Judge, 1902-06-07 · page 14 of 18
Judge — June 7, 1902 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **classified advertising and humor page** from *Judge* magazine (established 1823), a satirical weekly. The page contains: **Advertisements**: Kodak cameras, whiskey, patent medicines (Abbott's Bitters, a laxative), and paper patterns—typical early 20th-century products. **Humor column** (center-left): Brief jokes about domestic life reflecting period anxieties. One jokes about a hypervigilant wife sterilizing milk, soaking beefsteak, and boiling ice—satirizing the contemporary "germ theory" health craze that made people obsessively cautious about food safety. Others mock social pretension (neighbors loudly ordering beefsteak to seem wealthy) and marital dynamics. **"A Bright Idea"** (center): A visual gag about an electric light bulb as a fashionable woman, with a pun on her complexion—reflecting the novelty and glamour of electric lighting in this era. The humor is mild, domestic, and class-conscious, typical of *Judge*'s middle-class audience in the early 1900s.
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Uf it isn’tan Eastman, it isn't a Kodak A new folding KODAK for the pocket—almost for the vest pocket, at six dollars. Makes pictures 1% x 2% inches, loads in daylight, has a fine men- iscus lens, brilliant finder, automatic shutter—in fact, has the “ Kodak quality” all the way through. No. 0 Folding Pocket Kodak, for pic- tures 154 x 2% inche: exposures, « EASTMAN KODAK CO. Capstone Prat the Rochester, N. Y. $6.00) “Mary, have you sterilized the milk?” Yes, dear.” you soaked the beefsteak in “And boiled the ice?” Why, certainly!” And notified the undertaker to call in an hour and see how we're getting along?” “Yes.” Then I suppose it will be safe to go ghead and set the table." —Haltimore Strong and better men and women are those » use Abbott's, the Original Angostura Bit- ters, Druggists’ id the woman with sharp “those people who moved in next door are inclined to make an ostentatious display of their wealth | “Inwhat way? “They go into the corner grocery and order beefsteak in a loud tone of voice —Washington Star | “And are you rea ly connected with vice bureau?" asked the in- replied the young man “Then won't you please tell me which is your weather eye?"—Detroit Free Press ‘ve tried hard,” said the disgusted to get you to accept some of my |contributions.” Do you always return d the editor; “we are only we never return umbrellas.” Piadelphsa Recon as Catherine Mary once, we guess, Though now ‘tis Kathryn Mae. t wae. —Vhiladel phia Press. “All | demand for my client.” the barrister, in the voi was paid for it, “is justi Dam very sorry I can't accommodate | replied the judge; “but the law shouted | 4 man who MUTUALPOOLON Firuee EVENTS $$, LTR 7 Retorenee—Lentegton, by. City Nal, BRL 1 the rector to the “we had better take up the ion before the sermon this morn: I'm going to pi *hiladel phia Press. hon omy “econ: won't allow me to give him more than two. | ars." —Chicago Fournal “You ought to have a change of aid the physician “But, my dear sit.” protested the pa- 1 am a traveling man by profes- sion “Well, that’s the point. Stay home awhile and see something besides hotel rooms and stations.""—Washington Star. ‘You will get more prompt attention and better se by mentioning JUDGE when answering advertisement Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That's All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore, Sd A BRIGHT IDEA. Miss Laup—‘'I see Miss Incandescent Bulb over there. being lit by electricity ?"* Her uoTHer—" Oh, all right, I think, matchless for her complexion.”* | wonder how she likes She told me the other day she found it APerfect Paper Pattern Jt.zom haven't regular, healthy movement ot the ou" re iil of will Borel chen and be well. violent plivaie or piil poison. ts danger amootheat, easiest, most perfect way of keeping wid clean is to take EAT 'EM LIKE CANDY Pleasant, Patatable, Potent, Taste Goo. Do Good. ke it ‘Starting Remedy Company, Chicago or New Yort. KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN a) USE WAIST, $2040 Bus. Mailed to any address in the United States for 10 cents (foreign, 15 cent State size wanted and write address phinty. SMART STYLES i 432 E, 23D STREET : NEW YORK S| (OR Sale on all trains and at all live news stores. Judge’s Latest Big Success se Price, 25° A New Humorous Magazine from the “ Judge” presses. One Hundred and Twenty-eight Pages of fun— " You cannot afford to miss it. It’s an out-and- out mirth pro- voker. Your newsdealer sells it; or send 25 cents in coin or stamps. ~ JUDGE COMPANY, 110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS De: ‘ing paper of superior excellence and uniformity can secure it of the makers of the papers used in the various publications of THE. JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. comicbooks.com