Judge, 1902-11-15 · page 12 of 16
Judge — November 15, 1902 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with brief comic vignettes interspersed. The main content includes: **Comic Snippets:** Three short jokes about rural life and marriage—a farmer's boy avoiding fish-biting by helping with hoeing, a poor man's "magnificent appetite" as dinner, and a newlywed couple's first quarrel about *preventing* quarrels. **Advertisements:** The page features prominent ads for Wilson Whiskey (established 1823), Judy Soap (five cents), an Exposition Flyer for the "Big Four" railroad (Cincinnati to St. Louis), Abbott's Bitters for liver complaints, the Four Track News magazine, and Old Overholt Rye whiskey. **Historical Context:** The whiskey ads reference Government supervision and the 1897 Act of Congress regulating whiskey bottling—reflecting early 20th-century food/drug regulation. The bitters advertisement reflects era-typical patent medicine marketing. The page reflects Judge's mixed editorial-advertising model typical of early 1900s magazines, with lightweight humor supporting commercial content.
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It showed up for a week. —Chicago News. sinuatingly, as he leaned on his hoe, “Tom Perkins says the fish are bitin’ 'y right lively up the creek to-day Well," replied the old man, “you tell him if he'll come over here an’ help you s with yer hocin’ "Ves, sir.” They won't git a chanst to bite him.” That’s All! —Philadelphia Press. ‘THE WILSON DISTILLING Con, Baltimore, Md. DIAMONDS He cet tee enieeiste ner cheek nd color left her cheek; e on credit 4 But upon the shoulder of his coat Established 1823. Hitt) ii Inactive liver, depressed spirits—make both right with Abbott’s—The Original Angostura Bitters. The genuine Abbott's will revolution. ize the system. “Thad something I like for my dinner | TAARSes Sree ees, Exposition Flyer yeday a a the poor man, “but it didn't “You don't say. What was it?” Via “A magnificent appetite.""—Philadel- phia Press 66 BIG The Four Track News for November ee is now out, and piping with the quail, gurgling with the cider, pulsating with 29 the pumpkin pic, banging with the shot gun, and flying with the football. It is a | symphony in gold, a fantasy in scarlet, and an etude in russet. Cast your eye, be it Jartistic br of glass, over the table of contents, and get an idea of this prescrip- i 7 i tion for the destruction of the blues and Cincinnati [ose ioe es a ‘The articles are many and varied and of To the quality that will cause them to be read with pleasure and profit. There are = ‘ poems, witticisms, papers dealing with St. Louis _ |) »iid information, and others whose mis- ° sion it is to entertain and amuse, the society belle, the moose hunter, the ‘mer- Write for Rates and Folders. |{chant, and ‘all others, including those ‘ great ‘undimmed lights of romance, the 2d. bye: W. P. Deppe, rince and the plumber. For further. in- Gen'l Pass. & Tht. Agt. - Ass't Ge P&T. A, || formation apply to George H. Daniels, Mee toc general passenger agent, Grand Centrai : Station, Forty-second street, New York City. From FIVE CENTS THE CAKE Ceman ke HOW IT STARTED. Jack—"' She and her husband have had their first quarrel.”” Tou—‘ About what?” Jace—" About the best way for married couples to avold quarrels." Bottled under Government super- vision direct from the barrel at the Distillery with its natural flavor, nothing added to or taken from it. ONLY CENTS | #2) Old Overholt A better and purer piece of soap could Rye not be made at any price. However, Life- ‘The Act of Congress, March 3, 1897, provides that buoy is not only a pure soap but also an | y printed on the Government Stam that seals antiseptic disinfectant, a thorough clean- the bottle. It also prohibits bottling whiskey less than four years old and provides that all bottles must be ser and purifier combined in one. full measure, Five cents at dealers, or by mail, two cakes ten cents Sra veman tesa era ets Dealer qwillre fund moneyif not entirely satisfactory. Booklet free, A. OVERHOLT @ CO. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED PITTSBURG, PA. NEW YORK OFFICES comicbooks.com