Judge, 1920-02-28 · page 2 of 36
Judge — February 28, 1920 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is predominantly **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The main content promotes a 12-volume encyclopedia set titled "Famous Men and Women of History: Remarkable Characters All," published by Brunswick Subscription Company, priced at $1.00 with coupon. The left side features an illustration labeled "Genghis Khan and Queen Khatun" drawn by J.E. Allen. The advertisement emphasizes historical figures like Julius Caesar, Queen Elizabeth, Alfred the Great, and Cleopatra, marketed as educational material featuring "real life" stories that are "stranger than fiction." The page represents early 20th-century direct-mail marketing targeting middle-class readers seeking self-improvement through historical knowledge—a common advertising approach in Judge magazine during this period.
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500 WIVES esides a numerous retinue of females of the sort often mentioned in Holy Writ and once found in the menage of every Oriental despot failed to subdue the fiery spirit of Genghis Khan. At an age when most men would be resting on their laurels. Genghis was out looking for more trouble—and trouble a plenty he found ade—up to the day of his death, at the age of 65. It makes fascinating reading—the story of this son of a petty Mongolian Chief, born in a tent on the shore of the Hoang-ho, who became one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen, and who left an empire vastly greater in extent than that of Rome when she was mistress of the world. It’s a story the like of which you never read before, telling of the manners, customs, and modes of life, of the sports and pastimes of strange Oriental peoples—of Gargantuan feasts and barbaric revels; of the countless lordes of nomads who, combining under the leadership of Genghis Khan, scaled the Great Wall and conquered Northern China, swept across the Mongolian steppes even to the banks of the Dnieper in Russia, overran Asiatic Turkey and pene- trated Leyond the confines of India. This sanguinary and ruthless barbarian, even as William Hohen- zollern, claimed to be an object of the special favor of God. But Genghis, being a man of rare personal courage and possessing many statestaanlike qualities, managed to get away with it, and wonderful to relate—But read this strange story yourself, one of many stories out of real life that are just as interesting, written by the famous Genghis Khan historian, Abbott, and found in and ‘ Queen Khatun 4 Famous Men and Women of History Remarkable Characters All JULIUS CAESAR, JOSEPHINE Stranger ler, statesman, warrior, jurist. wri nape sePiet and divorced than Fiction : : le fortune No other set of books ever written shows so con- vincingly that Fiction ever lags after Truth, that the : wildest: imaginings of me LFRE! RE. . . romancer after all fall far r Pig Masta asf i ion pd at Ag short of the real facts of itunies at. the very Teginnine of the ONLY $12! 00 » NOW couten History. The Romantic facts that the authors have brought out in strong relief Second in this. series, giv the . lives of the world’s most famous characters, demon- strate how unfruitful is in- vention, and how cold and barren is imagination, in MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED contrast with what life it- MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY self can show in those ever scsaat os , —— ee ee ee changing circumstances BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION COMPANY 418 Brunswick Building i 3600 Pages—Large, Clear that pmake, of every fully WILLIAM THE! CONQUEROR [ ame Type—Extra Heavy |“ 4 f the British Empire; the man J depths, t P Paper—Rich Cloth Bind- the liv ing—12 Volumes—Each instead of being ¢ Volume 7!4 x 5!4 inches cumstances to their w ine Anronerse -Full-Page Illustra- }!vsble lessons fle : Beau tim of th tions in Sepia. is ever the mother of . , CLEOPATRA A royal V. AMS 42.2896 comicbooks.com