Judge, 1893-02-25 · page 13 of 16
Judge — February 25, 1893 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily an **advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It promotes Williams' Barbers' Soap, a commercial product marketed to women. The ad features an illustrated bar of soap wrapped in cloth/paper. The copywriting emphasizes the soap's moisturizing and healing properties, particularly for sensitive facial skin. It appeals to women by arguing that if barbers use this soap on customers' faces, women should use it on their entire bodies for softness and freshness. The marketing strategy leverages professional endorsement (barbers' use) and pseudo-scientific claims (antiseptic, healing, cream-like properties) to position the product as superior to competitors. The "no quackery" assertion ironically suggests competitors made exaggerated claims. This reflects early 20th-century advertising conventions: emotional appeals, testimonial-style language, and mail-order purchasing options for readers without local access.
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comicbooks.com Did it ever Full size — open — pound package — WILLIAMS’ famous BARBERS’ SOAP — 6 cakes — to the pound. Sold at all good Drug stores and at Barber Shops — 40 cents per Package — . A positive cure for chapped hands and rough — frosted skin of hands or face. — say that nothing is so like cream — so softening — so refreshing to the skin as this wonderful Women Witurams’ Barsers’ Soap—. It is made fo heal. That's why *hoths of all the good Barsers in the world use it on the tender — sensitive skin of the faces of their customers. It is sore than heal- ing — it is antiseptic, also. Now if — it does so much for the face — why not for the rest ho of the body! — Arms — neck — hands, entire body —? Why not be soft — cool and fresh of skin all over? e No quackery about Witurams’ Barpers’ Soap — . It ’s what it clazms to be — the mildest try it — gentlest and purest of soaps — cream-like in quality and wonderfully healing and refreshing. Nothing more — nothing /ess. You can easily prove it. If you cannot conveniently obtain it at a Drugstore, or Barber Sho} £ we mail a full pound package — 6 full size cakes — for 40 cents — in stamps or currency — address akee™ Shaving Soap.