Judge, 1905-06-24 · page 11 of 17
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This page contains **advertising and satirical content** about food authenticity, circa 1892 (based on the Grape-Nuts advertisement dated "Crop of 1892"). ## Main Content: **"Demand Facts About What You Eat"** and **"High Art in Advertising"** sections critique misleading food marketing. The text attacks **imitation breakfast cereals** that falsely claim to match Grape-Nuts' nutritional properties. The satire highlights that competitors copy Grape-Nuts' *advertising* while their products remain inferior—they don't properly convert starch to sugar through cooking/sprouting as Grape-Nuts does. **The cartoon narrative** (described in "The Plot Thickens") depicts a panoramic advertising train journey from New York to Chicago. A suicidal man contemplating jumping is distracted by pill advertisements, eventually reconciled with his wife through the journey's spectacle. This mocks how advertisers use emotional manipulation and "vaudeville" entertainment to sell products rather than discussing actual merit. ## Context for Modern Readers: This reflects the **Progressive Era's growing concern** about food fraud and false advertising—predating the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Judge magazine uses humor to mock both deceptive competitors and the excessive, manipulative advertising tactics of the era.
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every corner of the immense pure food | DEMAND FACTS AkoUT WHAT You BAT ople who care tor results When it comes to food, demand to know | Hem choicely” selected I those whe | the facts about what goes into your stom: tu rebuild the sot gray sul Nach, and cst es the | tonly that itis pure, but that you are [BO the v ul will understand [not deceived in the description of ats con-| Why the imititors who try te copy the Htents and condition, Some tliked break. | *nouncements about Grape-Nuts have [fast foods that have thus tar failed. sare Snow being aulvertised in close imitation of the Grape-Nuts advertising, thin that way to finally make a Success of the a reason for Grape-Nuts and a profound one, falure. HIGH ART IN AD. failing bear and the wile is: seen clopin But false statements of the merits of VERTISING. jwith a cheertul young man ina buggy. {human food will never on earth build up The ume is ripe for] - abu These Maked fools ae not estep in advance in the art of kat advertising. The beautitul open lot, stil lite » pall on weary 1. They are not tully cooked, and the stareh them is sterch stl ane has n turned to sugar as claimed Chemical analysis tells’ the truth, and the analyses of the Lumous chemists of th world show Grape-Nuts the only prepared DreakLast food in whieh the stirel pa the wheat and barley has been transtu: into sugar and theretore ready for in Why isthis true? All the} 1 thike foods. a Along: by Woodbridge aud Metuchen our panoramic sufferer is tying a halter around his neck and pet THE PLOT | ting Fr THICKENS. | ‘The te Cleveland's getting mj ring to the y to swing off, dashes by Mr tt a we see at enic displ: Fullman-car on-le und the demat i » the volume of a college-campus yell The intereity, open country attention-at- 1d reach out alter new fleets. yer, nore cheerul—something that will) send town, Prinee more diverting 1s growit soul app an with the dL otfering him a nice shiny pill Phe man visibly brightens and swallows, the pill as we cross the river at ‘Trento’ Ly this time the terin folks are watchin the panoramic trayedy with all eyes open in 4 van i liately Shows signs of improves He throws th halter away, As the train dashes throi halter « racters she le by soak ats in water, packing. “Th est the Crop of 1892. Mellowed by 10 Years The business calls for sometia drying, s do not cook or pred weary traveler home with a smile on operatic stareh { Contrasted with this preten the ¢ method and skill i huis Lace andl ce warm spot toward the ad sertiser mn his heart, . observe makings a Bristol the clopingg wile returns repentant To. meet this demand we have spent | and theres teartul reconmetiiation, Then | GAPE NMS Kal euunanaat Repose in of deep thought, and at List we be. | follows some tinny stage busi nied as he Laney i soabetanoutone fnindred Hhours, nitas slowly warmed dlays and sprouted, the diastase bein, veloped and part ol the stareh ture sugar Gand Later on all of it), then the ra e baked and the sprouts stripped ot ‘Then comes: ygrinding, itt to Baltimore wel ansing with the have thousands of miles of board-fences Ifa soap sho: seven skits. ‘Tol made trum white Hi whe nel Fanta! the tr neon te Pats we give al This mixture must be skillfully made wil be divided into vaudeville lengths. 1S Geanp] double billandacurtain-| right’ proportions. ‘This blended tlour That is, fran New York to Philadelphia, |"Invention. | raiser or some other | conta jut ty iy for instance, will constitute one show ent haradluor aid To-pelaiid the salt pray substance Hat six turns.” Instead of te tinside speetal, Thus it will bein the nerve centres and brain, but buy! SERVED AND SOLD EVE WHERE tering, brightly -] tit yr 1d }to make the food etsy to digest, that was IN GLASS ONLY the question. New York & Kentucky Co. He certanly would not de to mix in lorthere isa certain Lalure sure te Sole Pe fe ty the person depending on de the Wood. It’s Pure That’s Sure. lieve’ we have got t re swvitled round the Lumens zoo th Jet. 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CENA GNC tal er pout rind rack of acman a you let these Ry . ; ee get the upper hand 7 What wonkl Jue east ats: Lig nb onee Su and won over the superiority has appallin but a of CLUB COCKTAILS over guesswork or other brands. You can prove their excellence without Lint otf betting, though. 7 rya boul what is tound in the Insist upon getting CLUB ovuted the starch off COCKTAILS —the original bot- ul, rice, cake, ete tled brand. They're far superior pertreaty digesta: Lu!) to guesswork kind— you want ihe ont pane ny are weak in that torn ol se well, insist on tening CLUB. et aml realy to) rough cracked ice and serv f Manhattan, Martini, Vermouth, Whis- ly unknown relive ae ete be ly — key, Holland Gin, Tom Gin and York. Germany, | works and can follow the steps of * ‘ ) thou | Grape-N eran to the finished G. F.HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors 1 ‘The proportions of different) Hart New York London ai flows and the temperatures are Hoe ers ta steal these seerets of | | no with a bludjeon 2 With our panoramic pillsign popular Hl. Spryghtly, con I take Ver allthis will be the Starch is slowly turned to sajger in th Haine, effects wmotictare, Thi How OUR PLAN WORKS. | disyust it works, take th shetphiaNew Vork nde, Ye the Jersey me And ‘scape wrthont a stands on fvchancse avs und th estion, Heme man stoking: bast te the eustom: tor at the children, anil kicking the | Teas settings tes be yplies thems prec eat This bit of business aanitises y nL you h Newark. When y ont toward Elizabeth there is eur tan to wake up se or quickly inte the the The doctor iy examining him, To) has died a S from the bten the comedy the doctor is se his chest with an axe cmd: the waite ajo t veen billion sutitul easter snd on him with ct rellinge-pin, Ths { me eral Death in stich eases is ns impossible tor forke us unbeciable. As! rabts he makers, ot much its y eget by Elizabeth the doctor leaves the | mate Skill ate shower until it almost see t purity, cleanliness sa Ln pm ce EYEWATER NEW YORK TO CHICAGO— }i,i i,t BY NEW YORK CENTRAL. comicbooks.com