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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, dominated by a large public health notice about "La Grippe" (influenza) and pneumonia prevention. The main article warns readers that influenza has returned with increased pneumonia deaths, urging precautions against exposure and system debilitation. The page features multiple **commercial advertisements** for period products: tailored clothing (Jacobs Bros.), eyecare treatments, cigars, dental paste, asthma remedies, carriages, tea, and banking services. At the top are several **brief humorous satirical items** mocking contemporary topics—including jokes about quinine-pill-carrying American girls, Egyptian eye disease, and suicide trends—typical of Judge's witty filler content. The page reflects early 20th-century American consumer culture and health concerns, with the influenza warning underscoring the disease's contemporary relevance to readers.

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The curse of ophthalmia is so bad in Egypt that it has even affected the Nile in the form of cataracts. — Pharmaceutical E Kansas City’s chief of police is looking for an em- | bezzler who is only fifteen years old, six feet three inches tall, and weighs one hundred pounds. The | young embezzler probably disguises himself as a tele- graph wire and remains suspended from the pole when the chief is near.—Butte Miner. - “Wouldn't you like to see that village chestnut-tree that Longfellow wrote about?" said Marguerita to the young man who came to see her. ‘*Do you believe there was any such thing?” ‘Why, certainly ; don’t you?" “‘Idon't know; I sometimes suspect that the poem was smithy-logical."— Washington Post. This world is full of chumps, indeed ; Or would be if the daily tale Of some one’s self-destructive deed Did not come in by wire and mail. Why will they longer seek the tomb Through salted love and peppered pride? Why longer crowd the mystic flume ? Why sue and sigh, then suicide? —Oil City Blizzard. American girls, a British medical review gravely in- forms its readers, "‘ now carry about with them orna- | mental cut-glass bottles containing quinine pills, with which they dose themselves from time to its fatigued they take two pills ; if chilly, one; i (as they generally seem to be), four or five. - Tieve that ten is the correct dose for wet feet.” This is an exaggeration. ‘Ten is a maximum dose, and is only resorted to for that tired feeling which the American girl experiences when reading some kinds of foreign in- | formation about herself.— Philadelphia Ledger. IN CLAY'S DIAGONALS, TO ORDER z OVER $18 A full line of samples with easy self-measurement guide sent JAGOBS BROS. DRESS COATS & VESTS TO ORDER, These goods are soft finish and won't gloss. SPRING SUITS $20 IN NEAT SILK MIXTURES. SPRING OVERCOATS KERSEYS AND DIAGONALS IN ALL THE LATEST ‘SHADES. ‘on application, free of Our Goods Will Stand Expert Inspection. 229 BROADWAY, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, 152 AND 154 BOWERY, CORNER BROOME. ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET, 10c. Tells all about eyes ; how disease: to use glasses or Aow to discard : faethods of treatment without the dni NEW YORK BACILLICIDE CO., 155 W. sath St See POCKET LAM, Ba. Bets Hama Cod ean tte td £255 WE MAKE THE CIGAR, YOU MAKETHE SMOKE. ‘The BEST Cigar. Five cts, Tiger Cubama i tecepertonie: Ack your dealer for them. COOPER'S FLORAL DENTINE A perfect tooth paste in tube form. No Acid No Grit. Delicious Flavor. Strength- ‘ening and healing to the Gums. indorsed by the leading dentists. Dentine enough in one tube for 99 applications sent for as cents At all dealers Send 4 cents in stamps for sample. COOPER'S PHARMACY, KINGSTON, N, Y, L MILLER & SONS, 149 CHAMBERS ST., N. Y., MANUFACTURERS. RUHSTRAT GAIL & CO., CHICAGO, ILL, ques 4°" Asthma lief for = | IDDER'S PASTILLES. Price 35 cin by cal. Ce AST oweil a8: Curls Ma. HENRY LINDENMEYR, PAPER’."..WAREHOUSE “la Grippe” and Pneumonia, Prevention Better than Cure. Reports from medical sources show that “La Grippe” is again preva- lent, and in connection with its return it i important to note that a decided increase of mortality from pneumonia is recorded. This should be a warning to all classes to take precautions against exposure and whatever tends to debilitate the system. The trying changes of the weather.at this season, and the consequent cases of colds, influenzas, inflammation of the lungs, rheumatism, pains in the back, and the many other aches and pains caused by unavoidable or careless exposure, are things that cannot be neglected, except at the risk of more serious consequences. As attested by indisputable testimony, they may be both prevented and relieved by the timely use of POROUS AL LC 0 CKS PLASTERS Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation: Ask for Atucock’s, and let no solicitation or explanation induce you to accept a substitute, Florence—"*'Vhe idea of saying you were only twenty-three!" Bessie—* You forget. mamma told us that it is always better to underrate than to exag- gerate, my dear."—American Grocer. Rochester has found the pace and motion of an elec- tric car under full headway to be about the same as the sensation of rushing down a toboggan slide ; but an im- provement is wanted, Male passengers want some one to hug as she scoots. Where are our inventors?—De- troit Free Press, WANTED, 50,000,000 PEOPLE To send for the largest HARNESS CHART EVER PUBLISHED in the world. Positively tho largest assortment of Harness in America, Over 100 d tinct styles, including the most complete lin novelties in Russet and Red Harness, White Can- | vas and English Rush Collars, now so very popular | for summer driving. Everything, from the small- est Goat and Pony to the heaviest Express and Coach Harness. Address JAMES H. BIRCH Manufacturer of Light Carriages, Harness and Sleighs, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY. Established 1862, POPE MFG. CO., 77 Franklin Street, BOSTON. ‘Branch Houses: 12 Warren St, NEW YORK, 291 Wadeah ‘Ave., CHICAGO, Tactory, HARTFORD, CONN. Enjoy a Cup of Good Tea, Send ten cents and this‘ ad” and we will end you a sample ‘of the FINEST TEA imported —make your own selection. We will ‘send by mail or ex- chareet paid. ai lbs. press, Fine Teas on receipt of $2, either Atoy of Formosa Japan, Gunpowder, Imperial, Eng, b'fst, Sun-Sun Chop, Mixed ofan assortment. POSTAGE STAMPS TAKEN, | For {ull particulars address . 0. Box 289, THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 31 and 33 VESEY ST.. NEW YORK. Only bank from which LITTLE GE BANK: Raed goin out by ‘manipulation before bank i full. Solid asa rock. Cannot get out of pider. Avoid, imitations. Sent post-paid for ase. (silver). Write for price list. In- ‘ducements to agents. AMERI CAN INTRODUCTION 00., =< ark Row, New Yor! <== 85 Dearborn 8t., Chicago, Tis, ory, New York Repo: 406-412 BROOME STREET. Fu Fuess & Ribac PRINTING Co., FiFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. H. H. BABCOCK COMPANY. “AN ‘NMOLYSLYM soQ ule pue Ayojoe4 comicbooks.com