Judge, 1931-08-15 · page 6 of 36
Judge — August 15, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical pieces: **"Judge" (top)**: Mocks excessive motorboat speed records on Holborn-Ludgate Hill. A "traveling American" character expresses relief at being somewhere understandable, satirizing American tourists' bewilderment abroad. **"Speed" (middle)**: Comments on postal delivery improvements and economic speculation, mentioning Jack Kearns and a Walker-Sharkey fight verdict dispute. References a potential war between Norway and Denmark over Greenland as absurdly unsuitable for conflict timing. **"The New Ball"** and **"Mystic to Customer"** (bottom): Two brief captioned cartoons. The first jokes about golf balls landing in fairways; the second shows a fortune teller's crystal ball predicting no vacation—likely reflecting post-WWI economic uncertainty or Depression-era concerns about leisure affordability. The overall tone reflects early-to-mid 20th century American concerns about technology, travel, and economic anxiety.
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JUDGE 7 Record-holder “T near Harry has broken the hoard motorboat record again. h, how much?” HOLBORN - LUPGATE HILL fly-five miles. ‘That’ smashes cord all hollow Il say it does. : former ree- ord was 47.2, as I remember it.’ “Yep, and that was thought to be able when they set it up last I re me mber two summers ¢ ure, but outboards were practi- cally in their infancy then. They did n't have the advantage latest scientific discoveries. You couldn't get more than twenty-five out of most of then “Well, I don’t think we've reached the limit yet, by a long shot. From what I've heard there's still lots of improvement duc.” “PL say. Do you know what an engineer in the Universal Electric told me?” > he claims that within an- r fifty-five will seem child- they're workin right now that people will k to hear seventy-five miles away ona ble Taaverine Anenican—Yow slarted joo, suddenly, you blankety-blank-blank- The New Ball blank!! Thank heaven I’m in a country where I can be understood! No matter how thin you slice it, it seldom lands in the fairway. | Speed | Uren a new arrangement postal planes will take mail off of incoming liners 500 miles at sea. This will we were there from fifty to enable friends abroad to wish sixty hours sooner. Economists call this a buy- ers’ market—and it probably would be if there were any buyers. | Jack Kearns is still pro- | testing that the verdict of a | draw in the Walker fight “should ber Ned." but never has explained just how it changes a verdict of a draw to reverse it. y and Denmark a threatening a war over land; and Greenland is our idea of the very place for a Mystic ro Customen—Hmm, my erystal says that you are not going on mid-summer war. a vacation this year! 4 Norw. n- comicbooks.com