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Judge — July 29, 1899 — page 14: Judge, 1899-07-29

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This is primarily an **advertising and promotional page** for Judge magazine itself, with several short satirical items interspersed. The main content includes: **Small satirical items:** - A joke about a Chicago woman (president of a study club) who assaults a plumber for overcharging, framed as women becoming "avengers of the weak" against tradesmen's tyranny - Wordplay about twins born in Chicago, sarcastically linking it to population statistics - Brief humor pieces about talkers, divorce, and Christian Science money-raising **The cartoon** shows three figures in what appears to be a street encounter, captioned "Scientific Money-Getters"—likely satirizing the ice cream social fundraising mentioned in the dialogue below it. **Key context for modern readers:** This reflects early 1900s concerns about urban plumbers' fees, women's increasing social activism through clubs, and the then-popular "Christian Science" movement. The humor is gentle social observation rather than sharp political satire. The page primarily **advertises Judge's Library books** (36-page compilations priced at 10 cents) and other products like Remington typewriters and Hunter Whiskey.

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There’s no disa- greeable stickiness, no permeating scent, no irritation j from Wool Soapj using—it gives thej skin the clean fresh- ness of a “dip in purity.” Sots Cromer main Gite j STOP SAYING THAT’S GOOD. akor porisalers ne of Sporting Goods ad y JESSE JAMES, Fort Scotts Kas. Works Swiftly Wears Slowly Remington Standard Typewriter WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, 327 Broadway, New York. ind two-cent stamp for particulars. Address the MASCOTTE COLOR CO., 1226 Arch St., Philadel, ‘A Chicago woman, president of the South- side study club, has been arrested for assault- | ing a plumber whose bill she thought exorbi- | tant. Club life is fitting the women of our land to be the avengers of the weak. The begin- ning of the end of the tyrannous sway of the plumber is at hand.—Aochester Union, A Monthly Magazine of Fun. 36 PAGES AND COVER. OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. PRICE, 10 CENTS. JUDGE'S LIBRARY is a neatly-printed 36-page book, containing a selection of the bes witticisms of pen and pencil which have appeared in JUDGE from time to time, to all of which JUDGE'S well-known artists and writers*are contributors, It is conceded to be one of the most humorous publications of its character. YOU NEED A LAUGH. BUY IT! YOUR NEWSDEALER HAS IT—OR IT WILL BE FOUND ON ALL TRAINS. Boys snouts weer $10, OO1N G0 GOLD iS ** It seems to astonish the country that twins = could be born to eight families in Chicago in On a Jaunt + one week,” observes the /nter-Ocean. Aston- ished? Not at all. ‘the news is taken as a simple and lucid explanation of why that recent police census passed the two-million mark.— Buffalo Express The Outing Satchel needs a bottle uf Hunter Hicks—" What a talker that man Brown is! L always regarded him as such a gloomy, reti- cent fellow until two or three days ago.” Wicks —"Yes: I understand that his baby just be- gan to laugh for the first time last week.”— Brooklyn Life, “What a remarkably energetic woman that Mrs. Glitter is!” ‘* Isn't she? T never knew her to show sluggishness but once.” _“* When was that? Wi Why, after she got her first di- vorce she let two whole days go before she married again,” —Cleveland Plain Dealer ‘Tod Sloan denied that he struck the big English waiter, though there were forty wit- nesses to the blow. Is it any wonder, then, | that we have never been able to ascertain who it was that struck Billy Patterson ?—Kochester Herald, A thousand things may happen and it just the needed. is thing ‘The difference between Aguinaldo and Fitz simmons is tha: the latter recognizes the fact. —Chicago Times-Herald, Gold at all First-class Cafes and by Zotters WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Ma, SCIENTIFIC MONEY-GETTERS. Brown —"* Do you believe in Christian science ?” SMiTH—"Ob, yes; I attended a church ice- cream festival manipulated by pretty girls last evening and came home dead broke.” ¢ LIBRARY uae: S curin The Record-breaking, Direct-returns Advertising Medium. comicbooks.com Th 1H