Judge — December 1936 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“Last one to Los Angeles is an old maid!” cluster of tight, well gardened little dwellings peopled by those rate souls who know little and care less about the mad world beyond the pale. Some weeks back, one Mr. T. J. Hutton, a solid burgher of Barret, got around to clearing up his mail that a letter from Mr recently The upshot was Hutton arrived in Richmond, Virginia. En. closed were two Confederate bills which Mr. Hutton very politely requested be converted to pounds, shilli and pence, and the proceeds returned by fegistered mail, Somehow, the mad gambolings of History in the last cen- tury seem to have passed Barret by And Barret, that happy hamlet, goes its leisurely way, stopping occasionally for Judge a chat with the vicar, a dish of tea and a Crumpet, an occasional pint of bitter, and now and then, to write a letter to the Confederate States of America, that new, young, exciting republic across the sea Other publications point with pride to their foreign correspondents, but know, and that too-famous gentlemen are apt to spend a very large amount of time at pub. crawling and a very small amount at news-hounding. JubGE’s own footloose European news commentator, however, you we know these is noted for his sobriety, industry and devotion to truth. With this, we give angle on the current you the inside European scene, an angle, which, we say quite frankly, other publications are d to print! afr The real dope on the Simpson divorce is that Mr divorce so that he could marry Queen Mary At the outset of the next war, Leon Blum will push a button and all of France will disappear underground case Simpson wanted the The colonization of Ethiopia is a dismal flop; not only is Italy flat broke as a result, but it will take the army another two years to get the sand out of their shoes. Paris frocks are winter. Winters, however, are longer much shorter this This is called a cycle, and is caused by sun spots. Those of you who are more or less buffeted by the minor vicissitudes of life might very well take note of the calamitous misfortunes which befall our fellow men. A sturdy minority takes upheavals like the following in its stride: In Chicago, Michacl L. Igoe had to pay two cents postage due on a letter which contained a threat to assassinate him Near Seattle, a hobo Fred Daniers the lives of the crew in a train wreck, and the railroad offered to reward him by giving him a job William Urquhart of Seneca Falls, New York, became the father of a sec. ond pair of twins cleven months after the first pair arrived Harry Garfinkel of Newark had his salary garnisheed by a Circuit Court judge for one thousand years. W. J. Agostinelli of Harrison Town, New York, lost an clection as council. man by one vote because a ballot had been filled out in ink instead of pencil, as the law specified J. Fred Bellois of Woodbury, New Jersey, sued for divorce, charging his wife regularly forced him to wait for dinner until she had fed all her pet cats—sixty of them! named saved H. Seller of San Francisco discovered that the lot which his family and he had been paying taxes for fifty years didn’t exist. in Canada on Ed Sterling, Justice of the Peace in Heizer, Kansas, for twenty years, figured up his fees and found that his net in. take had ave aged four cents a year. comicbooks.com