Judge, 1903-04-04 · page 12 of 16
Judge — April 4, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than substantive political satire. The main cartoon, "Barred Out," depicts a poor man unable to secure employment despite having qualifications. He explains he could get a job as a corporate officer if he had ten million dollars to invest in a trust, but lacks the capital—satirizing how wealth, rather than merit, determines access to positions of power and profit during the Gilded Age. The page also includes brief humorous exchanges (jokes about barber services, babies, and widows) and numerous product advertisements (whiskey, chocolates, pens, dress goods), reflecting the magazine's commercial nature. A reference to Proverbs warns against "getting rich quick," suggesting contemporary concern about financial schemes and get-rich-quick frauds. The overall tone reflects turn-of-the-century anxieties about class mobility and corruption in American business.
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In Three Words It takes but three words with out superlatives to define the superiority of Hunter Baltimore viz: The Perfect Whiskey Sold at all first-class cafés and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. Registered design of box label. FIREFLY PENS Incorredible metal THEY GIVE CHARACTER TO ONE’S WRITING. MANUFACTURED BY ORMISTON & GLASS, LONDON. | Cowrnactons To Il M. GOVERNMENT, Boxes 2g cts. and $1.00, frowi all Stationers 1M. BAINBRIDGE & CO., 9 William St., N.Y. Soe AGENTS FoR UsrTep STATES. HITMANS (Chocolates |Smyene? As to getting rich quick There are warnings in plenty, And for one of them sce Proverbs xxviii., 20. —Chicago Tribune. Barber—"How will you have it cut, sir? Pepprey—" Both short.” Berber" Both? Hair and beard?” Pepprey—"No; hair and conversa- tion.” —Philadel phia Press. | 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. | “I like dear little babies before they| rarned to talk—don't you, Mr. Indeed I do. Before they have] learned to talk there is no danger of their telling you the remarkable thing Milwaukee Sentinel. with a pair of scissors, sor."—Ransas In- dependent. anailt Bernne Coyne —" Ah, sweetest onc! y I be your captain and guide your down the (a widow)—' you can be my second mate. Free Press Don't | Be Too Fat Doo‘ ratn your stomach wtth alot ofesalensdrags | fopdicipea, pend t3 ro ‘Treatment ven without diet Soe redoce Colored Dress Goods. Additional Styles and Colorings in Scotch Homespuns, Zibe- lines and English Mohairs, now so much in vogue for Tailor-made Gowns. High & NEW YORK. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Non, £2 84, and a8 Rleecker Street Branch Warebouss, 3) Beekman Street, New York ALL KINDS CF PAPER MADE TO ORDER ‘Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING Co, Baltimore, Md. MORPHINE e222 eee ‘Write The Dr 4. L. Stepbess Es: De Léanoe, Ste: BARRED OUT. Why can’t you get a job?” 'm too infernal poor, mum. secretary; but I'hain’t got de dough.” If | only hed ten millions ter invest in some trust | could git a job ez third vice-president or fourth assistant a era King Edward dae “WHITE ROCK at the p Lord Mee Banquet a PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS Desiring paper of superior excellence and uniformity can secure it of the makers of the papers used in. the various publications of THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. comicbooks.com