Judge, 1888 · page 48 of 87
Judge — 1888 — page 48: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements**, not satirical cartoons. It represents typical late-19th-century product marketing from *Judge* magazine. The ads promote patent medicines and consumer goods with claims that would alarm modern readers: - **Emerson's Albumenoid Food** claims six times more nutrition than other foods and promises to cure infantile diseases, malnutrition, and cholera infantum—typical of unregulated medicinal food marketing of the era. - **Speer's Wine** is marketed as medicinal, suitable for "weakly persons" and the aged, with hospitals supposedly endorsing it—reflecting how alcohol was widely promoted as therapeutic before FDA regulations. - **Frank Miller's products** (shoe dressing, harness dressing, French blacking) represent standard consumer goods advertising. The common thread: exaggerated health claims without scientific evidence, and wine/medicinal products sold as cure-alls. This reflects the pre-regulation era when such marketing faced no legal restrictions.
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CHESTNUTS FROM JUDGE. Emewcn’s ID The Most: Wholesome, Most Natiioas, BUMEN ALBO 0 PIMEANTSA Atrophy and ast Basily Digested. Food evar Prepared This Food contains SIX times more Nutrition than any other Food. In INFANTILE DISEASES, Malnutrition, Stomach or Bowel Complaints, Cholera Infantum, Marasmus, IT IS UNEQUALED! CHILDREN AND ADULTS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. —o— Sample Boxes sent by Mail on Receipt of 15 Cents. Send for Pamphlets, &. RIMBALL’S SATIN STRAIGHT CUT CIGARETTES People of refined taste who desire exceptionally fine Cigarettes should use only our Straight Cut, put up in satin packets and boxes of Os. 20s. 50s. and 100s. WM. S. KIMBALL & CO. 14 First Prize Medals. THE GREAT A Headqu: SPEEFR’S j PORTUGAL GRAPE WINE. Used in the Principal Ghurches for Communion. Excel- lent for Females, Weakly Persons and the Aged. the Speer’s Port Grape Wine! FOUR YEARS OLD. HIS CELEBRATED WINE ts the pure juice of the dead ripe Oporto Grape, raised in Speer’s vineyards. Ite invaluable Tonic and Strengthening Properties are unsurpassed by any other Wine. Being produced under Mr. Speer’s ‘own personal supervision, {ts purity and genuineness are guaranteed by the principal Hospitals and Boards of Health who have examined them. The youngest child may partake of its generous qualitics, and the weakest invalid use it to advantage. It {s particularly beneficial to the aged and debilitated, ‘and suited to the various ailments that affect the weaker sex. It Is in every respect a Wine to be relied on. FRANK MILLER'S Crown Dressing, In 4-02. Bottles, with Wire, Sponge and Cork. Gives a rich gloss, with a deepand durable color. While most dressings crack the leather, the CROWN does not injure it in the least, and for Ladies’ and Children’s boots ° and shoes is rapidly displacing all others. nets, traveling bags, cou! HARNESS A superior article acanth. Gives a permanently ; suppli Suffering from WEAK and DISORDERED STOMACHS, DYSPEPSIA, AUSEA or GASTRIC TROUBLES, will find this the MOST NUTRI EASILY RETAINED, SOOTHING, HEALING, and EASILY DIGESTED Food ever known. One Trial will convince the most skeptical of its great merit: INVALUABLE IN CASE OF SEA-SICKNESS, PREPARED BY THE EMERSON MANUFACTURING CO., 43 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK. DRESSING. ness manufacturers. used in place of Gum Trag- finish ; will not rub off or soil by handling; retains the luster long felt by harness manufac- ¥ turers ; also excellent for fly CONSTIPATION, [TIOUS, most Pure Goods Sold Only ! = a For over a Quarter of a Century our Teas and Coffees have been used by the ple of the U. S., and how satisfactorily the many million customers can best testify. They have so testified and keep increasing daily by using our goods, thus showing the great faith they have in the quality of the same, our manner of conducting business, and in the true commercial principle, Only One Profit, between the Purchaser and Consumer? We ask all lovers of Pare Tews, Coffees and Baking Powder, to. use more caution and think of the poisonous trash that are being hawked all over by these unscrupulous traders. #2 ONE PRICE TO ALL. ty TLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, The Largest Importers and Distributors in the World. arters, 85 & 37 Vesey St., New York. Speer’s Burgundy Is a dark, rich medium Dry Wine, used by the wealthy classes as aTable or Dinner Wine, and by physiclans in cases where a dry wine in- stead of a sweet port ia desired. Speer’s (Socialite) Claret Is held in high estimation for its richness as a Dry Table Wine. Speer’s P. J. Sherry Is a wine of Su ior Character and partakes of the rich qualities of oie arn ates tia pade ares . Speer’s P. J. Brandy Ie @ pure distillation from the grape, and stands unrivaled fn this try for medicinal purposes. It hasa peculiar flavor, similar to that of the grapes from which it is distilled. See that the signature of ALFRED SPEER, Passaic, N,J., is over the cork of each bottle. Sold by Druggists and Fine Grocers Everywhere. Salesroom: 16 WARREN STREET, N. Y. Vineyards and Cellars, Passaic, N. J. for har- To be beautiful jes a want le. es Gives a quick, brilliant, and durable polish, with ESTABLISHED IN 1838. FRANK MILLER & SONS, 349 & 351 West 26th Street, New ¥: positive nourishment to the leather. It is different in composition from common blackings, being based upon the French process with every valuable feature of the French style retained, while such :mprove- ments have been made as to insure a dryer and more durable gloss, with increased pliability of theleather. ork. comicbooks.com