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Judge — September 14, 1912 — page 22: Judge, 1912-09-14

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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial cartoons. It contains: **Main Content:** - Large Budweiser advertisement featuring an eagle logo, emphasizing the brewery's massive scale (140 acres, 110 buildings, 6,500 employees, producing 1.5 million barrels annually in 1911) - Hotel Imperial advertisement for a New York City luxury hotel - Old I.W. Harper Whiskey advertisement **"Stories with Smiles" Section** (right column): Three brief humorous anecdotes unrelated to the ads: 1. A stammering man unable to communicate his desired floor to an elevator operator 2. A man with a worthless cow who changes his mind after the auctioneer's sales pitch 3. (Partially visible) **Historical Context:** This appears to be from **1912** (referencing 1911 sales figures). There is **no political satire** on this page—it's a commercial publication displaying period advertising and light humor pieces typical of Judge magazine's format.

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Budweiser At the Top Bottled with crowns or corks only at the Home Plant in St. Louis The Anheuser-Busch Brewery Covers an area of 140 acres of ground, equal to 70 city blocks, upon which are located 110 individual buildings. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES Refrigerator freight cars - 1,500 Horses at home plant - 143 Wagons at home plant 78 Auto Trucks at home plant 74 Horses at Branches Wagons at Branches CAPACITY 2,500,000 barrels per year 2,000,000 bushels per year 1,000,000 bottles daily 1,750,000 bushels 600,000 barrels 12,000 horse power 4,000 horse power 4,000 tons per day Brewing Capacity > Maiting Capacity - Bottling Works - - Grain Storage Elevators Stockhouses (for lagering) Steam Power Plant - Electric Power Plant - Refrigerator Plant Ice Plants - Coal used 4.300 tone ber day Auto Trucks at Branches 325 tons ver day EMPLOYES At St. Louis Plant At 36 Branches 6,000 people 1,500 people FREIGHT Inbound and outbound - 50,000 cars per year Total Sales, 1911—1,527,832 Barrels Budweiser Bottled Beer Sales, 1911 —173,184,600 Bottles | HOTEL IMPERIAL NEW YORK CITY Broadway at Thirty-first and Thirty-second Streets For convenience of location. For excellence of cuisine and efficient yet unobtrusive service For comfortable and luxurious surroundings, not bizarre but elegant. For its atmosphere of hospitality and a desire to cater to the comfort of our patrons. THE IMPERIAL CANNOT BE EXCELLED And in addition rates surprisingly reasonable should induce you to select the Imperial as your stopping place while in Nev Hotel Imperial offers unusual Rates for suites by season or year quoted on app! Booklet with r: tions and advantages to those desiring a convenient city residence. jon to the Manager upon request. ROBERT STAFFORD, Proprietor COPELAND TOWNSEND, Manager Stories with Smiles, No Place for Stammerers.—Tom Me. Neal tells of a Kansas man who stuttery badly. He visited Chicago and got ints the elevator of one of the skyscrapers, He worked his jaw frantically, but couldn't get the elevator boy to under. stand what floor he wanted until he had been carried up fourteen stories about where he wanted to go. Then he came down to the lower floor and started up again. After he had gone through this performance several times, he stepped out in disgust and hunted up the gent who was directing the running of the elevators, ‘‘S: "he stammered, “‘wew-w-w-would y-you m-mind speakin’ t-to th-th-that f-f-fel-feller in th-that cage? I wa-wa-wa-want t-to st-st-stop at the s-s-six-sixth f-floor, b-b-but b-be- fore [ can s-s-say s-s-sixth h-he has me up t-to t-the t-t-t-twenty-s-seventh.”— Kansas City Star. Increase in Value.—Ikey had a cow that was practically worthless. It was going blind and hadn’t given a dropof milk in years. So Ikey decided to take it to the auction and get rid of it at any Pp dow much am/‘I bid for this thor oughbred, prize Jersey cow?’ thundered the auctioneer, ‘*She’s solid and hearty, gives two quarts of rich, creamy milka day, has a calf every year, she’s geo “Vait, vait!"’ interrupted Ikey. “I didn’t know vat a fine cow dot va I've changed my mind. I von't sell ber now."'—Mack's National Monthly. THE KIND YOUR GRANDFATHER USED STILL THE BEST. Note style oF bottling This is the Guaranteed Onginal Package. ‘ A taste that you can recognize and a smoothness that you will remember."* BERNHEIM DISTILLING CO. Louisville, Ky. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com