Judge, 1926-10-16 · page 2 of 36
Judge — October 16, 1926 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Allerton Club Residences Advertisement This page is primarily **advertising, not satire**. It promotes the Allerton Club Residences in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago as affordable luxury housing for professional men. The illustration depicts two businessmen—one seated reviewing documents, another standing—suggesting a respectable, productive atmosphere. The advertisement's pitch is straightforward: men of means seeking refinement on a budget could maintain their social status affordably here. Key selling points include "carefully selected personnel," rest rooms, reading rooms, and exercise facilities—marketed as enabling ambitious men's advancement ("on his way to the top"). At $12-22 weekly with modest transient rates ($2.50-$5), this represents early-20th-century urban residential club culture targeting upwardly-mobile professionals who wanted community and respectability without extravagant cost.
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Rates $12 to$22 aweek —Transient Rates: $2.50,$3.00,$3.50. No initiation fees. (No dues. Junior executives and college men recently graduated will find it possi- ble to make special arrangements for double rooms whereby costs may be reduced to as low as $7. Dicn IFIED CLUB LIFE at moderate cost EN who have always been accustomed to the M finest in living —maintain their high standard and yet live within their budget at the Allerton Club Residences. Here are business and professional men (mostly from college) who want an atmosphere of quiet and refinement together with prices that fit their present income. Acarefullyselected personnel. Real rest rooms, read- ing rooms, completely equipped exercise rooms. All the advantages club life affords—at a price that makes it convenient for the man on his way to the top. ALLERTON CLUB RESIDENCES New York Cleveland Chicago comicbooks.com