Judge — November 21, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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*EFFERSON MACKAMER BRIDGE” WoULDA BEEN A SWELL AN’ PEACHY JUDGE T mean Tm ody, no end, if I may fileh a calloused term from your brain This will moments micst get For sensitive the start of the evening. avoid any — embarrassing which may arise should the too oiled and forget. ts I would s in the est a loose board provided somewhere, where the entrance fee may be slipped quietly and niftily. floor be Eye-Queues MAN can row a boat exactly one A mile an hour and he wishes to row it across a river exactly one mile wide in which runs a current: which goes exactly one mile an hour. How far up the river must he point the boat to get it to a spot exactly oppo- site the point he intends setting out from? Back in the days of Cw boys in Rome used to wa rush down to the Tiber, strip, plur in, swim the river three times, climb out, dress and make for their break- What's wrong, Mr. Bones Last week’s: No, 1: Seating ar- rangement: Bad boy, bad boy, bad boy, girl, girl, girl, dumb good boy, good be od boy, deaf girl. No. 2: John and Mary were: (1) second cousins; (2) John’s brother married Mary, dicd; (3) John’s uncle married Mary, died; Mary married ’s nephew who died; (4) Mary ed John's father who dic 5) caving much-marricd Mary to John, (Note: Anyone who can’t construct an O'Neill 49 act quintology out » little, situation, ar's subscription to the Farmer's and Breeder's edition of Jim Jam Jems.) fasts. savory Another Letter From Mac Prrro, Junior: I'm in the dumps, fella, and I don't mean I've been taken for a ride by the Department of Strect Clean- cell, It's the new George Bridge that’s sitting heavily in my heart. A few years back when the contractors first started to play with it Twas on hand well up in front of the newsreel camera which recorded the event. [managed to meet all the big fel las who were ing bridge and whenever I met one I'd repeat my name, Jef- ferson Machamer, two or three times and loudly. IT spent an average of three days a week with the workmen while the work went ahead and to each workman [ introduced myself at least four times, pronouncing my name, Jefferson” Machamer, very distinctly It took a lot of my time to make the entire building per- sonnel Jefferson Machamer conscious, I had the name, Jefferson Machamer, Washington to string the and sonorously. “fhe SuTH's 76) My Ape IAVITING OS N= 6 6 ON OF <i S\; f —tee DEPRESSION SS rppet = DAEOe We A PREF MMaue RACKETS 15 printed on cards four inches square. ‘The letters were block letters and very distinct—awfully black printing, too. I took the cards and dropped them around on the girders and stuck them in the cables when nobody was look I did —just din Machamer thing! And all for poo-poo-pa-doop !! “Jefferson Machamer Bric have been a swell name. | these things for years and dinging Jefferson into everyone and every- would Crippio, Jefferson Machamer Bridge. Unimportant Items Mur five - and - ten - cent - store has solved the problem of whattodo- withusedrazorblades by putting out an iron bank, unopenable, in which you deposit them, throwing away the bank when it gets filled up, and buying a new one. Barney Gallant's is open for the purpose of informal, pleasant sin ain. Barney says he lost $200,000 ast year by not serving liquor. During a recent T ision Pro- gram, the shine on the white evening (Continued on page 26) EAH! <TH! LAST OME WE WERT To | \etT A GLASS ot! A PIANO AN’ NEY’ DAY comicbooks.com