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This page is primarily **advertisements** from an 1886 issue of *Judge* magazine, with minimal satirical content. The main article, "Doctoring Old Time," describes a patent medicine company (H.H. Warner's) marketing "Log Cabin remedies"—products supposedly based on 19th-century folk formulas. The satire is gentle: the piece mocks the nostalgic trend of marketing "old-time" cures as superior to modern medicine, playing on period anxieties about whether industrial progress had harmed public health. The accompanying testimonial about Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil) exemplifies the era's widespread use of unregulated patent medicines making health claims without scientific evidence. These advertisements—promoting everything from breakfast cocoa to railway services—reflect how *Judge* funded itself while also subtly critiquing consumer culture and dubious medical claims. The humor is implicit rather than explicit: readers would recognize the absurdity of marketing ancient remedies in modern commerce.

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JUDGE What Scott’s Emulsion Has Done | Over 25 Pounds Gain in Ten Weeks. Experience of a Prominent Citizen. Tux Cativornia Soctety rox THe Surreessiox o” Vice. ‘Saw Francisco, July 7th, 1886. 1 took a severe cold upon my chest and lungs and did not give it proper attention; it developed into bronchitis, and in the fall of the same year I was threatened with consumption. Physi- cians ordered me toa more congenial climate, and | came to San Francisco, Soon after my arrival | commenced taking Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites regularly three times a day. In ten weeks my avoirdupois went from 155 to 180 pounds and over: the cough mean- time ceased. Cc. R. BENNETT. SOLD BY ALL DRUCCISTS. FAST MAIL ROUTE. St. Louis to Kansas City and the West. 3 3 DAILY TRAINS BETWEEN THE ABOVE POINTS. IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE Is the Only Line to the Great Hot Springs of Arkansas. 5 Daily Trains 5 PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS And Free Reclining Chair Cars ON ALL TRAINS, H. C. TOWNSEND, -Gen'l Passenger & Ticket Agt., St. Louis, Mo. GOLD MEDAL, PARIB, 1878 BAKER'S Breakfast Cocoa. ‘Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, trom which the excess of Olt has been removed. It has three thmes the strength of Cocoa mized with Biareb, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more ecopom!. “DOCTORING OLD TIME.” A Striking Picture—A Revival of Old Time Simplicities. Inone of Harper's issues is given a very fine illustration of Roberts’ celebrated painting, known as ‘* Doctoring Old Time.” It represents a typical old-timer, with his bellows, blowing the dust from an ancient clock, with its cords and weights carefully secured. One of ‘these clocks in this generation is appreciated only as a rare relic, The suggestive name, “* Doctoring Old Time,” brings toour mind another version of the title, used for an- other pu “Old Time Doctoring. We learn, through a reliable source, that one of the enterprising proprietary medicine firms of the count has been for years investigating the formulas and medi- cal: preparations used in the beginning of this century, and even before, with a view of ascertaining why people in our great-grandfathers’ time enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom found in the present genera- tion. "They now think they have secured the secret or secrets, They find that the prevailing opinion that then existed, that “* Nature has a remedy for every existing disorder,” was true, and acting under this belief, our grandparents used the common herbs and plants, Con- tinual trespass upon the forest domain has made these herbs less abundant and has driven them further from civilization, until they have been discarded, as remedial agents, because of the difficulty of obtaining them, H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner's safe cure and founder of the Warner observatory, Rochester, has been pressing investigations in this direction, into the annals of old family histories, until he has secured some very valuable formulas, from which his firm is now Preparing medicines, to be sold by all druggists. y will, we learn, be known under the general title of" Warner's Log Cabin remedies.” Among these Swill be. "*sarsaparilla,” for the blood and Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy,” for the Monach, ea Log Cabin cough and consumption Log Cabin hair tonic,” “Log Cabin ex- for internal and external use, and an old valu- scovery for catarrh, called ** Log Cabin rose ‘Among the list is also a‘* Log Cabin plaster,” Log Cabin liver pill.” From the number of remedies, it will be seen that they do not propose to cure all diseases with one preparation. It is believed by many that with these remedies a new era isto dawn upon suffering humanity and that the close of the nineteenth century will see these roots and herbs, as compounded under the title of Warner's Log Cabin remedies, as popular as they were at its beginning. Although they come in the form of proprietary medi cines, yet they will be none the less welcome, for suffer. ing humanity has become tired of modern doctoring and the public has great confidence in any remedies put up by the firm of which H. H. Warner is the head. The people have become suspicious of the effects of doctor- ing Teg with polsonous drugs. Few realise the injurious fects following the prescriptions of many modern physicians. ‘These effects of poisonous drugs, already prominent, will become more pronounced in’ coming enerations. ‘Therefore we can cordially wish the old- fashioned new remedies the best of success, The finest Meat-Flavoring Stock. USE IT FOR SOUPS. Beef Tea, Sauces and Made Dishes EXTRACT OF MEAT. W. B.—Genuine only with fac-simile of Baron Uebig’s signature in BLUE INK across label. Sold by Storekeepers, Grocers and Druggists. LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., L’td, London, coop 8 Te aera on fered. | Now's your sme to ‘orders for” our, mete a aie For full MAEB UCAS Ete Rie, PRIZE: FOR - THOR: $10,000. PRIZES; FOR: AUTHORS. dustrial Articles, Short Stories and Artistic Designs, Bnclose focents for sample of paper Address ED. Au, Inpusteiat ADvaxtisex, Des Moines, Iowa. TRA Ore GREAT VINTACE OF 1884 The Finest in Years. STAR FLASH TORCH FOR CAMPAIGN CLUBS. “Ritretae St any thing ever dere Price complete sith Porche O27 Sto. Renta eu aeec ation treo Kg eracomne & sage aieate | New TUE RAILWAY SOLID AND COMPLETE VESTIBULED TRAINS, BUFFET COMPARTMENT CARS and FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS, RUN DAILY BETWEEN CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. The only Road operating such magnificent train service be- tween the two cities. No extra charge exacted over this route. ‘The Direct and most Popular Line running through cars be- tween ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK AND BOSTON. Ticket agents in the United States or Canada can tell you allabout this Railway, or you can address JOHN McNULTA, K.H. WADE, Receiver. Gen. Sup't. CHICAGO. PREPARE FOR THE CAMPAIGN. THE FOLDING CAMPAIGN TRANSPARENCY. Indorsed by both National Committees. S. W. SNOW, Gen. Pass. Ag't. Patented Sept. 13, 1887. No. 1. Open. No. 1, Folded. The frame of the Folding Transparency is steel wire, light, durable, and is far superior to the old wood frame. It can be instantly folded and sixty of them acupy me, mere space than one of the old-style weed frame transparencies. Price lists On application. THE FOLDING TRANSPARENCY COMPANY, 14 Cortlandt Street, New Vork. Samples, plain, $1.00. 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