Judge, 1891 · page 68 of 69
Judge — 1891 — page 68: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertisement page**, not a political cartoon. It contains two distinct ads: 1. **Baltimore & Ohio Railroad advertisement** promoting express train service between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, featuring Pullman Palace sleeping cars. This emphasizes safety and comfort features like Pintsch gas lighting and steam heating. 2. **Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association insurance advertisement** taking up most of the lower half. The pitch compares their $50/year premiums to competitors' $100/year rates for equivalent $30,000 coverage. The ad emphasizes that payouts go to families ("wife or children") as birthday presents when the policyholder can no longer participate in celebrations—a euphemistic way of saying upon death. The insurance ad includes organizational details and lists of company officers. Both ads exploit late-19th-century anxieties about travel safety and financial security for families. This appears to be from a *Judge* magazine issue used primarily for commercial advertising revenue rather than satirical content.
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SAFES FASTEST AND FINEST TRAINS IN AMBERICA, RUN VIA BETWEEN NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE & AND WASHINGTON. Wists PACAENS Vice rrage ari maeear ot And protected by Pullman's Anti-Telescoping Appliance, including Baggage Cars, Day Coaches, Parlor Cars and Sleepers. ye $30,000 $240.00 PAYABLE TO ONE? J. T. ODELL, General Manager. “AMILY ALL CARS HEATED BY STEAM. AND LIGHTED BY PINTSCH GAS. BETWE! EQUIPPED WITH PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS Running Through Without Change. PRINCIPAL OFFICES: zt Washington Street, Boston, Mass. | 1351 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 4 Cor. Wood SL and Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. pr. oth ed Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. | Corner 4th and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, O. Cor, Baltimore and Calvert Sts., Baltimore, Ma. 193 Clark Street, Chicago, lil. tot North Fourth Street, St. Louis. Mo. BALTI MORE, MD. CHAS. 0. SCULL, General Passenger Ageat $30,000 $30,000 WIFE OR CHILDREN. A HANDSOME BIRTHDAY PRESENT It will be payable to the Wife, when the Husband no longer can participate in the Birthday Festivities. It will be payable to the Children, when you are not present to minister to their comforts. Why Pay § {00 Per Year f for your Life Insurance, when the Same, Amount of Insurance Can Be Had { } for [in one of the Strongest Life Insurance } Companies in the World Why leave your family—your Wife and Children—a $ | 0,000 ESTATE, In the shape of Life Insurance, when the SAME YEARLY PAYMENT you are now making for the $10,000 Insurance to the Old System Com- panies will Secure for your Estate to your Wife and Children doable the amount, of $20,000 Iu the Strong- eat and Most Successful Life Anso- elation in the World? Therefore secure your Life Insurance in the O. D. BALDWIN, Vice-Presioenr. + Comrrmotter, JW. BOWDEN. A.De Moreau Draxevone It has already pald to the WIDOWS and ORPHANS of deceased mem- Bers, Death Claims amounting to nearly It has over Surplus. It has saved its Members by Reduc- ton of Premiums more than Cash Tt has force. It has more than Members In the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the Contiuental Countries, Insurance in Home Off Potter Building. 38 EDWARD It. EAT HENRY J. REINMUND, Secon Vice-Pursinent, Ex-Supt. Ins. Dept. Ohio. Dr. H. M. HITCHCOCK, Assistant Mroicat. Dinector. F. F. T. BRAMAN, Seceerany. CR BISSELL. Chatewan Ixvesteawt Comarrae, E. WIG, SuraeintanDunT. . M. STEVENS( BM. CALDWELL, Geneuac AGancy Maxacas. J. D. WELLS, Tap Vicz-Paxsipant. . BURNHAM, Couxsat. WoT AMSDEN, { Assistant Secnmtanias, comicbooks.com