Judge, 1914-09-05 · page 2 of 24
Judge — September 5, 1914 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than political satire**. It promotes Leslie-Judge Company's new "Poster-Stamp Collecting" craze—small decorative stamps featuring movie stars, travel scenes, fairy tales, and other subjects, sold in sets for 10-25 cents. The left side displays sample stamp designs showing what appears to be silent film imagery and romantic scenes typical of 1914 entertainment. The advertisement frames stamp collecting as an educational hobby combining "instruction in art, printing, color and advertising." The bottom contains an order coupon for various stamp sets and albums. This reflects early 20th-century marketing strategy: creating collectible products to build consumer engagement and brand loyalty. **No political commentary is evident.** This is commercial promotion typical of Judge's mixed editorial-advertising format.
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Begin Your Poster-Stamp Collection! ‘The new fad—Poster-Stamp Collecting—is all the rage. It is an educational delight with all the charm of novelty, and none of the frivolity attached to the average craze. Old and young will find both knowledge and amuse- ment in Poster-Stamp collecting because it opens an avenue of instruction in art, printing, color and ad- vertising. Here is your opportunity to start a collection. 18 LESLIE-JUDGE STAMPS . . 25c 62 ADVERTISING STAMPS . . 950 (American and Foreign) ADVERTISING STAMPS—A 9 15 (Rare Subjects) * 25c ADVERTISING STAMPS — B 5 15 (Rare Subjects 25c ADVERTISING STAMPS — C 15 (are Subjects) 25c TRAVEL STAMPS ... . 37 (Views of Europe) 25c 60 FAIRY TALES STAMPS . . 2 5c (12 sets of 5 each) 18 FLOWER STAMPS . . . . J()c 24 BIRD STAMPS. . . . . « 10c 25 POULTRY STAMPS. . . 10c 12 ANIMAL STAMPS . . . . 10c 18 INDIAN STAMPS. . — 10c 22 CLASSICS and KINGS STAMPS 10c 18 SPORTS STAMPS. . . . . 10c 60 MOTION PICTURE FAVORITES 25c (10 sets of 6 each) STAMP ALBUM ..... 1 (Stax 1) 25c Special Offers ANY 3 Sets of the 10c Series. . 25c WO Stamp Albums to hold all the T Motor Picture Seige. 20c WITH each order for 25¢ of over we 4 5 will send the 25c Stamp Album for LOC ‘The Coupon is attached for your convenience Leslie-Judge Company 225 Fifth Avenue New York COUPON JE-JUDGE COMPANY, Fifth Avenue, New York. Enclosed find | Judge | Vol. LXVII September 5, 1914 Copyright 1914, by Leslie-Judge Compas. Entered at the Post-office at New nif \E “ Mt New York as second-class maz able address. “Judgark."” Telephone 66 p Published weekly by Leslie Fudge Con aee Stee Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenue, New Yerk Washington Representative ” Wyatt Building, Washington, D.C. John A. Steicher, President. Reuben P. Sleicher, Sec A. E. Rollauer, Treasurer. oan Grant E. Hamilton, Art Director, J. A. Waldron, Fé CONTENTS Cover Design: Innocence Abroad Enoch Booles Those Tortoise Shell ( ALT. Merrick Editorials: Reforming the (la | Sandwich — Britf’ Decisions |A Rondeau of Babies . Burges Johnson |The Way It Goes ‘ Walt Mason Sunset Scene * + Fred Ladd From U-rope to U(Iilusirations by Felloed c + Sue Zannak What Shall You Do? Grace McKinstry Lazytown Local News + George Bingham JUDGE'S Series of Picturesque Dances: The Tango. Charles Sarka JUDGE'S Motion Pictures Good Old-fashioned W Sometimes It Pays . What's Not in Washington a The Modern Woman: Curbside Comments . . Orcola W. Hastel Suffrage Snapshots . Ida Husted Harper From a Sinner’s Diary © Iynette Freemire About Diamond Stars. Ed A. Goewey Smiles from Overthesea, Stories with Smiles, Passieg the Mustard, Shear Steal, and Jest and Verse by JUDGE'S Humorists. Fun and Satire of Life in Pictures /y Grant Hamilton, Emit Flohrt, H. A. Petersen, Zim, W O, Wason, Garth 5, Frauk Godavin, Pas! Goold, J. Conacher, R. E. Snodgrass, Furman, Kohn, C. W. Kahies, H. Palmer, H. T. De Leonard P. Dowed, Rahilly, Low Rogers, others, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year. or 52 numbers - - = $5.00 Six months, or 26numbers == - 2.30 Thirteen weeks == = - | 135 Payable in advance by draft on New York, ot by expres of postal order. The contents of JUDGE are protected ty coprvieht t both the United States and Great Britain. Ltd., Bean's no's, Avene de arbach’s News Exchange, 16 John Street Rue de la Victoire, Paris; 1Clara Stra. tions ard advertising for all the publicatices «f judge Company will be taken at regular ratesat ary the above office: Contributors must inclose a stamped and self-sdéreeed envelope with all manuscripts, otherwise return of the ater when found unavailable cannot tw» guaranteed. ,We reevis such material, submitted for publication, only on cond ime that we shall not be heli responsible for its los or inh while in our hands or in transit. . If JupGe cannot be found at any news-stand, the poblstere will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reper Present year, 10 cents per ©797; ete. free in the United States, its depen ieucies a2 ‘To Canadian Provinces add 60 cents a yea: f6r axe; toall foreign countries add $1.00 n year. WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE: Marquette Building, Chicago, IL comicbooks.com