Judge, 1885-06-13 · page 14 of 16
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What you’re looking at
This page from **Judge** magazine contains primarily **humorous anecdotes and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The text pieces mock everyday situations: A man with poor spatial memory constantly loses items in his own study; a German druggist's incomprehensible accent creates comic misunderstanding; various romantic entanglements among young people involve parlor matches and jealous rivals. The satire is **social rather than political**—targeting human foibles like pretension, romantic scheming, and linguistic confusion. The German druggist's exaggerated dialect humor reflects common period stereotypes. The page is dominated by **patent medicine advertisements** (Brown's Iron Bitters, Duffy's Whiskey, Bird's Custard Powder) making inflated health claims—typical of Gilded Age publishing. These ads ironically illustrate the very medical quackery Judge might mock editorially elsewhere. The overall tone is **genteel, middle-class humor** with no apparent broader social commentary.
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SI ladoze ¢ “Who ish your pishness any- || i and nothing helps her. | Tam sorry, for I ; | "TE like her, but that doesn’t make uny less “Tam an expr ; but what has that | Cable for one to be around her.” got todo with it? | | he had used Dr. Sage’s Catarrh ~ “ Muldux in bar vo, ¢ Remedy, there would have been nothing of excited druggist. |] the kind said, for it cures catarrh every time. Der ribbin, und | ——— around dot you ha ven : UNFAVORABLY LOCATED. L sto it iM i t | Old Uncle Mose met Sam Joh vork i: & ow now him, und you bet | 5 IRON | him: : w | “TL hear, Sam, you am going to lead ter de \ seanser Tt CUEE | || altar one ob Austin’s fairest daughters. Am * * © * Nervous debility, pre BILIOUSNESS, | DYaeErsn” dat de fac decline of power in either sex, speec NERVOUS, PROSTRAT Uncle Mose, hit am de fac dat I has permanently cured. ge book, three let- | MADARIA, ] ‘] been payin’ my distresses ter de lubly and ter stamps.” Consultation free.” World's | TIRED } accomplished Miss Matildy Suowball, butde Dispensary Medical Association, Butfalo, | yygyey | tender relation which has desisted between N.Y ,™ us am severed forebber, sah, cement aie Da RHEUMATISM, RAL * Did she kick yer, sammy, or did she only OUR TELEPHONE GIRL. KIDNEY and LIVER TROUBLES, set the dog on yer?” The telephone girl was angry with the | FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS , sah. She lubs me yit, and she world—augry with the wires—angry with | Tee Genaise bas Trade Stare and cromed red ines oo wrapper. wanted’ me to call on her twict a day, sah, | the exchanges—angry with its patron—angry | TAKE NO OTHER. iI but she libs next door to de cullud lady who | with herself. 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