Judge, 1911-11-04 · page 3 of 24
Judge — November 4, 1911 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than editorial satire. The main feature is a full-page advertisement for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and associated Bell System companies. The ad's headline, "In the Bell Democracy," uses democratic rhetoric to market telephone service, claiming membership provides "equal opportunity for every man" to communicate regardless of location. The accompanying photograph shows a rural/snowy scene with people and what appears to be an airplane, illustrating Bell's reach into remote areas. The ad emphasizes the Bell System's infrastructure (12,000,000 miles of wire) as binding together "the social and business activities of a people." A smaller boxed advertisement below promotes Judge magazine's Thanksgiving issue.
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JUDGE Vol. LXI. No. 1568 911, by Leslie-Judge Company. Pub- tad at the Post-ottice at New York st -Judge Company. Bruns- Fifth Ave.. New York. er. Pres't. Reuben P. Sleicher. Sec’y. ‘AE. Rollauer Ass't Treas. CONTENTS: Cover Desiga, “ His Bill for Sweets” Cartoon, “What the Rochester Chamber of Commerce Says” Am Appeal to Reason = William J. Lampton Providence and Us - Walbur D. Nesbit The Days of Forty-nine - - Walt Kuhn Barglars in the Uplift Charles Phelps Cushing Editorials : A Country Afraid of Itself A Bathtub for Every Indian South Carolina in the Limelight Fool Educators A Bilt to Title Unmarried Men Anent Marriage Fees In Memoriam—Richard K. Munkittrick See America First = - Strickland Gillilan “Weld by the Enemy” - + Emil Flohri Notes from the Basswood Bugle Roy K. Moulton Making It Clear - © - Ellis Parker Butler “Hard Job To Keep Him On” Grant E. Hamilton - Horace Dodd Gastit Herbert Adams Homer Croy Now Is the Time - In the Street - - - We Have With Us To-night = - Etc. Etc, Ete. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, ‘One year, or 2 numbers - $5.00 Six months, or 26 numbers = + 260 Thirteen weeks - = ee 1.25 Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on || New York, or by express or postal order. Postage free in the United States, its dependen- cies, Mexico. To Canadian Provinces add 60 cents a year for postage; to all foreign countries add $1.00 a year, 'Opera, Pia "s News Exchange, 16 John Street, Adelphi, | London; 56 Rue de la Victoire, Puris; 1 Clara Strasse, Mainz, Germany. Subscriptions and advertising for all the publi- tations of Laeslie-Judge Company will be takes at regular rates at any of th offices. Contributors must include addressed envelope with all Teturn of the latter when found una suaranteed. We receive such material, submit- ted for publication, only on condition that we shall Bot be held responsible for its Joss or injury while ‘a our hands or in transit. If Junge cannot be found at any news-stand, the tablishers will be under obligations if that fact be J] "amet reported on postal card or by letter. ACK NUMBERS : Present year, 1 py: 1910.29 conte: 150, Boeents, eta) 0s OF I] ,, The,contents of Junce are protected wright la both the United States and Great Britain Western Apvertisya Orrice: Marquette Building, Chicago, IIL In the Bell Democracy Membership in the tele- phone democracy of the Bell System means equal opportunity for every man, no matter who he is or where he is. Each member of this Bell democracy has the same chance of communication, limited only by the distance the voice can be carried. However remote, whether in the adobe house on the Rio Grande, on the Montana sheep ranch or in the iso- lated New England farm house, the Bell telephone is an open doorway to the Universal Bell System. From each Bell outpost run lines that connect it with the central office—that nerve center of the local system. Long distance and toll lines connect these nerve centers and furnish clear tracks for telephone talk throughout the land. 12,000,000 miles of wire are the highways over which 20,000,000 telephone talks are carried daily. The Bell System binds together the social and busi- ness activities of a people in a shoulder -to-shoulder march of progress. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System Universal Service AFTER YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER take a nice easy chair, in a quiet, cheery spot, and a copy of the Thanksgiving Number of JUDGE. You'll be thankful for this tip. At all newsstands—November 25th—10 cents a copy or direct by mail. LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY 225 Fifth Avenue - - New York In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. City comicbooks.com