Judge, 1892-10-15 · page 14 of 16
Judge — October 15, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon. It contains commercial advertisements typical of late 19th-century American magazines, including: **Notable ads:** - **Derma-Royale**: A skin-bleaching product promising to remove freckles, tan, and "discolorations"—reflecting contemporary beauty standards that prized pale skin - **Coal fuel economy pamphlet**: Free literature on household heating efficiency - **Asthma/hay fever cure**: Patent medicine promising instant relief - **"Golden Specific"**: Advertised as a secret alcohol addiction treatment - Various firearms, bicycles, wine, whiskey, and other goods **Historical context**: The Derma-Royale ad is particularly notable as it reflects 19th-century racism—the product explicitly targets skin lightening, suggesting discriminatory beauty ideals. The patent medicine ads show an era before FDA regulation, when unproven treatments made extravagant claims. The page demonstrates how Judge relied on advertising revenue and reveals the consumer culture and medical pseudoscience of the period rather than satirical content.
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Te eto forfeit Five Hundred Dollars S casn, {oF any caso of moth-patches, brown. apots, live tlackiveads, ugly oF muddy skin, unnatural rednées, free tan or any other cutaneous discolorations, (excepting birth= Inarks, scare and thoee of a scrofulous or kindred that BermacRoyalo wilt not quickly remove and cure, We: also agree to fertelt Fire Hundred Dollare to any person sons kin can be njrod in tho aightet poate ater or ‘anyone whose complezion (no matter In bow bad condition red, whitened, Improved. and Derma-Royalosent toany addreas, safely packed and securely ecaled from observation, safe delivery guaranteed, on receipt ito," Send money by registered letter: ith your full post-office address written plain your Coutty, and mention this paper. ‘acredly pri Postage stamps taken, AGENTS WANTED ési.tziat: $10 A DAY. Address The DERMA-ROYALE COMPANY, Double BREECH All Linde cheaper thas Loa! SOUS Sees RIFLES $2.00, BICYCLES $15. etl 1T 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: Hans, President, D. M, Hiconern, Vice-president. 7 Attan, Treasurer. J. A. Swrrzkn, Secretary. J. W. Davis, Genzral Superintendent. 85,000 copter. Hest ad: Judge’s Library. #268 Zonicc*iews: money in the wide, wide world, Rates on apolication, Monthly Circulation, } bever: FREE To FOLKS WHO BURN COAL Agnes Bailey Ormsbee, The House Comfortable,” has written a sensible article on '“ Fuel Economy," telling everybody how to make and kee Household ‘fires — It appears in a little let, superbl; iflustrated in water colors’ by G. 1. Buek, the New York artist— Free to everybody upon receipt of two-cent stamp. Standard Coal & Fuel Co., 140 Devonshire St., Boston. "The New Don Quixote.” by Harry. B. Smith, is the funniest k out. Senda quarter for it to Brentano's, New Vork or Chicago, and it you don't get a hearty laugh for every mara- Vedi you can return it for a liver-pad. ASTHMA—HAY FEVER. NO zore sleepless nights. Instant relief. Never known tofail. Send ac. stamp for sample. Regular package soc. Address ARMSTRONG & Ci P.O. Box 790, jaitimore, Md. by Adminlatering Di Itcan be given fn's cu} knowledge of the f itisabsolutely harm: t rmanent and epeedy cure, whet! cer the patient 1s a moderate drinker or an aicobolic wreck." tt Never Ft Y 7 complete ERTS ETS ERETS oat PRES ROOK Eres, GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 188 Race St..Cinciunat!, 0, ~ WHIST LAWS weiss vert intisg bos. GRID uismabos Mich Daple Wiest Aire. Pears’ Soap How to have a fresh skin—It grows from within and is worn off and washed off outside. A proper skin is neither too old or new. If too-new it is red and tender; too old it is worse—it is dead and corpse-like. Active people easily have good skin; they have to wash; but people of leisure sometimes grow sal- low because the skin is not washed enough. ‘What is wanted is a soap that does not affect the live skin underneath, but washes off the dead out- side, Can't use it too much or too often. That is Pears’. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. PUTTY Rambler Bicycles: TTT Camano ORHULLY & JEFFERY MFG. 60., 7 % 221-220 N. Franklin Bt,, Obleago. iy Boston. Washington. New York. 4 EM mn td HOW TO WIN AT CARDS, DICE, ETO. A sure thing, sent free to any “one on receipt of 4c. stamps to pay postage. Address or call in person, MOR SUYDAM, 22 Union sa..NewYork, PAT. DEC. 30,'90. “Please mention Juvcr. OVER 80 000 SOLD. THE PARACON PAT. FOLDING COIN PURSE. ‘The most roomy and least bulky purse made. Ask your dealer for it, or I will send you sample at following prices, postpaid. ta ge Sole Manuf'r, JAMES 8. TOPILAS, Send 4c. for Catalogue. Morocco. Calf. Sea $0.30 Bo.50 $a25 ners 178 1.00 's oes i231 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, w., raat p. | PAT. DEC. 80,'90. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. * By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful plication of the fine propertics of well-selccted Cocoa, Sr. F fas provided our breakiast tables with a delicately favored which may eave us many heavy doctors bile. Its by the fudicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution ay be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every Tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating Sround ts ready to attack wherever there isa weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by Keeping ourselves weil forti- Bed with pure ‘blood and a properly nourished frame.—" Cred Service Gasette.™ ‘Made simply with boiling water or mill Sold only in half. sound tins, bY Grocers, labelled thust JAMES EPPS & Co., Homaopathic Chemists, London, England. “THE BELLE OF NELSON” WHISKY. ¢ \ > 4 z z z 3 = $s & 3. ~ <4 3 Parties desiring this most eclebrated whisky tn cases, bolding two alone dated in the fail of Us, ean bave thelr wants eu Dited'at $13 per cane by calling upon or addreasing us. "The Belle Bf Nelson “is « great favorite with all consumers ot fine whisky. No gentieman ean bave anything ner for his sideboard or {0 case of elck ess. It is dlatilied {a the hills of from the finest of golden rye; mal water. ACKER, MERRALL College Place and’ Warren St.. Ne1 “Suitable discount to the trade tn quantities.” Nelson County, Kentucky, ize and moutitaln-epring OYbUT, Chambers se, Exact Size, Down-town Depot : SURBRUG, 159 Fulton St., N.Y. {or sample box of 10, by mail, to SACOM BT. L, J, & CU., 108th Street and 3a Av: 433" HOTEL BRUNSWICK. EQUAL TO ANY IMPORTED CIGAR. We prefer you should buy of your dea he does THE BATTLE FOR BREAD. 238 Tariff Points and Pictures for Americans, See FRANK LESLIE’S WEEKLY. comicbooks.com