Judge, 1891-12-05 · page 3 of 52
Judge — December 5, 1891 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **Beecham's Pills advertisement** disguised as satirical content. The "catastrophe" is staged chaos: multiple cats have knocked over bottles of pills, spilled them across the floor, and scattered papers—one cat even appears to have knocked over an inkwell or similar container. The joke plays on the pill's marketing claim that they "roll" easily due to their round shape. Here, the rolling pills have literally rolled everywhere due to clumsy cats, creating humorous disorder. The text celebrates Beecham's Pills as a popular patent medicine for "indigestion, billiousness, constipation, sick headache, and all other forms of stomach and liver troubles." This reflects late-19th/early-20th-century advertising that used comic scenarios to promote patent medicines now considered dubious.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ROLLING ALONG. They have already rolled into every English-speaking country in the world, and E! B All sufferers from. indigestion, flatulency,'constipation, sick headache, and all other forms of stomach and liver troubles have now this famous and inexpensive remedy within their reach... They enjoy the largest sale of any proprietary medicine in the world.. Price, 25 cent8 ; of all druggists. ECHAM'S PILLS are pleasantly coated, and being round, they will roll. pal they are still rolling. New York Depot, 365 Canal Street. ws Complying. with general request, Beecham’s Pills will in future for the United States be covered with a Ouickly Solub i comicbooks.com /