Judge, 1904-07-09 · page 23 of 24
Judge — July 9, 1904 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with one notable cartoon. The advertisements promote various products and services typical of early 20th-century America: the Thousand Islands tourist destination, telephone service, whiskey, a resort guidebook, and writing pens. The single cartoon ("Too Fly") features two working-class Irish women (identifiable by their dialect and clothing). Mrs. Gravy mentions that Mrs. Dugan, now married to her third husband, "lives the life of a bird"—meaning she's supported and doesn't work. Mrs. Brady responds that whenever her husband leaves, "she has to fly for her loife" (life)—a joke implying the wife must work to survive without him. The satire targets the precarious economic status of working-class women dependent on marriage for survival, while poking gentle fun at Irish immigrant speech patterns common in period humor.
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«In all the land, range up, range down, Is there ever a place so pleasant and sweet?” THE 1000 ISLANDS. There may be somewhere on the earth a more delightful region than that of the Thou- sand Islands, but if there is, it has not been discovered. It is as fine as the Bay of Naples, with no danger of being buried in hot ashes. THE MODERN WAY IS THE TELEPHONE WAY. IN SUMMER IT'S THE COOLEST WAY IN WINTER IT'S THE WARMEST WAY IT IS ALWAYS THE QUICKEST WAY FOR YOU DELIVER YOUR MESSAGE PER- SONALLY AND GET AN IMMEDIATE REPLY. Cat Contract Dery, 9010 Conr., ron Rares. New York TELEPHONE COMPANY y No. 15 DEY STREET. There are 2,000 picturesque Islands scattered along the twenty-five miles of one of the most beautiful rivers in the world. You can find out a great deal regarding it in No. 10 of the “ Four-Track Series,” ‘“ The Thousand Isl- ands,” of the St. Lawrence River, issued by the NEW YORK CENTRAL A copy will be mailed free on receipt of a two-cent stamp, by George I. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York. IF YOU WANT THis BEAUTIFUL oy. GOOD WHISKEY order the real thing, 10 CENTS (\N STAMPS $ Mrs. Gravy—"' Oi do be afther hearin’ thot since Mrs, Dugan's marrlage to her third husband she's been livin’ th’ MOUNTAIN AND LAKE RESORTS lolfe of a bird." Mrs. Bravy—"" Yis, thot's so; whinlver her husband's is the title of a handsome new book of 128 pages, beautifully around she has to fly for her loife."* printed, bound and illustrated. It ||H. B. KIRK & CO., describes more than 400 summer Sole Bottlers, New York. h i i indred . ouics and, contains| a, hounds She—"So you think that_men are beautiful pictures, In addition || smarter than women, do you?” there is a fascinating love story || #e—tSome men, but not all.” ay She—* Well, what men are smarter ?” sotitled He— Old. ‘bachelors.” — illustrated |. A Cuance Courtsuip ||? — Jack Spratt took anti-fat, His wife took anti-lean, f And so to-day the both of them | Are sleeping in the green. —Lippincott's. ; CORT ESSY | WEITINS Sold ONLY in our registered Bottles. Never in bulk. ALL-POINTED PENS (H, HEWITT’S PATENT.) Saltable for writing in every positions glide over any papers never scratch or apurt Made in England of the finest Sheffield rolled stee}, BatL-PoeraD pens are more duraWe, and are ahead of all others Two splendid maps in colors com- plete the contents. It is a book you will like toown, It may be had by sending ten cents in stamps Buy an assorted sample bax of 26 pens for 26 | : tetsu’ end, Now fk Ey BROTHERHOOD CHAMP Me ai pa congo wage tary, Hew vane or any Stationery Store.