Life, 1884-12-18 · page 16 of 16
Life — December 18, 1884 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, with minimal editorial cartooning. The only cartoon element is a small cherub illustration labeled "See What Cuticura Does for Me!" accompanying a patent medicine advertisement. The page showcases late-19th-century advertisements for health products, musical instruments, and household goods. Notable are the numerous **quack medical remedies**: Crosby's Vitalized Phosphites (a "nerve tonic"), Cuticura (for skin diseases), and the Voltaic Electric Belt (claiming to cure "nervous debility" and "loss of manhood"). These reflect the era's predatory marketing of unproven treatments to vulnerable populations. The satirical content is **implicit rather than explicit**—Life magazine's role was partly to lampoon such dubious claims through their very inclusion in a humor publication. The page demonstrates the magazine's business model: selling advertising space while its editorial voice elsewhere critiqued American consumer culture and medical fraud.
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= LI FE - ~ CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES IS A NERVE TONIC AND BRAIN FOOD. _ For many years it has been a standard preparation with all physicians who treat mental or nervous disorders. lost functions, builds up worn-out nerves, promotes good digestion, children. It develops sound teeth, glossy hair, clear mental powers. F. Crosby Co., 56 West 25th Street, New York. By Druggists or by Mail, $1.00. A brain well fed sleeps sweetly ; a starved brain is restless. It strengthens the intellect, restores It aids in bodily and mental growth of skin, handsome nails. It- amplifies both bodily and AMUSEMENTS. ALY’S THEATRE! “A Masterpiece of Ingenuity."— LOVE ON CRUTCHES. ——COMMON SENSE BINDER—— FOR BINDING “LIFE: Cheap, Strong and Durable, Will hold 26 numbers. Maited to any part of the United States for $x. Address, office of * LIFE,” 1155 Beoapway,N. Y. FREE TO ANY LADY Teader of this paper who 0 toshow our, ind price Ist {Rubber Gonist thelr friends and try to in- fluence aales for us, Wo will send yon free, post-pald two full Wzed, LADIES GOSSAMER RUBBER WATER PROOP GAR- NTS, asa sample, and one of our handsome Colored Covers 44 page Catalogues wlth wholeaale price list showing how you can make Eee profit right at home,” Send 20 cents for postage, packing, 8c Giamps.or silver taken.) ‘Cut this out and rend It ‘B.A. BABCOCK & CO,, CENTERBROOK, CONN. +See What Cuticura Does for Me!” NFANTILE and Birth Humors, Milk Crust, Scalled Head, Eczemas, and every form of Itching, Scaly, Pimply, Scrofulous and Inherited Diseases of the Blood, Skin and Scalp, with Loss of Hair, cured by the Cuicura Remeviss. Adsolutely pure and safe Cuticura, the reat Skin Cure, ets.; Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Sian Beautifier and only Medicinal Baby ‘Soap,-25.cts., and Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier, $1, are sold egists. Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,” Boston, end for ‘* How to Cure Skin Diseases.” HARRIS & NIXON, IMPORTERS OF FINE LONDON fi ? HARNESS AND SADDLERY, No. 11 Wesr 27H Street, New York. Totatroduce our Jn, home, we will send, free of charge, winy rooney ts forpcege A 8 Valuable Boke rsd Manval of Stiquette: 2 Standard Letter Writers Winter Evenin Tennyson's Poem: ‘a present the ladies wil two Gossamer proof Garments, W. H. BABCOOK & CO., Centerbrook, Conn, YOUNG MEN !-READ THIS. Tye Vouraic Beut Co., of Marshall, Mich., offers to send their celebrated Evecrric-Vottaic BELT and other Exectric AppriaNcks on trial for thirty days, to men (young oF old) afficted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and manhood, and all kindred troubles, Also for rheumay tism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many other diseases. Com= plete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet free. ‘Manual o BOUCHE Champagne “SEc . To be had of all Respectable Wine Merchants and Grocers. THE CELEBRATED. SOHMER PIANOS ARE PREFERRED BY LEADING ARTISTS. HIGHEST AWARD CENTENNIAL, 1876, HIGHEST AWARD MONTREAL, 1881-1882. 149 to 155 East 14th St., N. Y. FINE CLOCKS. Bridal Gifts and Holiday at exceptionally low prices, Imported Novelties in Clocks, Brass Antiques, French Marbles—new designs, Swiss and Vienna Clocks, and a fine selection of Bronzes, also, clocks in modern and antique style, our own manu- facture in wood and metal at retail until January 1st. NEW HAVEN CLOCK Co., 16 & 18 Park Place, New York City. For presents Tue HartsHoRN SHADE ROLLER is as near perfection as anything in that line can be. They never get out of order, and will bear rough handling. plete, and they are destined to supersede every- thing of the kind in the market,—Chicago Inter Ocean, Send one, two, three or five dole elars for a retail box, b: ;, of the Best Candies ‘in the world, put up in handsome boxes. All strictly pure. Suitable for presents, ‘Try it once, Address, C.F.GUNTHER, Confectioner. 78 Manson Sr., Cuicaco. Their mechanism is simple and com- Patniess sure cure, Civiale Agency, 160 Fulton VARICOCEL GILUIS8 BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 75-70 FULTON STREET: N.Y. comicbooks.com