Judge, 1888 · page 53 of 87
Judge — 1888 — page 53: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains no political cartoons—it's primarily **advertisements** from late 19th-century New York businesses. The notable content includes: **Alaska Down Bustles**: An ad warning women against counterfeit bustles (the framework devices worn under skirts for shape). The ad claims imitations use cheap cotton fill that's "heating" (uncomfortable) and promotes the genuine trademarked version. **Edison Light**: A prominent advertisement for Thomas Edison's incandescent electric lighting system, claiming over 300,000 lamps in use and asserting Edison's patent dominance with aggressive legal language warning competitors about patent infringement. **T. Aspinwall & Son**: An ad for tiles, mosaics, fireplaces, and decorative home furnishings. The page reflects **consumer culture concerns of the era**: counterfeiting, new technology adoption (electric lighting was revolutionary), and the rise of branded products with trademark protection. The Edison ad's confrontational patent language reveals fierce competition in the emerging electrical industry.
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CHESTNUTS FROM JUDGE. The Improved LADIES! Genuine A) 0 WN of BUSTLES | Buy only those bearing auy <j TRADE-MARK. All others : are IMITATIONS, filled with b@ | cotton (which is heating), are weak and disappointing. The GENUINE are for sale at all first-class houses in the country. sorter OF Suyps0% IMITATION BUSTLES ARE WEAK AND WORTHLESS. “THE IDEAL” 8 Pips or Boll Reversible, making three slzes. ALASKA DOWN Co., ‘ 25 WAVERLEY PLACE, as . NBW YORE. OUR BOSOM FORMS WEIGH ONLY ONE OUNCE. EDISON LIGHT. THE ONLY PERFECT SYSTEM OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING. MORE THAN 300,000 LAMPS IN USE. Estimates for Central Station or Isolated Plants furnished on application. Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, 65 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. °- ‘The Incandescent Electric Lamp is the universally acknowledged invention of Thomas Alva Edison, and ts covered by fundamental patents granted to him January 21, 1880, Ko. 223,808; May 4, 1880, No. 227,229, and July 20, 1880, No. 230,255. ‘Those patents, as well as some 900 additional detail and system patente, are all owned by this Company. All forms of incandescent lamps as well as a groat majority of the“ Detail" and “System” devices offered by others than this Company and {ts licensees, infringe the above- ‘mentioned patents, and all persons using them render themselves individually responsible for such unlawful use, and all the consequences thereof, and liable to suit therefor. T. ASPINWALL & SON, T] LES of all descriptions. MOSAICS * eee WO00D MANTELS, OPEN FIREPLACES, . ° ° GRATES, Brass Andirons, Fenders, Frames, Etc., Etc. ART POTTERYW. Sole Agents for MINTON’S and for the CAMPBELL TILE CO,, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 738 & 77 West 23d STREET (Masonic Temple, New York. DESIGNS AND HBSTIMATEHS FREED OF CHANGE. comicbooks.com/