Judge — May 22, 1915 — page 2: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily a **product advertisement for Nujol mineral oil**, not political satire. The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) marketed Nujol as a constipation treatment. The ad uses **World War I as a marketing angle**, claiming that during the war, America lost access to Russian mineral oil (previously imported through German and Belgian refineries). This created a supply crisis, but doctors had discovered mineral oil's medical benefits for constipation treatment. The company positioned Nujol as solving this wartime shortage while meeting genuine medical demand. The two bottles shown are product images. There's **no cartoon or satire**—this is straightforward advertising leveraging wartime circumstances to promote a laxative product.