Judge, 1894-07-14 · page 12 of 16
Judge — July 14, 1894 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine, with two cartoon panels and product advertisements dominating the layout. ## The Cartoons The two small sketches at center-right appear to be humorous domestic scenes typical of Judge's light satirical content—one shows a man in a hammock, the other depicts a couple with a dog. These are simple observational humor rather than political satire. ## Content & Context The page is mostly **advertisements for patent medicines and consumer goods** common to the 1890s-1900s era. Notable products include: - Beeman's Pepsin Gum (digestion remedy) - Germa-Vici (claimed to cure consumption, rheumatism, kidney disease by "destroying germs") - Hires' Rootbeer (heavily promoted) - Various quack remedies for indigestion and other ailments The small quoted jokes and items (about "peers," Jack Frost hitting Michigan) are typical light editorial filler. **For modern readers:** This reflects an era of unregulated medical advertising where extravagant health claims were standard, before FDA oversight. The germ-theory references show contemporary scientific anxieties being exploited commercially.
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39°" ST. cand ISTAve. S.W. CORNER BICYCLE RIDING ‘a OF CHEWING CUM. If your Dealer does not keep them, Order DIRECT from us. —OUR— illustrated Press, A NEW MONTHLY PICTORIAL FOR THE FAMILY. Subscription, SO cts. per Year. No American home miss this opportunity of securing at smali_ cost a High-class Journal of ing artistic and lit ary excel lence. It Will Interest every Member of the Family. The Puzzle and Che conducted by one of the most noted of American Puzzlists ten times the subscription price. Send subscriptions either in form of cash, cheque, money-order, postal- Note, or postage-stamps (if of the two-cent denomination) to Our Illustrated Press, 110 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK, can afford to} A DELICIOUS REMEDY FOR ALL FORMS OF INDIGESTION, Bach tablet con! BEE WAN CHEMICAL 300.,, 22 Lak CAUTION Seo tnat tho niine Meoman Is oneach wrapper ‘OMIUIMATORS OF Fursis CHEWISG GURL SETA NEW” FACE Pimptes theretro \ by. art with, Aah Dew. Eves SCELIUS. sex, Bipmmetic fate, * Germa-Vici Cures—just cures—that’s all.” CONSUMPTION, RHEUMATISM, |KIDNEY DISEASES, ARE GERM DISEASES, and can only be permanently cured by destroying | the disease germs. There is only one disease-germ destroyer known to science that can successfully ac- complish this result. GERMA-VICT is worth in- | Quicing about, and for the request a pamphlet replete rt | he | Mention Jovan. She (severely)—"" Henry, what is a peer chip?” He (frankly)}—"* It's a chip off a poke 1 sup Pron De. Hale’ fAttecn minute Give General Jackson the credit of being the originator of the bullet-proof cloth idea when he packed up those cotton bales at New Or- leans to check the bullets of the British.— Philadelphia Ledger. Drunkenness Delightfully Dissipated. We understand that nothing so quickly and effectually removes evidence of alcoholic ex- cesses as the new “Sober-up” tablets. ut one in your vest-pocket when out with the boys. Write to the Noseline Company, 35 Arcade, Panag | ciscions Ohio, for information. Jack Frost has hit Michigan just below the fruit belt. Foul!—Chicago Times, “ When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou"—Bromo-Seitzer. Beware of little expenses ; a small leak will S7UB | cink a great ship.— Franklin, A SIGN OF BETTER TIMES, ‘When everybody is hoping for the return of better times each straw that shows the wind to be blowing from that quarter is worthy of special notice. ‘There is no barometer $0 reliable as the demand for goods. Nobody buys stock for fun or for a ces. Our hdvertisers, The Charles E. Thires Company of Philadeiphia, transact business over a very wide field, dealing in every city, town, village and. cross-roads in the country, They report that the sales of Hires’ Rootbeer so far this season are very much in excess of the same period last year. When it is remembered that their annual sales have before this reached the enormous total of 2.$8o.278 packages, which equals more than a gallon for every family in the country, it would seem at first thought that there is little room for further growth. Thirst for it, however, seems to be universal, as this year's report'shows a Very large xaia, indicating that ere long the person who does hot drink Hires’ Rootbeer will be somewhat of a curio ity No temperance beverage has ever anywhere nearly approached Hires’ Rootbeer in popularity. Its won- derful success can be accounted for only on the ground that it is just what the manufacturers claim—an hon- est extract of nature's most bealth{ul roots, which lakes thirst, improves health. and pleases every mem- ber of the family. Its remarkable sale certainly proves ., | that millions enjoy Hires’ Rootbeer. Did I guess it?"—Detroit Free sehold Ointment cures croup In [DE MABORIarS WATER-PAD THUSS er of pa: Hens using them. A per- feet Ot w Me Pe AEX WRIGHT'S MYRRH TOOTH SOAP <0 Bo ie totes teeth. th Boa; for gentlemen is the only sat- isfactory gar- ter, as it auto- matically ad- justs itself to any size of leg . and does not bind. everywhere, Ask for the genuine BOSTON GARTER and be sure you get it. MADE. BY George Frost Company, Boston. ‘will get more prompt attention and better toning JuboR when answering advertise Department, | is alone worth — shade of the trees. — “Ab, TU take a nice nap in that hammock under the — JT? Doc—"" ener Say, come off, won't yer?" For Sale by alt Leading Grocers and Wine Merchants. PLEASANT VALLE VALLEY WINE CO., RHEIMS, [#. B. KIRK & CO., 69 Fulton St. and ‘Steuben Co., MN. ¥. A TIP on AMERICAN CHAMPAGNE. G reat Western Is unequaled for purity and excel- ence, and is now used in many of the best Hotels, Cluts and Hemesin preference to foreign vintages. ate) 4 trial case will satisfy the moit Sastidious. 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