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This page from Judge primarily consists of advertisements and humorous "Stories About People" sections rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content includes: **"Campaign Expenses in Colorado"**: A joke mocking former Governor Charles S. Thomas's minimal campaign spending ($158.50), which included absurdly petty expenses like replacing an overcoat "relieved by an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. W. J. Bryan." This satirizes both the governor's unsuccessful candidacy and political corruption/bribery disguised as campaign costs. **"Scientific Stories"**: A satirical piece about academics making unfounded inferences, using Assyriologists and Egyptologists claiming technological knowledge based on absence of evidence—mocking scholarly pretension. **"Biblical Matters"**: Humorous dialogue about King Solomon's many wives, suggesting modern marriage advice should ignore biblical precedent. The page is otherwise dominated by period product advertisements (Pears' Soap, White Rock water, hotels, moving pictures), typical of Judge's format as a commercially-supported satirical weekly.

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FOR A HIGHBALL iT HAS NO EQUAL Sold Everywhere aQc Pears’ Soap is made in a clean, sun-flooded factory ; then stored a full year in t dry, airy place, before coming to you. Is it such a wonder it lasts so long? Established in 179, AGENTS —Cwne mone = Sane en tate mero att MENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos, 22, 34, and 95 Bleecker Street Branch Warehouse, 20 Beekman Street, New York, ‘ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER, MARRIAGE 06.22 Press Cutting ROMEIKE'S fr Cst2e appear about you, your frie "| the home for old If so, take advant axe of today'sep- ities for the fruit grower and business man along Pacific Coast S91) You Can Make ie) BIO MONEY Entertaining the Public STEREOPTICONS § the BLADDER and all SANTAL CAPSULES | chanced upon the STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. (Continued.) CAMPAIGN EXPENSES IN COLORADO. Charles S. Thomas, former Governor! who was recently a candi- e on the Democratic ticket for the of presidential ctor for his has just filed a sworn statement of his campaign expenses, to conform to the law. He says he expended $158.50 for hotel bills, railway transportation, and ‘to meet the stipendary exactions of the Pullman porters, The last two items in his campaign account are as follows: To the government of the United States, for postage stamps on letters replying to the solicita- tions of gentlemen harboring the delusion that I was a Cabi- net officer inembryo . . . To cash for an overcoat to replace one of which I was relieved by an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. W. J. Bryan (name un- known), on the occasion of that gentleman's visit to Denver, on October 16th, A.D. 1908... 75.00) BIBLICAL MATTERS. The doubt of a) University of | Chicago profess- or whether King Solomon, | us the husband of seven hundred wives, is the best authority for the world of to-day uponsuch domes- tic matters the treatment of | children, re- minds one of a | story told so of- | ten by that great | gee. A Glouce tershire lady was reading the Old Testament to an aged wo- man wholived at people, and passage concern- ing Solomon's hor “Had Solomon really se dred wives? quired the woman, after re- flection. Oh, yes, Ma- Lor, mum!’" as the com- ment. “What ile early Christians had!” | BETTING ON A SURE THING. Jack—"lm going to receive | a great many| cigars and half a dozen lite Roc “The World’s Best Table Water.”’ * thehitof 1908, Beautifully bound. Now ready, 1909 edition of the famous Richard's Poor Almanac! N.Y. City. illustrated humorous book. Sent for 10c. Address White Rock, Flatiron Bldg. SCIENTIFIC STORIES. “TIS HUMAN. Scientists are finding out many things | Breathes there a man with soul so 4 about ancient nations. Some of their | Who never to himself has said, statements may be true, and some not. | As he stubbed his toe againc*. the bed| Too often inference is advanced as fact. iy pizza TTI }2 esses become possibilities, and |NESTO CIGARETTES bilities probabilities, and probabilities ~ ROVAL NESTOR a certainty. Professor W IMPORTED Tha were ™ University, tells a story w lobe—from land to land sone method of argument. | Assyriologist boasted to an Egyptologist that ‘the Assyrians understood NESTOR cause found wire Assyria.” “Oh,” said the other, ‘we have not found a scrap | of wirein Egypt, therefore we know the Egyp- tians understood eles teleg- raphy !”” in NEW AMSTERDA HOTEL 4th Ave. and 21st St., New Yor WHERE A PULL COUNTS. “Senator Foel- ker, who jour: neyed to Albany, N.Y., at the risk of hia life, to cast the vote that doomed rac- ing in'New York, | had collected a number of in- stances of rac track tricker: said an Albany legistlaor. “Dis cussing one day the way jockeys so often sold races, he said that there was a Gloucester jockey once, the rider of the fa- , who was overheard to say in a saloon, th European Plan Rooms with use of Bath $1.00 and up. We $2.00 for one, $2.50 for two wf NEW BATHS and PLUMBING Most Convenient Location in City win A DANGER. OUS BENT. me men are r a happy . and others are just as earnestly broke on i Magazine writ- er—" Break up| | these compounds | jand cut out the hyphens. Don’t \you know I get \paid by the word?” European Plan Fongeed anny L RRown comicbooks.com