Judge, 1892-05-28 · page 13 of 18
Judge — May 28, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, circa 1890s, featuring various patent medicines, soaps, wines, and railroad services typical of the era. ## The One Notable Content: The only satirical item is a **brief joke** (credited to Philadelphia Record) about a woman named Miss D. being urged to marry a man named Lieutenant X. The humor relies on the period's class/social anxieties: though the lieutenant "swims beautifully," Miss D. dismisses him by quipping one "can't keep one's husband in an aquarium"—a joke about his unsuitability for marriage despite one accomplishment. It's gentle domestic humor poking fun at courtship standards. ## Advertisements Include: - Williams' Barbers' Bar Soap - Corrocco smoking-cessation tablets - Urbana Wine Company - Electric Razors (endorsed by Professor George Erff) - Epps's Cocoa - New York Central Railroad The page lacks significant political satire or caricature—it's commercial content typical of Judge's revenue model.
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of.our BARBERS’ BAR SOAP, we have obtained a Copyright for_ Pound Package (6 cakes) WitaMs' famous Bansers’ Soar for Tottet Use. 8 Months’ Comfort for 4Oc. The enormous sale of Winttams’ Barbers’ SoaP for TOILET purposes is the best evidence of the truth of the claim we make for it—Namely : No Totuxrt Soar ever offered to the American people is so softening, comforting and healing : so economical and yet so delightful; so universally popular whenever tried. SHAMPOO with this famous Soap. and iknow the absolute freedom from the annoyance caused by an itching, irritated, nfamed scalp. This Soap acts like cool cream. It ead of dandruff, softens the seale, cleanses the be ‘As your Barber for a package. Yo The J Wuiets the feverish tendency, and insures permanent Makers of the renowned Genuine relief from the greatest cause of thin, falling hair and Baldness. druggist alto heeps it—or we mail it ta you for price in stamps—qoc. for 6 cakes. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn., U. 5. A. ranxan Shaving Soap, IT 18 THE BEST.—Universal verdict. ‘Pronounced by connoisseurs THE BEST NATURAL SPARKLING WINE produced in America, Por Sale by all Leading Wine-dealers and Grocers, MADE BY URBANA WINE COMPANY, HAMMONDSPORT, N. ¥. OFFICERS: Hono Hanes, President. W.W, Auta, Zrearurer CORROCCO n00¢0 Tang WHY SWEAR OFF SMOKING? A Ringle Corroocd ‘Tablet dissolved on the wisn coe od you wil feel Urb a Dow fui tho racraingy TRY THEM. They are delicious and and at eecearely permien. in any quandty.” Atal cigar sua Sample box by ae 25 cents, SOUTH AMERICAN CORROCCO O., Laboratory at Hartford, Conn. What Professor Georce Errr, proprietor of the barber- shop, chiropodist and manicure establishments in Everard’s Russian and Turkish Baths, the most important place of its char- acter in America, says of the ELectRIc RAZOR: “T use the Evectric Razors in oH establishment and would not take 825, each for them if I could not replace them. consider the Electric Razor the best & the world. My men are asked daily, ‘What razor do you use to give me this mag- nificent shave?” 2: <h-ifs fis D—hageling, why don't you marry Lenten. ant X— First, because bruiney and he can't Ada, dance or play tennis. vit could we do with him?” Afiss: D.—" But he swims beautifully.” Afiss A.—* Ob, yes; but one can't keep one’s husband in an ‘aquarium, you know."—Phile- delphia Record, When a man is knocked down the stars he sees are perhaps the fierce light that beats about a thrown.— Boston Transcript, SEEN ESS al ‘every insane. SoLDEN arecivic co.. 183 Hece 6c. Clacinnatt. 0. and other Mounted Heads, Animals, Birds,F ELK Ses renee fandan, N, There is a time and place List. J.D. Allen, Taxidermist, Mi for | everything. The Time to Advertise is Now. The Place i FRANK LESLIE'S WEEKLY. i GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. ee COCOA BREAKFAST. knowledge ot thenatural ul lave which overn cos Epbe flavor ode estate meine fone Spl e rae maggot Ar Made ein by wits tolling water of mk ‘Sold only in half. JAMES EPPS & Co., Homeopathic Chemists, _ London, England, a “AMERICA'S GREATEST RAILROAD,"* . NEW YORK (ENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD, FOUR-TRACK TRUNK LINE. anteaching by {ts through cars the most import. mercial centers of the United States and Giouin and and the greatest of America’s Health leasure resorts. Direct Line to NIAGARA FALLS ONLY RAILROAD STATION IN NEW YORK. comicbooks.com