Judge, 1909-11-20 · page 16 of 20
Judge — November 20, 1909 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with small comic vignettes scattered throughout. The main visual satire is the opening illustration: two men drinking whiskey, labeled "All Down the Years," promoting James E. Pepper Whiskey as a 100-year tradition of American excellence. The small comic jokes below are typical early-20th-century domestic humor with no obvious political content: - **"Metempsychosis"**: A poem about chicken feathers becoming hat plumes—mocking the fashion of adorning women's hats with bird parts. - **"Improvement"**: A wife buying an expensive hat is humorously presented as "improvement" because she stopped buying the more expensive kind. - **"The Meanest of Men"**: A man invites another to dinner without telling his wife—situational humor about marital deception. The remaining jokes involve minor wordplay about hair loss, gravity, and domestic quarrels. The page also features substantial advertising for French Lick Springs Hotel in Indiana, promoting its mineral waters for medicinal purposes—a common patent medicine advertisement style of the era. This reflects the pre-FDA era when such claims were unregulated.
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