Judge, 1904-11-12 · page 12 of 16
Judge — November 12, 1904 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** interspersed with short humorous newspaper reprints. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey, Brotherhood Champagne, Wilson Whiskey, Old Overholt Whiskey, and Leslie's Weekly magazine dominate the layout. **Comic Vignettes:** Short, reprinted jokes from various newspapers (Philadelphia Press, Chicago Record-Herald, Punch) that mock domestic life and social pretension: - A traveling man's health ruined by constant dining-car meals - Mutual dread between dinner guests - A seedy man asking spelling help, receiving sarcastic answers about "temporarily" and "embarrassed" - A wife jealous of her husband's stenographer (the woman he married) - A second wife angry at being called the "better half" - A farmer lamenting crops being depleted from the land These vignettes reflect early-20th-century concerns: commercialism's toll, social anxiety, marital tension, and agricultural decline. The page emphasizes advertising revenue over editorial content.
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* Poor fellow ! he is quite broken down, | and the doctor says that his condition is due to fast living.” Get It “Fast living “Yes; you see, he is a traveling man, : and he was obliged to eat so many dining- If an alcoholic stimulant be not car meals and lose so much sleep in sleep- pure, it will not be recom- ni < ers that his constitution gave way."— mended as a tonic. Physicians, " knowing the maturity, purity, ERNE ZA quality of —_—- “My wife and I went to call on the Dumleys last night. I can’t imagine any- thing more tiresome than spending an evening with them.” THAT'S ALL ! “You can't? Wait till they come to spend an evening with you."—Philadel- Baltimore bhia Press. Rye Prepare the system to endure summer heat by fortifying with Abbott’s Angostura Bitters. “Pardon me,” said the seedy-looking man, who was laboring over a letter in recommend and the hotel writing-room, * but can you tell Prescribe it. me how to spell * temporarily * 2" | “Certainly,” replied his shrewd neigh- bor, giving the desired information ; “and the other word is * e-m-b-a-r-r-a-s-s-e-d,"" It is particularly —Philadelphia Press. recommended to women because of its age and “Why is Judkins’s wife so jealous of his excellence. stenographer ?” “Well, you see, Mrs, Judkins was his stenographer before he married her, and she doesn't believe any woman can resist Judkins."— Chicago Record-Herald. “Why did she get so angry when her ———_—___________ husband referred to her as his better| / half?" “She's his second wife, and I suppose it made her mad because he didn’t refer to her as the whole thing."—Chicago The Wine Says The Rest| record-Heratd. Accurate Jasper's Taras hints to money-makers at's true, sir. The crops be all right, but—they’ve taken a terrible lot M 0 n Q y will make and out o° the lan Punch, in From the Far East | save money acres and alone are ie’ worth ten Leslie s Our Own times the We e kl y Correspondent subscription - on the Field price... Topics of the Times Fully Illustrated LESLIE’S WEEKLY $4 PER YEAR 225 FOURTH AVE. $1 FOR 3 MONTHS NEW YORK THE OLDEST AND BEST FEARLESS AND PROGRESSIVE Write for Extraordinary Offer to New Subscribers BOTTLED IN BOND WHISKEY MUST BE AT LEAST FOUR YEARS OLD EVERY BOTTLE CONTAINS FULL MEASURE <MAN—-LSE rPDCHdDzZ comicbooks.com