Judge, 1907-08-31 · page 14 of 16
Judge — August 31, 1907 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains advertisements and humorous content typical of early 1900s American satire. **"The Humorist's Guide"** is a comedic poem mocking regional American stereotypes—Boston's beans, New Orleans' molasses, Louisville's colonels, Pittsburgh's smoke, St. Louis girls' feet, New York's con artists, Milwaukee's beer, and Indianapolis' authors. It satirizes how comedians resort to tired clichés when constructing jokes. **The Trimble Whiskey ad** uses sentimental poetry about drinking, combining alcohol marketing with quasi-spiritual language. **"Flagg's Best Sellers"** showcases James Montgomery Flagg's popular illustrated works (film stills or photographs), including titles like "L'Amourease," "Yours Truly," "Good Enough to Eat," and "With This Ring I Thee Wed"—typical melodramatic entertainment of the era. The **Cook's Champagne advertisement** is nationalist propaganda, arguing Americans should buy domestic champagne over imported French brands due to import duties and patriotic duty since the Boston Tea Party, positioning consumption as economic patriotism.
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LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —QREEN AND YELLOW— This famous cordial, now made at Tarra- gona, Spain, was for centuries distilled by the Carthusian Mooks (Pares Chartreux) at the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, France, and known throughout the world ‘as Chartreuse, The above cut represents the bottle and label employed in the putting up of the article since the Monks’ expul- ata, Grocers, 3 "43 Broadway, New York, Ve eats for United THE HUMORIST’S GUIDE. Oh, Boston is the town for beans ; they . eat ‘em with a fork. Molasses flows in New Orleans ; Chicago runs to pork, They'te colonels all in Louisville, and when you need a joke, Be careful to remember, Bill, about the Pittsburgh smoke. St. Louis girls have lengthy feet, or so the jester claims, Depraved New York is but the seat of all the bunco games. Long years ago Milwaukee took the lead in beer, I wis. And everybody writes a book in Indian- apolis. The rubber-plant in Brooklyn thrives ; it likes the climate there. And staid blue-stocking stock survives in that old city where Our fathers met and threw aside, so Statesmen say, the yoke. Now is not this a handy guide for getting up a joke ? —Courier- Journal. INS AND OUTS. It does seem strange, without a doubt, In this great race for tin, A man will never be Until he is ++ all in —Chicago News. SOON! The days will soon be getting shorter and the coal bills longer.—PAtladelphia Telegraph. TRANSPORTATION NEWS. Nevertheless, if those reports about the shortage of the onion crop are reliable, it will be much pleasanter to ride in the closed cars next winter.—/ndianapolis News. There are times when every small boy wonders what parents are good for.— Ex. C | Ware, aENTZ &co. Green Vatlncnd New Sark And take a fight Toward heaven to-night, And leave dull earth behind us.” Let's wreathe the bow! ‘With flowers of soul The bri i wit can find us; Whiskey Label. AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS Ever since the memorable Boston encounter, when | unjast taxation aroused them, the American people, to | their credit be it said, have been very slow to patronize foreign products of evory description. Take, for in- stance, Champagne. The old world is practically overrun with miscella- eous brands of this beverage, yet despite the strenuous efforts of foreign manufacturers, discriminating people of this country have unquestionably cast their ballot in favor of Cook's Imperial Champagne. ‘And this is only as it should be, for when we consider that this American Champagne is made from the rich, juicy black grapes grown in the orchards of Uncle Sam, farther argument is scarcely necessary, for it is an open secret that the rich, fertile soil of America produces the | best vines in the world. But there are other reasons— good reasons—why American Champagne is preferred over foreign drinks. ‘The duty on all imported Champagne is very heavy. Foreign manufacturers have to bear freight charges across the ocean, and after distribution and other ex- HOW AMERICANS PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES. Universal Preference Given to American Champagne over Foreign Brands. penses are paid, Americans find that the imported bev. erage costs twice as mach as Cook's Imperial Cham. pagne. ‘The American Champagne—Cook's Imperial —is made from the pare, choice juicy grapes—the saccharine ele- ments of the fruit being neutralized by several months’ natural fermentation, giving the drink a pleasast boy. ant flavor, branding it as an “extra dry" Champagee. ‘The large increasing demand for American Cham. pagne is encouraging, showing that the American peo. ple not only patronize home industries, but that qualey for quality, they will not be satisfied with anything bet the best. THE THERMOMETER FIEND. Now back and forth he wildly fits ; He has no time for trade. He merely lives to see if it’s One hundred in the shade. —Courier-Fournal. By James Montgomery Flagg Copyright, 1927, by Judge Co. L’AMOUREUSE By James Montgomery Flagg Flage’s Best Sellers After James Montgomery Flagg Photogravure in sepia, 15 x 20 ‘One Dollar By James Montgomery Flagg Copyright, 1906, by Judge Co. Copyright, 1907, by, Copyright, 1907, by Judge Co. “GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT” Photogravure in sepia, 15 39 One Dollar By James Montgomery Flagg Jodge Co. “YOURS TRULY” Photogravure in blue-black, 15 x 193% One Dollar tins Judge 225 Fourth Avenue WITH THIS RING I THEE WED Photogravure in sepia, 14 x 19 ‘One Dollar Company New York Copyright, 1906, by Judge Co. THEIR HONEYMOON-UP IN THE CLOUDS Photogravure in sepia, 15 x 20 ‘One Dollar comicbooks.com