Judge, 1902-08-23 · page 13 of 16
Judge — August 23, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with small joke snippets interspersed. The main content includes: **Central Advertisement**: A large "Kymm" wax product ad featuring illustrated product boxes, appealing to housewives with claims about cleaning and polishing floors. **Satirical Jokes**: Several brief humor pieces mock marriage and gender relations—typical of Judge's social commentary. One jokes that an Englishman won't become a citizen because he won't part with money ("sovereign"). Another presents a woman's remarriage for love twice as "incurable insanity." **Period Products Advertised**: Pabst beer (emphasizing factory cleanliness), Martell's brandy, Old Overholt whiskey, and patent medicines (Santal capsules for urinary/bladder issues, "Blood Poison" remedy, gout pills, opium-based medicines)—reflecting early 1900s medical advertising standards now considered dangerous. **Fashion**: A paper pattern for a five-gored skirt demonstrates typical women's sewing content. The page reflects early-20th-century attitudes toward gender, marriage skepticism, and unregulated medical claims.
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