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This is primarily a **magazine/advertising page** rather than a coherent satirical composition. The main content is the magazine's **$100 reward offer** for the "most original idea for a colored cartoon"—a contest aimed at readers, to be illustrated by notable cartoonist **Mr. Gillam** (Bernard Gillam, a prominent Judge contributor). The page includes multiple **product advertisements** (breakfast cocoa, cream balm, safes, tailors' services) typical of 19th-century periodicals, along with excerpts of **positive press reviews** praising Judge's political cartoons and wit. A brief humorous anecdote appears at bottom ("Played It Too Well") about a man avoiding creditors by using handcuffs as a disguise—a light joke about social embarrassment rather than political satire. The page demonstrates Judge's self-promotion, its reliance on advertising revenue, and its positioning as America's premier satirical publication for illustrators and humorists. No specific political figures or events are identifiable from this scan.

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———E—E—E————EE———E JUDGE. Ay Mustrated SECURITY MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, NO. B BROADWAY OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. ONLY TWELVE ASSESSMENTS Have been levied from ISST to TSS86, three a year, and mak the cost for toa man of 40 years but $1.40 a ye $1,000 of insur Send for Circulars fF Nemunerati Agents Wanted ! fered energetic and at HOW TO USE CRE AM BALM particle of the Malm CaATARRH pontrtt and deaw rong Iewttt sing and healing the tt allay ta. prevents fresh flarnmat colls NOT A LIQUID OR SNUFF. CHICKS BY to explate. 7 ts Cor 3 pps book GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. BAKER'S Breakfast Cocoa. Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the excess of Oil haa been removed. It has three times the strength of Cocon mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and tatherefore far more eevcoral- H cal sting dess than one cent @ cups It ta deltetour, 00 wrengtbeniag, caatly digest hidmirably adapted for tav tell as for persons in bealth. W. BAKER % C0., Dorchester, Mass, | the $100 for pocket mor | had the shack got into Solomon's temple in warm weather.— Albany Journal, Jupar, is ment under its new 1 the handsomest ilustrated§ lished, —Journal aud Conrier It is said the pers puly Little'Pull. N'Y" this way with comet is ¢ WW) mniles tor Into stop the assertion th are the longest in existenc a Daroit Free s fall of difficulties, but Je up his mind gs in the world for s to aulinit to his wife that he hasbeen g.— Washington Republic, has become one of the brightest ted. Its political cartoons and its uts on the follies of the day, together with its terse paragraphs, cause it tO h wide-spread cireulation.—Batavia Daily Neu » offers $100 for a tunny cartoon, senate chamber during a executive session tl its next issue. Perhaps bent to the ludicrous would gh papers of its kind ever pul strictly American in polities and vie wish it successand continued prosperity.—Daily Bulletin, Haverhill, Mass, everybody except t Mr. Morris puts that ide: himself in a Free Press, Our rejuvenated friend, the it after every week at the eg Jepar, is much |} Irave | its spirited car- =. The form and fas portrayed. this ny New Yorkers here, k mere pplause given it. murnal. for its numbers show oth in the literary nd the r i With wit, sense Republican Its. JeDae is most welee high intelli (work and in the iMusteation Jepae, will tind its pa and richness, It is, tion, and as such is will be to defend columns will aly ryguments upon th and n industries found to teem with live Jeper should Ot it Will speedily Lake going over to S nd had intended to fun: nil ic over, but his man had evaded and handcuffs, however, and ny friend—we will call him James, so. that his he spal id it would be a good nto paton the cuffs and things, and when they met people he would jump up in the mpage 1 15 JUDGE $100 TO TIE PERSON BEFORE THE 1ST OF MAY, THE MOST MOROUS AND MOST ORIGINAL IDEA FOR A COLORED CARTOON. CARTOON TO BE EXECUTED BY MR. GILLAM AND H To bE Pe RLISHED AS SOON AFTER THE FIRST OF MAY AS POSSIBLY >Eez! 7 TO REST Wwrrir Mr. Isaac M. Grecory, Editor of Jvpar, AND Mr. BERNHARD GIL AM. S77 Write your Ideas on one side of paper. fully. We WIE not return reject Jepor will credit ac JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., Art Department. Franklin Square, New You GEORGE WEST, MASUVACTERER OF GROCERS’ BAGS, BALLSTON SPA, - - York, ers by same process. reatinent, Address A plain, simple . T.S PAGE, 13 Bast Nth St New York yA 1NSON & co., TAILORS. Cox, Bechmany & Willian Ss Ew ~rorz. ARVIN SAFES MANY. HAVE WD ATEN PROVEMENT h NOT FOUND IN, WAKES THAT Wi UL WELL REPAY AN INVESTIGATION W By THOSE MSc TO SECURE THE BEST SAFE MARVIN SAFE CO. NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, LONDON. ENCLAND. comicbooks.com €