Judge, 1902-02-22 · page 15 of 16
Judge — February 22, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment content**, not political satire. The main feature is "Judge's Puzzle Pictures" — a contest offering $250 total in prizes. Readers must identify six illustrated forest trees (shown in cartoons numbered 13-18) and eighteen others published elsewhere. The instructions explain this is open to all readers, not just subscribers, purely for amusement. The page also includes: - A sentimental poem about "Grandfather's Cider" by Phil H. Armstrong - Railroad advertisements (Chicago & North-Western, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific) - Product ads (Opium drug treatment, Pears' soap, Bicycle Playing Cards, Martell's Brandy) - A brief joke about someone boring an artesian well in their sitting room **No political commentary or social satire is evident.** This appears to be a typical early-1900s magazine page mixing verse, advertisements, and reader-participation games.
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' GRANDFATHER'S CIDER. | Here is one of Phil H. Armstrong's | poems of Alabama life |You can talk about the fluffy, puffy 1 bread as white as srow The apple tarts and golden marmalade. daily The pumpkin pies of monstrous size all shinin’ in a row, FASTEST TIME ACROSS THE CONTINENT. An’ various other things that “mother Tue OveRtaND Linen leaves Chicago madi But, as in vivid retrospection I live once 8.50 p.m. daily and arrives San Francisco s.1$ p.m. third dav, Tue Paciric Ex- again the past, There is one thing from me naught can PRESS leaves Chicago 10. 00a. m. daily and arrives San Francisco 4.15 p. m. third day. ever tal T remember—I remember long ago when Tue CALIFORNIA Expxess leaves Chicago, life was sweet An’ we'd gather round the fireplace night, As we'd pile the logs on higher, keepin up a roaring fire, An’ we all would scrooch up close—my, “twas a sight! It's the pleasant recollection (in its spell at 41.p p.m. daily and ives San Francisco it binds me fast) Of the apple cider Granddad used to 4.25 a. m. fourth day. Unrivaled scenery and most luxurious service vit make CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN, UNION PACIFIC AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYS. All meals in dining cars. Best of every- thing.” Personally conducted excursions every Tuesday and Thursday. All agents sell tickets via this route. eer eermeesricr ee waa FREE THIAL Eri eats of drug ured. Confidential. “Addrea, ESE DRUG CO..253 Pleree Bik. ,CHICAUO.TLL, Then w “d roast a cup of chestnu the old folks told us tale: An’ we'd round off with a monstrous chunk 0° cake, |" we'd all look sort o” solemn like we orten’t but we did Drink the apple cider Granddad used to make. Manta Constitution Gasaway—" Hello, you going to do with the Crabbe—" Going to bore well in our sitting-room with it suppose I was going to take picture: you?"—Catheltc Standard and Time. e, what are Jovce’s Lineany is full of pare fun. No politics. soc. | Jeour’s Linkaxy is full of pure fan. No polities First Contest SERIES 3 | You hold Good Cards when you play with ‘Pears Economical soap is one that a touch of cleanses. No other 25¢. card is so | durable and satisfactory. Sold by dealers from Greenland to Australia. Gold Medal, Buffalo, Grand Prix. Pari Highest Award, Cl Get Pears’ for economy and cleanliness. Sold all over the world. A 120- page Hoyle mailed for six flap ends from Bicycle boxes, or five 2-cent stamps. The U.S. Playing Card Co., Dept. 26, Cincianatl, Obte. Smith—"There goc a friend in the world “s—"' Poor fellow! How did he lose "Chicago Daily News aman who hasn't his money +a Genuine Old Brandy made from Wine.” Medical Press (London), Aug. 899. MARTELL'S THREE STAR BRANDY AT ALL BARS and RESTAURANT: $250 22 WILL BE PAID Chocolate ATEPH 1816 Chestant Rireet. Iwill gladly tnform D ecataemirre Be RUB RN orcs MARS. MARY |. BALDWI Philadelphia. . O. Box 1212, Chicago, tI. You will get more promp attention and better service by mentioning Juoer whe GDODOODOOD OOOO cates the name of a well-known FOREST TREE. We have $250 to give to the ten most successtul of our readers who solve these six illustrations and eighteen (18) others twelve of which “appeared during the last two weeks in JUDGE and six which will appear in JUDGE next week. S puzzle composi- tion is not inaugurated for the pur- pose 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 JUDGE'S friends. The essential features which will be con- sidered by us in making the rewards, in conjunction with the correctness of the answers,will be the celerity and the general neatness with which the solutions are sent in to us. TH eee pictures. Each indi- A Total of $250 TO BE PAID TO TEN PEOPL lest Reward of Merit "‘{"" $125 24a *: 30 Bsa bs 25 4th 20 Sth 15 6th 10 Ith 10 sth oth 10th READ THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY sse, providing you use a separate JUDGE paz eaty-tour pazdles in order to change your answer to any ales tions asa part of your complete set of solutions, you can do so by using another sheet co omprising the whoke serves, adi pinned together 1m the upper left-hand corner Coneright, tmz, by Judge Company. thereo! four sheets required abo. Write the solution undemeath each picture, cut out sheet (hold hy picture rds if in your opinion one of more of the pictures will jainng the particular pacture oF pictures in que The sure that you fully prepay post of puzzles is published in JUDGE Ni PRIZE PUZZLE be, disqualit any answers y 1 set af solutions to the structions, and you desire to submit each of these . say, of that sheet and one of each of the remaining ‘any one sheet wit Thos ser in sending in solutions. PREGS OF FLESS & RIDGE PRINTING CO., FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com