Judge, 1914-05-30 · page 9 of 24
Judge — May 30, 1914 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**"The Prince of Advertising Fakers"** (top cartoon): Uncle Sam confronts a man named Thomas about advertising deception. The cartoon satirizes fraudulent advertising schemes prevalent in the era. Uncle Sam represents the government/authority figure calling out false claims—a common Progressive-era theme of exposing con artists and fake advertisers who exploited consumers with exaggerated product claims. **"All She Got Was Sympathy"**: A brief gag about a charity worker offering hollow condolences (a quarter and "wire her my condolences") rather than substantive help to a poor woman—satirizing performative charity. **"A Shrunken Fortune"**: A domestic humor joke where a wife's physical appearance has declined since marriage, playing on the period's cynical view of marriage and women's aging. The remaining text consists of filler humor pieces and local news parodies typical of Judge's miscellaneous content sections.
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THE PRINCE OF ADVERTISING FAKERS Uncle Sam—Better hurry up, Thomas. Your tea'll be getting cold. left there by the stenographer. Something impelled him to All She Got Was Sympathy open it and start to read. ae ; ; Ten minutes later a crash brought the force flocking into |, Charity worker — un a are for a poor woman Battersby’s office again. They found him stretched full length 4 ° ; mc lal on ‘the floor; ‘uncanscious,,a: book convaléively:clutched in hts “0¥—Herels'aiquarter:, Wire. her my‘consolences, fingers, The specialist was summoned. Under his direction eer Battersby was revived. Unsteadily he arose. Deen tS “T have it!’? he cried exultantly, holding up the book. Then, to an employe, “Go get me everything this woman has written." Answered “‘Now, my good man,”’ said the bullying young prosecuting attorney, ‘‘you say your name is Johnson and that you live at Medicine Hat. What, may | ask, is your occupation?”’ “Occupation?’? queried the witness. ‘‘Oh, I farm part of the hatband.’’ Latest News from Hogwallow, Ky. The rural mail carrier out of Rye Straw is starting a movement to arrange everybody on the route in alphabetical order. The editor of the Tickville Tidings has ordered a new lot of A SHRUNKEN FORTUNE Periods, and now his subscribers can stop reading whenever Hattie—You knew ray face was my fortune before you married me. they want to. —George Bingham. Mattie—Yes ; but it looked bigger to me then. comicbooks.com