Judge, 1902-07-19 · page 12 of 16
Judge — July 19, 1902 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Editorial Content:** A lengthy piece praising New York Central Railroad's promotional pamphlets about summer resorts and pleasure tours. It uses florid language describing the dreams they inspire in armchair travelers—"Barmecide's feast" references those who imagine luxuries they cannot afford. **Advertisements:** - **Hunter Whiskey** and other spirits (typical for the era) - **Abbott's Tonic** (patent medicine) - **Blank books** (stationery) - **Blood Poison** remedies and digestive products (reflecting era-specific medical concerns) - **Physical Culture** (exercise promotion) **Humor:** Light, non-political jokes about class ("washin'" laundry), marriage, and automobiles—reflecting early 20th-century daily life. **Notable Context:** The patent medicine and "blood poison" ads reflect pre-FDA regulation standards; such products made dubious health claims. The tone assumes readers understand railroad travel as aspirational luxury. This appears to be a filler/advertising page rather than Judge's typical satirical cartoon content.
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| We have received from the New York Central numbers 3, 8, and 10 of the | popular series of pamphlets of instruc- tion and information issued by this road They deal respectively with "America’s Summer Resorts,” “The Thousand Isl- ands," and "Two to Fifteen Days’ Pleasure Tours on the New York Cen- tral.” That these books cover a large |area of real estate, to say nothing of |picturesque space, gocs without saying. ‘ach and every one of them is interest- ing, and will supply endless entertain- ment even to the impecunious stay-at- home, who, upon reading them, will fall Jinto a pleasant reverie and tell himself where he would go and what he would do and how long he would remain in cach place if he only had a bank account | equal to his imagination to draw against. He becomes at once a canoe paddler, mountain climber, a golfer and a_ ping: ponger, and lives, for the time being, in a wilderness of fairy delight, and secs snowy gold-hearted lilies dipping and dreaming on crystal ripples and ‘hears the piping of happy birds on dark me- morial boughs. Flen he turns to the menu cards of the Twenticth Century Trains, which are designed to let us know that the N. Y. C. serves meals that_are warranted to fit and adjust themselves to the kind of appetite that is dispensed and dealt out by the balsamic air which is always on tap as well as on top in the region through which the New York Central cuts at the rate of a mile a min- ute. The grand combination of the air, the appetite, and the food is one that makes the traveler wish that he could jeat as fast as the train flies in order to get enough before the train stops. These bills are at least a Barmecide's feast for the man who stays at home and studies | them in an impressionistic way, and dis- covers that these dishes, even ‘when con- sumed by the enchanted tecth of fancy, are warranted to digest, assimilate, and fatten the lotos-eater ‘of the dream- able until he becomes a victim of im- aginary gout For further particulars address Geo H. Daniels, general passenger agent, | York Central, Grand Central station, | York city Festive Boards The festive functions in countr life in summer need pure, old, mellow Hunter Whiskey for cool refreshment and hospitality and cheer. aigantys “Iflove were like the red, red rose, As sure as you are born, There'd be a big pin in her belt— And that would be the thorn. Tn need of a tonic? inal Angostura, t and druggists ‘Take Abbott's, the Orig. king of tonics. At grocers ew First boy _(contemptuously) — Your mother takes in washin’ Second boy—"O' course; you didn’t s'pose she'd leave it hangin” out over- night unless your father was in prison, did ye?" —Tit-Bits BLANK BOOK: “Next to knowing what you're talk- ing about,” says the alfalfa sage, “it is the most ‘essential to know whom you are talking to."—Kansas City Star. “Want to buy a second-hand auto that has only been used a week?” “Good as new? All kinds kept in stock and made to order by FINDLER @ WIBEL, “Better; everything breakable about 115 Nassau Street, New York. | it has bro! ning Post. Result of JUDGE'S Fifth Picture Puzzle Contest No one in the Fifth Contest has been successful in solving every one of the puzzles, so that the first rewards go to such of the contestants as were able to solve all the puzzles but one. Ky., carries off the first honor, as is shown by the following list of rewards : 440 Philadelphia St., Cov What receives the fest Feward of merit of ate Mer tlrberck sived ail tat one ofthe pais inte Fai ‘om June +3 a ad’ mailed his solutions $30.00 of ved all bat one of Ove pussies in tive on June 13 at re A. M. $25.00 $20.00 aker, Farge, M. D. he fifth reward of merit of. $10.00 $10.00 $5.00 Mra Dentag solved all Gar torsof tee posses and maiad steions'on Jana vyadsiss 2 ‘The correct solutions of the puzzles in Contest No. 6 will be published in JupGE No, 1086. TRE WILSON DISTILL Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! Battimor Ma. ALL THE SAME. Mrs. Newrwep—"' Did you know I threw over several chaps before I met you because they smoked cigarettes ?”” Mr. NewLywen- “Er—no; but it’s all the same. could have smoked the things, anyway. 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