Judge, 1890-12-06 · page 5 of 52
Judge — December 6, 1890 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily filled with Victorian-era advertisements rather than political satire. The main content is a lengthy advertisement from Burt & Packard shoes, claiming their "Korrect Shape" design justifies higher prices through superior craftsmanship, materials, and durability compared to competitors. The page illustrates period consumer marketing: manufacturers asserting product superiority via testimonials and emphasizing skilled labor and imported materials—appeals targeting wealthy, "fastidious" customers. Supporting advertisements promote Liebig's beef extract, Armour's beef extract, Epps's cocoa, facial treatments, and office supplies. These collectively reflect late-nineteenth-century concerns: efficiency, health tonics, personal grooming standards, and the growth of commercial/business culture. The ads reveal contemporary assumptions about product quality signaling class status and wealth.
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FOR YOUR ANNUAL TURKISH, RUSSIAN ROMAN AND ELECTRIC BATH, Go TO Brockton Mass.| 'WOODRURY'S FACIAL 804 scalp, at Dragelst or by Mall, O4 WE COMMENCE where others leave off. We suppose that any of the various shoes ad- vertised are worth the price quoted, but we claim and have abundant testimontals in proof, that the shoes we make and advertise as the Burt & Packard ““Korrect Shape” are in style, fit, work- manship, materials and wear, worth the difference in price, though our lowest grade is a higher qual- ity than the best usually advertised. Employing the highest skilled labor, with an ex- perience of thirty years in supplying the best trade of this country; using only the best of stock ana genuine importation for all foreign goods, we be- lieve we can please the most fastidious, from a dress shoe for evening wear, to our Cork Sole Snow-excluder. Our circular of different styles &c. may show just what you want for the next pair. All delivery charges are paid to places where our shoes are not sold, therefore accept no ‘substitnte, DORING BREAKFAST. roving Seo, EPPS'$ COCOA LARGEST “ASSORTMENT. FOR SALE ONLY AT Ged wish pare be 59 West 14th Street. <a ang rex mie Sold only in half. GOOD COOKIN C. Be Gn een ama All wo desire] good [cooking in} thetca howe) cous LIEBIG ¢ COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF BEEF. A slight addition gives great strength and flavor to Soups, Sauces and Made Dishes. One pound is e pal 40 forty pounds of lean beet, of the value of about Genuine ont: oR fac-aimito $hdj von Hobte’e “5 atare in biae ink ‘the 1 Tho best and most osteconsentoals "atook sign ated for Soups, Sauces, Beof Tea, Eto. ——— ELK, Se RS EOS | _ ARMOUR &.C0., Chleage, Sole Mire eed Lit, J.D. ALLEN, 7: ES MANDAN, — T ai ig PRINTED, wie JUDGE nusian" Back Ink. SICMUND ULLMAN, 536. 538 PEARL ST... N.Y. Blank-book Manufacturers, = : 146 NASSAU STREET, Opposite the Times Blig., NEW YORK. ESTDIATES YOWASMED. Typewriter Papers.and Supplies. im STREET, New YORK. GENTLEMEN ONLY. PEN DAY AND NIGHT,