Judge, 1911-04-01 · page 23 of 24
Judge — April 1, 1911 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and masthead material** rather than political satire. The main content includes: **Structural elements:** - Judge magazine's publication information and subscription rates - Several brief humor snippets (dialogue jokes from various sources) **Central advertisement:** The large middle section promotes **AT&T's telephone service**, arguing for universal connectivity. The copy uses quasi-political language ("mediaeval condition") to frame limited telephone service as unacceptable, claiming every subscriber, community, and state needs access to nationwide communication networks. **Key context for modern readers:** This represents early **corporate advocacy advertising**—AT&T essentially arguing that monopoly telephone service benefits the public good. The "universal service" framing appears designed to justify centralized control of communications infrastructure. **Bottom advertisements:** The Keeley Cure advertisement for treating "liquor and drug using" reflects early-20th-century medical attitudes toward addiction as treatable illness (though methods would be considered questionable today). The page overall is more commercial than satirical.
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Judge is published weekly by the LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Western Apvertisina Orr Marquette Building, Chicago, Entered at New York as Second-class Mail Matter One year, or 62 numbers Six months, or 25 numbers Thirteen weeks - : Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, not by local checks which are at a discount in New York City. Postage free in the United States, its dependen- cies, and Mexico. To Canadian Provinces add 50 cents a year for postage ; to all foreign countries add $1.00 year. EuroreaN AGENTS — International News Com- Yewa Exchange, 16 John Street, Adelphi, 6 Rue de la Victoire, Paris; 1 Clara Hf ‘The contents of Jupce are in both the United States a Contributors must includ addressed envelope with all m return of the latter when found unavailable can- not be guaranteed. We receive such material, sub- mitted for publication, only on condition that we shall not be held responsible for its loss or injury ny news-stand, the ions if that fact be promptly reported on postal card or by letter. BACK NUM : Present year, 10 cents per 1909, 30 cents, ete. Caught. rate—*You are accused of only wish I had the chance !"" rate—‘‘It is said to be worth You can have it for twenty thousand, sir."’—Pele Mele. Mistress—“Has. Master Willie come in yet ?"" Servant—"'| think so,’m. I haven't seen him, but the cat's hidin'! ''"—/ondon Opinion. No Use. It doesn’t do you any good to hold the key to the situation if you are too lazy to turn it.—Los Angeles Times. Every lover of a good cocktail should call for Abbott's Bitters, Makes the best Financial Genius. “Do you think there is any such thing as financial ge “Tam sure there is. I know a young man who has it in a marked di e. After he had persuaded the beautiful daughter of one of our most prominent Jewelers to become his wife, he went around and induced the old man to let him have an engagement ring at the cost price.” “don’t see any indication of remark- able financial genius about that." * ait. When he and the girl broke their engagement, he took the ring back toher father and got him to pay eight per cent. interest on the money that had been invested. ".-Chicago Record-Herald. A-MEDIAEVAL CONDITION. Telephone Service— Universal or Limited? ELEPHONE users make more local than long dis- tance calls, yet to each user comes the vital demand for distant communication. No individual can escape this necessity. _It comes to all and cannot be foreseen. No community can afford to surround itself with a sound- proof Chinese Wall and risk telephone isolation. No American State would be willing to make its boun- dary line an impenetrable bar- rier, to prevent telephone com- munication with the world outside. Each telephone subscriber, each community, each State demands to be the center of a talking circle which shall be large enough to include all possible needs of inter- communication. In response to this univer- sal demand the Bell Telephone System is clearing the way for universal service. Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System American TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH Company AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Atianta, Ga. Dwight, 11 Marion, Ind. Lexington, Mass Portiand, Me Hot Springs, Art. Los Anceles, Pranct Grand Rapids, Mich. Cotumbas, 0. Kansas City, Mo. White Plains, N.Y. For Liquor and Drug Using A scientific remedy which has been skilfully and successfully administered by medical specialists for the past 31 years. At the following Keeley Institutes : Providence, R. L Philadelphia, Pa Columbia, § C. WH. MEN. Broad St. Salt LakeCity, Utah. Pittebarg. Pa fth Ave. Winnipeg. Manitoba. London, England. in answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com