Judge, 1903-03-21 · page 12 of 16
Judge — March 21, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The page features numerous commercial advertisements for cigars, whiskey, pianos, soap, and other products typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The one notable cartoon is titled **"Suggestion for a Modern Skyscraper"** — a small illustration showing furniture hanging from the exterior of a tall building. The joke satirizes **overcrowded urban housing**, suggesting that New Yorkers with inadequate indoor space should simply hang their furniture outside the windows. This reflects genuine concerns about tenement overcrowding in rapidly industrializing cities. The page's humor otherwise comes from product testimonials, like the Sohmer Piano ad quoting Chicago papers calling the Asher "an old genius" at painting, and the Georgia editor joke about dollars being "at home" in the office. The Wilson Whiskey and Old Overholt Rye ads emphasize government supervision and natural production — selling points for consumers concerned about product authenticity during the Prohibition era's approach.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT NO. | Established 1823. We are headquarters in New York for WILSON IMPORTED CIGARS. | © whiskey. CABANA HENRY CLAY Brevas eee Brevas Rerfectin ces vveee Bouquets. ae That’s All! Perfectos.. . sh THE WILSON DISTILLING Co. CAROLINA INTIMIDAD sen Puritanos Finos Bouquets. Eminentes Fancy Tale of Smoke. Perfectos. Tnvencibles, 23. MANUEL Pei ie ook Invencibles. cesses 22,60 ROSA GOLDEN EAGEE (Bi Perfectos...............-23.60 Panetelas VENCEDORA Cazadores... . 17.70 Perfectos........ 18.80 We have all the leaing Havana Brands—ONE PRICE TO ALL ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT COMPANY, West Broadway and Chambers St., NEW YORK 135 to 139 West 42d St. S7th St. & 6th Ave. Yonkers, N.Y. 76th St. & Columbu p Mew Vork City Morristown, M. J. Broadway. Flushing, L. 1. 7th Ave. J Perfectos THE “SOHMER” HEADS THE! LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER was the first maker | PI ANOS of sticks of soap for Sonmer Buildings gy shaving. Sticks in 3 din aveweortease” RES] sizes; shaving cakes in 3 sizes. ris an oda geni he up to now ainting a three- ‘Pears’ Soap established ove. 100 years, ollar portrait of a thirty-cent 7 Chicago News ; at p put up here to-night?" asked SUGGESTION FOR A MODERN SKYSCRAPER. the seedy man who was signing his name Hang your furniture outside if you have no room. FOR _» MEN OF GRAINS |in a hote 1G ARS Ce “MADE AT KEY “MADE AT KEY WEST— A ) wey G0 Tapoegs LIFE ane tld h Bottled under Government super- E. LAINE, 225 Washington Avenue, vision direct from the barrel at the HADDONFIELD, N. J. : Up olstery. ij Distillery with its natural flavor, “A Georgia rural editor h Country Home Furnishings. nothing added to or taken from it. acked on the door of his sanctum: We're at home to the dollar when- Striped and Figured Linens, . ever it rings!"—Atlanta Constitution | Cotton Damask and Swansdown \ verholt DO YOU FISH? Cc nnes and Glazed Chintzes. HE CHUBB RODS are * Maile on Hooor.” Fish dIIN TSM ti, fs) Yeo New at Arte Cai p, ye "Kind for 120-page Catalogue of Best Goods. Address e Curtains, Muslin Curtains. T. H. Chubb Rod C: . Mattresses, Cushions and Slip Covers. date of making and of bottling whiskey shall be Yacht and Hotel Work. plainly printed on the Government Stamp that seals TED idnE a CoG a oa > think Estimates on Application. the bottle It also prohibits bottling whiskey less than four years old and rovides: that all bottles must be eetheart a peatl, but after marriage P les must ten to one he has no love for the High & full measure. mother of pearl.” —Chicago Atk your Deater—or write us— NEW YORK. HENRY LINDENMEYR & soxs | 2 A. OVERHOLT @ CO. PAPER WAREHOUSE ‘ALL KIDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER | Woe The Dr. JL Stpbens Ca, Dep 7; Labunwe, Se. The Act of Congress, March 3, 1897, provides that comicbooks.com