Judge, 1903-06-27 · page 16 of 21
Judge — June 27, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with one modest cartoon. **The Cartoon ("The Happy Medium"):** A father asks his son Tommy if he feels "good" that morning. Tommy replies he feels neither particularly good nor bad—just "comfible" (comfortable). The joke plays on the child's malapropism and the idea of seeking a middle emotional state rather than genuine virtue—satirizing parental expectations and childhood honesty. **Main Advertisements Include:** - **Diamonds on Credit** (Loftis Bros.): Pitch for installment jewelry purchases with confidentiality - **Gold Lack Champagne**: Spirits advertisement - **Whitman's Chocolates**: Confections marketing - **Camp Agassiz**: Summer camp for boys in Nevada mountains - **Buffalo Lithia Water**: Medicinal water claiming cures for kidney/bladder diseases, citing medical authorities - **Ocean Steamship Co./Savannah Line**: Travel advertisements The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture with heavy medical-patent-remedy marketing typical of the era.
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We are the Caribbéan, and the home of the most renowned 10t0 20 per cent lower than those of other dealers, Every Dia wri of all tonics, Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, quality and valve, and at any time in the future will be accepted at fall price in exchange for, 7 | Beware of domestic imitations. larger Diamond. Our Confidential Credit ‘System is open to all hovest persons without regard to t ial worth; but to those who prefer to pay ‘You will get more prompt attention and better service Iiberal offer ever | by mentionng Juoce when answering advertisements. made. tis no less than the ne money paid—less ten per cent, at any time i.” lease write for our Catalogu irate our Ueautifel goods, quotes the la and explains our popular system in every. det tse send'a Souvenir Booklet. which is wort! 3 any Diamonds. Wereler tory ‘Trinidad, the pearl of the Antilles, the most interested tn our local tank—step in and ask them (o tell you how we stand in the buriness world. They will consult their Dun or Bradstreet book of com- mercial . and tell you that no house stands higherin credit, responsibility or promptness. LOFTIS BROS. @ CoO. Diamond Importers and Manufacturing Jewelers a FAT n ws 8.siate &- CHICAGO, ILL. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE \ Nos. 82, 4, and 38 Hleecker Street Branch Warehouse, 2 Keekman Street, New York au MADE TO ORDER CAMP AGASSIZ is a Sammer Camp in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains pear the famous Lake Tahoe. It is conducted by the Headmaster of the Agassiz Hall School asan outing for his boys. A limited number of outsiders is admitted. ‘The members take trips all over the mountains, visiting of ks, lakes, and streams, finding the i | Virginia City. The sth to Sept. soth. For phot $ and booklet, address W MDW. Pi fa and booklet “address WILLIAM W PRICE, fae, sixth season, June + Sept. sot no ‘or STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, 1316 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. THE HAPPY MEDIUM. Farner—" Well, Tommy, I hope you feel a good boy this morning?"" Tommy—‘* No, daddy; not welly good and not welly bad—just comfible."’ Hay Fever? Run Down? Over- worked? Insomnia? De- pression? Physician advises sea trip? Time and money limited? Friends ence cannot reach you? You have been leading too sedentary i a life? A trip to Europe too long, expensive and tiresome? A short sea voyage ATER possible? Where to go? “The Most Effective of the Natural Medicinal How? Waters” and “Strikingly Superior to Lithia Tablets” in Bright’s Disease, Calculi, Gout, Rheumatism, etc. Dr. 1._N. Love, New York City, former Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dis- eases of Children, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in Marion Sims College! Medicine, St. Louis, Vice-President of American Medical Association, etc., in an att Jt in Medical Mirror, says: By Savannah “While being the most effective of the natural mineral waters, it is strik- y ingly superior to emergency solutions of lithia tablets and pure water, ever Line. New York-Savannah, where the said solution is an exceedingly strong one."* 10o hours round trip at sea, New E. H. Pratt, A.M.. M.D., LL.D., Professor of Orificial Surgery to the 7 ic Medic i ounly modern passenger ships. Trip may be Chicaso Homevpathic Medical College, and Attending Surgeon to Cook Cousty i i . f . rT apentic made, i desired, less than a week, Climate of Savan- years havetoon’ BUEFALO LITHIA WATER fesse it hss proved nab, Spring, early Summer, delightful, All expens ially efficacious in Rheumatism, Gout, and Affections of the Kidney and ‘ . XPenses at sea, 'y ; 4 n, + an y round trip, only $32.09, No malaria. No hay fever at Biadder generally, including Bright's Disease. Agent, 317 Broadway, N. Y., will tell you “ is the only reliable treatment known to ™ bout it and giv BUEFALO LITHIA WATER (for the permanent relief of gravel, and de mee 808 . SIME OCEAN antecedent conditions that determine it.”” interesting printed .. Cyrus Edson, recently Health Officer of New York Cil ty: . things. STEAMSHIP CO, [| cits BUEFALO LITHIA WATER Bite covet, 9,808" SAVANNAH LINE * BUFFALO LITHIA WATER is for sate by Grocers and Druggists generally: Literature will be mailed free. Address Testimonials which def; i i i fy all imputation or question sent to any address. C. B. WALWORTH, Gen. Pass. Agt., Room A, 81 Beach St., N.Y. Hotel at Springs panes igth. - PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, VIRGINIA. comicbooks.com