Judge, 1899-12-30 · page 14 of 17
Judge — December 30, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising and announcements page** from Judge magazine (November 27, 1909), with minimal political or satirical content. The page's main feature announces a **writing contest**: Judge's publisher offers $1,000 for a 30,000-40,000 word prose satire about "smart society," and $500 for 1,000 lines of verse on the same topic. This reflects Judge's core mission—satirizing upper-class American life. The remainder consists of period advertisements for consumer products: Edison phonographs, Beeman's gum, incubators, trains, and patent services. A small cartoon labeled "Under the Weather" appears to show someone in distress (likely ill or hungover), playing on the slang phrase. Notable is the mention that Judge's sister publication, *The Smart Set*, will also accept satirical submissions—positioning these magazines as outlets for social commentary targeting the wealthy and fashionable.
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$1,500.00 CASH T H ET A MAGA- OF ZINE CLEVERNESS WILL PAY $1,000.00 For prose satire in fiction, of from 30,000 to 40,000 words, on smart society of the present day: ALSO, WILL PAY $500.00 For a satire in verse of about 1,000 lines on the same subject, to Py which a special deposit has been made with the Lincoln National Bank. MSS. may be sent in immediately and must be in, at latest, the poem by January 1sth, and the ney by February 1st, 1900. They must be accompanied by stamps for return, MSS. will be received and returned only at the writer's risk. Address, ESS ESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1135 BROADWAY. NEw YORK. New Yorx, Novewpen 27, 1809. I bareby cortity that the, Eas Eas Publishing Company bas tis day specially deposited tho sm LTH BE ne President, Lincoln National Bank. The editor of * The Smart Set” will promptty consider, and, if accepted, liberally pay for, MSS. of clever siories, long or shart, poems, sketches, witticisms and all entertaining matter. 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There is also printed a full bill-of-fare, with price of each article as served on the company's dining- cars. ‘The subscription price of the magazine is one dollar per year. Remittances should be sent to Charles S. Lee, 26 Cortlandt street, New York city. Don’d been shust like an egg—so full mit yourself you don'd can hold somet ing else.— Arkansaw Thomas Cat. Drowsiness is dispelled by Beecuam’s PILis, Mfrs. Highgear — gown a poem?” couplets on top." Didn't you think my —"" Well, it needs a few Syracuse Herald, he superiority of the Sohmer pianos is rec- ognized and acknowledged by the highest mu- sical authorities, and the demand for them is steadily increasing in all parts of the country. IMPROVEMENTS IN DINING-CARS. 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