Judge, 1896-06-20 · page 3 of 22
Judge — June 20, 1896 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page is **primarily advertising** rather than political satire. It contains vintage product advertisements including: - **Val Bibber Cigarettes** (top left) - promoting imported tobacco - **Ball-Bearing Bicycle Shoes** - marketed as worn by "Leaders in Every Race" - **Vino-Kolafra** (center) - a tonic claiming to have "Helped Win The Yale-Cambridge Games," marketed as a sustaining drink with "marvellous Power" - **The Windsor Hotel** (right) - describing itself as "The Coolest and Best Hotel in New York" There is one **illustrated vignette** showing what appears to be a domestic scene with servants or workers, but without clearer context it's difficult to determine if this contains satire. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising conventions and consumer culture rather than explicit political commentary.
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CIGARS. ALL IMPORTED TOBACCO. HIGHEST IN PRICE, FINEST IN QUALITY. 25c. a Bundle, = xo in Bundle. Trial Package in Pouch by mail for 26e. H, ELLIS & CO., Baltimore, Md. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., Successor. LADIES’ FURNISHINGS. Shirt Waists. Linen Chemises. Organdie Dressing Sacques at greatly reduced prices, Infants’ and Children’s Wear. 4 Bigib a NEW YORK. Commencing June 6th, our store will close at 12 o'clock Saturdays during the summer mont are worn by —Presidential and all. © Leapinc DEALERS HAVE THEM. C. H. PARGO & CO. (Makers), CHICAGO Bicycle Shoes 4 Buy $1.00 worth Dobbins’s Floating-Borax | Soap of your grocer ; send wrappers to Dob- bins Soap Manufacturing Company, Philadel- phia, Pa. They will send you, free of charge, postage paid, a Worcester Pocket Dictionary, 298 pages. bound in cloth, profusely illustrated. Offer good until August 1st only. Represent the highest type of bicycle construction, and possess many extreme- ly valuable exclusive improvements, To see one is to own one, Bend for tenatifel Catalogue and Olymplan Games, \DULTS, $65, $80, $100, JUVENILES, $40 to $56. Makers, OLYMPIC CYCLE MFG. CO., N, Y. Office, 35 Liberty 8t. Gen. Agts., 8. F. MYERS & CO., 8-50 Maiden Lane, N. ¥. ¥.B—Have you soon the new eclf-hoaling tire? All" Olymple” agents have it. Mr. SLowtr (af a loss for a word)— Miss REMincTon (huffy at the idea “More than four times, Mr. Slowit? 11! Um—ah—um—ah—er of running her new No. 6 for a‘ mere clerk") — ‘A father once said to his son, Whenever you think of a pun Go out to the yard And kick yourself hard, And I will begin when you're done.” —Exchange. THE WINDSOR, | The Coolest and Best Hotel in New York. The Windsor Hotel, on Fifth avenue, occu oandstren onic APP ale cae ive, verter’, & erves affect 2 __ | pying an entire block, between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, is so situated that it is a most attractive hosteiry in summer. Because of its location it is probably the coolest house in the city. There is an opening from Fifth Javenue to Madison avenue, which gives it a ventilation possessed by no other hotel, ‘Then, again, there is a particular satisfaction in know- ing that your temporary home is fitted up with such special regard to the laws of hygiene as the advancement of sanitary engineering has made possible. The name of Leland is synonymous with good hotel keeping, and when Warren F. Le- land, that veteran boniface, took possession of the Windsor on May tst he determined that jthis long-famous house, like those previously lunder his management, should be fully up to date. Recently there has been expended $90,000 in a renovation of the plumbing system. | Dec- \orations and a new steam and electric-lighting | plant will cost $100,000 more. Many other | improvements for the comfort of the guests are in progress. Mir'Leland, a member of a famous family of hotel-keepers, is known to the traveling public as a model host. As proprietor of the Delavan House in Albany, the Leland House in Chi- cago, which he sold toa syndicate just previous to the opening of the World's Fair ; the Ocean Hotel in Newport, and the Chicago Beach Ho- tel, he has gained'a wide experience, by which the guests of the Windsor will benefit. ‘The Windsor is a fine building, with five hundred big; airy, well-ventilated rooms. The dining-room’ is the handsomest, largest and coolest in New York City. All the silver, china and glass-ware is of a special design. ‘As an innovation Mr. Leland has introduced music during the dinner hour, from six to eight p. m. A superior chef has been installed in charge of the kitchen, which is a model in its perfect ap- intments, and the table of the Windsor will me a feature of the hotel under the new management. ‘The Windsor will be conducted on both the European and American plans. ‘I'he rates will be $4 per day and upward on the American es ‘and $1.50 per day and upward on the n plan, with free coach and free trans- ‘of baggage to and from the Grand Central station. Within easy distance of the great city's at- tractions — its theatres, art galleries, drives, and, not least to the ladies, its fashionable shopping district, it would be almost impossible When Peffer gets up in the senate it is called ‘+ Peffer day”; but when Stewart once takes the floor it is called ‘* Stewart week." —£ven- ing Sun. A Buffalo woman married a man with one leg and one arm. Did she get him at a bargain- sale of remnants?— Western New Yorker, Warsaw. Buskins— Jarkins, what makes your office look so dirty?" Jaséins—* Can't say. Guess the office-boy must have just swept it."— Xox- bury Garette, to conceive of a better location than that of the Windsor, particularly for the visitor who wants to enjoy the many pleasures of city life. The Windsor is within a block of three great trans- tation lines, the Sixth-avenue surface and [roads and the Fourth-avenue strect-car line. It is but a few blocks from the Grand Central station and almost in sight of Central Park, and the Fifth-avenue stage will carry one there in about seven minutes. A man will tell you of every improvement he puts on his property, but he never tells you of the mortgage that be has pat on the improve- ment.—New York Advertiser, comicbooks.com