Life, 1919-07-17 · page 32 of 40
Life — July 17, 1919 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate humorous pieces typical of Life's satirical format: **"A Skeptical Jury"**: A judge gives elaborate legal instructions, but jurors can't agree whether his statements represent actual law or mere personal opinion. The joke satirizes verbose judicial authority and the gap between what judges assert and what's legally legitimate. **"The One Drawback"**: A husband praises his new radium watch but complains he still needs a lamp to read it—mocking the overhyped promises of early radium products, which were marketed as miraculous but remained impractical. **"Amply Qualified"**: A politician claims fitness for legislature by boasting of poverty and rusticity (never wearing a silk shirt, chewing store tobacco), including being tied to a tree as punishment. This satirizes populist candidates who weaponize humble origins as political credentials. The page also includes an advertisement for a Locomobile roadster automobile with tonneau-cowl and windshield—a luxury touring vehicle for four passengers.
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A Skeptical Jury An Idaho lawyer tells of a case tried in that state some years ago, on which occasion the judge, who desired to display his learning, instructed the jury very fully, laying down the law with the utmost authority, But the after deliberating hours, found themselves unable to agree, Finally the foreman asked for additional in- structions “Judge, here's the trouble,” said he “The jury want to know if what told us was really the law, or only just your notion.” —Harper’s The One Drawback How do you like your new radium watch, dear? Huswanp: It would be wonderful if I did not have to light the lamp every time to find my g jurors, some you Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneo Canada and British Possessions in advance. to Canada, cents. Single current copies, 10 cents. from date of publicatio cents, The text and illustrations in Live are apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buil LI Title registered in U, S. Patent Office. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Issues prior to 1910 out of print. opyrighted, F ings, Fetter Lene, London, E Optimist AND LEND ME WELL A SPARE TIRE BACK TO THE AND FIVE GAS AND NEAREST PARM-HOUSE FOR A HUCKET OF WATER FOR THE RADIATOR, MAYBE WE CAN GET HOSE BEFORE DARK es, Great L $5.00 a year sellers in all tal Union, $1.04 a year; bers, after three months elope, Live eat Britain “feeb on Udon , England, issue to be affected, IP SOMEONE WILL COME ALONG re is for sale by all newsdealers in Great Brit the principal cities in the world Live's London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buil No contributions will does not hold its nsib) e a Notice of change of address should reach this office ten days pri Amply Qualified “Ladies and gentlemen, In began the Hon. Buckram Br ing the beauty and chivalry of Tunis] « ville, Ark C for the legislature, plain people. 1 was born right nf "* amongst you, and never wore a buf ™ shirt or tasted store terbacker til Taf” of age, and earned them luxuries by af the of my own hands. That thief used venerable stump that stands antigodds( ai across from the post office is all coin left of the honest old tree that my pal) fact two of his brothers and three or other fellers tied me to when they pu: off me my first pair of shoes at the age fifteen years.”"—Kansas City Star, Important Man ‘ “So your brother she has got a job al cent artist on a newspaper.” this “Yes'm; he draws the er pictures to show where the crime nf) committed.”"—Boston Transcript A quanterte the other three can’t sing. be is, where all four th —Atchison (M. ver © be return LOCOMOBILE ROADSTER FOR FOUR PASSENGERS An original type of light touring body with tonneau-cowl and windshield. Custom Department of the Locomobile Company of America, Bridgeport, Conn. comicbooks.