Judge, 1894-01-20 · page 12 of 16
Judge — January 20, 1894 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and miscellaneous content page** from Judge's 1894 New Year issue, not a political cartoon page. The notable content includes: **Medical Advertisements**: Multiple ads promote patent remedies for "La Grippe" (influenza), then a serious epidemic concern. Doctors endorse "Vin Mariani" and other tonics as treatments—reflecting 1890s medical practice where alcohol-based patent medicines were standard. **Satirical Quips**: Brief humor pieces mock contemporary life: a Texas newspaper editor renounces lying; a professor studies talking chickens; complaints about life-insurance schemes targeting newspaper writers; and observations about courtship and school. **Product Ads**: Cuticura skincare, Liebig's beef extract, piano manufacturers, and railroad services (Atlantic Coast Line to Florida). The page demonstrates how **Judge mixed satire with advertising**—the humor is gentle, topical observation rather than sharp political commentary. The predominance of patent medicine ads reflects widespread influenza concerns during this period and the era's unregulated pharmaceutical market.
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The best way to improve and strengthen} [Soups and Sauces of all kinds is to add little of this famous product. It’s the corpulent person who has let life go to waist.—Lowell Courier. NEW- YEAR NUMBER. NOW READY. Price, 25 Cents. A handsome 60-page Book, full of the best of June To be found at all Took- and News-stores, and sold on all trains, Judge Publishing Co. of New York, Publishers, humorous pictures. Hell is full-of. newspaper men who killed themselves blowing for some little. one-horse town, and that, too, without enough support to fatten a grasshopper. We've decided that it's a sin to lie, anyway, and in the future we'll be found telling the truth. — Garrison (Texas) Signal, Impure water, the cause of so much ill health, is made harmless by adding a little Angostura Bitters. Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. At all druggists, “Here you are, mum,” said the peddler| briskly. ‘Flowers and “music, mum! Sell} you anything from a chrysanthemum to a Christmas anthem, mum !"—Chicago Tribune, Just THREE DOLLARS is all it will cost you this month for the Cosmopolitan Magazine and Good Housekeeping one year each. To se- cure these two publications for one year for that sum, send this month THREE DOLLARS to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Springfield, Mass. ‘That tax on cigarettes is only equaled by the tax they impose on Willie's vitality. — Pittsburg Dispatch, It gives immediate relief—we mean Salvation Oil, the great pain-remedy. Price, asc. No girl ever learns much at school after she begins to press in her books the flowers the boys give her.—Galveston News. Sohmer & Co. have spared no expense in the construction of their piano-factory at Astoria, and they have, no doubt, the finest and best equipped piano-forte factory in the country. Always foremost in the front ranks of progress, liberal in all their dealings, displaying great inventive ability in the manufacture of their | beautiful instruments, Sohmer & Co. have cer- tainly made a most important move, which will ‘open up a new and prosperous era in the his- tory of Long island. LA GRIPPE (INFLUENZA) H. LIBERMANN, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief, French Army, writes: «One part ‘VIN MARIANI’ with two parts boiling water, sweetened to the taste, makes a grog of exquisite flavor, which produces immediate beneficial effect in severe cases of cold attended by convulsive coughing.” CYRUS: EDSON,.M.D., Chicf of Health Department, New York: «¢Inflaenza (La Grippe), where patients suffer with high fever, catarrh in the head, and complete prostration, the most effectual remedy is the generous, diffusible tonic, ‘ VIN MARIANI.’ ” pres, since 30 years, ‘‘ The Tonic” etsolatey, relied rofession everywhere. Every test proves merit. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTIONS. “Vin Mariani” upon by the Medical SOLD AT ALL DRUGGISTS. We will mail, gratis, Portraits and Autographs of Celebrities testifying to merits of “VIN MARIANI.” MARIANI & CO., 52 West r5th Street, New York. Paris: «1B Hacscmann, nie jeuilly /Se! London : ayy Oxtord Street” NO MORE GRAY HAIR BRUCELINE, thoonly Robbing a Chicago faro-bank is suggestive of diamond cut diamond,—Exchange. le. Dragaista, or BRocELINE ‘Treatise on the hair sent on pplication, ree | Don’t get constipated. Take Beecham's Pills. “No, I shall never marry him,” sighed the | maiden. ‘When he saw one of the fellows bleeding at the foot-ball game he turned pale. T couldn't be happy with such a man. He'd always want me to cut the chickens’ heads off myself,"—Exchange, As might naturally be expected there is small change in the silver situation. —Chicage Dis- FLORIDA. ATLANTIC Coast LINE LES sSha, pedcaeapenty "01 Ot, Prorias ROUSE. MAZARG 8 Frank Leslie’s |I $1.00 for Three Months. THE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION, Lesuin's Waaxty." Special correspondents and a readers during the comin, ‘A subscription now SUBSCRIBE NOW. THE GREAT TARIFF DEBATE IN CONGRESS, THE RESTORATION OF THE HAWAIIAN MONARCHY, and THE PROGRESS OF OUR new AVY are but four of the e,important features to be illustrated during the first three months of # energy of a young and vigorous management have made the * Lxsui THE BEST AND MosT ENTERPRISING OF AMERICAN PICTORIALS No great of importance will occur either at home or abroad which will not be placed, before its for three months as a trial order will convince any lover of high -class pictorial jourdalism that ao other: American weekly will be found to eaual the new Leste’ ARKELL WEEKLY COMPANY, lustrated Weekly Charleston, Savannah, and all points in Florida and Cuba. | ONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID TRAINS FROM New York and Eastern Cities to Jacksonville and 8t. Augustine. Commencing Jan. 10, 1894, the NeW YORK AND FLORIDA SPECIAL Composed of Palace Sleeping Cars, Dining Gar, Observation and Library Car, will leave New York daily, except Sundays, at 12.10 Noon and reach St. Augus- tine next day in time for dinner. NO EXTRA FARE CHARGED ON THIS TRAIN. OTHER TRAINS LEAVE NEW YORK 9.30 A. M, (ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT) AND 8.30 P. M., BOTH OF WHICH CARRY THROUGH SLEEPING CARS NEW YORK TO FLORIDA. (Oc. Per Copy. EASTERN OFFICES: 229 Broadway, New York ; 228 Washington Street, Boston, Mass; 33 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penn; 601 Penn- sylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C, CONSTIPATION <3" CURE. Address, UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CO., Dept.A42, (CFreatise mailed free.) 78 434 St, Chicago, Ill. All kinds kept in stock BLANK BOOKS.::nste.'cnersr FINDLER & WIBEL, large scafl of artists, together with the push and PusussHens 4no Proprietors, 146 Nassau Street, New York. to Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY. M10 Fifth Avenue, New York. | scvor’stimanr is tall of pure fan. 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