Judge, 1886-10-16 · page 15 of 18
Judge — October 16, 1886 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one satirical cartoon at top-left. The cartoon, titled "An Awful Doom," depicts a young woman of Kalamazoo obsessed with fashion—constantly acquiring new bustles and trains, shown racing to keep up with rapid style changes. The satire mocks women's perceived vanity and enslavement to fashion trends; the "awful doom" is her inability to exist without fashionable garments. The remainder is typical period advertising: mail-order work schemes, underwear and clothing retailers, patent medicines (Dr. Pierce's Medical Discovery), home sewing machines, and various tonics and foods claiming health benefits. These ads reflect late-Victorian consumer culture and the prevalence of dubious medical "cures." The page number indicates this is from Judge, a satirical weekly magazine popular in the 1880s-1890s, targeting middle-class American readers with gentle social commentary alongside commercial content.
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-E. A. NEWELL, An Awful Doom of any nature is usually avoided by those who have foresight. Those who read this who have foresight will lose no time in writing to Hallet € Co., Portland, Maine, to learn about work ‘hich they can do at a'profit of trom $8 to $35 and upwards per day and live at home, wherever they arv located. [ave earned over $50 ina day. All bs & Capital ot re quired. You are started free. Both sexes. All ages. teulars free. A great reward awaits every worker. . Tote ‘ard Wereeable fei Pury to une tod and infirm as Jour grand RHENISH COLOONE, | Newt Mtrecis New Yorks MEN’S OUTFITTER, AUTUMN UNDERWEAR ver shown in this ci SE, GLOVES AND NEC por above 17th St.) aug woman of Kalam: » in Medical Dinco clon. cirugyant spite Nital strength, and ‘soundivesa tecuoatituion wilt be estalliahcd oem Medical Discov ot Blesase ana bating Uiders DR, PIERCE'S PRLLETS—AntL-Dittlows and ¢ Seva vial, by druggists, UMEN A my! OD oD ven dsp “t "your drat slows not, Keep It, send 15 cents f fashions as fast as the And her bustle and train Seemed to show she was vain, And without them knew'n not what to do, DOMESTIC SEWING NCHAGHINE CO, Ree as noted spectattste without bene! vandatace hers. Pull particulars Broadway and Lith-st. months, and-aince then hundreds of senton application, Ss. PAS: w ier bt. New Vork ™ - ONE CENT PAYS FOR A Postal Cant, Buy one and send to THE CO. Detroit, Mich, for a el f Leather with eds of styles of Gloves and Dis: you have THE FREE PRESS mailed to any address for FOUR MONTHS on TRIAL. 2) years of suffering| arrh and catarrhal| che T never found any wn lasting relief un 1 Ely's Crean el two be my catarrh cused, 1 render it with like} xood results. DT. Hi Member Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate Royal College of Physi- cians, Surgeon to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, writes: VIL BROTHERS, Drogeata, Owego, 5 MiEmOnyA | STH AVE, BROADWAY, STH AND TH STS, at and most complete botels to, the city in : te rondueted Om the roo most superior preparation. extensively. WARNER D’FORREST&CO. MANUFACTURERS OF For 15 years has been a standara remedy with LADIES’, GENTS’ & YOUTHS’ KNIT UNDERWEAR. Nota ee et. It aids in the bodily and wonderfu Established 1871. AMSTERDAM, N. Y. |Rervousness, debility. ov scinit A fi Ph W. J. BENJAMIN & CO., Exelusive Selling Agents, | stone and all great brain worker NEW YORK OFFICE 28 WHITE 8T. For sale by all druggists, or mail, $1. ; refreshes wi Hooms| LIEBIG CO.'S COCA BEEF TONIC ts certainly a T have prescribed it red mental faculties can regain their strength by its use. ARKELL & SMITHE, MANUPACTURERS OF FLOUR SACKS, ___ CANAJOHARIE, N. ¥. GoD 5 EDAL, PARTE 1970 Brea Coc, Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the excesa of O11 has’ been removed. It has tree times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Btarch, A\rrowroot or Sugar, and {a therefore far more economl. cal, costing less than one cent a cup. It te delicious, nourtsbing, strengthening, caslly digested, admirably adapted for Invalt well as for persona tn be ‘Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass, EARL B WILSON S -COLLARS & CUFFS ST IN THE WORLD EPPS’S GRATEFUL—COMFORTING, COCOA CROSBY'S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. Physicians treating mental or nervous disorders, ully in the mental growth of children. Young men It restores the energy lost by eakened vital powers in old or young. A Vital It is used by the Emperor Dom Pedro, Bismarck, Glad- F. CROSBY CO., 56 West 25th Street, N. X.