Judge, 1903-12-26 · page 14 of 17
Judge — December 26, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** with a few short jokes interspersed. The cartoons are minimal. The main visual content is a single cartoon captioned "LET ME LIKE A SOLDIER FALL," depicting an inexperienced young housekeeper who, when asked if pheasants have been "hung" (aged), replies they were "shot" instead—misunderstanding the culinary term as a reference to execution method. The rest consists of product advertisements for whiskey (Old Crow Rye, Red Top Rye), cigars, pianos, shaving products, and soap. Several include brief jokes playing on wordplay or social observations—such as one about a "millionaire chauffeur" mistaken for a sewer cleaner, or quips about money and romance. The page reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture and humor, with no apparent political satire. It's typical of *Judge*'s mix of light humor and commercial content.
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THE FINEST | Silk is not mixed with cheap fibre. is not mixed with cheap whiskey. | Sold only in our registered bot-| tles. H.B. KIRK & CO., Sole Bottlers,N. ¥. The WHITE ROCK high ball has a smack of its own Cortez AGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST | cleaner.” La Montt—" Made a terrible blunder to-day. Saw a man in a rubber suit and cap and asked him if he was a sewer- La Moyne—* Who was he ?” La Montt— Millionaire chauffeur."— Chicago News. A bad stomach means poor health. Abbott's, the Original Angostura Bitters restore health. “Age,” remarked the philosopher, “is a great softener. It makes one more tender.” “If that’s the case,” remarked the nervy boarder from the foot of the table, “TL wish this chicken had been a few years older when they killed it."—Cincinnati Times-Star. Corruption wins not _more than honesty. | Money well invested in Coot’s Imperial Extra Dry Champagne. * Nuritch has proved the truth of the| old saying, * Money makes the mare go." + How so?” «He was satisfied with that little mare he had until he got money enough to buy an automobile.” — Philadelphia Public Ledger. ‘The famous Sohmer Piano has justly earned its reputation, because it is the best instrument in the world. “They say Brown is ten years ahead of| his time.” “Well, it’s not true. He's six months behind. "I'm his landlord, and know."— Chicago Journal. “LET ME LIKE A Iexrentencen youns nousewire (*hinking to show her sharpness, after purchasing a brace of pheasants)—"* | suppose they've been hung?" New snorsan (not previously in this trade)—" Hung? No, lady: they were shot."” SOLDIER FALL." Red Top Rye WHIS Its up to YOU FERDINAND WESTHEIMER & SONS. srpr. st sr KEY AMS “282° EASE AND COMFORT We all like a good share of both. The greatest ease and comfort and luxury in shav- ing, are only obtainable by using Williams’ Shaving Stick. No cup, just the shaving stick and brush. One stick affords 300 shaves. For sate by all druggists, 2s¢. THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn. BERLIN SYDNEY ALCOHOL : £4, OPIUM 14, DRUG USING eng dlseases yield easily to tbo Double Chloride ot geia Bent as administered at the” WEST HAVEN, CONN. SVILLE. Ky. “Professor Langley would better have invested his money in a theatre.” “ Why so?” “A theatre has wings and flies."— Kansas City Journal. Jorge Colt of the circum court of the United States, district of Massachusetts, deserves the congratulations and thanks of the American people for the broad and sreeping decision rendered November oth 1995, restr fog Adams, Taylor Com schis trom sing te word Club" oon ‘with touled cocktails. The complainants, GF, Heublen & Brother, Bave spent mach tine and money in introduc: ing the celebrated Clab Cocktails, which like all well- known and staple articles have more or less imitated. “This decision means not only protection to the maker of the goods, but affords equal protection to the parchaser, and simplifes the matter of getting what y for,” We trust the courts will con- jood work and protect known and estab- from the piracy to which they 30 long Pears’ soap is dried a whole year. That's why it lasts so. It wears as thin as a wafer. Sold all over the world. every position 1 glide over any papery never scratch or spurt Made in England of the finest Sheffield rolled steel, Ratt-Pourren pens are more duraNe, and are abead of all others FOR EASY WRITING Buy an assorted sample bax of 28 fons for 28 ots., and choose (2 fos to anit your hand. Having found ont, Post TREE rROM M, BAINBRIDGE 4 CO., 09 Wiiuam SrAccT, New YorK, o tationery comicbooks.com