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What you’re looking at
**Main Content:** This page is primarily **advertisements** rather than political satire. The top features a Gem Damaskeene Razor ad using a nursery rhyme format ("Mary, Mary, quite contrary") to sell razors as a solution for tough beards. The cartoon imagery shows exaggerated male and female figures in period dress as visual hook. **Secondary Advertisement:** The Hotel McAlpin ad emphasizes that despite European War food price increases affecting New York hotels and restaurants, *this* hotel has maintained moderate tariffs and quality service. **Historical Context:** Published October 1914, this reflects early WWI impact on American commerce and pricing—the war had recently begun in Europe (August 1914), creating supply and cost concerns visible in contemporary advertising.
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“Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does Pop’s beard grow?” “It’s tough and thick, But comes off quick With GEM DAMASKEENE, you know!” Men with tough beards and tender skin shave with confidence in the GEM DAMASKEENE RAZOR—proof of its superior cutting qual- | ities—make a ten days’ test for yourself, and if it's not the greatest razor you've ever used, return it to your dealer and | get your dolla-—we stand behind the dealer. sy ALL LIVE DEALERS buys the GEM DAMASKEENE Razor Outfit complete in gen- uine leather case, together with 7 GEM DAMASKEENE Blades and extra stropping handles. GEM CUTLERY COMPANY, Incorporated NEW YORK CANADIAN BRANCH 591 ST. CATHERINE, W., MONTREAL Judge Vol. LXVIL October 10, 1914 No. 1721 = ——= Copyright 1914, by Leslie-Judge Company, Entered at the Post-office at New York as second-class maz matter. Cable address, “Judgark."" Telephone 6632 Madison Square Published weekly by Leslie-Judge Company, Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, | ‘Washington Representative Wyatt Building, Washington, D.C. John A. Steicher. President. Reuben P. Sleicher, Sec'y, A. E. Rollauer, Treasurer. Grant E. Hamilton, Art Director. J. A. Waldron. Ei c Oo Ts? Cover Design: tinued 2 we. BL AL Furman JUDGE Observes the Coming of Autuma . . . Frank Godwin Editorials: ‘American Humor” || Too Bad! Too bad! Net Sot | Lricf Decisions e 3 |Quasiquips =. ws | The Professor ‘ . || A Moving Picture Scenario: The | Uncertainties of Life Nathan M. Levy In Our Town =... Liyrom Williams Chuckwagon Cal on Prejudice Arthur Chapman ||A Penalty of Extra-punctuality (Ultustration by Felloe) . J. A, Waldros To Corydon: Delinquent . John Kendrick vary JUDGE'S Motion Pictures: Saved by the Enemy . ° Advice to the Skopworn || The Difference (lustration in What's Not in Washington From a Sinners Diary . | Twenty Paces . Geo. B. Moreweed ) Another One Fooled Cameron Fergusea |The Modern Woman: Curbside | Comments =... Oreola WW’, Haskell | Suffrage Snapshots *. — Jda Husted Harper A Woman Cannot Go to War Lida Keck Wiggiss About Diamond Stars =. Ef A. Goeseey » Laughs from Other Lands, Stories with Smiles, Wit the College Wits, Passing the Mustard, and Jest and Verse by JUDGE'S Humorists. N TEN To Be Con- Don Bregenzer Walt Mason George Carlson T. kK. Corless Maurice Switzer Francis X. Oswald Lynette Freemire IIE Hotel McAlpin wishes to make public statement that despite the fact the [uropean War has caused an advance in food prices and de- spite the fact that many hotels and restaurants in New York are said to have increased their prices. —the notably moderate tariffs in all departments of the hotel, which have served to emphasize the unique excellence of its as, food and service, will continue to prevail. accol HOTEL M‘ALPIN Broadway & 34 % St., New York mod Management MERRY & BLOOMER The Comedy of Life in Pictures by Grant E. Ham Emil Flohri, H. A. Petersen, Zim, W. Smid i, Barksdale Rogers, F. 1. Fithian, Pe eford Young, Ray Rohn, J. Conacko, Held, R. Vee Aferd, cers, and others Broadh | Goold, Crasey CW. Kahle, Wood Cowan, Buren, Louis Fancher, Joseph Edeward S G. Peter, H. T. Denison, Low R SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, or 52 numbers = =~ Six months, or 26 numbers - : Thirteen weeks - - . - 0 Payable in advance by draft on New York, or by exp stal order. DGE are protected by nited States and Great ‘Wm. Dawson & copyright # ritasn. The contents of both the Evrorean AG subscriptions and advertising for all the publicaticss ¢ TaalleJodee Company will be taken at regular ratesat s57¢ the above office: Contribitors must inclose a stamped and relf-scdrere | envelope with all manuscripts, others ise return of the li | when found unavailable cennot te guaranteed. We rece such material, submitted for publication, only on coed te that we shall not be heli responsible for its lore or iti | whi ur hands or in transit. 1 If Jupce cannot be found at any news stand, the publide | will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reperted® postal card or by letter. = BACK NUMBERS: ' Present year, 10 cents per copy: 10 cents; 1912, 20 cents, ete. fi Postage free in the United States, its dependencies Mexico. To Canadian Provinces add 60 cents a year for 9 ‘age; toall foreign countries add $1.00 a vear. WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE: Marquette Building, Chicago, Il. comicbooks.com