Judge, 1909-07-17 · page 13 of 16
Judge — July 17, 1909 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* (a satirical weekly) is primarily **advertisements and contest announcements**, with brief humorous snippets. The main content includes: **Advertisements**: Philip Morris cigarettes, Dewar's Scotch whisky, Pears' soap, and High Life beer dominate the layout. **Short comic anecdotes** ("Last Hope," "Picking the Funny Bone," "The Difficulty") feature typical turn-of-the-century domestic humor—servants, mistresses, and marital confusions. These rely on period-specific class dynamics and gender roles that would be familiar to contemporary readers. **June Puzzle Contest Results**: The page announces winners of an automobile-identification contest, listing numerous names and addresses of prize recipients. **Minor cartoons**: "Go Chase Your Hat" depicts a slapstick incident of mistaken hat-ownership; "Not Meant for Him" uses racial dialect humor about a Black fisherman misunderstanding a "No Fishing" sign. The racial humor reflects the casual bigotry acceptable in 1900s American publications. Overall, this is a typical magazine filler page blending light humor, product marketing, and contest administration.
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& ARARARRRRR AD LAST HOPE. Mistress—‘* What is that old paint-pot | doing on the corner shelf, cook Cook—"It belongs to a man who | worked here four years ago."* | | Mistress—*You can throw it out of | the window.’* | | Cook—"Please not, mistress; it is all T have to remember him by.””—M. \o"" Blaetter, | PICKING THE FUNNY-BONE. | The Briton—* As the old proverb say: y’ know, ‘He lawfs best who lawfs lahst. The Yankee—'If that's so, what food laughers you English must be !"’"—Cleve- land Leader. | THE DIFFICULTY. | “Oh, dear!” sighed her husband's ’ Dewa rs 1 H wife. “I can’t find a pin anywhe wonder where all the pins go to, any- i Famous ill be th That's a difficult question to an- S h always will be the most popular — sw te they areal cotc replied his wife’s husband, **be- ays pointed in one MBRIDGE AMBASSADOR ection and headed another."*—Chi- . CANPRIDGE 250 AMBASSADOR 35.0 uu News, | Whi sky 4 > Z, > yw Excellent in Every Way Always have been, always are, The Little Brown Rox."* “GO CHASE YOUR HAT." _He was walking along State Street, Chicngo, when a sudden gust relieved June Puzzle Co ntest , ,im of his straw kat. "He turn 1, gave chase, and after a lengthy run at full (See Issue of Judge for June 12th) | pounced upon it. At the same moment a stranger (also perspiring and t breathless) took it from him and thanked him kindly. ‘But it’s my said he. ARARARARARARARRRARRRRRRRRRARRARRRARE RRA RARRRRRRRARAAL | UDGING from the replies received, the pictures of the auto contest were a, wala the oders “youre te baogtngdown your buck ow aertiag me Lae dently a little harder than those of the preceding contest. In fact, it oe = ‘aid in passing that there was not an absolutely correct list re- — din this contest. ‘The five parts of the automobile and the adver- ' product are as follows: = 1. Figures . 4. Spring 9 2. Search Light 5. Hood | 3. Switch 6. White Rock | Mineral Water The award of prizes—made in accordance with the conditions printed in . . Jem for June 12th—is as follows: furnishes all the skin needs, ex- First Prize, Fourth Prize. cept water, } $10.00, A Copy of * Don't You Whip My : ‘Kearded ts Dogasi Just how it cleanses, softens G. V. Calharin, Flint, Mich. nd toveach of the following: ¥ c; e . ary Ee wen eww Awarded ceienchof'thefollowing? | and freshens the delicate skin- Second Prize Walter F. Bates, Hox 17, Inwood, fabric, takes longer to expound s Weekly, Le I. : than to experience. Use a cake. ‘a subscription to Lest Arear'naubecrintion se , Cartis A. Ward, steward Otiew Club, Awarded to cach of the flowing: Fort De AL Rosell, Wyo. S mis, N. R. G. Shryoe 19 East Fifteenth} 50 Warren St, Hud- Stree ty, Mo. Room’ 208, 156 Fifth Ave-| Kans M. Kjos : Water, 519 East Eighth Street, |nuer Now York City. Sold in Every Quarter of the Globe E. D. Bushy, 210 Main Str Col- tclecnstein, Box 463, Iowa! fax, Wash. | Miss Hazel Eckert, 1436 West Eighty: | E Clawson, 1390 West Sixth fifth Street, N. W., Cleveland, O. _ Street, Cleveland, O. Dave Hoppinger, Kyle Ave., Lake- wood, O. NOT MEANT FOR HIM. Third Prize. ; _ Walter Lovell, 25 North Third Street, Farmer—"Ui, there! Can't you see that sign, jo fishing on these A year's subscription to Sis Hopkins’, | Zanesville, O. , grounds'?"” ‘Awarded to cach of the following: | F: Nonnenmacher, Box 534, Patch- ” Culured fisherman—"Co'se 1 kin see sign. 1's cullid, boss, but 1 ain't 0 e, N.Y. ignorant as ter fish on no grounds. I'm fishin’ in de crick." —Driftwood. derhouser, 7 South Case: 8...J. ores 72 Arnold Y. But ‘olorado Springs, Col. - Oli Sheppard, Penn Yan, N. ¥. H. A. Snyder, Aurora, 0} lartin F. Hessel, Medford, Wis. John Wehman, 99 Nassau Street, n Lowry, Moody Street, Brad- Brooklyn, N. Y. dock, Pa. | Dr J. Arthur Davis, 146 South Hoh- | A DELIGHTF L BEVERAGE Dorothea Underwood, 4843 Lake Ave- man Street, Hammond, Ind. hue, Chicago, Il. W. Shinkoskey, Colfax, Wash. Robert Karr, Ottawa, Il. ZH. Hartman, Bonham, Tex. J. L. Grossman, 1303 Chamber of Willie Wildwing, Pittsburg, Kan. ree, Detroit, Mich. James Calora, 5213 Daggert Avenue, Charles Gaiyer, 121 Clermont Avenue, St. Louis, Me — yn, N.Y. |_ J. L. Schneider, 324 Virginia Street, | cr ar Manheim, care of The Auto- Buffalo, N.Y. od mobile, 231 West Thirty-ninth Street, I ¢ John H. Klocksiem, Batter: E a rae B. tie Fits arte Pet Sur OM MILLE R-MILWAUKE Mrs. Flora Nichols, 810 Twenty-second = A. H. Winthrop, Street, Cairo, Il. Commerce, Detroit, Mich. In answering advertisements please mention Jupce. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com