Judge, 1892-08-13 · page 18 of 18
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This page is primarily **advertising content**, not satire or political commentary. It contains two major advertisements: 1. **Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association**: An insurance company advertisement emphasizing cost savings. The pitch contrasts their $50 annual premium against competitors' $100 for equivalent coverage—a direct competitive appeal. The decorative text ("Safe! Sure! Sound! Secure!") uses period marketing language. The financial statistics (membership, reserves, insurance in force) serve as credibility markers. 2. **Pennsylvania Railroad**: A travel advertisement promoting their "Summer Resort Line," highlighting their extensive rail network connecting major American resorts from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. It emphasizes luxury amenities (Parlor, Sleeping, Dining cars) and positions the railroad as the premier travel option. Both ads represent typical late-19th-century commercial messaging—factual claims, testimonials of financial strength, and appeals to leisure/comfort. There is no visible satirical cartoon or political commentary on this page.
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Thirty Million Dollars Saved By reducing the premium rates charged to members to harmonize with the payments to the widows and orphans for death claims. More than THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS have already been saved to the members of the MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION. Economy is Wealth. Why pay $100 per year for your Life Insurance when the Same Amount of Insurance can be had in one of the strongest Life Insurance Companies in the world for $50? Record and Financial Standing. MEMBERSHIP, OVER... Interest Income annually exceeds . Bi-Monthly Income exceeds RESERVE FUND, JULY 21st, 1892. Death Claims paid, over.. Saving in Premiums exceeds . ound! New Business in 1891 exceeds. -50,000,000.00 ecu re INSURANCE IN FORCE exceeds... -- 220,000,000.00 THE MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION FURNISHES LIFE INSURANCE at about ONE-HALF the usual rates charged by the old-system companies. It has excellent POSITIONS to offer in its AGENCY DEPARTMENT in every City, Town and State, to experienced and successful business men. Send to the Home Office for Prospectus. HOME OFFICE IS ‘‘POTTER BUILDING,” 38 PARK ROW, NEW YORK CITY. BE. B. HARPER, President. HENRY J. REINMUND, Second Vice-President, Ex-Supt. Ins. Dept., Ohio. F. T. BRAMAN, Secretary. JOHN W. VROOMAN, Treasurer. I. L. SEAMAN, M_D., Med. Supervisor. G, R. McUHESNEY, Ass’t Compt. afe ! ure ! -. 60,000 $127,000.00 600,000.00 . 3,269,297.89 13,360,000.00 .-30,000,000.00 0. D, BALDWIN, Vice-President, ¥, A. BURNHAM, Counsel. E. F. PHELPS, Comptroller. J. D. WELLS, Third Vice-President.” J. W. BOWDEN, M.D., Med. Director. CENTRAL TRUST CO, Trustee. - ° Tew Pennsylvania Railroad. THE SUMMER RESORT LINE OF AMERICA. Y reason of its geographical position, its wide ramifications, and its compre: hensive system of connections, the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD leads directly or by connection to a EXCURSION TICKETS, covering its own and connecting lines, is so complete as to include all the principal resorts east of the Mississippi River, and many of those Gaearen Mumaer ano Variety of Summen Resoars beyond, even to the Pacific Coast. The tickets lead over a variety of than any other railroad of the land. By its direct and allied lines the most advanced facilities of transportation are provided for the summer wanderer, whether he seeks the rock-bound coasts of the extreme East, the sandy beaches of the Middle South, the lakes, mountains, and forests of the North, the mineral springs of Virginia and North Carolina, the fishing-grounds of Canada, the varied scenes that border the waters of the saltless seas of the boundless Northwest, the scenic lands that lie at the feet of the Rockies, or the blooming vales beyond that smile ini the light of the setting sun. Alll of the resorts of this vast area, with its infinite attrac- tions and wide diversity of climate and resources, are easily accessible by the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ano Ts CONNECTIONS. ¢ “ . In this, the golden age of travel, luzuriously equipped and perfectly * appointed trains of Parlor, Sleeping, Dining, Library, and Observation Cars enhance a-thousand-fold the pleasure of a summer outing, and the © PeNNSYLVANW RAILROAD ComPANy, Tue PiopeeR in Perrecting rue Comrorr or Travel, commends its superb service-to the consideration of outing-makers. The Pennsylvania System of oe J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. CHAS, E. PUGH, General Manager, routes, care being taken in their preparation that all the intermediate. points of interest may be touched, and in the majority of cases the return. trip is available by a route different from that used in going. * A trip under these circumstances -is an educational as well as a pleasure tour. SUMMER EXCURSION ROUTES ano RATES,” a handsomely illustrated pamphlet of 270 pages, with three maps, and containing all the information required by the summer tourist, either in the selection or the reaching of his summering spot, is procurable at all the ticket offices of the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, tion also as to the extensive Informa- THROUGH-FARE FACILITIES presented by the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD can be procured at the ticket offices of the company in all the cities of the country and at the stations, GEO. W. BOYD, Ass't General Passenger Agent. comicbooks.com