Judge, 1901-01-12 · page 13 of 16
Judge — January 12, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with some light satirical poetry and humor interspersed. The main advertisements include: - **Gold Lion Cocktail** - promoting bottled cocktails to urban consumers - **Opium addiction treatment** (Opacura) - a "painless home treatment" - **Lackawanna Railroad** - coal and rail transport - **Mariani Wine** - a patent medicine tonic wine claiming health benefits - **Vin Mariani** - marketed for depression and exhaustion - **Leslie's Illustrated Weekly** - subscription offer - Various other patent medicines The satirical content is minimal: a poem called "The Unsatisfied" mocks people's perpetual complaining about weather, and brief jokes about musicians and farm wagons show typical early-1900s rural/urban humor. The **Mariani Wine** advertisement is notable as Prohibition-era patent medicine marketing—cocaine-laced wine legally sold as a medicinal tonic. This reflects pre-regulation America when such substances were openly advertised as cure-alls. Overall, this is a typical Judge magazine page blending light satire with commercial appeals to middle-class readers.
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Io Prejudice against bottled cocktails disappears when you taste the Gold Lion Cocktail Seven varieties :: At first-class dealers ‘The COOK & BERNHEIMER CO., New York OPiuM habits cured by OPACURA. a paintess home treatment, endorsed, and, used by leading Phy= tans. A TRIAL TREATMENT, sulticent toconvince you It WiLL, CA) sent FREE, with book of testimonials (sealed). OPA SPECIALTY CO., Dept. U Chicago, Lackawanna Railroad (POPULAR ‘PRICES: (034 Rar autre serh for I information, Rates tes #t more prompt attention and better service ‘ationing JUDex when anewering advertisements, THE UNSATISFIED. Ain't no satisfyin’ folks— This here life's a hummer, When it snows An’ when it blows— “* Good Lord. send the summer!" Ain't no satisfyin’ folks— Hot sun fires a splinter; ‘Then you hear, Both far an’ near, * Good Lord, send the winter !* Folks are awful hard to please ; Life—there’s little in it. Come to die, You hear this ery: “ Good Lord, wait a minute !” —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution, Customer (in barber's chair)—"* So you have- n't heard Herr von Thumper, the world-famed pianist?" German barber—" Nein ; dose bian- ists neffer batronize me, an’ so I nefler batron- ize dem.” —Tid- Bits, Uncle Keuben—""1 jes’ cum t town t’ git a couple o' sideboards, an’ tho't I'd drap in t' see you.” City niece—"" Why. Uncle Reuben, what do you expect to do with two sideboards in your house?” Uncle Reuben—* Say, I'm talk- in’ about my farm-wagon. What air you talk- in’ about ?"— Columbus (Ohio) State Journal, ‘WALTER MALONE'S "SONGS OF NORTH AND SOUTH." Walter Malone's new volume, ‘*Songs of North and South "(published by john P. Mor- ton & company, Louisville), contains nearly a hundred pieces, embracing individually and col- lectively some of the most sincere, fervent and essentially Ametican poetry ever, peoned, In Junce, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, and other popular periodicals many of the poems brought together in this book were first published, with the result that Mr, Malone's name is already widely and favorably known. ‘The present vol- ume will, we feel confident in predicting, serve to crystallize the growing fame of this young southern poct, who is likely to reach much sooner than he expects the "* unknown reader" to whom are addressed his moving prefatory stanzas: “ For you I suffered in far-distant day For you I lost man’s favor, maiden’s hand ; For you my feet forsook their boyhood ways ; For.you I wandered through the stran- ger’s land. ** From death's dark empire shall my soul depart, Your smile, your friendship and your love to win. Behold ! come and knock upon your heart. 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AGENTS Beware of imitations. make 25 PER CENT. CoM. seey Bottle) AtecilizeD), M. Pasteur, of France, invented a process for killing all possible germs in a product, and we use it. After each bottle of Schlitz beer has been filled and sealed, it is ster- ilized. This is an ex- treme precaution. The beer is brewed in absolute clean- liness, cooled in filtered air, then filtered. It seems impossible for a taint of impurity to get to it. Yet we sterilize every bottle. We, who know brewing, know the value of purity. We add vastly to the necessary cost of our beer to as- sure it. You who drink it, get the healthful results of our precaution. Schlitz Beer is ab- solutely pure. TE BEER / THAT MADE M. ILWAUKEE FAMOUS. Your physician ‘Special Presents oF Checks. Freight paid. New terms free. Great American Tea Co., P.O. Box, 289, Dept. J. 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York. knows ; ask him, A GREATEST J corre F AMILY ie NEWSPAPER Leslie's Iliustrated Weekly It tells the story of contemporaneous events and illustrates it with the most artistic pictures, Its correspondents and writers cover every important fleld the world over, ESLIE’S WEEKLY is a paper to keep on the library table, and to L read and re-read, and to file away for useful reference. It is read by morc families of culture and refinement among the masses than any other paper of its class in the world. It is the greatest, best, most attractive and cheapest of all American educators. Its special features are worth your time and money. They include Jasper’s Weekly Hints to Money-Makers, answering, without charge, questions regarding Stock and Bond Investments ; Hermit's Life Insurance Suggestions, answer- ing, without charge, questions concerning Life Insurance. Send One Dollar to the publishers’ address below and Leslie's will be mailed to you regularly each week for a period of four months. LeEs.ie’s WEEKLY W10 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK