Judge, 1909-03-27 · page 21 of 24
Judge — March 27, 1909 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with comic anecdotes** rather than political satire. The humor relies on wordplay and situational comedy typical of early 20th-century magazines. **Key anecdotes:** 1. **"Office-boy with $10,000 salary"**: A lawyer's junior staff member claims to earn $10,000 yearly—$4 in cash weekly, the rest in "legal advice" (lectures). The joke is self-aware satire about workplace exploitation dressed as mentorship. 2. **"The Ninety and Nine"**: A minister receives 100 cigars, smokes one, then recruits a colleague to help "rescue" the remaining 99—mocking religious hypocrisy about sin and temptation. 3. **Whiskey confusion stories**: Multiple anecdotes about people accidentally receiving whiskey instead of medicine, playing on Prohibition-era anxieties and the irony that whiskey was commonly used medicinally. 4. **"Obeying the Doctor's Orders"**: A tired doctor conducting an exam can't count past "ten thousand and seventy-six"—absurdist humor about professional exhaustion. The page advertises whiskey, cigars, champagne, and Edison phonographs—products that would become controversial or banned during Prohibition.
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