Judge, 1906-10-27 · page 11 of 16
Judge — October 27, 1906 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with humorous filler content**, typical of early 20th-century magazines. The main advertisements include Miller High Life beer, Murad cigarettes, Parker's Tar Soap, Evans' Ale, Sohmer Pianos, and Cortez Cigars. These ads occupy most of the space and represent the magazine's revenue. The short humor pieces are mild, disconnected jokes rather than political cartoons: - "His Preference": A doctor comedy about choosing throat vs. stomach medicine - "Wanted a Hall Tree": Wordplay confusion (mistaking a decorative hall tree for a plant cutting) - "An Understudy": A pun about an auto mechanic being an actor's replacement - Other brief quips about outdated social conventions and office humor These pieces require no historical context—they're timeless light comedy. There are **no identifiable political figures or satirical commentary** on this page. Judge here functions as an advertising vehicle with generic humor filler typical of the era, not as a platform for social or political satire.
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HIS PREFERENCE, Young Bellarine had at the same time a sore throat and pains in his stomach So he went to the doctor, who said that he must take something sweet for his throat, but he protested, saying that it would he bad for his stomach.“ And,” said the doctor, refusing to listen, * for your Stomach you must take something strong.” But,” protested once more the vi tim, * that will be bad for my throat.” Dio mio !" exclaimed the doctor, out of patience, "you are a little too much. Decide instantly whether you prefer a sore throat or stomach trouble."—// Riso, WANTED A HALL TREE. An Erie (Kansas) woman was much astonished to receive a letter from an- other woman asking for a slip of her hall tree. “I understand,” she wrote, * you've got a good variety of hall trees, and as we've just finished us a new h a real nice hall we'll need a n’ we'd be ever so much obliged you'd send us a slip of your'n, And| please will you send along with the slip| directions tellin’ us whether to water it from the top er hottom,—Exchan, Mra. Wi lor theiee jow's Sooth= ren. 23¢ a bottle, Mothers w ing Syrup the AN UNDERSTUDY. The auto-car of the well-known actor had broken down, and the chauffeur was underneath it, trying to discover the trou- ble. Who is the man under the machine asked a bystander. “He's my understudy,” replied the actor, running his hand through his hair. — Yonkers Statesman, OUT-OF-DATE. It is really very old-fashioned for op-| portunity to knock at anybody's door when there is the electric bell right handy.—Somerville Fournal. ‘o tonic made equals Abbott's Angostura Bit- Meets every requirement. At all drug- gists AN OFFICE RUSE. Another way to get the office-boy into the habit of sweeping under the radiator is to put a quarter there occasionally, — Exchange. WHEN THE SHOW CLOSED. “Do you spurn obnoxious ties ?" asked the timid inquirer. “With all my sole !" energetically re- plied the crushed tragedian.— Baltimore American, SHRINK BY COMPARISON. Now that the college football season is about to open, perhaps those massacres over in Russia won't seem quite so gory. 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He had got out the designs for a magnificent church, to cost sixty tnousand pounds, and the com- mittee Wanted him to reduce the price to twenty thousan:! pounds, | Say thirty shillings more, gentlemen,” | he wrote, “and have a nice spire. Tatler. | NOT SUCH A GOOSE. The goose has good reason for hoping that the turkey will never go out of fash: chany ion, A FOOD CONVERT. GOOD FOOD THE TRUE ROAD TO HEALTH. The pernicious habit some persons still have of relying on nauseous drugs to re- ieve dyspepsia, keeps up the patent medi- cine business and helps keep up the army of dyspeptics. Indigestion —dyspepsia—is caused by what is put into the stomach in the way of improper food, the kind that so taxes the strength of the digestive organs they are actually crippled. When this state is reached, to resort to stimulants is like whipping a tired horse with a big load. Every additional effort he makes under the lash increases his loss of power to move the load. 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