Life, 1885-10-15 · page 16 of 16
Life — October 15, 1885 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire or editorial cartooning. It contains commercial advertisements for various products popular in the late 19th/early 20th century. The notable content is a prominent medical advertisement for **Warner's Safe Cure for Bright's Disease** (a kidney ailment). The ad lists extensive symptoms—from "hot and dry skin" to "burning patches of skin"—claiming they indicate kidney disease, then promises the product will cure even "the worst type." This represents a common practice of the era: **patent medicine advertising that exploited health anxieties**. The exhaustive symptom list was designed to make readers believe they had the condition, creating demand for the cure. Such ads were typical in American magazines before FDA regulation of medical claims. The page also advertises pianos, printing ink, soap, bicycles, and window fixtures—standard commercial content for a magazine dependent on advertising revenue.
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- LIFE By special appointment to Her} DECKER BROTHERS’ MATCHLESS PIANOS 33 Union Square, N. Y. manufacturers of the Purest Mineral American public our Unrivaled Seda, Potass, Seltzer, Lithia, Quinine Tonicand Ginger Ales, sweet and dry. ‘Send for price list a so and s2 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, L.. "¥% SCHWEPPE & CO. Having established the reputation throughout Great Britain as ‘aters, we offer to the Carbonated Lemon vjesty the Queen ween of Great Britain and all Mi) wal Family, Semen Sanford & Co., Pheeehant Tailors eae and Importers, 16 West 23d Street, Opposite Fifth Ave, Hotel, NEW YORK. MAKERS OF THE SHIRT PAJAMAS AND G #§ UNDEKWEAR. Res GEO. MATHER’S SONS RINTING INK 60 JOHN STREET, N. Y. THIS PAPER IS PRINTED WITH OUR SPECIAL : LIFE: INK. ——COMMON SENSE BINDER—— FOR BINDING “LIFE: Cheap, Strong and Durable, Will hold a6 numbers. Mailed to any part ¢, the United States for $1. wripertih Address, office of “LIFE.” 1155 Rroapway, N.Y. EST ANDi AND+ BEST 10 ENcravine G G7 PARK PLACE.NEW YORK HAVE YOU. Hot and dry skin? Scalding sensations? Swelling of the ankles? Vague feelings of unrest? Prothy or brick-dust fluids Acid Stomach? Aching loins Cramps, growing nervousness? Strange soreness of the bowels? Unaccountable languid feelings? Short breath and pleuritic pains? One-side Headache? Backache? Frequent attacks of the ‘blues’? Fluttering and Distress of the heart? Albumen and tube casts in the water? Fitful rheumatic pains and neuralgia? Loss of appetite, flesh and strength? Constipation alternating with looseness of the bowels? Drowsiness by day, wakefulness at night? “Abundant pale, or scanty flow of dark water? Chills and fever? Burning patches of skin? Then YOU HAVE Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. The above symptoms are not developed in any order, bat appear, disappear, and reappear until the disease grad- ually gets a firm grasp on the constitution, the kidney- poisoned blood breaks down the nervous system, and finally pneumonia, diarrhoea, bloodlessness, heart disease, apo- piexy, paralysis, or convulsions ensue and then death is io- evitable. This fearful disease is not a rare one—it 1s an every-day disorder, and claims more victims than any other complaint. Tt must be treated in time or it will gain the mastery. Don't neglect it. Warner's SAFE Cure has cured thousands of cases of the worst type, and it will cure you if you will use it promptly and as directed. It is the only specific for the universal BRIGHT'’S DISEASE Sold by Stationers Everywhere. NERAVING FOR ALL LOVE RTI SING H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. Always in Order. At once the simplest, surest and most durable window curtain fixture. Does not interfere with window draperies. Carries shade easily to top of window. Often imitated. Never equalled. See that “ HartsHorn’s SHADE ROLLER" is plainly stamped on each roller. Sold everywhere by the Trade. OR CLeaxsinc Te Sxrw and Scalp of Birth Humor, for ory Itching, Burning a aod d Inflammation, ring the, Gist symptoms of Psoriasis, Milk Crust seald Head’ Scrfuta and other taherted aia and ticod diseases, Conreona the peat Skin Cure; and Corie STEWART HARTSHORN, See eam are infallible. Absolutely pure, Sold here. Price, FACTORY, E. NEWARK, N. J. 486 Broadway, Ne New York City. Curicura, 80 cents; , 25 cents; Kesouvent, $1. CARMEL SOAP | jor How to Cure Sein Diszases.” Thustrated is made of Pure Otive Out only, by a Mission Society in Palestine gt i shin shipped direct to the Society's OWMBIAs ICYCIES:|2 ni bore Agent in New York, thus of guarantee of ABSOLUTE P jough fragrant, = + famery is used to conceal poor Hs. An elegant requisite for Toilet ca "Pct fesuperort al STR! BOSTO! ther Zoaps for the Nosaten, the Teeth and the flake “Sold by frstclass druggists and grocers. ree BRANCH HOUSES—t2 Warren St., N, Y.; 115, poy £Cbieagd. comicbooks.com