Judge, 1888-02-11 · page 15 of 16
Judge — February 11, 1888 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It showcases commercial products typical of the 1880s, reflecting consumer culture and industrial innovation of the era. Key advertisements include: - **Ball-pointed pens** (top): A genuine technological innovation—the page celebrates this as "the most important improvement in steel pens since first introduced," emphasizing durability and comfort. The "Federation Holders" prevent blotting. - **Consumer goods**: Cigars, cocoa, breakfast items, violin outfits, paper goods, tailoring services, and patent medicines (notably "Quinine-Wine" for weakness and fever). - **Travel**: Burlington Route railroad excursions to western cities. The page reveals what middle-class Americans purchased and valued in the 1880s: personal grooming products, manufactured goods, and the new technology of reliable writing instruments. There is **no identifiable political satire** visible here—this appears to be a standard advertising section of *Judge* magazine.
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JUDGE BALL-POINTED PENS. (H. Hewsrr's patext—America, 205,395; Britain, 429.) fhe mest baportant improvement in steel peus siuee frst introduced. hi ore ink and last longer. ~<a For writ pres $1.2) and $1.80 per gross, Buy an assorted sample bur fur cents, and choose a pen to euit your hand. THE FEDERATION HOLDERS” NOT ONLY PREVENT THE PEN FROM BLOTTING, BUT GIVE # FIRM AND COMFORTABLE GRIP. PRICES. 15 & 20CENTS. TO BE HAD OF ALL STATIONERS. EWITTS PATENT BALL POINTED PE HSSRICUSSNicner abt Bla Book Sate. voi) Nadas “FASHION «» PRICE Out of the question, S. S. Sleeper & Co.’s N. & S. 10c. Cigar . msible for any best fog sate ty Pluie Send $19 box. by ‘expres, abd eastoft Beaver votthe peg Candies tn the W jandsome boxes. ble for presente, Ty once, Add ALA te, Confectioner, 212 State St..chieago oy pints for CEMENTING a! Sina oven iaiber. tc. vars Praga] pe na ee i Russia ee sySenpis chee SS) GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187 BAKER’S §.S. SLEEPER & CO., Boston. Franklin Macueagh & Lo., Chicago. POR AS (ENGRAVED SCRIPT PLATE. $1.00 Wi, 23 ce ee Tuner Saotir, Engrovers 96-98 Fulton Street New York PACE, easy PEER EARL & WILSON S INEN ~COLLARS & CUFFS BEST IN THE WORLD R N Ox’ Ss WORLD-RENOWN FATS. 2 Broadway. corner Fulton st. 194 3th ave, otel: $4) Fulton st., Broo! Agents for the sale of t Jin every city in the United § THOUSANDS say that CREAM BALM CATARRH cured them of Apply Balm into each nostril Warranted absolutely pate Cocoa, from which the excess of Oil has been removed. It has three times the strength of Cocos mixed with Btareh, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more econom! Wi cal, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthentng, easily digested, and hedmirably adapted for invalids as | u Ig well as for persons ta health. | Sold by Grocers everywhere. @. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass, HENRY LINDENMEYR, Paper Ware House 15 & 17 BEEKMAN ST.,N. Y. | Branch Warchouse, 37 E. Houston St, VIOLIN OUTFITS, hook, best set strings, oc duplicated anyebere for es Jer. Price-lat free by sendin sical goods, lawest prices If toall parts of the Un rbiah any obe doubting cur rellabiiity 1 Uving nearest your homes, CHAS F. HANSON & CO., 317 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. AT FREQUENT DATES EACH MONTH Burlington] Aegaces ions Route St LOU! WITH C.B.80.R.R. glee ROUTES; VIA A” DENVER, COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA, STJOSEPH, ATCHISON on KANSAS CITY. For dates, rates, tickets or further Information apply to Ticket Agents of connecting lines, or address: Paut Morton, Gen. Pass. &Tkt.Agt., Chicago, lil, Ws in every position—never scratch nor | Seven sorts, for ledger, rapid, or professional writing. 10 oF $820 for ary retail | No.1 Violin, fine wooden box, lined ; bow, book, eet stetngs, renin, only 83 | Constable Co SILK FABRICS. SPRING 18886. INDIA PONGEES, CORAHS. VERY NOVEL STYLES OF THESE GOODS, UN- RIVALLED FOR DURABILITY AND WEAR. Broadovery AH i918 ot. . NEW halide a PARSONS SCARLETT & CO. TATIORS Ses FIFTH AVENUE, Murray Hill, NEW YORK L. 8. DAVIDSON, Tailor. Cor.Beekman and William Street ‘E! ELASTIC SUSPENDER WITHOUT RUBBER. ce De Eat AND DU! Ke a haa at on recetbt of prter QUININE-WINE * It is an agrecable and doubtless highly efficacious remedy" (Tut Lancer.) This Vinous-Elixir is the most powerful and valuable of the preparations of quinine, asastrengthening and antifebrile restorative. Been employed in cases of weakness and fer debility, loss of appetite, changer of fe, fever nervousness, exhaustion, ete. Also prepared with Iron for Anemia, Dy: opps, purifying the Blood, Chlorosis, for Scrofulous Agections, etc. Amity 22, RUE OROVOT, 22, PARE E. FOUGERA & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR US comicbooks.com