Judge, 1901-08-31 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 31, 1901 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The main cartoon—"Overheard at Newport"—depicts a newly married couple's domestic exchange about a bounced check. The husband sent an insufficient check as a birthday gift as a "gentle hint" that his wife needs to manage money better. The satire targets **newlywed financial tensions and upper-class Newport society**, suggesting husbands used pecuniary manipulation to control wives' spending habits. The page's "Little Libels" section offers brief, cynical observations about women—mocking their inability to drink as much as men, their religious hypocrisy regarding remarriage, and their domestic pretensions. These reflect **period misogyny**. The bulk consists of patent medicines (Medicura soap, Cascarets laxative, morphine treatments), underwear, pianos, whiskey, and brandy—typical early-1900s advertising. Notably, **morphine and "blood poison" cures are advertised openly**, reflecting pre-regulation pharmaceutical marketing before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.
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FOR COMPLEXION, THE HAIR AND ALL SKIN DISEASES Us DICURA THE Soap Tar Cures For sate by all Druggists at 25 cents a cake, Insist upon having Medicura—Royal purple wrapper with gold letters. If your Grange doesnot handle it, send ws 8 cents and se will mall yous cake. MEDICURA SOAP CO., "3.23007. YPSILANTI Perfect Fitting Health In all sizes and best materials, At Your Dealers. Send for booklet tothe makers, HAY & TODD MFQG.Co, YPSILANTI, MICH. ~optam babita per: manently cured” at ome, No lows of time from. buatbess a hook (ia plata sealed envelope). Room’ 4, Biaz Building, MANCHESTER, N. H., The Leading Family and Farm- ing Paper in New England, LITTLE LIBELS. No woman can 3 herself as tight as a man can drink wen —A woman doesn't marry the man she loved the most, but the one who poppe Modesty is very becom- ing in a girl, but it makes a man appear eloquent speech is: °° like a fool.— Women love you!" A_ man's don’t swear because is: Come and take they don’t have dry- goods and millinery Bills to pay.— Every | jopowa Limaant ie toll of pare fan. No polities, 10. | THE “SOHMER” HEADS THB| wile longs for the es- LIST OF THE HIGHEST _|{iblishment of a relig- GRADE PIANOS. jon that will forbid a widower marrying SOHMER esa wants her husband to praise her biscuits and tickle her under the chin occasionally.— A young woman's most d.— Only Salesroom {p Greater New Sohmer Building, ‘Sth Ave., cor. 32d St. something.’ Arkansaw Thos, Cat. returned marked ‘account overdrawn ! I need money, you kno TTPO RAH Stee bee OVERHEARD AT NEWPORT. Mrs, Newiywep—" Papa says that cheque you sent him for a birthday present has been Mr. NEwLywep — f course, love — that is why I' sent it to him —as a gentle hint that WILL MAKE THEM! ONLY ADVER- TISE IN IT Tbe John B. Clarke Co, Arthur E. Clarke, Publishers. Manager. “QUALITY. “ LOOD POISON ity Primary. Seater Tertiary Blood Poison Sp rmanentls Cured. ¥'o S shee Cook REMEDY GO. RK oh Jenae's Linnany i foil of pare fun. No polities. 1 Feel bad today? Over-eating, working and drinking may have caused it, or you may have caught cold. Makes you feel mean — bad taste—and a headache. Go upon our advice just once and take CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED FORTHE BOWELS EST No mercurial or pill poison in CASCARETS, but an absolutely harmless, purely vegetable compound. Pleasant, palatable, potent. They taste good and do good. Get the genuine C.C.C. Any druggist, 10c, 25c, Sc. Take one now and Feel well tomorrow BECAUSE ITIS OLD. CAHN, BELT & C0., BALTIMORE, MD. “A Genuine ol Brandy made from Wine.” Medical Press (London), Auge. 1859. MARTELL'S THREE STAR BRANDY AT ALL BARS and RESTAURANTS. MAKE MONEY WITH MUTOSCOPES ONLY COIN-IN-THE-SLOT MOVING.PICTURE MACHINE 3,000 SUBJECTS AVAILABLE FOR EXCHANGE, Exclusive Mehta ta Cholee Territory Write to LIAR ers ae Wee BEST BUY THEM. THE ‘RESORTER. ‘A Handsomely Htustrated Monthly for Health and leaanreacekern “Four month, 2 ctas eight moo wets Bena two-cent stam fora New Yorks ta STOR HLACE. EST and MOST ECONOMICAL gua 33c. uires Only TWO- Tn RDS the regular quan- tity: Always packed in sib, trade-mark red bags. ‘offees 120. and rs¢. ‘ood Teas woe. and 356 Eine terme aédtese Americay Tea Fe SINR TEAC PLO! Bos 285. ~ PRESS OF FLESS & RIDGE PAINTING CO., FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. ‘You will get mor tention and better by mentioniog Ju! wwering advertisementa, comicbooks.com