Judge, 1887-05-14 · page 15 of 16
Judge — May 14, 1887 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or political cartoons. It's page 15 of Judge magazine from approximately 1884. The dominant content consists of commercial advertisements for consumer products: Sohmer pianos, E.A. Newell men's clothing, Knox hats, Ely's Cream Balm, and various patent medicines (Hop Bitters for indigestion and nerve conditions, Russia Cement). The upper portion includes testimonial letters praising Hop Bitters' medicinal efficacy—typical 19th-century advertising strategy using purported patient accounts. There's also a brief editorial note crediting Judge for following the San Francisco *Wasp* magazine's practice of dedicating pages to hotel advertising. The page reflects the era's commercial practices: unregulated health claims, patent medicines with dubious ingredients, and testimonial-based marketing. No political satire or social commentary is evident here—this is purely a revenue-generating advertising section of the magazine.
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“$82 85 os iages Listen to Dour Wife. ser Granptas, June 6th, 18% says Teeeeot “Windows Looking on the woodland ways! With clumps of thododendrons and great masses of May blos- here was an interesting iin ed one who had been a ** * but was now 80 only bear to lie in a reclining his refers to my case. Hes first attacked twelve years ago with scase of nerve fibre rarely ever cured) ‘eral years barely able to get about, years not able to attend to 1 me. iment belag Nerve stretching. PR pears ace t was voted into the Home for Incurables! Near Manchester, in May, Ivocate ;” “For anything in the * Medicines ? objections to my dear wife's 2 to try Hop Bitters, but finally to finished the first bottle when I felt a chan over me. This wasSaturday, November idl. On Sunday morning I felt sostrong Taid tomy room companions, “I was sure I could | — “Walk So started across the floor and back. hardly knew how tocontal if. Iwas all over the hos Lett xe trenptneach day, aad can walk quite sade without ‘at my own house, and fen iving again, 1 area BRE For teary (Dirty Years, and was most heartily congratulatrd on pg nto the roomy da ThuFeday last. tefully yours, auscnestin Eng) Dec 20 ie Two sears later am perfectly well hope soon to be able to earn have been @ member of the Manchester Joux Buacksns. One Ezcperienco of Many. Having experienced a great deal of “Trouble!” from indigestion, so much so that Icame near losing my Life! My troublealways came after eating any food— Howerer ight, For two or three hours ny atime I had to go through the most ng pains, only way I ever got” Was by throwing up all m tained ! | No one can conceive go through, until “At la . stomach con- pains I had to nt “So that for three weeks I lay in ted and Conld eat nothmg 1! My sufferings were so that I called two doctors togive me something that would stop the pain. Their efforts were no good to me. At last I heard a good deal “About your Hop Bitters. And determined to try them. ata bottle—in four hours] took the contents of elit? ext day I was out of bed, and have not seen a Hour, from the same cause, since Ihave recommended it to hundred of others. You have no such * Advoc Tam.” Geo Kesoats, Allston, Boston, Mass. CONSUMPTION. Tease « eedy tor ecto. 0 LOCUM, Tal Peart Oty Now Yoru BIND FUDGE. A Pertect Book, baie tro Flat, No Margin Used in Full Cloth. Gilt Title on Cover. By Mail, postpaid, on receipt of 75c. JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., otter Bullding, New York. AULE ELLE mean merely to stop them for &tlme and then ba spot wurat ny roma} tered We notice the Jupar is following the example of its bright western contemporary, the Wasp, of San Francisco, by devoting a paxe to hotel ver- tising. JvpoE has proven itself a very popular journal of late, and we venture the assertion that this latest move will have a tendency to make it more popular than ever,—Hotel Man's Guide. The Sohmer Piano i is a wonderful instrument, and will undoubtedly take the lead throughout the musical world. Its principal qualtities, which have so excited the admiration of musical people, are its strength, richness and fullness of tonic, possessing alight action delightfully flexible to the touch suitable for either the concert roont or par- lor, With these combined qualities, its destiny to become the most popular instrument in tne world, is assured, 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.” PIQUE KID WALKING GLOVES (Finb'd backs) $200 8 Cireular sae press . pesett Fant Es ye gt a CARDS canis ce." the factor = sins KELSEY & CO. Meriden, Com KNOX’ WORLD-RENOWNED ADSOLUTELY PERFECT. EATS. Retail stores, 212 Broadway. corner Fulton at.; 194 3th ave under Fifth Avenue Hotel; #0 Fulton st., Brooklyn, and 130 Dearborn st., Chicago. Axenta for the sale of these high clans Hats can be found in every city in the United States “ELY'S CREAM BALM plied Into the nostrils, will be insrbed! jffectually cleansing the head wusing healthy #e- from additional colds, completely heals the sores and restores the #e1 and smell. NOT A LIQUID on on SNUFE Av particle ts appited’ tuto each Dosti Bre a cents at Brapats, Uy mail regis WHATS TRUMPS. A NOVELTY FOR CARD PLAYERS. Hyatt’s Patent Game Register and Trump Indicator. First Prize American Institute Fair, 1884. Tals useful litle novelty conetata of a back the size of an Small are made to revotve by touching their edges at an inden {tog fn ther back for that pu ty shows plataly printed figures from 1 to M0, oe aia showing the umber of potnta and the otber the games played. |. Plain Cardboard... $v Your choice of «Pack of fine Pinging carae or a Poker Primer tent free with order of €210 0 Malled on receipt of price. Add: HOPE NOVELTY CO., Wholesale and Retall Dealers tn 0 elties, Sporting and ‘Goods, et 72 FULTON STREET, N.Y. Mention this paper. TO THE LADIES. Call and examine our improved ADJUSTABLE DILESS and SHIRT FORMS. Indispensable th oer ail. fatigue of standing to have. dressen teled on, draped or trimmed. ‘Also our FOLD! SKIRT FORM, adjustable to. any size and can be done up al jax an umbrella when notin use. Price, 'D FOR CIRCULAR. DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINECO, Broadway and J4th-st., New York. [bates Lige'd Gro eran Taos aes BUSSiA CEMENT CO. SEOUEROTRS. mass Soenold, Constable A Co, CARPETS. BRUSSELS, AXMINSTERS, WILTONS. ORIENTAL RUGS. N. B.—Crossley’s best quality English Tapestry Brussels at 65 cents. Moquettes in beautiful col- oringsat $1.10 and $1.25. Full five frame Body Brussels at $1.00 and $1.10. FRESH CANTON MATTINGS in new effects and colorings. | Broadovay Bi 9th at. NEW YORK. GOLD MEDAL, PABIB, 1878 BAKER'S Breakfast Cocoa. ‘Warranted absolutely pure ‘Cocoa, from which the excess of ‘Oil has been removed. It has three times the strength of Cocoa mized ‘with Btarch, Arrowroot or Sugar, {| and ts therefore far more econom!. cal, costing less than one cent a ‘cup. It ts delicious, nourishing, Sold by Grocers everywhere, _ TAKE 08 Dorchester, Mas, QUININE-WINE “© Ihis an agreeable and doubtless highly efficacious remedy.” (Tue Lancer.) This Vinous-Elixir is the most and valuable of the preparations of quinine, asastrengthening and antifcbrile restorative, Been employed in cases of weakness and genera debility, loss of appetite, changer of ife, fever nervousness, exhaustion, etc. prepared with Iron for Anemia, Dyspepsia, purifying the Blood, Chlorosis, for Scrofulous y beens etc. PARE, 22 RUE OROVOT, 1% PARIS. FOUGERA & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR U. 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