Life, 1884-03-06 · page 16 of 16
Life — March 6, 1884 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one small cartoon illustration. The cartoon (center-right) shows two figures in period dress with exaggerated features, appearing to depict ethnic stereotypes common to 19th-century American humor. One figure says "I will never buy any but HARTSHORNS'" while the other responds "And I will never sell any but HARTSHORNS!" The joke advertises Hartshorn's Rollins (a cleaning/maintenance product), relying on caricature humor typical of the era. The rest of the page contains advertisements for patent medicines (Crosby's Phosphites for mental disorders, Murray's Charcoal Tablets, Cuticura for skin diseases), pianos, paper products, and accident insurance. These ads reflect late 19th-century concerns: unregulated medical products making dubious health claims, and emerging commercial insurance offerings. The page's overall tone reflects 1870s-1890s advertising practices: pseudoscientific health claims and ethnic caricature humor presented without irony.
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’ | CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. ; It is a standard remedy with all physicians who treat mental or nervous disorders. ; It strengthens the intellect, restores lost energy, develops good teeth, glossy hair, clear skin, | handsome nails in the young, so that they may be an inheritance in later years. It amplifies bodily and mental power to the present generation, and proves ‘* the survival of the fittest” to the next. | Brain Workers need Brain Food. . | For sale by Draggists, or mail $1 to F. Crosby Co., 666 Sixth Avenue, New. York, | PIANOS, = a | ARE PREFERRED BY LEADING MURRAY'S | Messrs. L. Prang & Co. Beate ARTISTS. CHARCOAL TABLETS HIGHEST AWARD CENTENNIAL For Dyspepsia, Headache, Bad of Ye Olden Time, a series of Easter Cards of quaint 1876. Breath, Sour Stomach. design. : | HIGHEST ‘AWARD MONTREAL (uticura | 1881 and 1982, A | 149 to 155 E. 14th St.. N. Y, POSITIVECURE | = . il for every form of SKIN & BLOOD DISEASE. reo PIMPLES to SCROFUL4 Pimply, Scrofulous, Inherited, Con- | Colored Diseases of the Blood, | of Hair, are positively cured by | The Good Old Fashioned Remedy. 25 cts. a box. ay) DITMAN’S SEA SALT. ESS In producing a seal sea bath at home send for circular, ‘TCHING, Sel ic | Skin and Scalp, with Loss the Cuticura REMEDIES. - | Curicura Resoivent, the new blood purifier, the blood and perspiration of impurities and poisonous | , elements, and removes the cause, DENISON PAPER M’F'G CO. | “Corcuna, the great Skin Cure, instantly allays Itching | A. J. DITMAN, Broadway and Barclay Street, New York. cleanses | BOOK PAPERS. “Star Mill,” “* Eagle Mill,” “ Diamond Mill.” Boston OFFICE, 20 EQUITABLE BUILDING. | and Inflammation, clears the Skin and Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, and restores the Hair. | _ Curtcura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautifier and Toilet Requisite, prepared from Curicura, is indispensable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors, Skin Blemishes, | Chapped and Oily Skin! | _ Curicura ReMmepres are absolutely pure and the only | infallible Blood Purifiers and Skin Beautifiers. | Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, cents; Soap, 25 TL wlnter buy any but And Iwill never sell any s; Resol , $x. Prepared Eienicar Gos Boston, Mas HARTSHORNS ROLLENS — but HARTSHORNS! by Porrer Druc AND MILLS AT MECHANIC FALLS, - - MAINE. | Cnemicat Co., Boston, Mass. 4 | | §8%" Send for ** How to Cure Skin Diseases.” Those who carry $5000 Accident Insurance with $25 Weekly Indemnity in stock accident insurance companies should bear in mind that they can procure in The United States Mutual Accident Association $10,000 Accident Insurance and $50 Weekly Indemnity at the same-Annual Cost they are now carrying the smaller amount for. How to Become A MemBer: Write for Circular and application Blank and when received fill out your application, inclose $4, and forward it to the Secretary at New York on receipt of which a policy will be promptly mailed to you. CHARLES B. PEET (of Rogers, Peet & Co.), President. JAMES R. PITCHER, Secretary. PRESS OF GILLISS BROTHERS, 78 & 77 FULTON STREET N. Y. comicbooks.com