Judge, 1906-07-14 · page 17 of 18
Judge — July 14, 1906 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **full-page advertisement** for United Cigar Stores promoting their "Orlando" cigar brand, not a political cartoon. The page opens with a humorous illustrated vignette (top left): a fisherman in outdoor gear says "Hold On!—Wait Till I Get a Light!" The cartoon illustrates the advertiser's pitch: when vacationing in remote areas—fishing, mountains, spas—smokers can't rely on finding quality cigars locally. The joke plays on "fisherman's luck" (unreliable) to suggest smokers need to stock up beforehand at United Cigar Stores before traveling. The lengthy text emphasizes United's ubiquity: operating in forty cities across America "from Coast to Coast," they solve the smoking problem for travelers who might otherwise be disappointed by poor-quality resort cigars. The Orlando cigar itself is described as a "Domestic cigar"—using Havana filler and Sumatran wrapper, designed for outdoor smoking. **Bottom line**: This is commercial advertising using mild outdoor humor to encourage pre-vacation cigar purchases, not satirical commentary on political or social issues.
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«Hold On!—Wait Till I Get a Light!” HEN going away for the summer don’t trust to luck (fisherman's luck or any other kind) to get what you want to smoke “on the wing.” - Take no long chances that you will find something here or there that will suit. Half your anticipated pleasure will be spoiled if you make your search for cigars (or pipes. smoking mixtures, or cigarettes) a wild-goose chase. Disappointments and impositions are never a thing apart from the summer hotel cigar stand. If on pleasure bent you take to the tall timber, or swing away from the haunts of men in any other direction, the quest for good tobacco becomes more and more hopeless. Cigars are not like maple syrup and the woodsman’s flap-jacks. Rely on the best agencies of civilization for your smoking—UNITED CIGAR STORES, of course. Stock up before you start—cigars in your trunk are your safeguard—the last thing to go in, the first to come out. : United Cigar Stores (hundreds of them in all parts of the country) are pretty sure to be found some where on the way—whether you go to the seashore, the mountains, the big woods or the famous spas. United Cigar Stores (operating in forty cities) are on the beaten paths wherever you go. . United Cigar Stores (from Coast to Coast) solve the smoking problem for uncounted numbers of smokers, United Cigar Stores (increasing in number all the time) supply anything a smoker wants anywhere he is—cigars, pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, everything, United Cigar Stores (as numerous as they are) are not in the heart of the wilderness, nor on the hotel piazzas, United Cigar Stores (list of cities now in the chain on this page) therefore should be made note of in your summer plans, United Cigar Stores (in your own town, or en roule) will fit you out for your vacation smoking at any limit of cost, the ORLANDQ..CIGAR Media Perfecto size, 3 for 25 cents. Box of 50, $4.00 ‘i Deliciosos size, 3 for 25 cents. Box of 50, $4.00 Hendreds of stores (0 Opera Boston Londres, 4 for 25 cents. Box of 25, $1.50; box of 50, 7 $3.00; box of 100, $6.00 This is what is known in the trade as a Domestic cigar. In simplesterms it is a piece of goods manufactured exclusively for ITED CIGAR STORES of carefully-sorted tobacco—the filler e quality of Havana, and the Sumatra wrapper of equal ss—so combined in the making that it is sure of distinction in a grade that probably more than any other approaches the uni- versal taste. It will be found to smoke with peculiar zest—though mild and pleasant to a degree that is a discovery of new possibilities in cigars of this popular combination. The sizes are especially adapted to smoking out-ol-doors, being rolled, by workmen who know the art, to burn evenly, und with just the right amount of freedom to * hold ihe fire” in the air without the slightest Sacrifice of the bouquet or waste ot good tobacco. The ORLANDO is recommended to smokers as a cigar especially fine in quality, Mink workmanship and fullness—matchless, we believe, as a production in the Domestic Kerley Pa grade. It is new-fushioned, because a UNITED. CIGAR STORE value, and o/d- peret basta? fashioned in all that is good. UNITED CIGAR STORES everywhere sell the ORLANDO—no other dealers do, because they can’t buy them at a penny less, one at a time, or by the thousand, than you do. et an ORLANDO and smoke it. That will make ownership of a box Heat one of the pleasantest prospects of summer. fp Feruees: Con se., mee, Mail orders filled on receipt of price by the Mail Order Service (United Cigar Stores Co), 143 1.2 W. 1th Street, New York. All shipments express prepaid. UNITED CIGAR STORES COMPANY comicbooks.com