Life, 1883-11-15 · page 15 of 16
Life — November 15, 1883 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon page. It contains commercial advertisements for various products and services popular in the 1880s. The notable content includes: **"Good News to Ladies"** - A pen company advertisement using a crude joke: a widower remarries, and the hotel keeper comments the new wife looks thinner and lighter-complexioned than the first—implying the new wife is the *same person* he's passed off as someone else, a joke about marital deception. **Mason & Hamlin Organs** - The dominant advertisement celebrates the company winning a "Grand Diploma of Honor" at the 1883 Amsterdam Industrial Exhibition, claiming superiority over competitors for sixteen years. **Collender Billiard Tables** - Similarly boasts international prizes and "scientific correctness." These ads reflect late-19th-century commercial culture: manufacturers competed for international exhibition awards as proof of quality, and companies prominently displayed these credentials to consumers. The page demonstrates how advertising legitimized products through institutional validation rather than modern advertising techniques.
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‘LIFE: GOOD NEWS 1? LADIES! ae sen Bet, or. Handsome Decorated ‘TING. Gox wih Shand 80 Vesey Su, New York " BSTERBROO rest PENS Leading Nos: 14, 048, 130, 333, 161, For Sale by all Stationers. ‘THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO., Works, Camden, N.J. 26 John St, New York, AMERICAN PHOTC ‘THE other one :— A widower who married again arrived at Nice on nis second wedding journey. ““T remember you very well,” said the hotel keeper, “but your wife has grown very thin.” “And lighter complexion, was she not ?”” “Yes, Resides you know that it is not the same yne.” Lives of great men all remind us ‘That the summer days soon pass, And that winter winds will tind us Hunting coal or fuel gas.—Ou/ City Blizzard. IMPORTANT. When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Camage Hire and stop at the GRAN UNION HOTEL, opposite Grand Central Depot. ~ Four Hundred and Fifty (aso) elegant rooms, Atted upata cost of one million dollars, reduced to. $1 and upwar day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best, ‘and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can lve better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in thecity. Horse cars, st BANKERS. WILLIAM POLLOCK, BANKER AND BROKER, No, 25 Pine St., N.Y. All issues of Government Securities, Bank Shares, Rail- way Stocks and Bonds bought and sold on commission or cared on a margin. Special attention giv:n to Invest ments. Interest allowed on deposits, WILLIAM POLLOCK, Member New York Stock EXCHANGE. Cavanagh, Sandford & Co.. Merchant Tailors and Importers, 16 West 23d STREET, Opposite sth Ave, Hotel, New York All the latest London fabrics regularly imported. MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS. 4 CABLE DISPATCH ANNOUNCES THAT AT THE International Industrial Exhibition (1883) now rm rRocREss (1883) at AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, THESE ORGANS HAVE BIEN AWARDED THR GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, Bolaz the VERY HIGHEST AWARD, hove the GOLD MEDAL, and for EXCEPTIONAL SUPE SEXCELLENOE. rm” “™4 ftven only ‘THUS 18 CONTINUED THS UNBROKEN SERIES OF TRIUMPHS OF THESE OFOANS AT EVERY GREAT WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOB SIXTEEN YEARS, No other American Organs having been found equal to them in any. THE RECORD OF TRIUMPHS of MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS In euch severe and prolonged comparisous by the BEST JUDGES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS IN THE WCRLD now stands : at PARIS, | VIENNA, “ane | PHILA, | PARI, MILAN, | AMSTERDAM, BILLIARDS. The Collender Billiard and Pool Tables 1867 18%8 1875 1876 1878 1881 1888 FRANCE, | AUSTRIA.| CHILL |U.8, AMER,| FRANCE. | ITALY. [NETHERLANDS The Testimony of Musicians is Equally Emphatic. have received the first premiums, the latest. Triumphs being the Grand Medal—the highest premium over all na- tions—awarded to the Collender Billiard Tables, and Com- bination Cushions, Balls, Cues, &c., at the Paris Exhibi- tion of 1878, At the Centennial Commission, Philadelphia, in 1876, the combination cushions were reported the only ones scientifically correct in the angles of incidence and re- flection. New and second-hand billiard tables, in all de- signs, at the lowest prices. The H. W. COLLENDER COMPANY, 768 Broadway, New York. 24x Tremont St., Boston. 1 South Fift t. Louis, 113 S. oth St., Philadelphia. 84 and 86 State St., Chicago 367W. Baltimore St. Baltimore, eu LL ! 3-4 (dated October, 1583) is now ready and will bo sent free; including MANY NEW STYLES-the best assortment and most attractive organs wo have ever offered. Ox Huxpren Strizs are fully described and {Itastrated, adapted to all uses, in plain and elezant cases in natural woods, and sxperbly decorated tn gold, ellver, and colors. Prices, $22 for the emallcst alze, but having as much power as any sinclo reed organ and the characterlatic Mason & Hamlin excellence, up to $000 for the largest size. Sixrr Srrixs between $78 and §200. Sold also for eary payments, Catalogues free. THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., 154 Tremont St. , Boston; 46 EB. 1ith St.(Union Square), New York; 119 Wabash Ave., Chicago comicbooks.com