Oh! He too mean one to the left eve! ... Now he's mad! ... He digs in a hard one to the mid-section! . . . His opponent is short with a nasty one to the jaw! . Socko is going more c That left eye seems to bother him... . He keeps rubbing it, and... Wow! That was beaut! ... It landed smack on Socko's now Ht other eye! ... He can hardly 1} see! They go into a clinch! . . . Socko lands three short ] punches and takes four in re- turn! ... He jabs ! He takes two more in the face Only a few seconds to go now.... Ah! ... There goes the gong!... And it was the grapefruit’s round all the way!” —Cuet Jounson comicbooks.com