Judge, 1898-06-18 · page 15 of 16
Judge — June 18, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and a puzzle contest**, not political satire. The bulk consists of ads for period products (champagne, photography equipment, blood poison treatment, bicycles) and detailed rules for Judge magazine's "Puzzle Pictures" contest offering $250 in prizes. The puzzle contest itself occupies the center: readers must identify ten Pacific Ocean islands from illustrated rebuses (pictures representing names). Examples visible include a man pulling cabbage (appears to represent an island name through visual pun) and a scarecrow. The page's only cartoon content is minimal and decorative rather than satirical—small illustrations accompanying the puzzle clues. There is no clear political commentary or identifiable public figures being caricatured. This appears to be a typical late-1890s magazine page mixing revenue-generating advertisements with reader engagement contests, representing how Judge functioned as both satire publication and commercial enterprise.
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URBANA WINE COMPANY Gold =Seal Champagne For Sale by all leading Wine Dealers and Grocers. Post-Office : URBANA, N. Y. SHTANIMNMEANM NAME Fon Fe ot tm, ‘Bie, Toe N.C, & Rubber Mig. Cou. 13 Bane, TOLEDO, You wit get on and beter service | There te mo Kedah but_the Kodak Photography Is Easy Photography All 1898 Kodaks use our light-proof film Cartridges ‘and can be Loaded in Daylight. $5.00 to $35.00. EASTMAN KODAK CO. Rochester, N. Y. offers three virtues finked in one: FRAGRANT, CLEANSING, PRESERVING Properties. Liquid and powder ia the seme package. BALL & RUCKEL NEW YORE. LoxDox A sample of sont and Soandermn the postage, 3 cents. | Seemed $1,000.00 ‘will be given to the contestant in JUDGE'S prize-puzzle competitions who is the first to solve correctly every one of the puzzles in three i1d°° CONTEST | Here are ten pictures. solve these ten illustratis Ast Prize... Bth Prize.$10.00 Prize. 10.00 3.00 20. 4th Prize. 5.00 Each one represents the name of an Island in the Pacifle Ocean. s and Thirty (30) others, twenty of which were published in the last READ THESE write our same and adarem DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. frizgtuzzie Derr. n> Inter will be disqualified. You can send \ecessary towend a secon set of sal ‘Write the solution underneath each picture, cut out sheet anyon the Deter thereat IFTH AVE. NEW YOR fending two copies, say, of shat sheet and one of each of the remaining sheets comprising the whole seri fall, in ending in solutions, Tie date of mailing your answers and not that of our receiving thea i Conair this t the special mailing time restriction 1s revived herewith, and that Saturday, June 18th, witi'be credited. Judge’s Puzzle Pictures. Oth Prize.. $5.00 10th Prize Copyrighted, 1898, by Judge Publishing Co. ne 1¢ JUDGE purse sheet each tim to any ooe or more of the purties ; in other words, if in your ‘ent constructions, and you desire to submit each of these constructions as a part of your comple'e set of solutions, you can Go so by uling contests, $250. ns uy PRIZES. 13e A TOTAL OF $250.00 se TO BE DIVIDED AMONG 10 PEOPLE. 13th Prize 90] 14th Prize 5.00 5.00 th Prize. 1 Prize. 15th Pri 10th Prize |. We have $250.00 to give away to the first twenty and most successful of our readers who two weeks, and ten which are to appear next week. New York. the fourth and Inst series of puzzl ii'four sheets: pinned together iw the os er than ove weet rom gate a JUDGE No. ty, =no more than one solution of each picture rs allowed on any one sbeet. nother sheet containing ber im the “eficdand corner. at Be sure that you fully prepay postage if the question of priority 5 in gore ihe postcoffice mailing or dating-stamp on the envelope ceterenioing at GP. ML ts made the earllest day and hour with which solutions In this contest ‘= TAAEDKT Prcapnctl (Trade Mark) It yon will ad Patent Collar and Cuff Button, Dr 00LD, SILVER, and REDT ROLLED COLD PLATE, 2 yet sitio chain fess can give—at less than half the ee ‘Strong, durable, and ean be adjusted te SebGK indoreet tt as the best? BENEDICT BROS., Jewelers, BROADWAY and CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK Crreutar. Sed for Pull Deseriptt ROMEIKE'S Si Press Catttn wil nang Jou th elena a ENR Y LINDENMEYK & 8ON8, PAPER WAREHOUSE. No lean Avenue, New Yorke FA Fountain For Fiftyee Cetits. cece ‘Dre Were Famens Ball Nozzle Beautifies the Lawn, Throws a spray like natural rain. For sale by all hardware dealers, or shipped direct on receipt of price. € €. Steares ¢ Company, Syracuse, N.Y. BLOOD POISON} Primary. Secondary, or Tertiary BLOOD POISON permanenily cured to-15 to 35 dava. You can be (reated at home for same price under same guarantee. IC you prefer to come here we will contract to pay railroad fare and hotel bills, and no charge if we fail on an} he tao out i this Seconaary ry BLOOD POISON we Euarantce to cure. We soft the most obstinate Eises and challenge the world for a case we can cure, “This dais hae aways bafed the slo the pital behind our PRESS OF FLEGS & RIDGE PRivTINa CO,, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com