Judge, 1902-02-08 · page 17 of 20
Judge — February 8, 1902 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and a puzzle contest**, not political satire. The ads promote patent medicines and devices reflecting early 1900s quackery: Griffon Safety Razors, Dr. Loeb's "trolley" electric cure (suggesting electricity treats disease), and the Keeley Institute's addiction cure for alcohol, opium, and tobacco—endorsed by P.D. Armour (Chicago meatpacker). A poem mocking Dr. Loeb's electric cure treatment dominates the left side, satirizing the absurd medical claims of the era. The bottom half announces Judge's "First Contest Series 1"—a $250 puzzle where readers identify six American periodicals from illustrated clues. Image 1 is identified as *Leslie's Weekly*. The contest is open to all readers, not just subscribers. The page reflects the **magazine's commercial nature** and period medical frauds rather than political commentary. Small sidebar jokes about marriage and courtship provide typical editorial humor.
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YOU CAN'T CUT YOURSELF IF YOU TRY aha SA aS ee a 39 | KEEP YOUR TROLLEY ON. Dr. Loeb has sagely told us. Let us hope that it is true ‘That electric currents hold u Till our little life is through. He declares.the bad bacillus, With a microbe lexicon, Will not come around and fill us— If we keep our trolleys on. m[Ceeley cx P. D. Armour Head of the great Armour Packing Company, Chicago, Ill (in a perronal letter to Dr. Keeley), said: Thhave sent about two hundred of my employees, trom butchers to foremen, and ure Itis not a germ of fever ‘That puts one upon his bed. he needs is just a lever the current may be led ugh his nervous system rightly Till the symptoms all are gone. We may view diseases lightly — our trolleys un. all have been permanently cured. Ido not think there is any one thing, orany one man, who ever did the good to humanity that you are doing with your cure, GAFETY-RAZOR BEST Alcohol, Opium, Produce each a disease having definite patholo gy. The discase yields easily to the treatment as administered at the foliowing Keeley Insti- ‘tutes? Detailed information of this treatme proofs of its success, sert free vpon appli any of the institutions named, AIL that vaunted tiredness vernal Which affects a man in May, with pains infernal, PRICE. ia Metal Bor $1.50. In Morocco Case, 2 Blades, $3.00. In Leather Science has another dawn, Germs? We need no longer list “em— If we keep our trolleys on. In the graveyard of the future None’ will lie from cramp or cough, Nor from disconnected suture, If his trulley is not off. Bid farewell to draught and bolus, Let the powders all begone 3 Medicine no more control uw Let us keep our trolleys on t with Safety Shoulders which prevent blade from Y passing beycnd safety point. Shaves close as may be desired. No smarting after shaving. Booklet upon request. Guillen: SareTy- RAZOR Sold at all good stores : z ‘ton Se i909 So Adains St. Bhtafeid, Ind. Omaha, Ne New Orleans, L 1628-98 Felichy * No-Heredity of In lod upon aplication. LESLAR Re KEELEY, M.D. 1h. 0 Hushand Nes, dear, 1 think your new gown will suit you ve Wife“ Why do y Mushand- me at Aunt Hannah—When 1 was here two] Miss Nitty—~ Don't rs ago, Hulda was looking for a husband ; | to skate, Mr. Simpson? She is married Mr. Simpson—V'd be charmed, Miss Kitty, Unele G. but she ts still looking | but I don’t 'skate.”* good deal of the | Afiss Aitty js that so, Mr. Simpson? . LE 6 it Double Track Scenic Highway between NEW YORK, PHILADELPH taquestion of the world ; Tye BUFFALO, NIAGARA FALLS and CHIC! revi Well, then, let me teach you.” my creditors." —Detreit Free Press. | Agent, New York, for illus: soriptive matter. First Contest Ss 7 $250 00 1 WILL BE PAID ERE are six pictures. Each indi- ‘ates the name of a well-known American periodical. You will see that No, 1 is Leslie’s Weekly; and you will also see from this how to work out the others. We have $250 to give to the ten most successiul of our readers who solve these six illustrations and cighteen (18) others which will appear in JUDGE during the next three weeks. This puzzle composition is not inaugurated for the purpose of securing subscriptions to JUDGE, neither is it confined to JUDGE'S subscribers; it is open to everybody, whether he or she is a subscriber or not. ‘The Puzzle De- partment is for the sole purpose of affording amusement and instruction to all. of JUDG friends. The essential features which will be con- sidered by us in making the rewards, in conjunction with the correctness of the answery,will be the celerity and the general neatness with which the solutions ar AL in to Us. ‘ou want to teach me Sh be dish | bravely + Because [cannot marry ened. You must 4 mi, do not the world barns my fingers, bee MrHis POWOER NHouse Bult in 1802, BY ORDER oF THE BOR UNion, A Total of $250 TO BE PAID TO TEN) PEOPLE. rit’ or $125 30 25 20 15 10 10 READ THESE Write the solution u DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY _ pitly on the bottom ¢ qn time to ach picture, cut out sheet (holding ifaatil the fourth anc ublished IGE Mo. 1065) and write yx all four sheets he upper el UD PRIZE. PUZZLE DEPT., 110 Fvith A 1 be fel. Vi comicbooks.com