Judge, 1902-09-20 · page 16 of 18
Judge — September 20, 1902 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with a few brief humorous anecdotes interspersed. The main cartoon ("Over-Haired") depicts a barber shop scene in northern England. A customer preparing for a holiday in London asks the barber to give him an especially fine "coronation cut." The barber dryly replies he can already see the crown—a visual pun on the customer's baldness. The joke relies on the contrast between the customer's vanity about his appearance and his obvious hair loss. The other content consists of short jokes with Irish dialect humor and product advertisements (Martell's brandy, Pears' soap, Remington typewriters, patent medicines). The anecdotes use stereotypical working-class and immigrant voices for comedic effect, typical of period humor. The page reflects late-19th-century advertising practices and comedy conventions that modern readers would find dated and, in some cases, offensive.
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