Judge, 1897-05-29 · page 17 of 18
Judge — May 29, 1897 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **not a satirical cartoon page**, but rather a **contest/puzzle feature** from Judge magazine. The page presents ten visual rebuses (picture puzzles) where each illustration represents the name of a well-known American town—solvers must identify them. The contest offered $250 in total prizes distributed among ten winners (1st prize: $100; 2nd: $50; remaining eight: $10-$20 each). Readers were instructed to write solutions beneath each picture, mail the sheet to Judge's offices at 110 Fifth Avenue, New York, with their name and address. This was part of a larger 40-puzzle series spanning three weeks, with ten illustrations published the previous week and twenty more to follow. The copyright date of 1897 indicates this reflects Judge's competitive reader-engagement tactics of that era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
JUDGE'S PICTURE PUZZLES. $250. IN PRIZES. Here are ten pictures. Each one represents the name of a well-known town in the United States. We have $260.00 | to give away to those of our readers who solve these ten illustrations and THIRTY (30) others, ten of which were published last week and twenty of which are to appear in the next two weeks. ist Prize - - = = = $100.00 | 6th Prize = = = = = $10.00 2d Prize - - = = = 5000 | 7th Prize - - = = .= 10.00 gd Prize - = = = = 20.00 8th Prize - - = = = 10.00 4thPrize - - = - = 20.00 | oth Prize = = = = = 10.00 5thPrize - - = = = 10.00 | 10th Prize - = = = = 10.00 A TOTAL OF $250.00 TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN TEN PEOPLE. \ Copyrighted 1897, by Judge Publishing Co., of New York. Write the solution underneath each picture, cut out sheet and mail, with your name and address plainly written on the bottom thereof, to the “JUDGE PRIZE-PUZZLES DEPARTMENT, 110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.” Mail it in time to teach this office not later than one week from date of publication—all solutions arriving later will be disqualified. PRESS OF FLees & RIDGe PrinTING Co., FIFTH AVENUc, New YOun. comicbooks.com