Judge, 1928-09-22 · page 31 of 36
Judge — September 22, 1928 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with supporting humor content**. The main feature is a large advertisement for **Beeman's Pepsin Gum**, claiming it aids digestion after meals—a common health claim of early 20th-century patent medicines and consumer goods. The surrounding content consists of brief jokes and humorous observations typical of Judge magazine: - A scientific joke about kisses and electrical shock (referencing contemporary scientific discourse) - A professor/maid dialogue playing on absent-mindedness - A golf anecdote about a deceptive lawyer - A quip about marriage dissolution These are light, social humor pieces with no apparent political content. The page also advertises other period products: **Mothersill's Remedy** (for travel sickness), **M.C. Cook's Gem Clippers** (nail clippers), and a "Dream Number" future issue. The small cartoon at bottom ("The Age of Advertisement" by Humorist) appears to satirize how advertising dominates modern life, showing figures drowning in commercial messaging—a meta-commentary on the very advertisement-heavy page itself.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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