Judge, 1907-10-05 · page 12 of 16
Judge — October 5, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge*, a satirical weekly, is primarily an **advertising and editorial mixture** rather than political cartooning. The main content includes: **Advertisements** for products like Boston Garters, Sohmer Pianos, blood poison treatments, and Santa Midy capsules—typical early-20th-century patent medicine and consumer goods ads. **Small humorous anecdotes and jokes** rather than political cartoons: - A joke about American vs. English building heights - Wordplay about Theodore Roosevelt's trust-busting (referencing the anthracite coal strike dispute with industrialist George Baer) - Observations about gender relations and widow remarriage **Notable is the prominent ad for "The Keeley Cure,"** a real (but quack) alcoholism treatment marketed as scientific remedy for "liquor and drug using"—reflecting the era's patent medicine culture and pre-Prohibition anxieties. The page demonstrates *Judge*'s format: light satire and social commentary mixed with commercial advertising, aimed at a genteel male readership interested in fashion, current events, and consumer products.
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GENTLEMEN WHO DRESS FOR STYLE NEATNESS, AND COMFORT WEAR THE IMPROVED BOSTON GARTER THE RECOGNIZER STANDARD) “BBThe Name Is ‘amped on e ‘ik CUSHION BUTTON UES FLATTO THE LEG— NEVER SLIPS, TEARS NORUNFASTENS, Sampte pate, Sie. Ba tag, Baia recep eS) 00. FROBTCO..Maners ‘ALWAYS EASY FROM a list of fifteen weeklies considered, Juoce has just been se- lected as one of three me- diums to be used during the coming year by one of our largest National adver- tisers, the only humorous weekly to be used and the fifth renewal of this order. Intending purchasers of a CLASS Piano, or Prano as vould not fail to examine the on fenowned SOHMER PIANOS “SOHMER - ‘of the world: on application, STRICTLY FIRST- Sell.Player combined, ECILIAN™ Inside Players, BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS we have made the cure of Blood Poison a Jalty, "Bleed Polson’ Permanently Cured. You can be treated at home under same guar Capital $yon,co0, We solicit the most cases. "Il you have exhaosted the old of treument Macoas "Patches "a, Moat . Pimples, Copper-Colored Spa on any part of the body. Hair oF Bling out, write for proots ofc Book Free COOK REMEDY Co. 1480 MASONIC TEMPLE, Chicago, IIL, U. S.A. uage NOT YET BUT SOON. «High buildings, sir 2” remarked an American contemptuously. “Why, in England you don’t know what height is ! Last time I was in New York it was a blazing hot day, and I saw a man com- ing out of a lift wrapped from top to toe in bear-skins, and I said to him, + Why are you thuffled up on a broiling day like this?‘ Wazal," he said, * you see, I live at the top of the buildin’, and it’s so high that it’s covered with snow all the year round !'"—Rochester Post-Express. The first thing in the morning. if you need a bracer, should be a tablespoonful of Abbott's Bitters in an ounce of sherry or a glass of soda. Try it MUSICAL NOTE. Anybody can play a hand-organ, but there is no good and sufficient reason why anybody should. — Chica; , ‘THE UNBUSTED. While some delight to bark and bite, And get up a trust-busting fight, Has Mr. Baer For such a care? Well, no; not by an anthracite. —Indianapolis News. Cough Syrup Is the best cough remedy for atalis fe cures the cold that hangs om. se. While Rock “The Champagne of Waters” For Liquor and Drug Using A scientific remedy which has teen skilfully and successfully administered ty medical specialists for the past 28 years, At the following Keeley Institutes: SOMETHING OF A BUG. | Henry W. Nickerson, formerly justice | of the peace here, has found a bug the like of which he never saw before. He| thinks the bug is a cross between a por- cupine and a mud-turtle. In repose the bug is about two inches in length, and is covered with green spines something like pine needles, This makes it resemble a porcupine, When aroused the bug pokes | out its head frcm a hidden source, and t DIFFERENT VIEW-POINTS. “One woman,” remarked the better,” “And one man,” rejoined the fair idow, *+is just as bad as another—if not worse."—Chicago News. A good many bachelors are wearing mere} He| man, “is just as good as another—if not CAUSE AND EFFECT. “Plump figures,” said the woman who was reading the fashions, ++ are going out of style.” « Nonsense !" answered her husband, “+ Food is rather expensive, But the situ- ation isn’t as bad as that."—Exchange If a widow is rich and pretty she soon socks with peckaboo toes and heels.—Er. | gets over being one.—Exchan; then it looks like a turtle. The bug climbs trees, where it will spin a web in a very short time. After hanging from the end of its web fora few minutes it will move away and seek a new tree.— Columbus (Ind.) correspondence of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a strictly > Fitth Any person wishing to purcha: first-class piano is advised to visit the of Sohmer & Sohmer building. 1 Avenue, New York City THE INVOLUNTARY VOLUNTEERS. Alfred H. Love, for forty years the president of the universal peace union, was discussing the conference at The Hague. bears hardest on the private sol- dier,” he said. ‘1 think that if the world would delegate to The Hague, | with full authority a lot of privates, crip-| pled from some recent war—young men} without arms, young men without le young men without noses—then universal peace would come at once. “ Whenever I think of private soldiers and war I think of one of our later South | American revolutions, There wasa g. |eral who promised to send into the field two hundred volunteers from his district. | There, he said, the people were furious |to avenge their wrongs with powder and | | shot. “The general retired to his district, and in a week his two hundred volunteers ar- rived in three freight cars, bound hand and foot. Along with them the general sent this message to headquarters : «TL transmit herewith the two hun- dred volunteers promised. Please return the ropes at once.’ "—E xchange. IN MODERN DAYS. + Say, Hugo, don't you get punished at home when you're naughty 2” “Nope. Papa and mamma are both lawyers, and they can’t agree on the pun- lishment.""— Transatlantic Tales. THE JUDGE COMPANY’S MAGAZINES Sworn Circulation Over One Million Copies SiS HOPKINS Own BOOK The magazin There no copies given away and none returned. LEASE allow us to call your attention to our two monthly magazines and « quarterly, as advert mediums, suitable for ticle intended for family w: paid circulatio: 7 JUDGE'S LIBRARY, ing to figures furnishes the Association of Americ Advertisers, averig 41,826 monthly, making» total uf nearly $00,000 copies a year. The circulatio HOPKINS’ OWN BOOK. cording to the same aul ity, averages 36,576 m ly,'a total of over 400,000 copies a year. The circulation «t JUDGE'S QUARTERLY averages more than 26,000 each issue. , the quarterly for twenty-five cents a The subscription list IS enough to satisfy the requirements of the United States Government, but ht per cent. of all this vast output is sold for cash through the re is a circulation each year of over 1,000,000 copies ot illustrated perio with covers printed in colors. ‘And this ts an ever-changing circulation, so that ¢ is hardly any duplication, month by month, such as there would be by an all scription list. Specimen copies and advertising rates on request. Speci zines duri JUDGE COMPANY, 225 ‘one year. The Fourth Ave., New York City rates furnished where an advertiser uses the entire twenty-eight @® Morning, Noon and Night Fast Trains to the West-Via NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES comicbooks.com