Judge, 1887-12 · page 37 of 45
Judge — December 1887 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine's Christmas issue, containing no political cartoons or satirical content. Instead, it features numerous commercial advertisements typical of 1880s publications. Notable ads include: - **Alaska Sealskins**: Furriers (Siede, Shayne, C.C. Shayne) advertising fashionable fur garments as luxury Christmas gifts - **Tobacco and candy**: Peerless Tobacco Works and Pease's Horehound Candy emphasizing quality and authenticity (warning against counterfeits) - **Life insurance**: Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association promoting affordable coverage for widows and orphans - **Luxury goods**: Champagne, trunks, and other upscale items The page reflects Gilded Age consumer culture and advertising conventions. The repeated furrier advertisements suggest seal pelts were extremely fashionable among wealthy women at this time. The insurance ads target middle-class anxieties about family financial security—a common advertising strategy of the era.
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CHRISTMAS JUDGE People of refined taste desiring Speciaucy Fine CIGARETTES, should use our SATIN, FOUR-IN-HAND, ATHLETIC AND CUPID. From the best Virginia and Turkish Leaf. Peerless Tobacco Works, Established 1846. FOURTEEN FIRST PRIZE MEDALS. WM. S. KIMBALL & CO. ROCHESTER, N. Y. PEASE’S HOREHOUND CANDY, eae ous Walia Highly endorsed by Presidents Axpeew Jackson, Joun ‘Tytnn a ‘as a valuable simile “autogri ABRAM S$. HEWITT. All (so-called) Horehound Candies are counterfeits, trading upon the reputation of this Shun the counterfeits. Confretioners do not sell it. Drugyists will not supply you unless you demand it, as they make a much larger profit on the counterfeits and adulterated and inferior articles. Pease’s Horehound Candy, roc., 15¢., and 25¢. per Package. Sample Package, sc. Pease's Honey, Horehound, Licorice and Tar is the Kine oy Putaontc Bat druggist to get it for yo At Retail by Hazard, I sts (pleasant to take), and is highly endorsed. Ask your {not in his stock. 26¢., 60c. and $1.00 per Bottle. Try it. U£ Co, Hegeman & Co., 203 Broadway, and others, $3,750,000.00 1,000 WIDOWS and 5,000 ORPHANS, of the deceased members by the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association. EDWARD B. HARPER, PRESIDENT. Home Office, Potter Building, 38 PARK ROW, NEW YORK. ‘Tate Ansoetation comtiowss to farnial LIFE INSURANCE » AT ONE-HALF THE USUAL COST. <r Was— $1,250,000.00 Cash Surplus, ler the Brim While there's boom the ig ce One decp health I'll pleds | SPecatty OF FINE TABLE CLARETS Ano “SHERRIES, The 35 Lonpon Dye! -qthen you know what you are buying, for style, qui . After looking elsewhere g thoroughly | nvinced of the Alaska Sealskins| Buy of the and worker HENR Y SIEDE, THE FOURTEENTH STREET FURRIER, Makes a re point of a FINE FIT in all Seal Garments, and should there be any lady whom we cannot fil, we make to order from their own selection of sk ume low 's. We show yoods cheerfully and pleasantly whether parties wis 0 purchase or not, HM. SIEDE, FURRIER, 14 WEST FOURTEENTH ST., Between Fifth and Sixth Aves., NEW YORK. ESTABLISHED OVER THIRTY-SIX YEARS, Gents’ Seal and Fur.Lined Overcoats, Reversible Collars and Cuffs, Gloves, Gauntlets and Caps, Robes, Rugs, &c. A SEALSKIN COAT, As a Christmas Gift, Would be just the proper thing. Therefore, do not waste your money on diamonds and other jewelry, but go right strai SIEDE’S, The 14th STREET FURRIER, Where you will find everything in the Fur line, C. C. SHAYNE, MANUFACTURING FURRIER, 103 Prince Street, N. Y., ble Furs nents this ford a r opportu ladies to purchase ri Fars direct from t Dry Special, Brut. B 2uvVinierace | % 49 BRoAoS! Nw £46, soit tng, offer heaber Tai, he agent is to $2,000,000.00 Assets, te paying to cash more than $4,000.00 PER DAY 1 the Widows and Orpbads one death oC every day t {ta Cash Surplus Us tocreaning at the rate of more than $1,000.00 Per Day. elo pald on an averase is already saved to Ite members by redortion of pre- ‘with the rates charged Uy the recnopely life surance, te than $124,000,000.00 Savea. Parther particulars farolabed at Home Oftce, 28 Park Row, New York. The Central Trust Company of New York, ‘TRUSTEE OF TONTINE RESERVE FUND. This Label is on the Best Ribbon Made. ‘succeed, the business done must be successful HERBERT BOOTH KING & BRO., : Advertising Agents, | (Copyright, 1887.) 202 Broadway, N. Y. | CReUCe & FITZGERALD. ‘THE MOOT RELIABLE E TRUNKS, BAGS, ETC, 2 Patent Improved Rawhide Tranks +1 CORTLANDT ST., 656 BROADWAY, 723 SIXTH A\ NEW YORK. comicbooks.com