Judge, 1900-10-20 · page 23 of 26
Judge — October 20, 1900 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The few jokes present are conventional: - A brief **weather pun** about a landlady's disposition ("threatening and cooler") - A **romantic joke** about a man smoking cigars to impress a woman named Dolly The page is dominated by **product advertisements** typical of early 1900s Judge: - Alcohol ads (Heublein cocktails, Old Overholt Whiskey) - A Sohmer piano advertisement - Bicycle playing cards - Campaign buttons featuring **"Four Years More of the Full Dinner Pail"**—referencing McKinley and Roosevelt's 1900 re-election campaign slogan - The Prudential Insurance Company's life insurance policy **The only political reference** is the campaign button ad, which invokes the popular McKinley administration slogan promising economic prosperity (the "full dinner pail"). This indicates the magazine was published during the **1900 presidential election cycle**. The page demonstrates Judge's reliance on advertising revenue rather than satirical content.
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| 007 How is the landlady this morning?” asked one of the boarders. ‘** Threatening and WHAT ARE THE cooler,” answered the man with the newspa- per, misunderstanding the question. And the e “Club other boarder, who was notoriously slow in set- sing with the landlady, looked partly cloudy. e 99 ||—Chicago Tribune. Cocktails ? —— ‘The Sohmer piano isa wonderful instrument, é Drinks that are famous the || and will undoubtedly take the lead throughout | f L fe poridover, MadeTiom the ||the musical world.” Its principal qualites, nsurance for Life. which have so excited the admiration of music- al people, are its strength, richness and fullness ’ , vine ae P to be Paid Boies Steno |[seaiewencene teen cea remiums to be Pai 2 rd? cert-room or parlor. With these combined qual- tare Ge iia ||Ininmeniniee vrs oames”” "|! During the First 20 Years only. “Yes, he said, home after his day's busi- | |last night smoking a early made myself sick gar.” ** But if you don't Is ue weet wir didtpos:amoke RE’ be ces After twenty payments have been made, of Manbattan, asked. ** Just to please Miss Dolly.” ‘* She tues len Se : i Marta, Tom ot doltend | Tikes the odor of a good cigar, I suppose?” the policy is continued in force, and you get Whisky. “No: she detests it, But she does love dearly 4 View f 1 i = ‘men by makiog them swea ie Si Feral y Fancy Gro [|S tod t kad do saeco nee her ts a Paid-up Policy for the full amount with cers and Dealers, take an interest in me."—Chicago Post. = out further charge. G. P. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 29 Broadway, N.Y. Hartford, Conn. This Attractive Policy is Issued by i e ; e You hold GOOD CARDS. Card Games, and How to Play Them” a 120 page took mailed for six flap ends on the Twenty-Payment Life Plan, with Five-Year Dividends, or Accumulative ———— Dividends, as desired. Lt also Provides for Cash Loans Cash Surrender Values Paid-up and Extended Insurance and has many other liberal features. The United States Government Guaran: OLD OVERHOLT WHISKEY. BOTTLED I BOXD. Quality, Quantity, Age. ‘A. Ovennour & Co, Pa TT Write for Particulars. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA PRUDENTIAL HAS THE JOHN F. DRYDEN STRENGTH OF Judge's copyrighted Dinner Pail, inscribed “ Four Years More of the Full Dinner Pail,” has made a decided hit, and we are able to supply Campaign Buttons containing same, with names of McKinley and Roosevelt, at prices as follows: Buttons 134 inch in Diameter. Buttons wu inch in Diameter. 1 Dozen : Boe 1Gross(14s) $4.00 assy President 3%" (492). eters 1,000... - «22.50 5.000 |. 10,000 . 000. HOME OFFICE: 25,000 |. | 23,000 * Newark, N.J. 50.000 . 30.000 100,000 - | 100,000 THE ABOVE PRICES ARE NET. Two Samples of Either Mailed for Ten Cents. We have secured exclusive right to manufacture and sell. Send Orders, Baldwin & Gleason Co., Ltd., °° "83.6? Reste St» comicbooks.com