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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** for Judge magazine itself, with scattered humorous filler items. The dominant feature is a circulation-boasting advertisement targeting potential advertisers. It claims Judge reaches 100,000 barbers across New York State alone, with approximately 3 million weekly readers through barbershops—a significant distribution channel in the early 20th century. The logic: barbers display the magazine for waiting customers, and magazines survive multiple sterilizations. The Trimble Whiskey advertisement at top features Army/Navy personnel toasting, using patriotic imagery to sell liquor. Scattered throughout are brief jokes typical of Judge's format: puns about professions ("rising in the world depends on how one is bred"), light romantic humor, and a golf anecdote about a Scottish caddie. These require no historical context—they're simple wordplay. The Prudential Insurance advertisement warns against procrastination, using life insurance as the pitch. Overall, this represents a typical Judge page: mostly ads interspersed with brief jokes, rather than sustained satirical commentary.

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you do Grink, drink Tri Y ‘ mb, owne® fe To our Army and Navy: Both great in courage, conduct and in Yet neither envious of the other's praise ; Their duty, faith and interest too the same, Like mighty partners equally they raise Whiskey Green Label. AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS Circulation Surprise F ‘ACT For Men Who Shave or Get Shaved, or Deal in Shavers’ Supplies A recent critical investigation covering the entire country, made by two of the largest advertisers in America who manufac- ture goods for shavers, showed that Judge was on file in more than go per cent. of all the desirable barber-shops in America. In the case of Advertiser No. 1, the renewal calls for just double the space on the last order (2,500 lines). Advertiser No. 2 placed an order in the Judge Company publications for nearly $10,000. . The New York Sua, in a recent editorial, fixes the number of ‘certified barbers” in the State of New York at 20,000. These proprietors employ from one to ten assistants, probably.an average of four, a total of 89,000, and a grand total of 100,000 BARBERS Each one of these tonsorial artists probably shaves five customers daily. These customers while they wait enjoy the columns of Judge, making a circulation along this one line of THREE MILLIONS A WEEK This is only the State of New York we are talking about. * Judge bas an equally wide circulation in every State in the Union, in Canada, and, in fact, the world over. Judge is read, re-read, handled and passed around, until it has to be immersed in the sterilizer, along with all the rest of the barbers’ paraphernalia. And Judge will stand a pressure of sixteen pounds of steam to the square inch, and emerge gay and smiling as ever. A Word fo the Wise Adver- tiser Should. Be Sufficient ¢ e e @ ° e ¢ ° e ° P9 ° @ ° ? < : @ 2 2) 2 2 2 2 : .9 2 2 2 : 2 ; 2 3 C9 ? : ° ° 2 2 3 2 : ? 2 2 ° ° e e ° : 2 ? ° ° : ¢ .4 ° @ ¢ 2 e e : e ° e e 2 9 PS ? ° ? 3 .9 2 3 90O000000000000000000000000000000> 00000000000 —— The cradle manufacturer's business is founded on a rock. The rain falls an the unjust, an | on the | hat that is « just lovely.” In the infant department the floor- walker doesn’t have to carry a baby. Rising in the world depends somewhat on how one is bred. A tune in a penny slot-machine oft- times isn’t worth a cent. The political candidate should be able to carry himself well. A tall man on short rations certainly has something to long for. The next thing a man knows in a bar- ber’s shop, it’. his turn. The professional boxer says he has his fortune in his fist. This is the land of the free, and some folks take too many liberties. If love is blind, as we've heard si: That's why some lovers have a w Of spooning, unembarrassed quite— They think that they are out of sight. —Philadelphia Bulletin, ‘WHAT HE HIT. ‘A man visiting some relatives in Scot land was persuaded to try a game of golf. At his first stroke he aimed a ter- rific blow at the ball, scattering the turf to right and left, and looked around for the result. « What have I hit ?" he asked. “Scotland, sir,” gruffly answered the caddie.—Tit-Bits. No family side-board complete without Ab- bott’s Angostura Bitters. Wine dealers and druggists. REAL ROMANTIC, They ‘sat out-on the oid grain pier talking over their love affairs. “And he is so poetical and romantic when he speaks of me eyes,” sighed Shanty Sue. “He is?” replied her chum does he say, ‘Let me gaze stars,’ or ‘ Let me bask in de light of dem jewels" 2” Shanty Sue elevated her nose. “OF course not,” she snapped, in dis- dain. “He ain't’ no amateur Romeo. He's de real thing. He fixes up his neck- tie, chucks his cigar butt overboard, and | ys, ‘Let me rubber in yer lamps, pal.’ My, but he is romantic!" — CAicago The Perfect Drink for Summer Outings A cool, refreshing and stimulating delight for the picnic in the woods—the automo- bile ‘party—all outdoor sports. CLUB COCKTAILS are exquisitely blended from. choicest liquors, aged and mellowed to delicious taste, flavor and aroma, A CLUB COCKTAIL is a scientifically equal and uniform cocktail—not a slap-dash mix- ture of doubtful liquors. Strain through cracked ice and serve. Seven varieties—each one delicious, Order CLUB from your Dealer G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. Runs the Age-meas- ure of Your Life; up or down? you climbing to mid- dle-life down life’s slope {Ig toward old age? In either case growing older each day. vision for your family becomes more neces- sary, day reduces the un- known Are or slipping | you are Every day pro- because every quantity of opportunity by twenty-four “ Procrastination the STRENGTH OF /f ' GIBRALTAR is the thief of time.” It is also the thief of money, justice and i [ family happiness when it leads a man to put off insuring his life # until it is too late. Make the safe for yourself and future your family by a Life Insurance policy in The Prudential | INSURANCE COPIPANY OF AMERICA [] \acorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President Home Office: NEWARK, N. J. MIAD) Writ for Rate at Your Age. Dest. N. comicbooks.com