Life, 1884-03-13 · page 16 of 16
Life — March 13, 1884 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of late-19th-century Life magazine. The cartoons are minor—two small illustrations accompanying product ads. The notable satirical content appears in the **Hartshorn's Roller advertisement** (bottom right), which shows two figures in what appears to be a theatrical or comedic dispute over window roller products. One declares he'll never buy competing rollers; the other insists he'll never sell anything but Hartshorns. This is gentle product humor, using exaggerated loyalty as comic device. The rest consists of patent medicine ads (Crosby's Phosphites, Murray's Charcoal Tablets, Cuticura Remedies)—all promising implausibly broad cures—and the **United States Mutual Accident Association ad**, which humorously suggests wives pressure husbands to switch insurers, sarcastically noting the $12 savings could buy a cornet. The tone is light advertising satire rather than political commentary. The page reflects the era's unregulated medicine marketing and Life's reliance on ad revenue.
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- LIFE: 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 Druggists, or mail $1 to F. Crosby Co., 666 Sixth Avenue, New York. MURRAY'S | CHARCOAL TABLETS For Dyspepsia, Headache, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach. The Good Old Fashioned Remedy. 25 cts. a box. DITMAN’S SEA SALT. In producing a real sea bath at home send for circular, A. J. DITMAN, Broadway and Barclay Street, New York. ‘These famous Steel Pens com: pine the ose tial oaliciee of i} lasticity, Durability and rea: ] Swan Guill actiony and aro | iw uited to cil styles Of writing. ‘For sale everywhere, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. N.Y. | are about to Messrs. L. Prang & Co. Bi RGide of Ye Olden Time,” a series of Easter Cards of quaint design. “Lowe my Restoration ‘ to Health >|. and Beauty to the CUTICURA ») REMEDIES.” ‘Testimontal of a Boston lady, DD SEISURING Humors, Humiliating Eruptions Itchx ing Tortures, Scrofula, Salt Rheum and Infantile Humors cured by the Curicura RemepiEs. Curicura ResoLvent, the new blood purifier, cleanses the blood and perspiration of impurities and poisonous elements, and thus removes the cause. Curicura, the great Skin Cure, instantly allays Itching and Inflammation, clears the Skin’ and Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, and restores the Hair, Cuticura Soar, an exquisite Skin Beautifier and Toilet Requisite, prepared from Curicura, is indispensable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors, Skin Blemishes, Chapped and Oily Skin: Cuticura ReMmeptes are absolutely pure, and the only infallible Blood Purifiers and Skin Beautifiers. Sold everywhere, Price, Cuticura, 50 cents; Soap, 25 cents; Resolvent, $1. Potrer DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass. SOHMER PIANOS, ARE PREFERRED BY LEADING : ARTISTS. HIGHEST AWARD CENTENNIAL : 1876. HIGHEST AWARD MONTREAL 1881 and 1882. 149 to 155 E. 14th St., N. Y. 1 walle buyany bul And Iwill never-sell any HARTSHORNS ROLiEns but HARTSHORNS! If your husband has a. $5000 Accident Policy in a Stock Company which costs him $25 a year, say to him, please, that he can carry quite as good a policy in The United States Mutual Accident Association for $13 per annum, and the difference of $12 saved will buy a cornet. No, you haven't! Please, then, kindly keep this suggestion and see us later. The United States Mutual Accident Association, 320 AND 322 BRoapway, NEw York. JAMES R. PITCHER, Secretary. PRESS OF GILLIS8 BROTHERS, 75 & 77 FULTON STREET N. Y. comicbooks.com