Judge, 1911-05-27 · page 22 of 24
Judge — May 27, 1911 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with interspersed humor items**—typical of Judge's format. The advertisements promote consumer products (razors, whiskey, cigars, liqueurs) alongside brief comedic anecdotes. The humor pieces are short, punchy jokes with no political content. They satirize everyday situations: a Pullman naming executive supposedly earning $5,000/year for uninspired car names; a conductor's sympathy when learning a wife is leaving for six months; an investor's mining venture that only produced "gilt edges" on promotional pamphlets; and a suitor's trick proposal question about wedding dates rather than marriage itself. The cartoons—a caricatured man promoting a razor, and illustrations for whiskey and rye—use exaggerated features typical of the era but contain no identifiable political figures or references. The page reflects early 1910s consumer culture and gentle domestic humor rather than political satire.
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pene Ce Biter: Safe Shaving NO HOEING NO SCRAPING Needs No Adjusting At all the better dealers—$S.00 DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO. yesterday- and To-day 1810—1911 The connecting link between the past and the acai | Old Overholt Rye | The samo old smack—the same | ripe, mellow flavor it had in the Puritan days of its first making Distilled and Bottled in bond by A. OVERHOLT & CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. Dan t Wear a Truss STUART'S PU CAST TR PARS are diferent, rans, being made ROMELIKE’S °re2 Cettioe Barean will eend you all newspaper clippings which may sopear about you, your friems, or any subject on which you may want to be “up to date.” Every ewspaper and Heal of importance in the Uni- ted States and Europe is sea: Terms. $5.00 for 100 notices. “Henn Rowxixe, i10-112 West 26th Street, New York. Concerning Pullman Names.—That old story about the man who is drawing $5,000 a year for thinking up names for the Pullman cars is going the rounds again, We like to think there are such easy jobs in the world, but we can't bring ourselves to believe it. We have seen a lot of the Pullman names—usually on the outside of the cars—and we have found very little to impress us in their make-up. If you take the syllables and ‘‘ro,”’ and ‘‘du,”’ and ‘‘li,’ and put them in a bag, and shake them violently together, and then draw out three of the doubles, you will get a nice, clean-cut sleeping-car title. If it isn’t entirely up to your customary standard, put it on a chair car. Five thousand a year! Bah!—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. True Sympathy.—The thin man darted across the platform. “Will you hold the train a moment for my wife, conductor?” he. gasped. “She is just c! jing the street."" “Can't do it!'’ snorted the conductor, as he raised his hand to signal the en- gineer. “*B-but, conductor, she’s going away to stay six months!’’ cried the thin man. “If she doesn’t go now, she may change her mind!’ “I'll hold it,’’ replied the conductor. —Cleveland Plain Dealer, He Knew It.—‘‘Is there any money in this business that you are trying to pro- mote?” “There certainly is.’” “*How do you know?"’ “Why, I myself put ina lot.""—Phila- delphia Times. Placing Them.—She—‘‘You needn't put on such airs. You're only two noughts in the ‘upper ten,’ after all,”’ —Fliegende Blaetter. A Promising Streak.—‘‘Did you ever see any gold come out of that mining venture?” ““Well,”’ replied the investor slowly, “the booklet gotten out by the company has gilt edges.’’— Washington Star. It Finished Him. There was a man who hustled not— To luck he trusted; He would not advertise a dot— And so he rusted, And likewise busted. —Baltimore Evening Sun. He had been calling on her twice a week for six months, but had not pro- posed. He was a wise young man and therefore didn’t think it necessary. “Eth he said, as they were taking a moonlight stroll one evening, ‘‘I—er —am going to ask you an important question.” “Oh, George,’’ she exclaimed, ‘‘this is so sudden! Why, I''—— “What I want to ask is this," he in- terrupted. ‘What date have you and your mother decided upon for our wed- ding?'’—Chicago News. Caront Bitters :— Unexcelled with Lemonade, Soda, Gin, Sherry and Whisky. Indispensable for & perfect cocktail. Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St., Gen'l Distrs. : PEEELEE EEE EE ELLE EEE OES ES SSS ehh PEPEEELEEEEEEE SESE E ES Most Fitting Finale to the Festive Feast LIQUEUR bres Giharteux -GREEN AND YELLOW- Serve the Daintiest Last At Grit-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Biitjer & Co., 45 Broadway, N ‘Sole Agents for United States. EEE EEEEEEEEEEEL EEE EEE EE EEE S: i fle) F PEEPEEEEEED EES EEE EEE EEE EE EEP EES TEES EEE EERE EEE EEE EES EEEEFEF + i + i id od + ¢ + oa + + + + The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY = at your Club or Dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. “MADE AT al WwEsST— In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com