Judge, 1929-04-27 · page 32 of 36
Judge — April 27, 1929 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. The main illustration shows a couple with the caption "You did Right!" — likely promoting Bayer Aspirin, which dominates the left side of the page. The Aspirin ad emphasizes safety and effectiveness for various ailments (headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds), reflecting early 20th-century pharmaceutical marketing that made health claims now considered dubious or illegal. The phrase "You did Right!" suggests the couple made a wise health decision by using Aspirin. Below are additional period advertisements: one for "Be King" (unclear product), another for Atlantic City's Chelsea hotel, and Vittel mineral water promoting "alkalinity" as essential to health—a pseudo-scientific wellness claim common to the era. The page also contains a crossword puzzle ("Judge's Crossword Puzzle No. 101"), which was popular entertainment in magazines of this period. There is no obvious political satire visible on this particular page.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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