Judge, 1897-08-07 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 7, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page announces a contest where readers solve rebus-style picture puzzles depicting the names of famous American stage actors. Ten puzzles are shown here; forty total will appear across four weeks in Judge magazine. The puzzles use visual puns and symbolic imagery—for example, image 11 shows a lemonade stand (likely representing an actor's name phonetically or through wordplay), image 12 depicts a man juggling, and image 15 shows a large wheel or mechanical object. The contest offered $250 in prizes distributed among the first twenty correct solvers, with the top prize worth $100. This was typical of Judge's reader-engagement contests in the 1890s—interactive entertainment that encouraged audience participation and repeat purchases of the magazine. The elaborate submission rules emphasize that entries must arrive by a specific deadline and include careful instructions for cutting, pinning, and mailing solutions to Judge's offices on Fifth Avenue in New York.
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THIRD CONTEST. Judge’s Picture Puzzles. $250. IN PRIZES. TTT? Here are ten pictures. Each one represents the name of a well-known Actor on the American Stage. We have $250.00 to give away to the first twenty and most successful of our readers who solve these ten illustrations and THIRTY (30) others, ten of which were published last week, and twenty of which will appear in the next two weeks, as follows: ist Prize$100.00 | 6th Prize$10.00 | 11th Prize $5.00 | 16th Prize $5.00 ad Prize 25.00| 7th Prize 5.00! 12th Prize 5.00|17th Prize 5.00 3d Prize 20.00) 8th Prize 5.00| 13th Prize 5.00/18th Prize 5.00 4thPrize 15.00] 9th Prize 14th Prize 5.00 | 19th Prize 5thPrize 10.00 | 10th Prize 15th Prize 5.00 | 20th Prize be divided among 20 people. A total of $250.00 to ss TQ nese Copyrighted, 1897, by Judge Publishing Co., of New York. READ THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. Write the solution underneath each picture, cut out sheet (holding it until the fourth and last series of puzzles is published in JUDGE No. 827), and write your tame and address plainly on the bottom thereof; then mail all four sheets pinned together in the upper left-hand corner to the “JUDGE PRIZE-PUZZLES DEPT, 110 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK," in time to reach this office not later than one week from date of JUDGE No. 827. All solutions arriving later will be disqualified. 1 can send in as many answers as you please providing you use a separate JUDGE puzzle sheet each time—no more than one solution of each picture is allowed on any It is not necessary to send a second set of solutions to the whole forty puzzles in order to change your answer to any one or more of the puzzles; in other words, if in Your opinion one or more of the pictures will bear different constructions and you desire to submit each of these constructions as a part of your complete set of solutions, you "an do so by using another sheet containing the particular picture or pictures in question. Thus sending two copies say of that sheet and one of each of the remaining sheets Comprising the whole series. Jie sure that you fully prepay postage in sending in solutions, enyelt date of masling your answers and not that of our receivzng them is considered in governing the question of priority. ‘The post-office mailing or dating-stamp on the Welope determining this point. PRESS OF FLESS & RIDGE PRINTING Co, FirTH AVENUC, NEw York comicbooks.com