Judge, 1889-12-21 · page 13 of 18
Judge — December 21, 1889 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** from Judge magazine, not political satire. The layout features commercial ads (safes, skates, railroads, theatrical notices, patent medicines) surrounding two pieces of light entertainment: 1. **"The Turnpike Road"** — A dialect poem using extended metaphor. A farmer compares his mare's vigor on improved turnpike roads versus poor country lanes to how men need "progress" (metaphorical turnpikes) to succeed. The poem counsels against laziness ("Lazy Lane"), debt ("Mortgage Avenue"), and pleasure-seeking, advocating instead for hard work and self-improvement. This reflects **19th-century American values of industriousness and infrastructure development**. 2. **Brief jokes** about courtship styles and consumption (tuberculosis) remedies. The page reflects Judge's mixed model: serious satirical commentary elsewhere, but significant space devoted to paying advertisements and innocuous humor filler. Nothing here requires specialized historical knowledge beyond recognizing period attitudes toward work ethic and commerce.
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The Clements Safe Is a wrought-iron, fire-proof, com- bination-lock safe; is made’in all sizes, and sells from $35 upward, | including cost of delivery at any rail- road-station east of Rocky Mount- Gains. Send for illustrated catalogue. / M. CLEMENTS, Cincinnati, 0, Established 1859. BARNEY & BERRY ‘SKATES CATALOGUE FREE. SPRINGFIELD.MASS West Shore Railroad Y. C. & H. BR. RB. Re C0.) LESSEE. VIA WEST SHORE OF WORLD-FAMED HUDSON RIVER. POPULAR ROUTE FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE TRAVEL. Magnificent Sleeping Cars Without Change. New York and Boston to Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Toledo, Chicago and St. Louis. Sleeping Cars Now York to Toronto Exclusively by this Route Tickets via West Shore on sale at all ticket offices in the United States and Canada. Ask for lickets via West Shore and see that they read via this route, POPULAR THEATRES. NEW YORK CITY. ACADEMY—14in st..cor. Irving place. Eve, irs: Sat, Mat. >. Gilmore & Tompkins, Proprietors and Managers, ND YEAR. ~ DENMAN THOMPSO: THE OLD HOMESTEAD. HAPPINESS A ASSURED. Dr, Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will cure blind, bleeding, and itching piles when all other ointments have failed. It absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant relief. Dr. Williams’ Indian’ Pile Ointment is prepared only for | piles and itching of the private parts, and nothing else, very box is warranted. Sold by druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price, soc. and 1.00 per box. Wituiams M'r'G Ci Fuuy Equa to THE BEST IMPORTED “FOR FAMILY OR CWB USE. Z RECOMMENDED BYOUR — BEST PHYSICIAN An experienced young man says it takes only one let- styles of courtship, viz.: gate—grate.— Norristown Herald. CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. ‘To Tuk EDIToR—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above-named disease. permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have con- sumption, if they will send me their express and post. office address. Respectfully, T. A, Stocum, 3 MOC, 181 Pearl Street, New York. THE TURNPIKE ROAD. W'en I want to go to Boston, some thirty miles away, T hitch the mare at four a. m., an’ start at peep 0” ‘Thro’ cross-road lanes she pulls along as if she felt her load, pike road, But w'en she strikes the turnpike road to trot is on'y play An’ she sniffs a smell of Boston w'en it's fifteen miles away. She fergits her heaves an’ spavins, an’ don’t seem to min’ her load, Bat jest cracks thro” the atmosphere along the turnpike road. An’ the rat-tat of her hoof-beats is like the rum-tum- tum W'en armies march to victory behin’ the battle-drum ; Wren she prints her nose fer Boston she needs no spur nor goad, But ane ee worl’ beneath her feet along the turnpike road. An! men are jest like my ol’ mare ; lanes They hev no ginger in their blood, no lightnin’ in their brain: An’ they get ‘apt to kick an’ balk, an’ groan beneath their load, An’ loaf an’ cuss their stars, unless they strike the turn- pike road. But don't git discouraged, fellers, an’ don’t kick an’ sheer an’ shirk ; The turnpike road is jest beyond the big swamps of Hard Work, In Lazy lane an’ Whis! load, ‘They'll land you in the bogs at last, far from the turn- pike road. y alley don't linger with yer An’ don't try Mortgage cvenue, thet lands in swamps of Debt, Wren you see their flamin’ guide-boards, w’y, , jest keep yer peepers shet ; An’ don't loaf on Pleasure common, but buckle to yer | load, An’ jest keep peggin’ thro’ the dust an’ strike the turn- pike road. Don't linger at the cross-roads an’ loaf roun’ in the | lanes ‘The worl’s highways are open to men of pluck an’ brains ‘Trot on an’ git yeresecond wind, don’t mind yer heavy Toad, An’ dash out with a spankin’ pace upon the tumpike road. —S.W, Foss in the Vankee Blade, i — | AMERICAN ALES AND PORTER. Kanploymeet’ for alt 8G IVE BUREAU C®. Arcade, Ch We notice that Greenway's India pale ales and porter received diploma and medal for first order of merit at | the Adelaide (Australian) exhibition, in competition with popular English brands. These goods are becoming very popular. ter to tell the difference between the summer and winter | By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been | An’ don’t get down to business till she strikes the turn- | along the cross-road_| Holiday Announcement. Ostrich, Fancy Feather, and Painted Fans, Our ex- | hibit of Paris and Vienna Fans embraces the most fashionable and richest fans imported. 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