Judge, 1893-12-09 · page 3 of 52
Judge — December 9, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements rather than political cartoons**. The dominant content is a full-page ad for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, highlighting "$35 Million Dollars Saved" through reduced insurance premiums. The ad includes their Potter Building headquarters in New York City and financial statistics from November 1893. Below that is a separate advertisement for the **Ferris Wheel Puzzle**—a mechanical toy featuring a revolving Ferris wheel where players place balls in moving cars. Made by Columbia Manufacturing Co. in Baltimore, it sold for 25 cents with $300 in potential prizes. Neither section contains political satire or caricature. This appears to be a typical late-19th-century magazine page mixing insurance marketing with novelty toy promotion.
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Thirty-five [Million Dollars Saved! By reducing the premium rates charged to members to harmonize with the payments to the widowe and orphans for death claims, more than hirty-five Million Dollars have already been saved to the members of the UTUAL RESERVE FUND ““Eom LIFE ASSOCIATION |-——____—_ RECORD AND FINANCIAL STANDING: |_———_—_—______ Insurance at | yewsrnsmr, asour - - - - - - 80,000| Why pay $100 en Interest Income annually exceeds = - ~~ $180,000 00 | per year for your Life i Bimonthly Income exceeds - = + ~~ =~ 650,000 00 | same amount of tnsur, t 72 RESERVE FUND, NOVEMBEE 13, 1898, 3,664,326 00 | se «20 be had in one of the strongest Life In- Death Claims Paid, over - - - 17,192,563 00 | surance Companies in Now Business in 1892 exceeds- - - - 60,000,000 00| the World Usual rates. | New Business to November 1, 1893, over - 48,112,000 00 for $50? ~~| INSURANCE IN FORCE exceeds + e 250,000,000 00 | — me NpKon : ¥ = a A RESERVE UND LI E ASSOCIA ION Broapway, Cor. Duane St., Naw York, I HE MU l U L i f T 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 Parties desiring Insurance will be furnished {ree information at the Home Office, or by any of the Association's General Agents. Home Office is POTTER BUILDING, 38 Park Row, New York City. E. B. Harper, President. |WHAT! You haven't seen the Ferris Wheel Puzzle? Well, it’s immense; a neat little box with glass top, containing a revolving Ferris wheel. The puzzle is to place a passenger [ball] into each vacant car ot as it goes around. , - OO in prizes to those doing e+. it in a few moments. For sale by stationers, news stands, toy dealers, and all who are CTS. wide awake. Sent to any address on receipt of price, a ‘THE COLUMBIA MbBkca. Co, 2 and 114 S. Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. ' comicbooks.com