Judge, 1898-06-04 · page 15 of 16
Judge — June 4, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily a **puzzle contest advertisement** rather than political satire. The central feature is Judge's "Puzzle Pictures" competition offering $250 in prizes to readers who identify ten flowers represented by abstract illustrations (numbered 1-10), with thirty more puzzles to follow in subsequent weeks. The contest rules are complex: contestants must solve all illustrations across four magazine issues, mail solutions pinned together by the deadline (June 18th), and can submit multiple entries. The page also contains **product advertisements** typical of 1890s magazines: Sozodont toothpaste (claiming to save teeth, gums, breath, and wallet), Waverley bicycles, Benedict patent collar and cuff buttons, and various patent medicines. The cartoon illustrations themselves appear to be visual puns or abstract representations meant as flower-naming puzzles rather than carrying political commentary. The overall page functions as entertainment and advertising rather than satirical journalism.
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ji TEETH lt GUMS iT BREATH TH POCKET A TRIAL WILL PROVE THIS TRUE. ‘Sample for the postage, three ceats. HALL & RUCKEL RMEW YORK Proprictrs bn | dupon’s Linmany ts fall of pure tan. No politics. 10e. $1,000.00 will be given to the contestant In JUDGE'S prize-puzzte competitions who is the first to solve.correctly every one of the puzzles In three faq CONTEST SERIES |. ad Here are ten pictures. Ast. Prize..$100.00 Bd Prize. 4th Pri successive contests. Judge’s Puzzle Pictures. 5th Prize.$10.00 6th Prize.. 10.00 7th Prize.. 5.00 8th Prize.. 5.00 9th Prize.. $5.00 10th Prize. "5.00 11th Prize.. 5.00 12th Prize.. 5.00 18th Prize .. $5.00 14th Prize.. 5.00 15th Prize .. 5.00 16th Prize .. 5.00 Prize. 0 ‘00 ‘15.00 $250.00 IN PRIZES. 17th Prize .. 18th Prize 19th Prize .. 20th Prize. $5.00 ) _A TOTAL OF $250.00 TO peso DIVIDED AMONG 20 PEOPLE. | Each one represents the name of a Flower, wild or cultivated. Vou will see that No. 1 is Violet, and vou will also see from this how to work out the others. We have $250.00 10 give away to the first twenty and most successful of our readers who solve these ten illustrations and Thirty (30) others, which will appear in the next three weeks READ THESE " DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. Of that sheet ai _Write the solution underneath each picture, cut out sheet (hold PRIZE-PUZZLE DEPT. 10 Incr will be disqualified, You can send in as many answers as you please, providing you use a separate JUDGE. purzle sheet each time: \ necessary tokend @ second set of solutions {9 the whole for pussies inorder to change your answer {6 any one or more of the juzz na you desive to submit each of these constructions as a part of your complere set of solutions, you can do so by in ‘one of each of the remaining sheeis comprising the whole series, ad/ pinned together im the ‘spper left-hand corner, The date of mating your answers and not that of our receiving them is consiver Copyrighted, 1898, by janet Publish iy Co., of New York. the 1FTH AVE.. NEW YORI other words, if ‘more than one solution of ‘your opinion ther sheet containing the particular required above, in goveruing the question of priority ; the postofice mailing or dating-stamp oa the enve! 1t until the fourth and Last series cae Puzzles ts published In JUDGE No. 871), dotiom thereof; then mail all four sheets, pinned together tu the upper left-hu to the 01 lime to reach this ofice not later than one week from date of JUDGE No. 87 eYAll solutions arriving picture is allowed on any one sheet. It is sne'or more of the pictures will bear differ- ieture or pictures in question, Thus $ure that you fully prepay postage determining poi tte that the special malling time restriction is revived herewith, and that Saturday, June 18th, at OP. M. ls made the earllest day and hour with which solations in this contest Mill be credited. For Men ana Women We offer this year but one model of $ vicyete, but that the finest ou ;, Reguress can produce. “We don't make tandems. We don't make juveniles Ay lant ; Bicycles $50 , The Waverley Catal fot for the asking Tes orth your caretal study. ndlane Bicycle Co., Inélanapalls, tad. rention and better service nswerlog advertisements, Hy TMEBENEDICT" 2, Gh e108 view Gi exo view Patent Collar and Catt ell DY GOLD, SILVER, and BEST ROLLED OOLD PLATE, seni dae) anatase, BENEDICT turvns, darthan’ asd on sesasona ee? fect saa is cab at bes BENEDICT BROS., Jewelers, BROADWAY and CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK Send for Fall Descriptive Circular. It goes without saying, if Spain tackles the American flag she'll be beaten with many stripes.—A lanta Constitution, Press oF FLess & RIDGE PrinTiNa Co, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Jupor’s Linnany {s full of pure fun. No politics, te. ROMEIKE’S witch you. want td be up to date pat I fat ieee tio’ Avennes w Nort a « GOUT & RHEUMATISM omits Groat English Remedy 5 BLAIR'S PILLS Fey Safe, Sure, tflective. SOc. & $10C DRUGGISTS, or aag Willlam St, B. Y.P comicbooks.com