Life, 1885-01-29 · page 16 of 16
Life — January 29, 1885 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is **primarily an advertisement page** from Life magazine, not a satirical cartoon page. It contains no political cartoons or satire. The page features period product advertisements typical of late 19th-century America, including: - **Patent medicines** (Crosby's Phosphites for nerve/brain health; Cuticura for skin diseases; Verve for sleep) - **Luxury goods** (Sohmer pianos, carriages and sleighs by multiple manufacturers) - **Champagne and wine** (Bouché brand) - **Theater notices** (Daly's Theatre, Bijou Opera House burlesque) The advertisements reflect Victorian anxieties about health, wealth, and status. The medical claims are extravagant by modern standards—Cuticura promises to cure virtually all skin conditions, while Crosby's Phosphites claims to restore intellect and build mental powers. **This is essentially a commercial page with no satirical content to analyze.**
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-LIFE- CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES IS A NERVE TONIC AND BRAIN FOOD. For many years it has been a standard preparation with all ‘A brain well fed sleeps sweetly; a starved brain is restless. It strengthens the intellect, restores disorders. lost functions, builds up worn-out nerves, It develops sound mental powers. physicians who treat mental or nervous digestion, It aids in bodily and mental growth of motes good teeth, glossy hair, clear skin, handsome nails, It amplifies both bodily and F, Crosby Co., 56 West 25th Street, New York. By Druggists or by Matt, $1.00. A. T. DEMAREST & CO., MANUPACTURERS OF Elegant Pleasure Carriages, Special attention invited to our LONDON AND PARIS STYLES IN “ BROUGHAMS.” WAREROOMS: 636 and 638 BROADWAY, (ene door from Bleecker Street.) A Superior Stock of Fine London made Harness at very reasonable prices. (uticura A POSITIVE CURE for every form of SKIN and BLOOD DISEASE row PUNPLES 10 SCROFULA, red by a warm bath wit! lication of Curicura, the Skin Cure. This repeat , with two or three of Comeuns Rrsoivert, the New Blood Purifier. to keep the blood cool, the perspiration pure and unirritating, the ‘bowels open, the liver and kidneys active, Wwill speedily Tetter, Ringworm, wriasis, Lichen, Pru~ nies, ‘Scall Head, Dandrud, and ‘every species of Itching, Scaly, and Pimely ‘Humors of the Skin and ‘Scalp, with Loss of Hair, when the best physicians and all known remedies fail. | asi or Salt Rheum, with its agvnizing itchiny ‘and burning, instantly reliev UTICURA SOAP and a sin; Coricura Reweptes are absolutely pure and the only infallible Blood | Paridens and Skin Beautifiers free from poisonous in, Sold. everywbere. Price, Cuticura, se cents Sea, 25 gate; _Resolvent, $1. Prepared by y Dave An Cursicat Co., wr Send for How to 2 Care Skin Diseases.” Brascn House, 12 Warren Street, New Yorx. AMUSEMENTS. D**"s THEATRE! poe Ry Ricatt i ws Mytnees Weduesday » MR-DALY 5 REW EW coneb) ~Usequvocal 8 CRUTCHES, 68th to 74th time. BUYOvQPERA House. BURLESQUE, ILES & BARTON, - Managers, to 148th PERFORMANC ICE. RICE & DIKES BIG BURLESQUE COMPANY. fs ENRY, E. DIXEY, in the fascinating ae nightzta with its” wealth. of novelties. ARMOR. "ROBINSON CRUSOE RICE'S new son; and “ THE W. WAEL s STREET BROKER” tumes, effects, &c. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28—150 PERFORMANCE. ‘Seats Secured Three Weeks In Advance. ‘OU KNow,"” New Cos- — 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. caver.) 149 to 155 East 14th St., N. Y. A. S. FLANDRAU. & CO, Biepanit Carriages and Sleighs OF THE BEST CLASS, 372, 374 AND 376 Broome STREET. so & s6a Third Avenue, Corner 37th Street, nw Yorx. The very latest LONDON NoveELtis regularly ted direct. fur style and fit cannot be surpassed. Prices, positively the lowest for strictly First Ctass Goons. A. SIEGEL & SONS, Tailors. DO YOU SLEEP? . VERVE” 16 Nassau Street, Bet. Spruce & Beekman Sts, New Yor. IF NOT, ‘ORDER FROM YOUR DRUGGIST. 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. Their mechanism is simple and com- plete, and they are destined to supersede every- thing of the kind in the market.—Chicago Inter Ocean, GILLIS BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 70-70 FULTON STREET Ki. ¥. comicbooks.com