Judge, 1898-04-30 · page 2 of 20
Judge — April 30, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertisements** from an early 1900s Judge magazine, with minimal editorial cartoon content. The one notable cartoon appears in the lower right, titled "Knowledge Puffeth Up," showing two figures in conversation. The joke plays on the biblical phrase "knowledge puffeth up" (from 1 Corinthians 8:1), with the caption suggesting someone has become arrogant or inflated with self-importance from learning mythology. The bulk of the page advertises bicycles (Crescent, Howard, Pioneer Limited train), alcoholic beverages (Evans' Ale, Somerset Club Maryland Rye), patent medicines (Blood Poison cure, No-To-Bac smoking remedy), and pianos. This reflects late-19th/early-20th-century consumer culture and the magazine's reliance on paid advertising to fund publication.
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NAAN AAAAL ALAA AA LL LLL TLE A Mighty Army of CRESCENT riders contemplate with great satisfaction their purchase of a’97 CRESCENT. The daily use of the wheel has proven its standard quality. STANDARD PRICES CRESC BICY T S for ’98 surpass any ART... previous efforts in & CATALOGUE bicycle construction. FREE... WESTERN WHEEL WORKS CHICAGO NEW YORK Evans? Ale is to health what the Pneumatic Tire is to the wheel. It’s rough going without it. You know the good results of riding. Do you of Evans’? EVERYWHERE. Itis a sign of age in a woman when she begins to get out of a buggy backwards.— Aitchison Globe, Narviand Rye. Acknowledged by Connolsseurs to have 00 superior. TONICAL IN EFFECT. USED BY FAMILIES, CLUBS, CATES AND EOTEL3, Sold at all first-class Grocers’ and by Jobbers, EDW. B. BRUCE & CO., Baltimore, lid, “CHICAGO MILWAUKEEz ST.PAUL RAILWAY Kn ms: Sewouh 2 HOWARD @CLES are worthy of a long story. ‘Tis well told and illustrated in our beautiful new catalogue. It's free- to you. send for it. roo TEAS w= COFFEES AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. ‘Tea Set, Tollet Set, Watch or Clock FREE. pounds katco Tea, any kind; presses: with overy fas nds Tea, 2d. oar cite] and near “A: TEA oun rated reduced pricelists Order Dow Dy Prevents, THE G Hand's) Vesey Street, Now York. Bor raze We make special prices on| Howard Models 30+¢31. While nat Y equal to our Model 37-they arethe BEsTwheels made forthe price. | EHOWARD WATCH & CLOCK CO. ee EW YORK; . 7000 BICYCLES eurried over from 17 ual her friends because she dreams every night of reading a continued story, taking it up where she left off the night before.—Arkan- | saw Thomas Cat. BLOOD POIsO treated at home for same price under same guarantee. railroad fare and hotel bills, and no charge if we [ai to cure. If you have taken mercury. iodide potash, . | mouth, Sore Throat, Pimples, Copper Colored Spots, Ulcers on any pert of the bodys fl ror | cases and challenge the world for a case we canno cto iol ww serene Ticscrieeny burrente 7m n Wleyelen lication. Address COOK REMEDY CO., on an | 1480 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO, ILL. A Hot Springs woman is the envy of all Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary BLOOD POISON permanently cured in 15 to 35 days. You can be If you prefer to come here we will contract to pay and still have aches and pains, Mucous Patches in Hair or Eyebrows falling out, it 18 this Secondary BLOOD POISON we guarantee to cure. We solicit the most obstinate s always baffled the skill of the Ns. $sco,000 capital behind our Absolute proofs sent sealed KNOWLEDGE PUFFETH UP. Finst Lapy (slightly mixed)—" P'raps yer kin tell me w'ot's the meanin’ of mythology ?” SecoND DITTO (ditéo}—" In course I kin. abart the hatmosphere.” It's knowin’ all —Fun, Pears’ “Beauty is but skin- deep” was probably meant to disparage beauty. In- stead it tells how easy that beauty is to attain, “There is no beauty like the beauty of health” | was also meant to dis- parage. Instead it encour- ages beauty. Pears’ Soap is tne means of health to, the skin, and so to both these sorts of beauty. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. 7 THE CELEBRATED SORMER HEADS THE LIST Or THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS. It is the favorite of the artists and the refined musical public. SOHMER & CO., Piano Manufacturers New York Warerooms, SOHMER BUILDING FIFTH AVENUE, COR. 220 STREET comicbooks.com