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This page is primarily **advertisements and promotional material**, not political satire. The phrase "Natural Gas from Judge" is the magazine's header, but the content is commercial. **Main Content:** The page features testimonial ads for Packer's All-Healing Tar Soap (for baldness/dandruff), rubber roofing products, and electrotyping services. A substantial section promotes a mystery novel titled *"Napoleon Smith"* whose authorship is unknown—publishers joke it could be by Mark Twain, Henry Guy Carleton, or William Winter, generating marketing intrigue. **The Satire/Joke:** The "mystery authorship" marketing strategy was the novelty. By attributing the book to famous writers without confirmation, publishers drummed up reader curiosity and sales speculation—early clickbait-style promotion. **Historical Context:** This reflects 1888 America's fascination with celebrity authorship and emerging advertising techniques that blurred truth with promotional hype.
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To’ my everlasting astonishment I found a dense mass of fine hair covering m: And now I sing with no uncertain accents the merits of PACKER'S “*ALL-HEALING” TAR SOAP. In all seriousness, I have found it most excellent and for many purposes, and I most heartily recommend it to my friends for their good, and out of Drugeists. Rocuester, N, Y., August 6, 1888, may interest you. For the past fifteen years I have been growing bald- irs. The process was gradual, one hair going at a time in a sly, sneaking This 1 cure that,” and It did. Somebody else for some months growth, and I have to-day a good head of ‘Am a self-constituted advertisement head; this developed into T. T. SOUTHWICK. Pamphiet free. J@ Sample 10 Cents, if “NATURAL GAS” is mentioned. THE PACKER MFG. CO., 100 Fulton St., New York. ER ROOFING, UNEQUALED DS For House, Barn, and all out-buildings. Anybody can put it on. PRICE LOW. Write for 8: including nails, caps and paint for entire roof. inside, $1.50 PER ROLL OF TRyT IT! INDIANA PAINT & ROOFING CoO., 143 Duane Street, New York. > 4 “How to save re-shingling, stop leaks effectually and cheaply in roofs of all kinds, or lay mew roofs.” Particulars free if you mention ‘‘Naturat Gas. FOR SHEDS OR OUTBUILDINGS We are now manufacturing a most excellent roof for $2.00 PER 100 SQUARE FEET, We also have first quality sheathing for lining 800 SQ. Keeps buildings cooler in summer, warmer in winter. J.P. FELT. A. T. FELT.. Joseph P. Felt & Co., BLEGTROTYPERS, No. 25 Rose Street, New York, Blocking on Wood —or— Solid Metal Bodies. FT. METAL PLATES, FOR ENGRAVERS, MADE TO ORDER. Elevator, to receive and deliver Forms, always running, WMWrEZO WROTE “NAPOLEON SMITH” Did Mark Twain Write it? Did Henry Guy Carleton? Did William Winter? THE GUESSES OF THE PRESS: The first edition of + poleon Smith,” by a well-known New Yorker, of 50,000, has been exhausted. A second edition will be issued. — Denver Democrat. “Napoleon Smith” is one of the peculiar works of the season. It is havi immense run, the first edition of 50,000 copies being already exhausted. — Ohio State Journal. “Napoleon Smith "is a remarkable story and a story of remarkable interest. We can heartily commend the story as a bright specimen of the marvelous,—Baltimore Telegram. “Napoleon Smith” is none of your ordinary mixtures of insipidity and tameness, It fairly sparkles with incident, and every page is spirited and eventful. We think the author has made a successful debut.—S¢. Louis Republican, It takes up an odd conceit about the resumption of specie payments in this country, and weaves it into a story of Parisian life during the Franco-Prussian war which will be found sufficiently interesting for the pleasant fooling of a summer reading. —Zos Angeles Express. This is one of the Jupce’s conundrums, and the author, Our guess is Si is suggested more than once by the stvle of what is certainly i, and which is far from having the effect of a first essay in fiction.—New Haven Palladium, re requested to make a guess at The Smith of the story is in France to find th's money, and a singularly romantic time he has of it, falling in love with a beautiful French gifl, and being fallen in love with by a still more beautiful one, who under the name of Le Noir is chief of a band of robbers. —Grand Kapids (Mich.} Sunday Eagle. A decidedly interesting novel. It tells the strange story of a sergeant in the American army who was the grandson of a woman who attended the great emperor in his exile, and (0 whose father-he confided certain papers which indicaled the location of the great wealth which the conquerer of Europe was generally supposed to possess. ‘The adventurcs of this sergeant are told in a graphic manner; and they are certainly marvelous enough to excite the interest of the most indifferent reader. “Th novel has already struck a popular demand and its sales bid fair to exceed that of Mr. Barnes of New York.” - Lowell (Mass.) Citizen. He writes as an attaché of the American legation at Paris during the commune, d Mr. Washburn is made to wander in and out of the busy story. "If this circum: lity were nota part of the pleasant fiction, it might be easy to determine the ity of the writer, for “Napoleon Smith” stimulates the reader to try for his dis- covery. He writes asa man of affairs, conversant with facts, and with a taste for slightly dramatic narrative, tor which “Napoleon Smith” furnishes him with a new and original motive. .. |. . The narative of these fortunes makes the book one of the most readable of the summer novels.— Schenectady Star. A fantastic story called “Napoleon Smith” has just been issued by the publishers of the New York comic weekly Jupce. Its hero is the suppositious son of the first Napoleon, a veteran of the civil war and a great favorite with women. He goes to. Paris and with the aid of a paper left him discovers the hiding place, ofa vast treasure which the French emperor had concealed. This is used to bring about the resump- tion of specie payments in the United States. The tale bears journalistic ear-marks, and the newspaper men of the country are asked to guess the name of the author, $250 being offered for the right guess. ‘There are traces of A. C- Gunterss style in the genial proprietor of fican. work, but on the whole we will hazard the Sonesta that thi Jupce, W. J. Arkell, is the perpetrator.—Springfeld ( Mass.) Repi Price, SO Cents. ‘The book can be obtained from all newsdealers and booksellers, or will be mailed on application by the publishers: The Judge Publishing Company, 38 PARK ROW (Potter Building), NEW YORE. comicbooks.com