Judge, 1911-03-18 · page 19 of 24
Judge — March 18, 1911 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical humor pieces and advertisements typical of early 1900s American magazines. **Top cartoon**: A joke about insurance fraud. A man named "Fatty" insures cigars, smokes them, then claims fire damage. Rather than laughing at the insurance company, he's arrested for arson—the joke being his scheme backfired spectacularly. **Middle section**: Editor J. Stanley Browne's testimonial letter praising Postum (a coffee substitute), claiming it cured his indigestion. This is advertisement disguised as editorial content—common practice then. **"His Bad Break"**: A short joke where an elderly woman shows a man old family photographs. He tactlessly suggests the house shouldn't still be standing after 30-40 years, implying poor construction. **Bottom cartoon**: A visual pun on "The Horse"—shows a woman on a horse; the caption references she's "had a knock in the eye also," playing on colloquial expressions. **Right side**: Advertisements for Trimble Whiskey and Pears' Soap, emphasizing gentlemanly sophistication and complexion benefits respectively. The page reflects early advertising methods blending editorial content with commercial promotion.
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Tit-Bits. Flipson—‘‘Young Fatty has got the laugh turned against him in his little joke against the Blazes Fire Insurance Company.” Flopson—'*How?"" Flipson—*He insured five hundred cigars, smoked them, and then sent in a claim on the ground that they were de- stroyed by fire.’? Flopson—‘*And they laughed at him, ‘No; they had him arrested on a charge of setting fire to his own property."" Some probable investors were being shown over a building estate in the country. “Come this way, gentlemen,’ the agent said, ‘‘on the rising ground, and you can see how the land lies.” “Or the land agent,’ quietly re- marked one of the party. Editor Browne OF THE ROCKFORD MORNING STAR. “About seven years ago I ceased drinking coffee to give your Postum a trial. “T had suffered acutely from various forms of indigestion and my stomach had become so disordered as to repel al- most every sort of substantial food. My general health was bad. At close intervals I would suffer severe attacks which confined me in bed for a week or more. Soon after changing from coffee to Postum the indigestion abated, and in a short time ce: d entirely. I have continued the daily use of your excellent Food Drink and assure you most cor- dially that I am indebted to you for the relief it has brought me. “Wishing you a continued success, I am, “Yours very truly, “J. Stanley Browne, **Managing Editor." Of course, when a man’s health shows he can stand coffee without trouble, let him drink it, but most highly organized brain-workers simply cannot. The drugs natural to the coffee berry affect the stomach and other organs and thence to the complex nervous system, throwing it out of balance and producing disorders in various parts of the body. Keep up this daily poisoning and serious disease generally supervenes, So when man or woman finds that coffee is a smooth but deadly enemy and health is easy to find out if coffee be the cause of the troubles, for if left off 10 days and Postum be used in its place and the sick and diseased conditions begin to disappear, the proof is unanswerable. Postum is not good if made by short boiling. It must be boiled full 15 min- utes after boiling begins, when the crisp flavor and the food elements are brought out of the grains and the beverage is ready to fulfill its mission of palatable comfort and renewing the cells and nerve centers broken down by coffee. ‘There's a Reason.” Get the little book, ‘The Wellville,”’ in packages. Ever read the above letter? A mew one appears from time totime. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. Road to ow wen 2 uu do Drink. drink Trim Vi “A dinner, coffee and cigars, Of friends, a half a score, Each favorite vintage in its turn, ‘What man could wish for more?” WHITE, HENTZ & CO. Phils: tadiNew York Whiskey Green Label. ESTABLISHED 1793 His Bad Break. Miss Elderly (showing photographs) ‘And this is the dear old house where I was born."’ Mr. Dopey—“Still standing? Well, well! They don’t build them nowadays so that they last more than thirty or forty years.’’—Boston Transcript. THE HORSE—“SO SHE'S HAD And That's No Joke, Either. ““Man’s a funny proposition!’” What now?"" “‘When he reads a medical book, he fancies he has every disease described; but let him read the work of a moralist, and all the faults pointed out he sees not in himself, but in his neighbor.'’—Boston Transcript. "Arf a hinch, ‘arf a hinch,’ Arf a hinch honward, ’Ampered be ‘obble skirts, "Opped the ‘‘400."" —Dartmouth Jack o’ Lantern. Defined. What is a socialist, you ask. This, perhaps, will make it clear: One who'll divide with you his thirst, If you'll divide your beer. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy for their children. 25c a bottle. A KNOCK IN THE EYE ALSO.” —Paris L Indiseret, Pears Pears’ Soap has never offered premiums to induce sales. It is, in for the itself, a prize complexion. Established in 1789, In answering advertirements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com