Judge, 1931-01-10 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 10, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily a cigarette advertisement**, not satire or political commentary. It's a Spud menthol cigarettes ad from the Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company (Louisville, Kentucky). The advertisement uses a business office scene showing a man at a desk with a woman standing nearby. The tagline "Do you smoke your way 'back to normalcy'?" appears to reference the post-WWI period when "return to normalcy" was a common phrase. The ad's pitch: during busy times returning business to normal, smokers consume more cigarettes than usual. Spud's menthol cooling supposedly keeps your mouth fresh despite increased smoking. The ad emphasizes "clean taste" and "moist-cool" sensation. This reflects early-to-mid 20th century cigarette marketing before health warnings, when smoking was normalized in professional settings.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Do you SMOKE YOUR WAY “BACK TO NORMALCY“? Keep a Clean Taste with Cooler Smoke! In these days of pulling business back to normal... do you smoke more than your normal quota of cigarettes? Then you should experience Spud’s cooler, cleaner smoke... and the joy of being continually “mouth-happy”. You | should feel the way Spud leaves your *. mouth moist-cool and comfortably clean $ Pp U D cat / ...no matter how long a session you have with Spud’s lusty tobacco fragrance. Come MENTHOL-COOLED ~~ on, switch to Spud and learn Spud’s CIGARETTES Perv » ~) always-clean taste ... the grand new free- 20 FOR 20c (U.S)... 20 FOR 30c (CANADA) . Ss dom in old-fashioned tobacco enjoyment. THE AXTON-FISHER TOBACCO COMPANY, INC., LOUISVILLE, KY. 2 comicbooks.com