Judge, 1909-11-20 · page 17 of 20
Judge — November 20, 1909 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, not a political cartoon. The page contains several commercial advertisements and light humor pieces: **Main content:** - **Bromo-Seltzer ad** (headache remedy) paired with a period-appropriate "Wide World Over" travel anecdote - **Karo corn syrup ad** featuring Christmas candy-making, emphasizing the product's wholesomeness - **Receivers' Sale ad** for discounted radio equipment **Humor sections** include brief jokes and observations: - A Hamburg, Illinois sign warning hoboes ("Don't let the sun go down on you here") - "Thanksgiving Thoughts" - gentle observations about life - Short jokes about doctors and parenting **Social context for modern readers:** This reflects early 20th-century advertising's emphasis on *purity* and *wholesomeness* in food products, and the era's casual attitudes toward vagrancy warnings. The humor is gentle, domestic, and moralistic rather than satirical. The page demonstrates Judge's mixed format: satirical commentary alongside mainstream consumer advertising.
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HEADACHES 10¢,254¢,50¢ & $129 Bottles. Shears and Paste Pot Christmas Candy—all the fun of making it at home and a sure succe: you use Karo—the great candy syrup. Karo fudge, taffy, amels, pop-corn balls are’ famous. You can eat them more freely than other sweets — they are wholesome and digestible. Eat it on Use it for Griddle Cakes ‘a ] O Ginger Bread Hot Biscuit Cookies Waffles CORN SYRUP Candy Karo is de wheat cakes. —It is the best and purest syrup in the world rine | , (e ‘Send your name on a post card for Karo sid ie ca mite the west ll be pool ==, | Cook Book—fifty pages including thirty per- a eae a fone See ree nto fect recipes for home candy-muking. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO., Dept. F. F.. New York with that barometer! wende Blatter Every lover of a seontl coe! wuld insist that TO BE HOPED FOR. THANKSGIVING THOUGHITS. ting the very ton —— *F A dittle more sweet and a little Less , xpired, oes 4 . ivings hat de- sour, BAD TOWN FOR HOBOES. A little less weed and a little more y From a car window the following sign, __ flowe: . g » ba may be read at Hamburg, A little more song and a little less 7 E come bu HOBOES, DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOU HERE. E.G. TILLER, Mayor, | Will turn out to be a fine man is he shows no signs of it.--N. Y. Press. the back."'—Jewish Led IMPERFECT. | Tommy—"The doctor brought the bi Freddy—"1t looks just like ma had been — by telephone again,’ Harper's Bazar, Receivers’ Sale! Y por Only $25.80. ficently HERE IS OUR OFFER: Sto ates 3.9% Aarican Unterriters Cerperation _ Mo wadash ae AMERICAN UNDERWRITERS CORPOR/.TIO “BABES IN ‘THE WOODS.” | Dept. 4125 240 Webssh Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. In answering advertisersents please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com