Judge, 1919-04-12 · page 2 of 36
Judge — April 12, 1919 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is primarily a **commercial advertisement**, not political satire. The "Addressograph" company is marketing an addressing machine that automatically prints addresses on envelopes. The advertisement's premise is that human mail sorters make millions of errors, wasting postal resources. The images show postal workers processing mail and a woman at a desk—illustrating the problem of manual address-writing mistakes. The satirical angle is subtle: the headline "Why Mails Go Wrong" and caption "Some story—Some Girl, BUT the Addressograph CAN'T MAKE MISTAKES" humorously blame human error (particularly suggesting women workers are unreliable) while promoting the machine as infallible. This reflects early 20th-century attitudes toward automation and gender in the workplace, positioning machines as more dependable than human employees.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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