Judge, 1904-02-13 · page 16 of 20
Judge — February 13, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and corporate notices**, not satirical editorial content. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** - Pope Manufacturing Company bicycles - Surbrug's Arcadia tobacco mixture - Abbott's Angostura Bitters - Leslie's Weekly magazine subscription **Small Humor Pieces:** The page contains brief comic dialogues—likely filler content—addressing mild social observations: a woman with a "dead" but merely "suspended" past; meeting society guests with false cordiality; someone overly cautious with opera glasses. **Corporate Filing:** The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia publishes its official financial statement and list of trustees. The satirical content is minimal. The humor relies on wordplay and gentle social irony rather than political commentary. This appears to be a typical late-19th/early-20th-century magazine page mixing advertisements with light jokes and business notices.
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Famous Chainless Bicycles Equipped with twowpeed gear, coaster brake, and cushica frame and All Standard Chain Models Western Department, Chicago, Ill. SHARES 3 CENTS. Gold Mine and Mill promising enormous profits; mineral, pictures, etc., free. SUNSET GOLD COMPANY, 506 Mack, Denver, Cole. Upgardson—“ What do you say are the three essentials to a home 2” Atom—* There are only two. and sense."—Chicago Tribune. Dollars A balmy mood steals o'er the land. Soft, soothing zephyrs are exhaled— A bitter frost comes forward and The fruit crop once again has failed. —Washington Star. Church— Did you say your boy is still | pursuing his studies at coliege 2” Gotham—* Yes; he hasn't caught up with them yet."— Yonkers Statesman. Leslie’s Weekly; Oldest and yet youngest illustrated paper in America Every part of the paper of human interest Jasper’s hints to money-makers alone are worth ten times the sub- scription price $4 per Year $1 for 3 Months}, LESLIE'S WEEKLY 225 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK', Wigg—* Yes, 1 realize that she is a woman with a past, but she told me her- self that the past was dead.” Wagg—"Better look out, old chap. It may prove to be just one of those cases of suspended animation."—Philadelphia Record. Inactive liver, depressed spirits—make both right with Abbott's Angostura Bitters. The genuine Abbott's will revolutionize the system. Fritilla—* Papa, manner ? Father—* Well, meet your guests with stylish cordiality beaming out of one eye and critical inspection glaring out of the other."—Brooklyn Life. what is a society Arcadia MIXTURE, *No one who smokes the Arcadia would ever attempt to |describe its delights, for his pipe would be certain to - My Lady Nice Erwe.— Tom, will you please put this package in your pocket and carry it for me? But do be very careful you don't break it."* Tom—" Why, what is it, may | ask, that you prize so much ?"" Erwe.—‘It ts a pair of Flammarion opera-glasses, which are ever so much better than others at the th eatre."* PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICES, 921, 923 AND t to the pce rol the principal features of its Fifty-eixth ASS! 925 CHESTNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA, January 21,190 yuirements of its Charter, this Com} wublishes the following statement. beise “Annual Report to Policy holders. ae ity Loans, Railroad and other Bonds, Bank and other Stoe! Mortgages and Cash ra "sank iii m Companies and o Net Deferred and Unreported Premiums - : Interest Due and Accrued, ete. - Market Value of Stocks and Bonds over cost > Gross Assets, January 1, 1904 =~ “tae Lities. th Claims rey but awaiting proof Rostrveat 2 Sirand tper cent to Retosute Risks ” Surplus on Unreported Policies. et. Sarplus Accumalated upon Special Form of Policies - > Surplus for all other Contingencies Total Surplus ~~ Gross Assets, as above BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY ‘DURING 1903. Premiums and Annuities received Interest Receipts, ‘Premium Abstementa (Dividends to the insured)” Loases pai ‘otal Policies in force, 123917 Insuring ~ > Total paymenta to Policy-holders since Organization Je akon to the dividends pald to policy: bolder ip paid-up additions and annuities, together $7 Bf $535755:18 (which is carried in Liabutien, making the the Company allotted to deferr cath, applied to sete running Ficmlaves and to na Speer! “ total apportionment of surplus during 1993, $1,121,086 TRUSTEES. NRO) FRANK A NMETON JOSEPH BOSLER, GRORGE K. JOUNSON. y WILLIAUN KINGSLEN See'y and Treas, WLAND, EDWARD TT. STOTESBURY. OARBERT CALDWELL ENRY L. DAV! CHARLES S80) Pac ano {ates ra (3 ae TON, Pi TLDRIDGE PENNOCK dent. HENRY C. LIPPIN y M'girorAgeud® comicbooks.com