Judge, 1897-05-15 · page 15 of 22
Judge — May 15, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It promotes Pabst Malt Extract as a medicinal tonic for digestive ailments and general weakness. The left side features a testimonial from John D. Homer claiming the product cured his severe dyspepsia and restored his vitality. The right side shows an allegorical illustration—"The First Inauguration"—depicting figures ascending toward a cathedral, symbolizing the triumph or elevation promised by the product. The headline "Perfection in Brewing is Reached in America" asserts American manufacturing superiority, a common early-20th-century advertising trope. This reflects the era's patent medicine culture, when tonics made unregulated health claims. Pabst Malt Extract was marketed as a legitimate medicinal product, not purely as beer, exploiting consumer anxieties about modern ailments like "dyspepsia" caused by brain work and stress.
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Dyspepsia and Indigestion... HERE are times when the brain draws so upon our vitality that we cannot di- gest our food, we can get no strength from what we eat. If we let this go on, we sow the seeds of weakness which will blossom in disease. Read this letter about Pabst Malt Extract, The “Best” Tonic. If you are a brain worker, a woman with household worries and cares, or if you need physical strength to fight the battles of life, act at once. “L cannot be too grateful for the im- mense improvement Papst MALT Ex- TRACT, The “Best” Tonic, has made in my system, Two years ago | was a dyspeptic wreck of fifty, but PaBsT Matt Extract, The “Best” Tonic, has changed all that. It has not only cured spepsia, but it has braced my and cured me completely of I consider that it has saved my life. It itas changed a nervous. broken down wreck of fifty-two to a strong, fresh young man of forty. When’ my daughter was recovering from typhoid ‘ever, she gained nearly a pound a day for three weeks, solely by the liberal use of your decidedly “Best™” Tonic. JOHN D. Homer, Haywards, Cal. ASK FOR ee PERFECTION IN BREWING IS REACHED IN AMERICA BINNER CHICAGO comicbooks.com