Judge, 1913-04-19 · page 23 of 24
Judge — April 19, 1913 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with a minor satirical poem. The main advertised product is **Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey**, prominently featured at top center with decorative horseman icons. The satirical poem "The Train de Luxe and the Ad Man" (left column) mocks the **railroad advertising copywriter's job**—a figure struggling to compose poetic descriptions of train amenities (sleeping cars, dining service, observation decks) while meeting strict rhyme schemes. The satire suggests this is an impossibly thankless job: critics attack the ads, the writer loses sleep, and he envies hoboes stealing train rides. The joke reflects early 20th-century advertising challenges: marketing luxury rail travel required ornate, flowery language that was difficult to make both persuasive and artfully composed. The writer's suffering is played for dark humor. The page otherwise consists of various classified and display ads for hotels, tailoring services, paper goods, and other commercial products typical of Judge magazine's revenue model.
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By QSUIIIIIESEDELELISLSSTEEEEELLLELSEPEESSSLEEPEPEEEESSTSEPPPEETELLEDY THE LONG CONTINUED POPULARITY Hunter Baltimore Bs) @) Rye @&) @ EXTENDING OVER 50 YEARS, IS OF ITSELF CONVINCING PROOF THAT THE PREFERENCE GIVEN TO IT BY THE PEOPLE IS FOUNDED UPON ITS. SUPERIOR QUALITY, ABSOLUTE PURITY, AND UNIFORM EXCELLENCE Sold at all first-class cafés and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. The Train de Luxe and the Ad Man. The man who writes the railroad ads has got no lead-pipe cinch; His job is one at which a master plumber well might flinch. He goes to bed at two a. m., to dream of ads he wrote, And when he wakes, the critics howl and try to get his goat; Bat if it be required that he in pure By- ronie rhyme Shall write his ads, he’ll truly have a dickens of a time. If all his duties he performs both pleas- antly and well, He's lucky if he long remains outside a padded cell. His topics range from semaphores to manicures on trains, for railroad words to rhyme he sits and racks his throbbing brains, And envies much the hoboes stealing rides upon the trucks, Ashe proceeds to tell in verse of ‘‘Sun- ee Start a Fortune For husbands there's a clubroom; for wives a social hall— in Spare Time! 4 | Try One of Our Avalet and a ladies’ maid are at your | 0 p = Som Dry Varieties beck and call; i‘ It see have spare time formate we will buy Stenographer for business men, a barber | it/,, We pay big mones—go0d American MN) | Marini—Regular shop and bath— Write at once for the greatest offer y : Martini—Dry (mediam) The train is one of luxury, its route a ever made by aay tailoring concern on Hn Manhatar Reesor earth, eee , Manhatten Rete sunny path, i aidst orange groves, past snow-capped 1G to SIO 22% Pa Mankatan—Dry peaks, through canyons grim and grand, j ‘ At all dealers Towhere the blue Pacific foams upon its While Doing Other Work G.F.Heublein ro. |\ELTL ALLEL LLL LLL LELE LEE, MMA Lig Lh hhh hhh hhh bh bhbbbbbbbhdbbbbdbbbbbbbbbbbbbs be bbdbbbbdbbdhbdbdsr golden strand. ‘ds Back in the observation end you loll in ea i \ & bes ease and gaze Sele hres ‘Upon a thousand wonders, in wide-eyed, Hartford awed amaze, Oil-burning locomotives, too, being used, to minimize The risk of gritty cinders locating in PROGRESS TAILORING CO., Dept. 614, CHICACO your eyes: It’s easy to write poetry on dells and a ee GEMS babbling brooks, But you must be some poet to find rhymes for Trains de Luxe. The locomotive hurls apace—a monster autocratic, Electrically guarded by block signals au- WALLEY CERCA. 9179 Seba Bs tomatic. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS The porter calls you promptly—on your | PAPER WAREHOUSE wants he’s keeping tally; Nos, 32, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Your suit’s pressed by the barber, who’s Branch Warehouse, 20 Beekman Street, New York tailor and the valet. _ ALL KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER You take your morning ‘‘shower,’’ then you stroll into the diner, Where your breakfast’s served in manner HOTEL ARLINGTON Finest that no monarch could have finer. Location A pair of honeymooners come and take 18 WEST 2sth STREET the table next you Near Madison Square, New York a A pl here ladl led tected You recall their prattle later, though it Reet eee seme as In thelr own homes eres Washington really never vexed you; Twelve-story fireproof building—handsomely fur- 8 pleased with all the comforts that Sisbed rooms: codare ff all respects." Walking: these theatrical s-etions, ese Trains de Luxe afford you, Lt 4 1.50 up. Booklet. Their post-connubial chatter never fora | . AUSTIN, V. A. AUSTIN, Pop. ||] WASHINGTON D. moment bored you. ; ni a admired his fond devotion to his | “The, Hotel of American) Idecks.* “tootsey’? and his “‘ducksy,"” 7 Simone ci ta secure eyed “George, Tlove these Trains de Luxey!"" call lett Seeks an amin fos to secur —R. FP, Wilson, in The Argonaut. fay Ralmtpat, We So sete Pennsylvania Ave., at 18th & H Sts, New, Fireproof. European Plan. ji Rooms, detached bath, $1.50, $2.00 upw. My young man’s a real {ting Bureau Rooms, Private bath, $2.50, $3.00 upw. : a y, shifting you all newspaper clippings |00% Fire, Germ and Dust Proof. Hrcud of Spearmint. ‘He never blows | ficnay cay aks |] Two blocks from White House, and Near All ‘soup like a common person; he always to date.” Every ne Points of Interest. fons it with hi "— Pe eas i LEY is hat.""—Pennsylvania in the United Si hed. Ter ‘Write for Souvenir Book- CUFFORD M. LEWIS $5.00 for 100 notices. HENRY ROMEIKE, 106-110 Ser oy et E. with May ‘Manager. nol, Avenue, New York. ja al a In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE, It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com