Judge, 1911-01-07 · page 25 of 26
Judge — January 7, 1911 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements with one satirical poem**, typical of Judge magazine's format. **The Main Satire:** The poem "Thousand-dollar Bills" personifies an unpopular $1,000 bill as a lonely, rejected figure. The speaker ironically courts it with romantic language, claiming to love it despite others shunning it. This satirizes **wealth inequality and social class prejudice**—the joke being that money itself becomes a social outcast when it's too large to circulate in ordinary commerce. According to the news item cited, thousand-dollar bills weren't actually used, making them figuratively "unpopular" in the marketplace. **Other Content:** The page contains standard period advertisements for White Rock water, Remington typewriters, Great Western Champagne, I.W. Harper whiskey, and Caroni Bitters. A brief joke about Shakespeare quotations appears as filler. The page demonstrates Judge's typical blend of social commentary disguised as humor alongside commercial advertising.
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a DOICe 10 CEI Thousand-dollar Bills. = According to stailstics sent out from Washington, one r} thousand-dollar ills are not popular.—News item. , Poor, lonely thousand-dollar bill, Come unto me, I pray! “The Though spurr ~d by other hands, I will Be kind to you to-day. World’s Best Table Water” Though other eyes may glare at you And other lips may frown, From My frien:iship is sincere and true; C A I will not turn you down. , America’s Most Famous Spring 4 Though we have never met, poor bill Waukesha, Wis. } Of thousand-dollar face, With love you'd make my pulses thrill, And I'd admire your grace. Put up only in NEW 7 xo - I know that I should welcome you, Sterilized Bottles. cH Your friend I'd gladly be. You need not at my threshold sue; Come straightway unto me. \> I'll care for you by night and day, I'll keep you fur my own; For slurs that other men might say I gladly will atone. 4 With some unpopular, perhaps es, ’Tis true that you may be; But never mind those other chaps— You're popular with me. If you are searching for a friend, is No farther need you go. My home will be your journey’s end, hed A place for you I know. t Right gladly will I take you in; h My roof, your roof shall be. q Unpopular you may have been, $ But now come unto me. —Detroit Free Press. Caroni Bitters — Unexcelled with lemonade, soda, gin, sherry and whisky. Indispensable for a fect cocktail. Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad t.. N. ¥., Gen’l Distra 2] Sad Blow. i “May is dreadfully disappointed in her . fiance.’" . = ? “*What’s the trouble?’’ a “She's just found that all those beautiful things he ited from Shake- I speare weren't original.'’—Cleveland Leader. With Wahl Adding and Subtracting Attachment Great Western This is the complete accounting snachine—the machine which writes, tabulates, bills, adds, subtracts and audits—the machine which represents the present acme of clerical labor saving. Catalogue sent on request. HALF THE COST OF . IMPORTED > Remington Typewriter Company ota Te (Incorporated) | OF the Siz, Ameri 325-327 Broadway, New York, or Any City on Earth can Champagnes } Exhibited, Great | Western was the = = Only OneAwarded ae rena EVERY DEALER KNOWS 1900. that the most satisfactory brand of whiskey he can offer his trade is OE Your Grocer or Dealer ee 99 | Can Supply Y« Foryaacb I. W. HARPER asant Often, however, they recommend something else Fie A t Valley hoo there is more profit in the poorer kind. Wine Co. @ As a conser you want THE BEST, therefore ba acgrecs insist on HARPER. Olds ond Taroet Bernbetm Distilling Ce., Incorporated in America In answering advertisements please mentivn JUDGE. It will be appreciated. y = — ( io - x2) rok “ s = se comicbooks.com