Judge, 1897-08-21 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 21, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page announces a contest where readers solve visual rebuses—ten pictorial puzzles shown here, plus thirty more in previous issues—to identify prominent Civil War generals (1861-65). Winners receive $250 in prizes distributed among the first twenty correct solvers. The ten sketches use visual puns and symbolic imagery to represent generals' names. For example, image 31 appears to show a military scene, while image 32 depicts a figure with an umbrella in rain, and image 33 shows a cyclist. Without solving them, the specific general names aren't obvious—that's the puzzle's challenge. This was a popular advertising/engagement tool for *Judge*, the satirical magazine, encouraging reader participation and repeat purchases across multiple issues. The contest reflects late-19th-century American cultural interest in Civil War history and illustrated wordplay entertainment.
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THIS IS THE LAST TEN OF THIS SER PIN ALL FOUR SETS TOGETHER AND MAIL TO ADDRESS BELOW. THIRD CONTEST. Judge’s Picture Puzzles. $250. IN PRIZES. ST Here are ten pictures. Each one represents the name of a prominent General in the Civil War of 1861-65. We have $250. to give away to the first twenty and most successful of our readers who solve these ten illustrations and THIRTY (30) others, published in the last three issues of JUDGE, as follows: ist Prize$100.00 | 6th Prize$10.00 | 11th Prize $5.00 | 16th Prize $5.00 ) 2d 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| oth Prize 5.00} 14th Prize 5.00| 19th Prize 5.00 5thPrize 10.00| 10th Prize 5.00| 15th Prize 2oth Prize 5.00 to be divided A total of $250.00 ‘among 20 peop y 38. ‘Copyrighted, 1897, by Judge pee eee 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 _ aia on the bottom thereof; then mail all four sheets pinned together in the upper left-hand corner to the “JUDGE PRIZE-PUZZLES EvT., 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. one. Ou 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 we ‘eet. 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 pe ir 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 can io 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 prising the whole series, all pinned together in the upper left-hand corner, as required above. 3 Ue sure that you fully prepay postage in sending in solutions. covey Ne date of masting your answers and not that of our recefving them is considered in governing the question of priority. The post-office mailing or dating-stamp on the svelope determining this point. PRESS OF FLESS & RIDGE Printina Co., FiFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com