Life, 1885-07-16 · page 16 of 16
Life — July 16, 1885 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **advertising page** rather than satirical content. The page features numerous patent medicine and consumer product advertisements typical of the late 19th century. The most notable content is a large advertisement for **Warner's Safe Cure for Bright's Disease** (kidney disease). It employs a common advertising tactic of the era: listing exhaustive symptoms—hot skin, scalding sensations, aching loins, heart palpitations, etc.—designed to convince readers they have the affliction and need the remedy. This reflects the period's widespread medical quackery, where vague symptom lists matched nearly any ailment. Other ads promote Mellin's Food (infant formula), Carmel Toilet Soap, Spencerian Steel Pens, and Bouché Champagne. The page includes an ethnographic artifact listing: a Pueblo Indian idol figurine available for purchase, reflecting the era's casual commodification of Indigenous cultural objects. The advertising reflects Gilded Age consumer culture and the unregulated patent medicine industry that preyed on public health anxieties.
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Q WARREN STREET. Le Se are Remit by Bank Draft, Postal Order, Express. er Registered Letter, + LIFE ¥ SCHWEPPE & CO. H AVE YOU Having established the reputation throw ed Great Britain as 7 or Pine hepa Yh liad yiolesdl So eget tein f pace Hot and dry skin? Potaan Seteser Litaia: Ouintne Tonicand Ginger Ales tweet and ary. Scalding sensations? Send for price list to so. and s2 Was ington 7 ‘Ave. Brooklyn, L. Swelling of the ankles? By special appointment to Her Majeay, the Queen o of Great Britain and all panneree poe Acid Stomach? Aching loins? Cramps, growing nervousness? Strange soreness of the bowels? Unaccountable languid feelings? Short breath and pleuritic pains? One-eide Headache? Backache? Frequent attacks of the ‘‘blues"? Fluttering and Distress of the heart? Albumen and tube casts in the water? Fitful rheumatic paina and neuralgia? Loss of appetite, flesh and strength? Constipation alternating with looseness of the bowels? Drowsiness by day, wakefulness at night? The only perfect substitute for Mother's Milk, ‘The | Abundant pale, or ecanty flow of dark water? sre Coal''G most nourshing diet for iovalids and nursing mothers. , Lee ate Noe Cyc HL. ICHEROERT & CO; | Reeps‘in all clitaates: ‘Commended by physicans. Sold | Chills and fever? Burning patches of skia Ceal"Office, 71 Broadway. "Wands, sath Se. E.R and qrerehsre, Send for our book, * The Care and Feeding of | Then 334 St., E.R. Biante DOLIBER, GOODALE & CO., Boston, Mass. Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. is well known that OLIVE OIL SOAP—if pure—ts better for the human skin th The abow ‘ I? iret setter parity can ic is made te Pata rine ty a MISSION Soct The above symptoms are not developed in any ordez, to thelt Agent In New Vores Used for the tonlet it pives 4 good complexion. but appear, disappear, and reappear until the disease xrad- Commended for the teeth ou accownt of its Sweet taste, and for washing the ba ually gets a firm grasp on the constitution, the kidney. poisoned blood breaks down the nervous system, and fra! ; ty : pneumonia, diarrhoea, bloodlessness, heart diseass, apo- f . plexy, paralysis, or convulsions ensue and then death is in- i 3 evitable, This fearful disease is not a rare one—it ii primed It must be treated in time or it will gain the mastery, Don't neglect it, Warner's SAPE Cure has cured PUEBLO INDIANS, | thousands of cases of the worst type, and it will cure you ~~ Double E Elastic Action. | po if you will use it promptly and as directed. It is the only Very Bare and Interesting, | *?eciSe for the universal A Complete Sample Card, con- * SY Price, $2.00 per Palr, Te taining 26 different numbers of | 0) ldots made by the BRIGHT S DISEASE PENS adapted to every style of n rom writing, sent for trial, post-paid, ; fu oak pon H. H. WARNER & CO,, Rochester, N. Y. be on receipt of 25 cents. Postage stamps received. soli or TINE ts ohsiah IWISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO.,| Besse = | ANY erurrions 75} and 755 Bronvay, New York. | WH, TAMEN & C0., DENVER, COL, ae AND Dealers in Mineral Specimens é& Indian Curios. Bern THE MINIATURE STATUETTE OF BURNING the Bartholdi Statue. Only $1.00 each. B U Y the Common Sense Blades tee binding “ LIFE. i a3 Mercer Street, New Vork, | durable, Onl” ONE Dottan each; cheap, strong an LEN TORTURES Address, RICHARD BUTLER, Sec’y, *&E VT \ BUTTON’ » YY. N i : ND EVERY SPECIES of Itching, Scaly, Pi S Toberited Scrofulous, and. Contaglous Biaenses ot ° » Wood, Skin, and Scalp, ‘with loss of Hair, from infancy pee to old agerare positively cured by the e Curicura Re [—— Cunricuna Resotvawr, the new Blood Purifier, cle the blood and perspiration of impurities and ry SHOE N DRESSING tlements, and thus removes the care, Lear Inadsottey the bet, Softensteather, PRN SE Leading g Soe Dealers everywhere — | G'nguatcated ean the Sis sad Senge heal Ules contal natural act recommen js more econom! hee "e tally makes thoes wear loogcr, { SIN. thanotherdressines. Take no other. and Festores the Hair. BUTTON u c ‘Soar, ite Skin Beautifier and Toilet TON & OTTLEY, MFRS.. NEW YORK. noe Mtoe Corceeheie tenes treating Skin Baby Humors, Skin Blemishes, Chapped and Oily Skin. Sold everywhere, Price: Cuticura, soc.; REsouvent, $x; Soar, asc. Prepared by the Porren Druc axo Cummicat 'Co., Boston, Mass. B27 Send for “ How to Cure Skin Diseases.”” . U erie Champagne “SEc’ ees STRIGYGLES: B9820N." To be had of all Respectable Wine Merchants and Grocers. BRANCH Housns—ta Warren St, N. Y.t Sec an Capes GILLIS BACTHERS & TURKURE, ART AGE PRESS, 7-70 FULTON STREET 1. Y. comicbooks.com