Judge, 1898-10-29 · page 12 of 16
Judge — October 29, 1898 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with one brief satirical item. The main cartoon shows two office boys discussing death with gallows humor—the second boy admits he's cried so often about his grandmother's death (to get time off for baseball games) that mourning feels natural now. The joke satirizes workplace malingering and insincere grief. The text item references **Primo de Rivera**, a Spanish political figure, threatening to publicly call Count de Almenas a "liar" unless given satisfaction—a veiled threat in diplomatic language that Judge finds absurd. The remaining content comprises period advertisements: Whitman's Chocolates, Eagle Liqueurs (Cincinnati-made spirits), Cabarets (health tonic), and notably, the **Columbia Phonograph Company's Graphophone**—competing with Edison's phonograph by claiming superior recording capabilities on cylinders. This was a genuine technological competition of the era. The Montebello Champagne advertisement anchors the page bottom.
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Primo de Rivera has stampeded the Spanish senate with the terrible threat, “* Unless I re- ceive complete satisfaction I will declare before everybody that the words used by Count de Al- menas were only fit for the mouth of a miser- able calumniator.” The plain English of this is that the noble count isa liar.—Buffalo Ex- Do not despatr— There's ¥pstlantt Underwear. EAGLE LIQUEURS. The Only Truly American Production. PERFECT DISTILLATION. ABSOLUTE PURITY. SUPERIOR TO ANY IMPORTED, ABSINTHE, KUMMEL, a CURACAO, CREME or MENTHE, MARASCHINO, CREME oe CACAO, ANISETTE, ETC., ETC. IcREME MENTREN — Sedative, Digestive, Nutritive. Bheinstrom Bros., Cincinnati, DISTILLERS AND EXPORTERS. ESTABLISHED 1876. HIGHEST AWARDS. NATURAL AS LIFE, First oFrice-noy—"* So yer grandmother is actually dead? Don't yer feel terrible bad over it?” SECOND OFFICE-BOY—"' Not very. I've got so used ter weepin’ over her death w'en I wanted ter git off an’ go ter ball games dat it almost comes natural ter me.” 10¢ 25¢50¢ ALL DRUGGISTS. The Talking Machine Up to Date. © WHEN YOU GET A 8 TALKING MACHINE AS GET A GRAPHOPHONE. Why the Graphophone? IN THE FIRST PLACE The Graphophone reproduces perfectly and delightfully the music of bands, orchestras, and vocal and instrumental solo- ists. With a Graphophone one can provide at any time a most enjoyable entertainment, having the whole range of melody to draw on for his programme. It is all musical instruments in one. AND THEN On a Graphophone cylinder any one can record easily and instantly music, the human voice, or any sound, and the tecord can be reproduced immediately and as often as desired. Only on talking machines manufactured under the Grapho- phone patents can sound be recorded, the performances of other so-called talking machines being limited to the repro- duction of records of cut-and-dried subjects made in labora- tories, Graphophones are sold for $10 and up. Write for Catalogue B. A. 2 COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO., Devt-B-A: jay De NEW YORK, 143 and 145 Broadway. CHICAGO, air State St. RETAIL BRANCH, 115$-1157-1159 Broadway. PARIS, 34 Boulevard des Italiens. ST. LOUIS, 720-722 Olive St. : . 2 PHILADELPHIA, 1032 Chestnut St BALTIMORE, 110 E. Baltimore St. WASHINGTON, 919 Perinsylvania Avé BUFFALO, 313 Main St. SAN FRANCISCO, 723 Market St. A BRUT 1880—Finest and oldest Champagne on the market. comicbooks.com