Judge, 1891-12-19 · page 15 of 16
Judge — December 19, 1891 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The page showcases patent medicines, luxury goods, and services typical of late 19th-century American commerce. **Key advertisements include:** - **Champagne and wine promotions** (Great Western, Laroche's Tonic) — expensive status symbols marketed to wealthy Americans - **Laroche's Invigorating Tonic** — a patent medicine claiming to cure malaria, fever, neuralgia, and indigestion (typical of era's unregulated medical claims) - **Gold Watch Giveaway** — a circulation-building scheme offering free watches to attract subscribers - **Knox Hats** — quality headwear for gentlemen - **Crayon portraits** — affordable portraiture service The small editorial item at bottom left ("Five things essential to success in life...") is a brief satirical quip typical of Judge's humorous filler content, making a cynical joke about money and marriage. **Overall context:** This reflects Gilded Age consumer culture, when magazines relied heavily on advertising revenue and promoted luxury goods to affluent readers. Patent medicines with dubious claims were widespread and largely unregulated.
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GREAT WESTERN THE FINEST CHAMPAGNE IN AMERICA. A HOME PRODUCT WHICH AMERI- ‘ GLYCERINE-SOAP yo CANS ARE ESPECIALLY \ See One that reflects th ah | MULHENS & KROPFF, highest credit on the. ’ NEW YORK, country which produces it. it GRAND NATIONAL PRIZE of 16,600f, *OME BEST HOTELS” i BEST CALIFORNIA CHAMPAGNE, CLUBS, AND HOMES Made from 8 to 3 years old Sonoma Valley Wine, AMERICA'S BEST PRODUCT. tetera LAROCHE’S Our cellars, extending from Warren to Chambers st, are the finest wit ars inthis city, They enabl te y sufficient VINTAGES, INVIGORATING TONI EES over ete wine belo aang" one ane bottles. best proof of its superiority lies in the fact that - a ized by the hospitals of New York, FOR PARTICULAR», conral rence palroniaed by the mot promloent Rospltals of New. Yor PRICES, ETC., Address __A. WERNER & CO., 52 Warren St. PLEASANT WINE 6O., x Frayed FEVER and AGUE; SYRACUSE SUSPENSORY RHEIMS, ( lees KeF@ MALARIA, NEURALGIA hear ANDAGE Steuben Co., 3 f and INDIGESTION. we rg, Write td descriptive ‘cireu- é New York. ‘ q nin tenets with Soe sek WELLS MANUFACTURING COS SYRACUSE, ¥. Y. THROUGH Sleeping-Car Lines Five things are essential to success in life. One is a good wife; the four others are money.—Richmond Re- Paris, y Pullman Sleeping E. FOUGERA & CO., Agents for U. S., corer: 7 pcan 30 North William street, N. Y. HOW TO WIN AT CARDS, Cincinnati and_ Charles- DICE, ETC. A sure thing, sent free ton, S.C. to any ‘one on"receipt of 4c. stamps to : Day postage. Address or call in person, Cincinnati and Knoxville, MOR SUYDAM, 23 Union aq.. NewYork, Tenn., Cincinnati and Jackson- pe ville, Fla. a GOLD WATCHES FREE! Cincinnati and New Orleans - : na ¢ We, the publishers of this paper, will give away ansotursty Free! a (os salles shortest line}, gcouine Gold Stem-wiasing and Stein ectng Wa teh (in order to get new ‘incinnatl f Subscribers and agents) t+ any persons as stated in our advertisement in our clnclonell end Ato By, per. These Watches come fa Ladies’ or Gents. size, Hunting, Case or Cincinnati and Birmingham, f ‘ a Face in different styles and cases. Each and every Watch will be - fs warranted and guaranteed by us and an American Watch Co, who have Cincinnati and Chattanooga 9 been doing busines in this country for the ist twenty years to be Armt-cluon < / in every particular and to run and keep correct time Jor B years! also. that Chattanooea Garacs every Wateh geationes abgre ts Reatine Gala, ce we wil tortae ean ae VAN (000. to. any School; Church or Charitable Institution. in the Uni s \ Staies. This is certainly one of the grandest offers ever made by any living New Orleans f publisher. How can we do all this! This isa question thet thousands and. Se ; Who read our advertisement will ask. We answer— Kasil Birmingham, % 2 io order to make everything perfec , BEA na-fde explanation. Pape fs of a National reputation spend each New Orleans i explanat Pe ut pend each ye. aoc 19 $sogeo in advertuing to. make Koown their publication and and focrease theit advertising patronage. Of course, no paper can possibly make Chattanooga, ety. 4 money. or even exist without advertising. Consequently by giving away Neve ONS ond S absoluicly Free a Gold Watch we expect 0 get the largest circulation of New Orleans and | Uf: any Family publication in the ur point ts after we get a pene certain circulation we can command easily from $28.00 to $50.00 an inch from New Orleans and ri: Savertines for space in our paper~(iheres Millions of Dollars {a advertising) New York. © to say nothing about the income from subscriptions. See! Then it will be galy a Question of time with proper management and square. honest and Best accommodations truthful statements to our subscribers that we will be friends with every per- and quickest time be. \ son in the land, Then again, we know that cur elegant Gold Watches and tween points named, Our paper will give suctr perfect satiafuction that we will get as many as so to 100 Bew subscribers in every town where our paper goes. and as there are D. MILLER. D. G. EDWARDS, something like 60,000 towns in America you can easily see what an immense circulation we are sure to build up. Remember we ‘Trafic Manager. General Passenger Agent. | are after alarge cirealation! We must have it! ‘Even though it cost a Million Dellare!. Otherwise our enterprise would CINCINNATI. 0. beadead failure. We consider our pacer one of the most reliable and popular Home publications that Is printed. You'll say 0 (00, when you see it. It is a complete family paper in every Hach issue is beautifully illustrated, containing stories of Jupcr’s Christmas number is the most beautiful the fascloatlog [ntereet, and &. ee) vacteey; fof soany st nel peng Fe an ea ot ical ete additi on, art, industries, literature, etc., an is conspi mong the i c publishers have ever sent out. In addition to several | the New York World, Herald, Times; Tribune and other papers have an income of over One Mil- colored cartoons of a humorous character, there are | Mom Dollarseach year, why can't we have the same thiog? Has a man ever done anything yet many engravings in tints, and the forty odd pages are | that another one couldn't do? Any person with money tolavest can make money. Isn't this true? inclosed in a handsome ‘cover printed in cblegs and | NOW Fead the following and secure a splendid premium. gold. Artists and hterary contributors have furnished OUR GRAND 60 DAYS’ OFFER! an excellent Christmas “ entertainment.— Norristown Upon receipt of a One Dollar Bill, Postal Note, Expréss Money Order, Registered Letter or P.O. Herald. Money Order for one year's subsc: to Farm and Household we will send_you by return mail, postage paid, Absolutely free, asa Premium, this beautiful and elegant Stem-winder, as ENGLISH. Foreign iMusirated bere, ‘This advertisement may never appear, again. ge Cut It Out Nothin iG ined by correspondence as everything is fully explained here. References jewspaper HATS. Novelties. | finers, any Mercantile Agency, Bank, Merchant of Express Agent in ths city, Kxtrat We will send six of these Premiums and six Copies of our Paper for One Year to a club of six persons for ~carartio’s" | WOPID-RENOWNE! guanirr 95._ Ferhapa you can get Sve of your friends to Join you and thus get four own Premium and mbrellas. © ae HATS suare FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, 7 Mutray St , New York. GLOVES. mw | CORRECT. 194 FIFTH AVENUE, Under Fifth Avenue Hotel. For 30 days. In order to introduce our CRAYON PORTRAITS in your vicinity, 212 BROADWAY, Comer Fulton 8t., New York. and thus create a demand for our work, we make you the following bona-fide offer: All _hats manufactured by this house are the recognized Send us a good photograph, or a tintype, or a daguerreotype of yourself, or any member standard of excellence throughout the world. None genuine Sslthous the. Uademarks of your family, living or dead, and we will make you one of our finest CRAYON rs as PORTRAITS free of charge, provided you exhibit it to your-friends and use Jud e” Ss Libra fronenty, icirentation® your influence in securing us future orders. Cut this out and return it to us with your photograph, with your name and address i ry. ‘vertising medium for the | ack of photos, so we can ship your portrait accordingly. Tamquerey Portrait Society, 741 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, money in the wide, wide world, Rates on application, N.Y. REFERENCES: Rev. T. DeWITT TALMAGE, D. D., and Commercial Agency of R. DUN & CO. Prase or Fitse & Rice Paring Co., FirTH AvEXUE, New YORK. 69. comicbooks.com