Judge, 1903-04-18 · page 19 of 20
Judge — April 18, 1903 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements**, not political satire. The main content consists of product endorsements: **Buffalo Lithia Water** dominates the right side—a medicinal water marketed as a "nerve tonic" for neurasthenia (a then-common diagnosis for nervous exhaustion). Testimonials from doctors claim it treats everything from kidney disease to rheumatism, though the mechanism remains mysteriously vague. This reflects the era's patent medicine culture, where dubious health claims went largely unregulated. **Great Western Champagne** (left) advertises as "the best American Champagne" and Paris Exposition gold medal winner. **Secondary ads** include the Kodak Correspondence School, Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, and a Brass Band advertisement. **The cartoon** at bottom center (by "Cesare Sobesko") shows a whimsical figure and appears unrelated to the ads—likely filler or a separate humor piece. The page reveals early 20th-century advertising practices: unsubstantiated medical claims, appeals to medical authority, and vague pseudo-scientific language.
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Shere Vt tere SS ewe Terre eed va eee Soros Tea ereeeee Pure as the Lilies 1s Great Western Champagne The Best American Champagne without a Question, Hence the popularity of “ GREAT WESTEDN,” the gold medal winner at the Paris Exposition. wee Pleasant Valley Wine Co. Sole Makers, Rheims, N. ¥. BUFFALO LITHIA WATER A Powerful Nerve Tonic and Restorative. Does it Contain Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda? An Invaluable Remedy in Neurasthenia. Hunter McGuire, M.D., LL.D , ¢x-President of American Medical Asso- ciation and of Medical Society of Virginia, Late President and Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College of Medicine, Richmond, Va., etc. : ‘It has never failed me as a powerful nerve tonic when I have prescribed it as such, producing a decided calming effect in men.and women whose broken-down nervous system had kept them in perpetual motion, who could not sleep. and who could not rest. Lsometimes think it must contain hypophosphites of lime and soda. It acts as that compound does—as a tonic and alterative. I know from constant use of it per- sonally and in practice that the results obtained from its use are far beyond those which would be warranted by the analysis given. Iam of the opinion that it cither contains some wonderful remedial agent as yet undiscovered by medical science, or its elements are so delicately combined in Nature's laboratory that they defy the utmost skill of the chemist to solve the secret of their power. Dr. E. C. Lated, Resident Physician, Hot Springs, N.C.: “No intelligent observer can fail to note the WATER °:,.° Nervous extraordinary power of the Tonic. In view, then, of the fact that a healthy condition of Nervous Endowment is essential to all vital process, it is readily understood that it is a remedy of great potency and wide adaptation in morbid conditions of the human system. In the condition known as Nervous Dyspepsia Neurasthenia, and broken-down conditions generally of the Nervous System, it is often a wonderful restorative.” Dr. J. T. Monistrina, St. Louis, Member of the St. Lowis Medical Sociely, Visiting Surgeon City Hospital, for the past etc.2 “Thave been prescribing LITHIA WATER (Hevcytas in Uric Acid Diathes’s, in Nephro-Lithiasis, in Chronic Parynchcematous Nepliritis and Interstitial Nephritis with marked improvement in thy patients. T may add also thet in Neuras @yypen yay Spring No. 2, an invalu- thenla we have in LITHIA WATER fii Semeay a’ ten will satisfy the most skeptical." Voluminous medical testimony, attesting the value of this water in Bright's Disease, Albuminuria, Inflammation of the Bladder, Gout, Rheumatism and all Uric'Acid Troubles, mailed to any address. BUFFALO LYTHIA WATER is for sale by druggists and grocers generally. Hotel at Springs opens June 15th. PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, VIRGINIA. fe CORRESPONDENCE } ~ SCHOOL, helps the amateur make technically perfect and artistic photographs. Explains all the little difficulties— there are no big ones. Individual criticism is given to the work of each pupil. Tuition, free to all owners of Kodak and Brownie Cameras upon payment of one dollar for text books, THE KODAK WAY means picture taking without a dark-room for any part of the work. Better results than the old way, too. Nolsh and Browale Cameras, 5 « $1.00 te 635.00 Selah Developing Machines, 5 2.0010 610.00 Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester,N.Y. Who's de ole guy w'ot jist went by?” asked the telegraph’ messenger: De ole guy wid de dinky whiskers?” replied the office- boy. “Aw, he's de owner of de paper.” ““An’ who's de guy wid ‘im?" “'Sht don’t git gay. He ain't no guy; dav de sportin’ editor," —Catholic Stand: ard. BRASS BAND Toatrarmenta, Vaiforme. Lyon Sitealy Seu Mate referred by Thomas Orchestra, Bands Caralont tom fiuatrsucoesmeded freee At gives instroctions for amateur bands. LYON & HEALY, 16 Adams St,Chleaga, Miss Justinn—" Oh, yes: morning by hearsay.’ CHILDHOOD'S MEMORIES. ",0f course you remember my coming-out ball?” remember my nurse telling me all about it the next Dont Worry! USE ¢ to go out in the thousands of bush- rn. “Absurd! How do they raise wheat in town?” ; “Why, in grain-clevators."—Philadel- phia Record. 1824 A.D. + 22GOLD MEDALS DR.SIEGERTS ANGOSTURA _f BITTERS The Worldy b t Tonic Imported from THE ONLY GENUINE Ponenyn Stantaws