Judge, 1907-01-05 · page 14 of 16
Judge — January 5, 1907 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** rather than political satire. It consists of: **Main advertisements** for alcoholic beverages (Chartreuse liqueur, Perrier-Jouët champagne, I.W. Harper rye whiskey, Trimble whiskey) — typical for Judge magazine's revenue model. **"Judge's Quarterly"** announcement for the January number at 25 cents. **Small humorous items and jokes** filling space, including: - A poem about liver health ("if each man's liver were so made / That it would never balk or buck") - Brief anecdotes about parsons, skeletons in families, and advertisers targeting dyspeptic men over forty - A "Milwaukee's Dusty" satire mocking a local dust-removal advertisement - Commentary on tombstone lying and scientific ear-wagging The **social context**: these snippets reflect turn-of-century American preoccupations with digestive health, domestic propriety, and advertising excess—typical Judge magazine fare. The page shows how satirical magazines subsidized their content through liquor advertising during the pre-Prohibition era.
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MOST DELICIOUS OF ALL CORDIALS LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW-- Known as Chartreuse At Grvvclass Wine Merchants, Gs Batjer & Co.y 48 Broadw ~ Sole Agents for United States. Kage AN INSIDE FACT. | How fair a world this world would be If all our livers kept in trim, Ifeach man could be always free ‘To eat things that appealed to him ! How soon our little cares would fade, How few of us would mourn our luck, If each man’s liver were so made That it would never balk or buck. The discontented soon would cease To fret us with their doleful cries ; The sons of men would dwell in peace Where daily squabbles now arise ; The poor would never hate the rich And life would be a grand, sweet song, If each man had a liver which Performed its duty right along. —Chicago Record-Herald, PARSON BOOK AGENTS. Church—* What do you think of Mrs. Parsons’s book on The Family | Gotham—*" | think she’s got some good minister book-agents."— Yonkers States- man, LOCATED. “Did you hear that there was a skele- ton in Jones's family 2” * You don't say so “ Inside of Jones.” (They clinch.)—AMitwaukee Sentinel, AFTER FORTY. Large advertisers have discovered that the man of more than forty is almost al- ways interested in a new dyspepsia cure, Somerville Fournal. EXPLAINED. The complimentary man is all the time saying to us the things we think about ourselves.— Exchange. Where ?” Some people are sure of a large crop when it comes to raising doubts.— Ex. JUDGE’S QUARTERLY JANUARY NUMBER ON ALL NEWS-STANDS, 25 Cents! | | Green “ Deem not the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.” Label. ESTABLISHED AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS CHAMPAGNE US AGENTS JAMES BUCHANAN &CO.LTO Arres Jasins Mowrcostary FLAGG. MILWAUKEE'S DUSTY. From the following ad, in the Se we take it Milwaukee is having a dusty winter : Are you dusty? If so, why ? Is there dust in your eyes ? Is you liver dusty ? Has dust sifted into your soul ? Do you feel a dusty sensation when you eat? Do you feel itchy when you wear flan- nels? Ifso, YOU HAVE DUSTITUS! You should consult old Doctor Bjenks, the dust expert. He can cure you. Send $1.25 for his great dust-remover. Used on the eyes before going to bed in- sures a good night's rest AND NO DUST. ‘THE HUMOROUS SCIENTIST. “Here is a scientist who says mankind could soon learn to wag its ears.” “He must be something of a wag him- self."— Cleveland Plain Dealer, BADGER PHILOSOPHY. Considering the amount of lying there is on the average tombstone, it’s a mighty j good thing it hasn’t a conscience,—AV/i/- waukee Sentinel. Copyright, 1906, by Judge By. Photograv = 50 CENTS **GOOD-NIGHTI" Ik is the last word, There is nothing more to be said, ‘The picture— beautiful, artistic, pertinent — secit,pitere— beat rin, einen speaks Address Piaure Department, Judge Company 225 Fourth Avenue, New York Add extra postage for foreign orders. comicbooks.com