Judge, 1905-05-20 · page 13 of 16
Judge — May 20, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with one small central cartoon. The cartoon depicts two caricatured figures—one appears to be a stingy or miserly man in formal dress with a top hat, the other a younger person (possibly a child or servant). The title "The Mean Wretch" suggests social satire about stinginess or miserliness, a common Judge magazine theme. The joke likely plays on the contrast between the wealthy-looking "mean wretch" and his victim, reflecting turn-of-the-century anxieties about class and greed. The specific dialogue is partially illegible in the image, but the setup appears to mock selfish behavior. The page is otherwise dominated by liquor and travel advertisements (Old Crow Rye, Plymouth Gin, Pocono Mountains tourism, and a New York Central Railroad catalog), typical of Judge's commercial content from this era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ASK FOR . | COATES’ ORIGINAL GIN PURE-DRY, Flavor Unequaled. Is unsurpassed for Th Voor ‘The standard years, Bot- at Black tillery, you get OLD | CROW RYE Sold everywhere in fon the Label, NEW VORK AND KENTUCKY CO., Sole Agent for the United States. bottles. Never sold in bulk. H.B. KIRK & CO., Sole Bottlers, N.Y. | THE MEAN WRETCH. Do you know, to-moi > THE GREAT ANERICAN TEA CO. AND, BIB Vewey Street, N.Y FIFTY-TWO PAGES are required just to deseribe a lot of inter esting booklets of travel, any one of which few cents in can be obtained by sendi stamps. ‘These fifty-two pages make the ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE NEW YORK CENTRAL'S “FOUR-TRACK SERIES” Embracing 39 Books of ‘Travel. A copy of this catalogue will be sent free, postpaid, to any address on receipt of a two cent stamp, by A region of woodland and water. 2 astern Pennsylvania, a GEORGE TH. DANIELS, ‘A Paper Proposal.” > TW. Lee, General Pas- comicbooks.com