Judge, 1902-12-27 · page 11 of 17
Judge — December 27, 1902 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with scattered humorous anecdotes**—typical of Judge's format. ## Main Content: The humor pieces are brief, unconnected jokes: 1. **The "Brakeman" story**: A newly hired railroad worker earning three cents per mile refuses to jump from a runaway train, declaring "I am making a dollar and a half an hour!" The joke mocks the era's economic desperation—a man values dangerous work so highly he won't abandon a crashing train. 2. **Minor jokes** about women's ages, literary pretension, and spousal bickering—standard period humor targeting domestic life and marital discord. ## Advertising: The page features product ads (Packer's Tar Soap, Whitman's Chocolates, Evans' Ale, remedies) and a prominent **Moet & Chandon champagne advertisement** emphasizing America's dominance in "worlds greatest nations." ## Historical Context: This reflects early 1900s American values: economic anxiety, rigid gender roles, and nationalist pride. The brakeman story particularly captures working-class precarity—men grateful for dangerous, low-wage labor.
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“I spoke from the same platform last autumn with a funny fellow who told the t Ihng a group in one of the cozy corners of the house cloak-rooms, "It was used to illustrate the prevalence of good times ior workingmen. “A man had landed in San Francisco, after extensive travels, mighty close to being “busted.” rather than starve, and applied to a freight-office of one of the transconti- nental lines for a place as brakeman, The road hada job waiting for him, and he “How much do you pay a month?' “We don’t pay by the month.’ ‘How much a week?’ Don’t pay by the week; orakemen three cents a mile.’ “Our ‘busted’ friend went to work on the first freight-train east from. 'Frisco. As the locomotive pulled up into the mountains it moved slower and slower, and the new brakeman, counting the miles, began to be greatly dissatisfied with his job. But before ‘reaching t summit the train broke in two. At the rate of fifty miles an hour the rear end down the mountain side. “Don't jump!" shouted the conductor to the new brakeman. ‘Stick to it, and don't jump.’ Jump?" shouted back the brakeman. “Well, 1 guess I won't jump. What kind of a fool do you take me for, when I am making a dollar and a half an hour?" —Washington Post We pay Ask for Abbott's, the Original Angostura Bitters, when you go to druggist or grocer for a reliable tonic in the spring. Abbott's, the best for all seasons. Tess—" You and Miss Sere don’t scem to be good friends. What's the matter?” Fess—" Why, she remarked that she was twenty-four years old, and". Tess—"And you doubted it?” at all. I merely said. ‘Of hen?'""—Philadelphia Press. Fess d course, but Packer’s Tar Soap is pure, mild, invigorating and antiseptic. It soothes while cleansing, and for more than a quarter of a century has been The Standard For the Hair and Skin ‘The Pacer Mfg. Co., 81-83 Fulton St., New York. WHITMAN’S Chocolates and Confections Always the Successtul Candidate §/ for the Interior Department. Ast ter them anywhere Whitman's Chocolate Madi « minate m wy Sty, eS tod Liquor Habit Cared witn- PIUM 22S eaesee OPIUM Sense EFMENS CO.. Dept! Lebanon, Ohl. st story I heard in the campaign," | Ref resentative Foster of Vermont was) He had decided to work | The weary housekeeper paused beside the basket of eggs that Gs the card labeled, “Fresh this morning—thirty- eight cents.” **Give me a dozen of those eggs," she |said. “I suppose you guarantee’ their freshness?" “Well, no,” said the hesitating store- keeper, “we wouldn't like to do that.” __‘“ But the card says ‘Fresh this morn- ing. eYes'm,” the storekeeper reluctantly atimitted. ut you see it's the card |that’s fresh—not the eggs." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. the best, but that it will continue to be the best. Wige—"I always like to hear a man say what he thinks.” Wage—" But the people who always say what they think generally think such disagreeable things." —Philadelphia Rec- ord. Hicks—"1 didn't know you had gone in for literary work.” ie—"Me? How?" jokely told me you collabo- rated with him on that character sketch of his about the chappie who continually says "Bah Jove!’” Gussice—" Oh, come now, bah Jove! I assuah you I had nothing to do with it Stwange of him to tell you that, bah Jove!”—Catholic Standard and Times. ‘THINK HARD. IT PAYS TO THINK ABOUT FooD. | The unthinking life some people lead often causes trouble and sickness, as illustrated in the experience of a lady who resides in Fond du Lac, Wis. “About four years ago T suffered dreadfully | from indigestion, always having eaten whatever | 1 liked, not thinking of the digestible qualities. | This indigestion caused palpitation of the heart so badly Fcould not walk up a fight of stairs without sitting down once or twice to regain breath and strength. “1 became alarmed and tried dieting, wore my clothes very lose, and many other reme- but found no relief. “Hearing of the virtues of Grape-Nuts and Postum Food Cofice, I commenced using them in place of my usual breakfast of coffee, cakes, or hot biscuit, and in one week's time I was | relieved of sour stomach and other ills attend- | ing indigestion. Ina month's time my heart was | perfurming its functions naturally and I could | climb stairs and hills and walk long distances, | “1 gained ten pounds in this short time and |my skin became clear and I completely re- wed my health and strength. I continue to. jpe-Nuts and Postum for I feel that I y good health entirely to their use. I ike the delicious flavor of Grape-Nuts, and by making Postum according to directions it | cannot be distinguished from the highest grade marry Miss Garlinghorn, but I see she has let him get away. at all anxious for the matel mother was a little too anxious. lost him on account of bad team work.” —Chicago Tribune. cli , sority of{ t7¥ing to do,” answered young Mrs. |. Minister—“Indeed! I did not know Prego Aag irri rerio rdan fy |Torkins, with a sigh. "'Chafley is play-|he had any bad habits.” | the Sober Piano tet them try for themselves Jing a system, at the races and T have| Miss Beawi—" Yes; his friends say joined a‘ Don't-worry’ club." —Washing- ton Star. “I thought Spoonamore was going to; “That man who has been bringing those poems here for several days is a finished writer, is he not?" asked the | assistant editor. “Well, he is now,” replied the wild- eyed editor-in-chief. coming into the room, rolling down his sleeves, and tak- ing up his shears once again.—Yonkers “Yes; her father didn't apr caro Be , and her She —— Statesman. “A husband and wife should try to co- id the woman who gives good| —Minister—" You say you are going to Each should endeavor to sup-| marry a man to reform may be lacking in the other's nobl Miss hin ‘hat is May I ask who it is?" jeauti—"' It's young Mr. Bond- “That's just what Charley and I are that he is becoming ‘quite miserly."— New York Weekly. 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