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Judge — October 25, 1919 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Prince Albert Tobacco Advertisement This page is primarily a **commercial advertisement**, not political satire. It promotes Prince Albert brand pipe and cigarette tobacco, manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Winston-Salem, N.C.). The ad features a man smoking a pipe, emphasizing the product's appeal to casual smokers. The tagline "the national joy smoke" and text like "kicks the 'pip' right out of a pipe" use colloquial, friendly language to market the tobacco. Notably, the ad makes health claims typical of early 20th-century tobacco marketing—asserting the product "can't bite your tongue or parch your throat" due to a "patented process." This reflects pre-regulation advertising standards, before tobacco health risks were widely acknowledged or regulated.
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CRIMP Curt LONG BURNING PIPE AND CIGARETTE TOBACCO PPY red bags, tidy red tira, handsome pound end half-pound tin humidorr— and—that classy, proctical pound crystal lass humidor with sponge moistener top thet keeps the tobacco in such perfect condition, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Salem, N.C. O use arguing about it, or making chin-music in a minor key! If you've got the jimmy-pipe-notion or cigarette rolling ’em idea cornered in your smokeappetite, slip in a few liberal loads of Prince Albert! And, you'll sign the longest lease you can,hook up to on about the cheerfulest brand of in-and-out-door sport that ever did ramble up Broadway or down Lost Creek trail! Boiled down to regular old between- us-man-talk, Prince Albert kicks the “pip” right out of a pipe! Puts pipe pleasure into the 24-hours-a-day joy’us class. Gives smokers more fun to the square inch than they, or you, ever dug out of a pipe before! Prince Albert makes a pipe or ciga- rette a peace party at both ends and the middle! Just hums and hums the soothingest symphony of smoke content that ever sifted its happy way into a man’s system! P. A. is so fragrant, so fascinating in flavor, so refreshing! And, you run plumb-fair against the astounding fact that Prince Albert can’t bite your tongue or parch your throat! Because, our exclusive patented process cuts out bite and parch! Why, you can’t get orders in fast enough to try to buy up the supply for a long, long spell!