Judge, 1887-04-16 · page 15 of 16
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This page is primarily **advertising and testimonials**, not political satire. The dominant content features endorsements for "Hop Bitters"—a patent medicine marketed as a cure-all for ailments including consumption, scrofula, liver complaint, and malaria. The testimonials are presented as letters from doctors, druggists, and satisfied customers across the U.S., each claiming remarkable results from the product. This reflects the **late-19th-century patent medicine industry**, when unregulated commercial products made expansive health claims without scientific evidence. The few satirical cartoons visible are brief social commentaries: one contrasts Asian religious self-sacrifice with American recklessness (sixty mph travel), and another jokes darkly about exempting women from capital punishment by suggesting they won't risk their necks to free husbands. The rest of the page contains conventional advertisements for men's clothing (scarves, gloves), sewing machines, and other goods typical of 1880s magazines.
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15 More Facts. STERLING, ILL, August 22, 1885, Je feel we inust write something of the success at uentBiters, Their sale is thribble that of any otber article of medicine. Hence we feel it but westice to you and your Bitters, to say that it is a jesitine of real merit and virtue, and doing much ‘and effecting great cures. Yours, J. F. & H. B, UTLEY. HAYESVILLE, Om10, Feb. 11, 1884. Iam very glad to say I have tried Hop Bitters, andnever took anything that did meas much good. Toaly took two bottles and I would not take $100 for the good they did me. Irecommend them to ny patients, and get the best of results trom their bo C. B. MERCER. M.D. New HavEN, Conn., Sept. 15, 1885. Wetake pleasure in giving you a notice and a nice, strong one, as it (Hop Bitters) deserves it. Weuse it, and we know it deserves it,—The Reg- ister. GREENWICH, Feb, 11, 1886, Hor Brrrexs C Sirs:—I was scrofala ce ters cured me. n up by the doctors to die of mption. Two bottles of your Bit- ‘hey are having a large sale here. LEROY BREWER. GREENWICH, N. Y., Feb, 12, 1885. Hop Bitters are the most valuable medicine I eerknew. I should not have any mother now tat for them. HENRY KNAPP. Loxe Jack, Mo., Sept. 14, 1885, Ihave been using Hop ‘Bitters, and have re- ceived great benefit from them for liver com- plint and malarial fever. They are superior to all other medicines. P. M. BARNES. KaLaMmazoo, Micu., Feb. 2, 1886. Hor Brrtres Mra. CO.: Iknow Hop Bitters will bear recommendation tooestly. All who use them confer upon them the highest encomiums and give them credit for making cures—all the proprietors claim for them. Ihave kept them since they were offered to the pablic. They took high rank from the first, and maintained it, and are more called fur than all thers combined, So long as they keep up their high reputation for purity and usefulness I shall continue to recommend them—something I have verer done before with any patent medicine, ._ J.J. BABCOCK, Physician and Druggist. Kanoxa, Mo., Feb, 9, 1886. ‘hased five bottles of your Hop Bitters of last fall, for my daugbter, and am ¥ell pleased with the Bitters, ‘lhey did her more mod than all the medicine she has taken for six year, WM. T. McCLURE. c is froma very reliable fariner, whose daughter was health for seven or eight ._ She is now in as good health as any this country. We have large sales, aad they are making remarkable cures. W. H. BISHOP & CO. TEREST™MEN va anergy es manentiy resto feeds, Fa 60 Fark Places Now Wort. _ BIND TUDGE. A Perfect Book, ns Flat, No Margin Used to J Fu Eoth. Gt Tide on Cover By Mail, postpaid, JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., on receipt of Te. | & In Asia the people throw themselves under the wheels of Moloch. In America we ride at the rate of sixty miles an hour along-side of a red hot stove.—Omaha World. The bill to exempt women from the death pen- alty was practically killed inthe assembly. The best way to cope with this question, suggests the temale editor, isto treat them in such a way that they will not risk their necks to get their hus- bands out of the world.—Graphic. E.A. NEWELL, MEN’S OUTFITTER, 859 BROADWAY (one door above 17th St.) High Novelties in London Made SCARFS FOR EASTER. NEW SHAPES THE “NEWPORT,” “NEWTON,” “FOUR IN HAND.” PIQUE KID WALKING GLOVES (Emb'd backs) $200 PRESS, $3; Circular size | Newspaper size, $44. easy. printed stamps. press, $8 Typesetting Dresses, type, factory, KELSEY & CO. Meriden, Conn, xa CARDS KN OX’ SL ORLE-RENCWNED ABSOLUTIELE 3 Retail stores, 212 Broadway. corer Fultou st. 194 Sth ave. under Fifth Avenue Hotel: 340 Fulton ¥., Brooklyn, and 130 Dearborn st., Chicago. Agents for the aale of these high class Hats can be found in every city in the United States, TRY BEFORE ‘orvino uP YOUR CASE CONSTIPATION. Better than any Medicine, SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Send for reports of interesting cases by eminent physicians, Emerson Mfg. Company, _ 48 Park Place, New York. TO THE LADIES. Call and examine our improved ADJUSTABLE DRESS and SKIRT FORMS. Indispensable in every home. Saves all fatigue of standing to have dresser t or trimt Also our FOLDING SKIRT FORM, adjustable to any size and can be done up almost ax «mall ax an umbrella w not in use. Price, 83.00. DP FOR CIRCULAR, DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE CO, Broadway and 14th-st., New York. s CURE FITS merely 10 a time and then hav "a resical rave. made HiPotter Building, New York. | vines Soencld, Constable A Ca, SPRING STYLES. Misses’ and Children’s Dresses, Suits and Ulsters. IMPORTED AND CITY MADE UNDERWEAR IN LARGE VARIETY. WEDDING TROUSSBAUX AND INFANTS’ OUTFITS Broadcoay L 19th ot. NEW YORK. GOLD MEDAL, PARTE, 1878, Breakfast Cocoa ‘Warranted absolutely pure ‘Cocoa, trom which the excess of Ot has been removed. It has three times the strength of Cocoa mized with Btareh, Arrowroot or Sugar, and {s therefore far more econom!. cal, costing less than one cent @ cup. It ta delicious, nourishing, strengthentng, easily digested, and jedmirably adapted for invalids se }well aa for persone tn health. Seld by Grocers everywhere. W, BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass QUININE-wWwINE “© It is an agreeable and doubtless highly efficacious remedy.” (Tue LaNcET.) This Vinous-Elixir is the most powerful and valuable of the preparations of quinine, asa strengthening and antifebrile restorative. Been employed in cases of weakness and eneral debility, loss of appetite, changer of fe, fever nervousness, exhaustion, etc. for ante, prepared with Irom an for Anemia, Dyspepsia, purifying the Chlorosis, fo Tfuleus Afections, eter Pann, 12, 2¥8 OROUT, 24 PAR E. FOUGERA & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR U. 8. Ope Anent (lerchant Only) wanted in every town for S SIL Nee ¥ ‘Demand unprecedented. - R. W. TANSILL & CO.. Chicago. comicbooks.com