Judge, 1887-09-17 · page 12 of 19
Judge — September 17, 1887 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements** with no political cartoon content. It showcases late 19th-century patent medicines and consumer products typical of the era. Notable ads include: - **Allcock's Porous Plasters**: A medical "cure-all" claiming to treat rheumatism, colds, kidney problems, and numerous other ailments—representing the unregulated patent medicine industry that flourished before FDA oversight. - **Pears' Soap**: Marketed as "a specialty for children" with dubious health claims about complexion and skin. - **Crosby's Vitalized Phosphites**: Another patent remedy claiming to treat mental disorders, nervousness, and debility, endorsed by famous figures like Bismarck and Gladstone (likely falsely). - **Various food products** (cocoa, water crackers, candy) and services (tailoring, furriers, sewing machines). The page illustrates how Judge's revenue came from advertising such products, many making exaggerated or false medical claims—a common practice before modern consumer protection laws.
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ALLCOCK’S POROUS PLASTERS act safely, promptly. and effectually; do not burn or blister, but soothe and relieve while curing. They are the STANDARD REMEDY tor Weak Back, Rheumatism, Lum- bago, Sciatica, Colds, Coughs, Sore) Throat, Pulmonary, and Kidney Diffi-| culties, Malaria, bysp pepsia. Heart, | Spleen, Liver and Stomach Affections, | Strains and all Local Pains. Beware of imitations and do not be deceived by misrepresentations. Ask for ALLCOCK’S, and let no ex- planation or solicitation induce you to accept a substitute. DO YOU SMOKE? IF SO, TRY THE N. & S. A, & ‘The best 10c. Cigar in America. Give ‘em a trial and you'll say so. Josist on having the N. & 8. and for sample trial box to 8, Sleeper & Co.. Boston, Mass. We Prepay postage FOR AN ENGRAVED SCRIPT S. S. SLEEPER & CO., Boston. AND GO CARDS, PER MAIL. UATE Sneider. Engraver, 96-98 Fulton Street New York. ESTABLISHED 1801. BENT & CO.’S CELEBRATED HAND-MADE WATER CRACKERS. Guaranteed easy of digestion, absolutely pare. BENT & CO, Milton, Mass. MADE WITH BOILING WATER. EPP S’S' GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. COCOA MADE WITH BOILING MILK. yPreurume MmeAtS TRACTS Be. out amar 132 NASSAU STREET, NEWYORK. Dont be a Cle arSpecially: fue Childven: The best for the Complexion. . . “A balm for the Skin.” The most economical; it wears to thinness of a wafer. SOLD IN EVERY CITY OF THE WORLD. Send one, two, three or five dollars for a retail box, by express, of the PARSONS SCARLETT & CO. ‘CANDY = TATIORS ip bandsoore bores pure. Suitable for presents. T S9s FIFTH AVENUE, | Murray Hun | itonce, Address C. F. GUNTHEM, Confectioner, ‘212 State St.. Chicago, It is claimed by highest authority that one | dozen hard boiled eggs are completely digested | by two of CARL L. JENSEN'S Crystal Pepsin Tablets for dyspepsia or indigestion. NEW YORK. -6.G. Shayne, | Manufacturing Furrier, 103 Prince St., N. Y¥. Will retail fashionable Furs and Seal-skin Garments this season. This will afford a splendid op- portunity for ladies to purchase reliable Furs direct from the manufacturer at lowest possible prices. Fashion book mailed free. TO THE LADIES. ispensable in every have dresses tried on, raped FOLDING SKIRT FORM, adjustable to 205 a as an umbrella when > FOR CIRCULAR. | DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINECO, Broadway and 14th-st,, New York. SOCIAL REGISTER. Newport number now ready. In leather binding $1.30. Pap rcover73¢. AtBrentano's, Union Square, N.Y... A. B Corbin, Newport, New York office 35 Liberty st CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. For 15 years has been a standard remedy with Physicians treating mental or nervous disorder Not a secret. It aids in the bodily and wonderfully in the mental growth of children, Young men with impaired mental faculties can regain their strength its use. It restores the energy lost by nervousness, debility, over-exertion ; refreshes weakened powers in old or young. — A Vital Phosphite, not a Laboratory Phosphate or soda water absurdity. It is used by the Emperos Dom Pedro, Bismarck, Gladstone and other great brain workers. For sale by druggists, or mail, $1. F. CROSBY CO., 56 West 25th Street, N.Y. FOR $200. The date of this issue, on t You ARE INSURED the follo Policy void if detached from rest of $f,a,c0y of this issue of Jeooe is equivalent to a free railway accident Life policy for five hundred dollars for one wring raitroads : Pennsyivania Railroad, New York, © Hudsot Michigan Central. Lehigh Valley. Delaware & Hudson Canal C Saratoga, Mt. McGregor and Lake George. for the term of 5 wee Provided your Baine appears upon Paper. from the Southern Long f 10 dollars a week tina Fe a River, Shore. Laxe Shore and Michi Chicae & ‘alton: SNH SH. RR. Co, Boston & Seite Tacase of injury by ascent om any of these rallroada the Jcpoe PsLiam ise Oe its bouks as an annual subscriber to Jubax. Write your name on ti.