Judge, 1909-10-16 · page 12 of 16
Judge — October 16, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and contest results**, not political satire. The central content announces winners of Judge's "Tree Puzzle Contest" from August 1909, listing names and prizes ($5, $1, subscriptions). The cartoons and humor are minimal and marginal: **Bottom section** contains two brief "Breezy Stories" jokes—one about the unpopularity of living near the Flatiron Building (a then-famous NYC structure), another about "Teddy" (President Theodore Roosevelt) and the stork, making a pun: tariffs and storks both "keep up the infant industries." **Surrounding advertisements** promote liquor (Sunny Brook Whiskey, I.W. Harper, Underberg Bitters), cigarettes (Philip Morris), soap (Pears'), and other products—typical of Judge's revenue model. The **center illustration** labeled "A Fast Color" depicts a customer/chemist exchange about complexion powders, mildly satirizing beauty product claims. Overall, this is a **filler page** combining contest results with period advertising rather than substantive satirical content.
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‘Oticers direct the sealing with Government “Green Stamp” of every bottle of Sunny Brook Whiskey Age only has mellowed and fla vored this rare old Kentucky Whiskey. ASK POR IT Sunny Brook Distillery Co, Jetterson Co. Ky. HE EDITOR will be glad to hear from subscribers or others who have the following issues of June spare. If the same are untorn ar condition for binding, with no pages; All be glad to allow a February February 2 which for 60 ye: has won increasing It prevents Philip Morris eee = Cigarettes Noblesse oblige — you'll smoke them! CAM BRIDGER reqular size 25c. 35c. “The Little Brows Box"* AMBASSADOR alter-dinner size uae AWARDS Tree Puzzle Contest (See Issue of Judge for August 21st, |1. Wiles 2. Cedar 3. Sycamore ‘The award of prizes made in accordance with the conditions printed in Juncr: for 190% August 21st, FIRST PRIZE $5.00 Awarded to G, Hl, Bahlman, seeretary Y. M.C. A tta, O. SECOND PRIZE $1.00 Awarded to each of the following: 1 Junki De avon, Pa, lerhouser, Colorado Springs, | Mrs. W. J. Harper, North Vernon, Ind. Lindley M. Reith, Woodland, Cal. THIRD PRIZE A year’s subscription to JUDG LIBRARY Awarded to each of the following: W. A. Poyck, Wilkes- Pa, Sure, OkL A. Barnett, Du Qu ry, Charleston noma City, Okla, .T ie Wicks, Utica, N. Y. . 0. Hollyday, Baltimore, Alice G. Hiles, Willink, N.Y. William Baumgartner, Mrs, A. Bernhardt, Pleasur Robert, East Sebago, Mi -Nah. Md. | nightstown, Ind, | The customer BREEZY STORIES. ever read ‘The Flatiron there a zen is how unpopular it makes you. In answering advertisements please mentior JUDGE. A FAST ea number of s ras ‘The chief objection to being a good citi-, industri In Winter 1909) ITS A COLD 4. Pear 5. Elm 6. Pears’ Soap ITS BOWEL COMPLAINT J, is us follows : Harold Humphrey, Minneapolis, Minn. mps, Jr., Wenoka, Okla. , Williamsport, Pa, Knox, Elmira, N. Y. Benjamin Heer, Winona, Minn. William R. Crow, Centralia, Ill. Stella Mills, San Antonio, Tex. Arthur J. Singer, Albany, N. Y. FOURTH PRIZE A year’s subscription to SIS HOP- KINS’ MONTHLY Awarded to each of the following: Ernest Dill, New York, N. Y. James Walker, New York, N. Y. E. A. Snyder, Urbana, Ill. John N. Kolb, Elizabeth, ‘T. E. Chilton, Pittsburgh, P J. M. Shawhan, Seattle, Wash. Mildred Kellerman, Philadelphia, Pa, rt O. Vorse, Lewisburg, Pa. Armstrong, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, nights. Don’t ask it to assimilate raw, rank, nonde- script whiskies. Give it good pure, gentle old I.W. HARPER FIRST AID TO DIGESTION ~~ LAUGH WITH sIis HoPKINS’ HER OWN BOOK 10 CENTS 10 ALL NEWS-STANDS Pears thorerghly, . fockton, Cal. T. A. Funk, Decatur, II. J. W. Carroll, Middletown, Conn. uM. W. Lenfestey, Aztec, N. Mex. h O'Donnell, St. Louis, Mo. ons, St. Paul, Minn, Ames, la, aw, Ogdensburg, N. Y. lint, Bridgeport, Conn. New Orleans, La, cleanses soothing and freshening the skin. Pea is pure soap of yentle character. COLOR these complexion powders "t say that they will wash like London Sketch, Every lover of scvod cucktail should call for Al bott's Bitters, Makes the best. | WHY TEDDY LIKES THE STORK. Jolly —*Why are high tariff and stork such pals? | Chotty | Jolly A. A CADDAGAN “Give up.” hey both keep up the infant University of Texas Coy-| It will be appreciated.