Judge, 1887-04-30 · page 15 of 16
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It features testimonial advertisements for Hop Bitters (a patent medicine), alongside various product advertisements for clothes, hats, cocoa, and patent medicines. The Hop Bitters ads present "testimonies" from supposed real users—an elderly woman restored to health, a man whose wife's skin condition improved, a Canadian politician, and a wealthy woman cured of consumption (tuberculosis)—all claiming miraculous recoveries. These endorsements, while presented as genuine letters, exemplify the fraudulent patent medicine marketing of the 1880s. For modern readers: such testimonials were typically fabricated or exaggerated to sell ineffective (often dangerous) tonics containing alcohol and questionable ingredients. The page demonstrates how *Judge* magazine monetized its readership by accepting paid testimonial advertisements from patent medicine companies—a common and largely unregulated practice of the era that preyed on genuine public health concerns.
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wonderful Populerity of the Renewned Medicine. The Greatest tiraligsFeesess ass of the Age—A Voice from the Paopls. No medicine introduced to the public has ever met with the success accorded to Hop Bitters. It Ends to-day the best. known curative article in the world, Its marvelous renown is not due to the advertising it has received. It is famous by reason of its inherent virtues, It does all that is Taimel for it. It isthe most powerful, speedy Sol effective agent known for the building up of ‘ebilitated systems, ‘The following witnesses are offered to prove this : What it Did for an Old Lady. Coshocton Station, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1884. Gests:—A number of people had_ been using your Bitte rs here, and with marked effect. In ly of over seventy years, had nen sick for Years, and for the past ten years I lave known ‘her she has not been able to be J half the time, About six months ago she he was helpless, Her old remedies, ans, being of no avail, I sent to Deposit, iies, and got a bottle of Hop Bitters. a very beneficial effect on her that ittle improved her so she was able to dress valk about the house, When she had ond bottle she was able to take care and walk out to her neighbors’ and hasimproved all thetimesince. My wife and children also have derived great benefit from their a. WwW. B, HATHAWA Agt. U.S. E: An Enthusiastic Endorsement, Gorham, N. H., July 15, 1886. x I don't know, but I ¢ Lord and feel grateful to you to know is world of adulterated medicines there »pound that proves and doesall it adver- lo,and more. Four years ago I had a { palsv,which unnerved me to such tthe least excitement would make ike the ague. Last may I was induced p Bitte T used one bottle, but did not another did so change my nerves yas they ever were. It > both hands ‘to write, but now my writes this. Now, if you continue anifacture as honest and good an article as uu will accumulate an honest fortune, the greatest blessing on your fellow: men that was ever conferred on mankind. TIM BURCH. A Husband's Testimony. My wife was troubled for years with blotches, mth patehes and pimples on her face, which 1 the life out of her. She spent he thousand infallible () cures, ing but injurious effects. A lady friend, »N. ¥.,-who had had similar experi: cured with Hop Bitters, in- One bottle has made ‘her smooth, fair and softasachild’sand given ber such health that it seems almost a miracle. A MeMReRr OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT, to A Rich Lady's Experience. Itravelled all over Europe and other foreign countries at a cost of thousands of dollars in “arch of health and found it not. Ireturned dis- disheartened, and was restored to nif health and spirits with less than two Bitters. I hope others may profit by my ie rience and stay at home. A LADY, AUGUSTA, ME, CONSUMPTION, A Perfect Book. Opens Flat. No Margin Used in inding. Pull Cloth. Gilt Title on Cover. By Mail, postpaid, on receipt of 750. JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., ing, New York. apes THE JUDGE AND THE HOTELS. The JvvaE proposes to devote one page of each week's issue to hotel advertisements made up of half-inch cards at reasonable prices. Jupor has ‘an immense clientage among the traveling pub- lic, and such a scheme as this will no doubt prove profitable both to the paper as well as to the ad- vertiser. Already most of the prominent hotels in New York have taken space in that hotel page, and from the proof sheet shown us it is evident that the thing is a go.— Hotel Gazette. E.A. NEWELL, MEN’S OUTFITTER, 859 BROADWAY (one door above 17th St.) SEASONABLE UNDERWEAR AND HALF-HOSE. NEW SHAPES IN SCARFS, THE “NEWPORT,” “NEWTON,” ‘FOUR IN HAND.” _Pigu! KID WALKING GLOVES (Eanb‘d backs: (OQ GLOVES (Fanb'd backs) ) e200 e PRESS, $3; Circular size Circular las prea $8 wa G: Terra eget stamps for catalogue presses, type, carda, &c., to the factory, KELSEY & CO. Meriden, | Conn, KN ox S Wi ORLD RENOWNED ABSOLUTELT aera, ce Retail stores, 212 Broadway. corner Iton st.; 11 ave. oder Pith Aecuue Hotel: io Fulton Brooklyn ae lass Hats cant be fou found in every city | in the United States, ELY’S CREAM BALM Troas cured before the second bottle of Ely's Cream Balm was ex- hausted. 1 was troubled with chronic catarrh, gathering in the head, difficulty in breathing and discha-ges from my ears.—C. J. Corbin, 223 Chestnut >t., Phila, rie Pp ay ects itch, mostett and 1s oe cots at Drugilate, registered, @ cla Owego, alors tree. CURES CONSTIPATION. Better than any Medicine, SoLD BY DRVUGGISTS. Send for reports of interesting cases by eminent physicians, Emerson Mfg. Company, 43 Park Place, New York. "TO THE LADIES. Call and examine our improved ADJUSTABLE DRESS and SKIRT FORMS. Indispensable In every home. Saves 4) fatigue of standing to have dresses tried on, draped ed, Also our FOLDING SKIRT FORM, adjustable to any size and can be done up almost gamma is an mbrella when hot in use. Price, 88.00. > FOR CIRCULAR. DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINECO, Broadway and J4th-at., New York. CURE. FITS! When 1 say cure 199 not ann er Pree femety. OF wilteere you. MG. ROOT, 13 Peart Bk, ow Monel CLOTHS. English, Scotch and Irish Suitings New and Choice Colorings. LADIES’ HABIT CLOTHS. Ladies’ Costume and Ulster Cloths Broadvoay c i 19th ot. NEW YORK, EY BAKER'S Breakfast Cocoa. ‘Warranted absolutely pure ‘Cocoa, trom which the excess of Oil has been removed. It has three tlmes the atrength of Cocos mized ‘with Btarch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more econom!. cal, costing less than one cent a QUININE-WINE © It is an agrecable and doubltess bighly eficacious remedy.” (Tue Laxcer.) This Vinous-Elixir is the most powerful and valuable af the preparations of quinine, asastrengthening and antifebrile restorative, Been employed in cases of weakness and eral debility, loss of appetite, changer of fe, fever nervousness, exhaustion, etc. Also prepared with Iron for Anemia, Dyspepsia, purilying the Blood, Chlorosis, for Scrofulous Afections, etc. + ania, 24, nv oAOvOT, 2, Pane E. FOUGERA & CO., ‘SOLE AGENTS FOR U. S setRaley 5 tered. Now your time to fet hp orders for’ our celebrated One Agent (Merchant only) wanted in every town for — 5¢ Demand unprecedented. R. W. TANSILL & CO.. Chicago. comicbooks.com