Judge, 1901-03-09 · page 22 of 22
Judge — March 9, 1901 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **hat advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It's a Hawes Hat Company ad promoting $3.00 hats for the 1909 Inauguration Day and Easter season. The page contains six illustrated hat styles displayed in cloud-shaped frames, each labeled with style numbers (1508, 1406, 1683, 1419, 1815, 1409). The decorative figures flanking the hats appear to be generic fashionable ladies of the era, not specific caricatures or political figures. The "satire" angle—if any—is the tongue-in-cheek headline suggesting that whatever hat style appears at Inauguration Day will become Easter fashion. This was likely humorous commentary on how Americans copied high-society fashion trends. The ad emphasizes direct factory-to-consumer sales and includes mail-order instructions, typical for early 1900s department store advertising. The page is essentially commercial rather than political content.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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