Judge, 1929-07-13 · page 2 of 36
Judge — July 13, 1929 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily a **cigarette advertisement** for Raleigh brand, published by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. The advertisement uses a historical scene depicting **Sir Walter Raleigh** meeting with a Native American woman, likely representing Pocahontas or a generic "Indian princess." The accompanying text references Raleigh as a "gentleman-adventurer" who "made tobacco popular," attempting to create historical prestige for the product. The ad's tagline—"It is blended PUFF-by-PUFF"—emphasizes the cigarette's quality. At twenty cents, this was positioned as a premium product. Rather than satire, this appears to be a straightforward branded advertisement leveraging colonial-era imagery and Raleigh's historical association with tobacco cultivation in the Americas to sell cigarettes to American consumers.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Historically, Raleigh probably never set eyes on Pocahontas, the Indian princess... but it seems fitting to show the Hew World offer ing the Old World its most gratifying of botanical achievements. For after this pretty exchange, certainly the rest is history ALEIGH was the name of a gentleman- adventurer.~a5He made tobacco popular. Raleigh is now the name of a new -.-- a boldly original and an altogether perfect cigarette. Lt is blended PUFF-by-PUFF 22 | 1) Off I[peen7r ENT. BROWN avid WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION Leuinille, Kentucky PLAIN — OR TIPPED comicbooks.com