Judge, 1892-07-09 · page 15 of 16
Judge — July 9, 1892 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **page of advertisements**, typical of Judge's revenue model in the late 19th century. Rather than editorial cartoons, it showcases period patent medicines and consumer goods with exaggerated health claims common to the era. Notable ads include: - **Ayer's Sarsaparilla**: Claims to cure "scrofula" (a tuberculosis-related disease), exemplifying the snake-oil marketing of the time - **Quina Laroche**: A "French remedy" with Peruvian bark and wine, promoted for fever and digestive ailments - **Liebig's Beef Extract**: Marketed as a kitchen staple for soups - **Menier Chocolate**: Legitimate product advertisement among patent medicines - **Bicycles**: Columbia and Tourist brands, reflecting the 1890s cycling craze The page also includes three brief **humorous shorts**—small jokes about coal prices, cabbage-head philosophy, and a child confusing George Washington with the Lord's Prayer—typical filler content. No political satire is evident; this is simply period advertising demonstrating unregulated medical marketing before FDA oversight.
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TO EXPEL SCROFULA from the system, C) AYERS | Sarsaparilla the standard blood-purifier and tonic. It Cures Others will cure you. ‘ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR HITZFELD'S G} ANTISEPTI ORN RELIEF 2690 ae an BAS 2 ORFG.HITZFEL DENVER, COL Guitars, Mandolins & Zithers {in volume and quality of tone are the Best IN THE WORLD. ented to wear ta any cllmate. ‘Bold by all leading cealera. Beaw- Utally Mlustrated souventr eat alogue with portralte of famous arts will bo Malled FREE. LYON & HEALY, CHICAGO, © Prospective purchaser —"Let me see your latest prices for hard coal, please.” The pro- prietor —"* Jimmy, show this gentleman to our ‘astronomical observatory."— Chicago News He is a happy man whose wife loves her home so much that she has no desire to go any: for the summer, But he is dead. ‘uiladelphia Times, Liebig Company’s= Extract of Beef. BEST ures BEEF TE INVALUABLE in the Kitchen for Soups, Sauces and Made Dishes. CHEAPEST BLANK BOOKS .t'sesrsnce=| Si FINDLER & WIBEL, 146 Nassau Street, New York. Judge’s Library. #3 Yertsing medium for the money in’ the wide. wide world. “Rates on application. Monthly Ciroa- Be warned! It is the cabbage-head that ‘scorns to wear the cabbage-leaf, which useful article is said to give the sun-baked quick relief. —New York Recorder. “ Gone forever !” he sighed, laying d last coin, a ten-dollar gold-piece. goes my only eagle, wings and all !" said the business-like man who had called as he handed over a receipted document, ,** but you can keep the bill, you know.” — Chicavo Tribune. ‘An East Buffalo-street girl made a funny re- mark in school the other day. ‘* George Wash- ington was the,time-worn and time-honored subject of discussion, and the little girl was getting tired and sleepy and not paying the close attention she should. ‘‘ Now, Mary,” said the school teacher, briskly, ‘‘who was George Washington?” ** Our father, little girl, indistinct Once more, Mary,” insisted the teacher ; "speak up so the school can hear you. ‘Our Father which art in heaven,” answered Mary, and dropped off to sleep." She imagined she was saying her prayers before going to bed.—Buffalo Inquirer: Cycling Honesty, ‘There are a good many bicycles of beauty, lightness; wear — The modern bicycle is well built, whether it be a Columbia or some other—perhaps the facts that there are more active Columbias than all other high-grade bicycles in America; that the Columbia factory, by heavy majority, is the largest and most complete in the world, a factory which does not know how to produce a low grade machine ; the unanimous opinions ‘of skilled experts; — altogether, may suggest that it is safer to buy aColumbia. Book about Colam- | & bias free on application to any Columbia agen’, or sent by mail for two two-cent stamps. Pope Mig. Co., 221 Columbus Avenue, Boston. INS The Tourist. Perfect in “Material, Con- struction and Finish. "BiEMarlo TURES, geurmioctagti 11 all the lending makes of Bicycles— Weeks, Uni nd Nictors, Ore- 806-310 West 59th Street, NEW YORE. Geo. o. Re 2. Bidwell Cycle Co., | | ASK YOUR GROCER FOR lebrated CHOCOLAT MENIER Annual Sales Exceed 33 MILLION Lbs. Bact Leone OF Is unquestionably ‘The Perfection of Olive Oil.” The First Analysts in the World pronounce it Pure Olive Oil. Exablished 1836 S RAR RCO. = Tacnonn, IFALy. "GRAND NATIONAL AWARD of 16,600 francs. ALAR OCHe LAROCHE'S TONIC a Stimulating Restorative, PERUVIAN BARK, IRON, ‘AND PURE CATALAN WINE, the Great FRENCH REMEDY Endorsed by the Hospitals for PREVENTION and CURE of DYSPEPSIA, MALARIA, FEVER and AGUE, NEURALGIA, loss of APPETITE, GASTRALGIA, POORNESS of the BLOOD, and RETARDED CONVALESCENCE, ‘This wonderful invigorating toniois pow- | ‘administered, erful in its effects, is ‘assimilates thoroughly wie the gastric juices, without deranging eed |, sotion of the stomach, 22 Rue Dronet, Paris. | E- FOUGERA & CO., Agents for U.S., 80 North William Street, N. Y. 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