Judge, 1914-01-17 · page 3 of 24
Judge — January 17, 1914 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not satirical content. It's a full-page ad for the "American Correspondence School of Law" offering a purportedly "free" $100 law scholarship. The ad uses high-pressure sales tactics typical of early 20th-century mail-order education schemes: urgent language ("ACT IMMEDIATELY!", "DON'T DELAY"), promises of home-based learning, and repeated emphasis that investigation "costs nothing." The fine print reveals the catch—the "free scholarship" is given only "to advertise our school," meaning recipients must promote the institution. This appears in *Judge*, a satirical magazine, likely as an example of the dubious correspondence-school rackets that were common and frequently mocked during this era. The ad itself demonstrates the manipulative marketing practices the magazine's readers would have recognized as suspect.
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