Judge, 1887-03-19 · page 12 of 16
Judge — March 19, 1887 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and notices**, not political satire. The masthead shows "Judge," a satirical magazine, but the content is dominated by commercial advertisements and classified notices typical of late-19th/early-20th century publications. The few humorous items present are mild social jokes: - A quip about Mme. Patti (likely the famous opera singer) avoiding water on her face to prevent wrinkles, sardonically suggesting anarchists have smooth cheeks because they don't wash. - A brief exchange mocking a tramp who claims to be a "lawn sprinkler" rather than a "snow shoveler"—social commentary on working-class pretense. The page's main feature is **"The Judge's Cash Puzzle"** for the Grant Monument Fund—a word-hunt competition where examiners are selecting four winners. This was apparently a genuine fundraising contest, not satire. The rest consists of advertisements for soaps, bonds, medicines, theaters, and hotels—standard period marketing with dubious health claims (consumption cures, phosphites for mental disorders).
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[Beer [Bjoremes on Toner Soaps: “ You have demonstrated that afer/ectly pore soap may be made, 1, therefore, cordially com~ mend to ladies and t6 the community in general the employment of your pure La Bello toilet soap over any adulterated article.” Is made from the choicest quality of stock, and contains a_LaRcE PERCENTAGE of GLYCERINE; therefore it is specially adapted for Toilet, Bath and Infant: INVESTMENT tO 88 vriscBONDS Have loaned $4,000,000, without lose, Edw. G. Robertson & Co. HARTFORD, Conn. x E, CHARTER OAK 'NATIONAL BANK. ‘TOR PROPRIETARY MEDICINES INKS, EXTRACTS &e.. SAMPLES 8 PRICES TURNISNED THE COUGH QORKSEREW & CARSULE (O. 132 NASSAU STREET, NEWYORK. AMUSEMENTS, AN'S PARK THEAT b HARINGAN : i) Amir DM HAN! Artistic Triumph and EDWARD ILARRIG. MeNOONE: TAM and his pop Werlnesday and Saturday DOCKSTADER'S ,DWAY NEAR 29TH STRE: RE. as Proprietor. Sole Manager: JF Success, EW PLAY NY A Jae evening at X Important to All who are willing to work for the reward of success, Hallet ‘& Co, Portland, Maine, will mail you, free, full particulars about work that either sex, young oro'd, cxn Jo, at a profit of from $5 tn $25 per day, and upwards,and live at home, wherever they are located" All can do the work. Capital not required: Hallet & Co., will start you, | Grand success absolutely sure. Write at once and see Mme, Patti fancies * that the use of water upo! the face and neck produces wrinkles,” wh probably accounts for the srooth cheek of the | average anarchist, A cow entered a church in Canada and drove the choir out. The congregation immediately took up a collection and bought the cow. Fogg—“' Fairly good thimg: but what I object tois th lism in the third act —achurch It was so natural that I act- ‘went to sleep.” er — Do you want this job shoveling snow? Tramp— ‘I am not a snow shoveler ; I sprinkle lawns, The man who shovels in about ten minute Consumption Can be Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed | in his hautds by an East India méwionary the formula of @ | simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catat Asthm all throat | fd tung affections: also w positiv ° for Ner- sous Debility and all Nervous tested his wooderful curative powers in thousands of easex has felt it his duty to make it known tohissutfe ‘Actuated by thisinotive and @ desire to relieve human suf- fering. | will wad free of charge. to all wo denire It, this relpe, in German, French oF Engliah, with full direc: tons for preparing and using. Sent by mall by addressing with sams paring this paper, W. A Noves 10 Pee Block, Rochester, Y. CASH PUZZLE IN BEHALF OF THE Grant Monument Fund. T amination of the “word hunt” com- petitive papers t last reached a stage that ‘enables us to publish something definite in rezand to its probable conclusion. More time has been required by the examiners than wa at first anticipated would y; but the end is now in sight, and it can be positiv stated that this week will relieve four unfor- tunate individuals from a k that has been fruitful of more sleepless nights, more weari- some days and more harrowing indications of rapidly ng intellect than have ever been crowded into the same space of time before. The circumstances which si famous remark made by the governor Carolina to the governor of South C: were nowhere in comp the situation under puzzleexaminers have been laboring forthe pest four w That the competitors themselves had anything but a time bordering on a jubilee is fully realized by our judges, and the bond of sympathy which y exists between the two is of a cliaracter that can only be fractured by another civil war, or what is worse still, VICTORIA HOTEL, WL. HOVT & CO. Proprietors HENRY LINDENMEYR, Paper Ware House 15 & 17 BEEKMAN ST., N. Y. CROSBY'S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. rs has been a standara remedy with Js in the bodily and wonderfully in t ain their strength by its use. with nervousness Phosphite, not a Laborator: Pedro. Bismarck, Gladstone ‘ale by drugiz refreshes w a. Phosphate or soda water alsurdity. nd other great brain workers, F. CROSBY CO., 56 West 25th Street, N. ns treating mental or nervous disorder mental growth of children. Young men It restores the energy lost by in old or young. A Vital used by the Emperor Dom Physic akened vital powe It A COMMON-SENSE. REMEDY, In the matter of curatives what you want is something that will do its work while you continue to do yours-a remedy that will give you no incon- venience nor interfere with your busi- ness. Such Is Alcock’s Porous Plas- ters. These Plasters are purely vege- table and absolutely harmless. They require no change of diet, and are not affected by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere with labor or busi- ness; you can toil and yet be cured while hard at work. They are so pure that the youngest, the oldest. the most delicate person of either sex can use them with great benefit. another “ word hunt.” Word hunts popular and attractive in Englai more highly favored communiti country there has sudden ed preference for earthq| time, and do it in to the future health afflicted neighborhood. ainination Which has been in pro -ss for over four weeks, has been most syste | matic and thorough, Whatever the bodily in. | firmities or feelings of theexaminers may have bee have certainly conducted their work assiduc nd carefully and the verdict which | they are about to render is the result of impartial and unbiased judgment. As we have said before, they will conclude their labors this | week, and theaward will be published positive. nthe next issue of the paper (No. 281). 1 the meantime prepare for the new contest, which we don’t mind telling you will not be but in this developed a decid: tkes—they take less y a word hunt. 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