Judge, 1929-05-18 · page 33 of 36
Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political satire. The dominant content includes hotel ads (Montclair, Drake) and patent medicine advertisements (Vittel Water for blood pressure, Gem Clippers). The one cartoon presents "Progress," a joke about industrial change. A waiter explains finding rubber tire in a customer's hash by noting "the automobile is replacing the horse everywhere"—a straightforward quip about early 20th-century motorization displacing traditional transportation. The "Mystery Contest" solution is absurdist courtroom humor with no clear political angle—judges dismissing cases, witnesses speaking French, marriage announcements. It's wordplay and legal satire, not commentary on actual events or figures. The cartoon illustration showing "The Widower, who was going to marry again, has a lucid moment" depicts a man in motion with luggage—likely satirizing remarriage or hasty decisions, though the specific target remains unclear from context alone. Overall, this is a humor and advertising page with no identifiable political figures or contemporary political references.
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49th to 50th Streets Lexington Avenue Room and Bath Tod and Shower $3 tw $5 New York Ci.y 800 Rooms Each with Tub and Shower fer day For Dyers $4 to van Suites $810 $12 per day y Rates Radio in Every Room 3 minutes’ walk from Grand Central, Times Square, Fifth Avenue Shops and most im- portant commercial centres, leading shops and theatres. 10 minutes to Penn. Station. Grand Central Palace only 2 short blocks away S.Gregay Tayler | President Progress “Waiter, why do I find a pie of rubber tire in this hash?” “IT don't really know, sir, ex- cept that the automobile is re- placing the horse everywhere. —Masonic Crartsman | ons Winning Solution of Mystery Contest No. 2 $25.00 awarded to Joseph E. Sherry, East Crestview Rd., Rox- boro, Philadelphia, Pa. Confusion reigned in the court- | room, but it was all over when Detective Shea closed his um- brella and took the witness stand. “Where taking that stand?” the district attorney counsel are you demanded ct! intervened — the or defense. “Objection sustained,” said the Judge, and the tinued. A hot and a cold-water faucet were then shown to Jay Walker Alterdyce. “Do you recognize these weap- sked the truant officer. Mterdyee vufed a pack of cards and declared, “Je ne comprends pas Anglais.” case Was con- nervously “Then what were you doing on February 29, triumphantly demanded this “Answer, yes or no. “No! said Marion Gilchrist Vindietively, and the court ad- journed to lunch, The afternoon began promptly at 7:30, but was ealled off on account of rain, Then Marion Gilchrist: announced her engagement to Jay Walker Alter dyce, and the Ju dismissed the case. After packing the two water faucets into her trunk, along with a nail file and six cocktail shakers, Mrs. Jay W. Alterdyce, née Marion Gilchrist. moved to Watervliet and lived there happily to a grcen old age. session Why you will come back! You will find ease and comfort in its livable rooms; you will enjoy the tempt- ing food for which Tne Draxe is famed. But even more will you reciate being able to enjoy sunny rooms with a wide outloo! over Lake Michigan, yét be within Casy walking distance of the clanging, surging streets of Chicago's Loop. Rates as low as five dollars a day single room with bath; six dollars ble. Special discounts for extended s. Write for Ilustrated Booklet, Edition 16, a, woe! All Ke Tue Drake is under the Blackstone manag. the world’s stan hotel service ™ DRAKE HOTEL Chicago For tusy Ritter men and Abbott's 3a delightful tonic and invigor- i Ws & Co., Haltimore, Md High Blood Pressure Is Alleviated sy _ VITTEL WATER Drinking GRANDE SOURCE French Alkaline Mineral Water MORRIS & SCHRADER, * ‘ew vers’ That ts what your feu Henne dodge Publishing Co.. Ine. s 1s East 48th Street, New York, N.Y. Dear Doctor Jot TQ 104 Regutar weekly visits (2 years). 352 Regular weekly vi Naroe.es Adhiress, comicbooks.com