Judge — September 14, 1929 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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# Raleigh Cigarettes Advertisement This is primarily a **cigarette advertisement**, not political satire. It promotes Raleigh cigarettes at twenty cents per pack (plain or tipped), manufactured by Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. The advertisement features packaging imagery and a historical portrait—likely Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan explorer and colonizer for whom the brand is named. The phrase "Blended puff-by-puff" emphasizes the product's smoking quality. The tagline claims that at twenty dollars (presumably per carton), the cigarettes "couldn't please more people nor please any people more"—a paradoxical claim suggesting universal appeal or acceptance. This reflects early-to-mid 20th-century tobacco marketing before health warnings were required.