Judge, 1904-08-06 · page 15 of 20
Judge — August 6, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with minimal editorial content. The notable elements: **Main Content:** A testimonial article (likely advertising disguised as editorial) about **Postum**, a caffeine-free coffee substitute. A Kansas woman describes coffee-induced health crises—headaches, rheumatism, heart trouble, digestive issues—that mysteriously resolved when she switched to Postum. This reflects early 1900s health anxieties about coffee's effects and the era's credulous acceptance of patent medicine testimonials. **Other Advertisements:** - Evans' Ale, Milwaukee Beer, Glenn's Sulphur Soap, Abbott's Bitters, and life insurance from The Prudential - These target working-class readers (clerks earning $9/week appear in jokes) **Satirical Content:** Small jokes mock courtship, workplace anxiety, and marital dynamics—typical Judge humor. One poem fragment alludes to Romantic nature imagery ("wild hawk," "red deer"). The page reflects **early 1900s advertising practices**: pseudoscientific health claims, testimonials, and appeals to consumer anxieties about modernity's physical toll.
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Within the land of Make Believe I lived in days of old, And by its wondrous alchemy Turned all the dross to gold. A wider land of Make Believe Now claims attention close ; ‘The grown-up children in it count The fairy gold as dross. —New York Sun. ‘As a health-giver no tonic made equals Ab- bott’s Angostura Bitters, Druggists and gro- cers. “ Doctor, I am suffering terribly from a carbuncle !" « Let's see it.” You ‘ll have to come up to the house ; it’s on my mother-in-law."—Houston Post. All Dealers and Restaurants sell Evans’ Ale Gyril—* You may spurn me, cruel one, but remember, I shall not always be a clerk at nine dollars a week !" Marie— That's just the trouble may lose your job at any time." — News. You Dandruff Men once a week, women once in two weeks, should wash the head with a copious lather of warm water and Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. It will remove and keep out dandruff. Be sure and get Glen Sulphur Soap ‘2c, 2 cate at all drag stores or malled foro, by THE CHAMLES &, CRITTENTO! ion Bt, Kew York Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, 0 eta, “Gadsby told me he stopped a week at the fair.” “And he told me he kept a-going every minute."— Cleveland Plain Dealer. BUNCH TOGETHER COFFEE HAS A CURIOUS WAY OF FINALLY ATTACKING SOME ORGAN Ails that come from coffee are cumu- lative, that is, unless the coffee is taken away new troubles are continually appear- ing and the old ones get worse. “To begin with,” says a Kansan, “1 was a slave to coffee just as thousands of others to-day ; thought I could not live without drinking strong coffee every morning for breakfast, and I had sick headaches that kept me in bed several days every month. Could hardly keep my food on my stomach, but would vomit as long as I could throw anything up, and when I could get hot coffee to stay on my stomach I thought I was better. ™ Well, two years ago this spring I was that sick with rheumatism I could not use my right arm to do anything, had heart trouble, was nervous. My nerves were all unstrung, and my finger nails and tips were blue as if 1 had a chill all the time, and my face and hands yellow as a pumpkin, My doctor said it was heart disease and rheumatism, and my neighbors said I had Bright's disease and was going to die. “Well, I did not know what on earth was the matter, and every morning would drag myself out of bed and go to break- fast, not to eat anything, but to force down some more coffee. Then in a little while T would he so nervous, my heart would beat like everything. “Finally one morning I told my hus- +| band I believed coffee was the cause of| this trouble, and that I thought I would try Postum, which I had seen advertised, He said, ‘All right,'so we got Postum, and although I did not like it at first I got right down to business and made it ac- cording to directions; then it was fine and the whole family got to using it, and I tell you it has worked wonders for me. Thanks to Postum in place of the poison, coffee, | now enjoy good health, have not been in bed with sick headache for two years, although I had it for thirty years before I began Postum, and my nerves are now strong, and I have no trouble from my heart or from the rheumatism. «T consider Postum a necessary article of food on my table. My friends who come here and taste my Postum say it is delicious.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Get the book, * The Road to Wellville,” in each package. 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