Life, 1886-04-22 · page 14 of 16
Life — April 22, 1886 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with the main content being commercial announcements for New York establishments and products (circa 1890s based on style). The top features **"Redfern"** — an advertisement for an upscale fashion house on Fifth Avenue displaying spring coats and gowns from London, Cowes, and Paris branches. The decorative header includes royal coats of arms (British and Russian), suggesting the brand's elite, international status. Below are theater listings for Broadway productions and the Eden Musée (a wax museum featuring "Ajeeb," a famous mechanical chess-playing automaton). The lower section advertises services: Lewando's French dyeing/cleaning establishment and John Patterson & Co. tailors. At bottom is a **product advertisement for "Williams' Barbers' Bar Soap,"** featuring a testimonial from a Minneapolis man claiming his wife is "lost without it" — typical Victorian advertising rhetoric emphasizing domestic necessity and purity. There is **no political satire** on this page; it represents standard commercial messaging of the era.
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AMUSEMENTS. INDSOR THEATRE. Bowery, near Canal St. Eveningsat 8, Wednesday & Saturday Matinee. EASTER WEEK—April 26th, New York’s Favorite, ROSE COGHLAN, 5 “QUR JOAN.” EDEN MUSEE, 234 St., bet. 5th & 6th Aves OPEN PROM 11 TO 11. SUNDAYS 1 70 11, ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW. Miss MARY ANDERSON as “Galatea.” Miss HELENE DAUVRAY in * One of Our Girls.” Concerts a and Evening by the ORIGINAL EDEN MUSEF ORCHESTRA. Admission so cts. Children, 25 cts. “ AJEEB,” THE MYSTERIOUS CHESS AUTOMATON. -FRENE R. REDFERN has on view at his Salesrooms on Fifth Avenue, a large and varied assortment of his re- nowned REDFERN MODELS.” from the London, Cowes and Paris ~ Branches. New Spring Coats are now being exhibited in material and designs never before equalled in this country. ‘“ New Ideas” in Gowns and Toques just received. 210 FIFTH AVE., (NEXT DELMONICO'S) NEW YORK. as Y‘ Costumes of Finest fabrick are leansed °F Dyed Jobn Patterson @ Co, Wailors & FJmporters, fro. 436 Sirch Avenue, at LEWANDO'S DYEING AND CLEANSING ESTABLISHMENT i We 14 atet, | Pte Aye orn A Be Price List Sent Free. | | Habies’ Mo. 431 Fife Avenue. few Pork. ALY’S THEATRE, Under the management of MR. AUGUSTIN DALY. EVERY NIGHT, 8.1 THE NEW ECCENTRIC COMEDY, NANCY Miss Ada R. Gin COMPANY. mes Le 3 MATINEE SATURDAY AT 3. e®Seats may be secured a fortnight ahead. BROADWAY & jth ST. YCEUM THEATRE, Evenings at 8:15. Matinee Saturday at 2. SIXTH MONTH OF MISS HELEN DAUVRAY me Bronson Howard’s Great Society Comedy, .“ONE OF OUR GIRLS.” 4th Ave, and a3d Street. IS LOST ity MY WIFE \ WITHOUT IT.” ; ’ Nee A gentleman writing us from Minneapolis, = Minn., says: “We find ‘Williams’ Barbers’ Bar Soap’_an exquisite and Indisp lo article, My Wife is “lost without it.” This soap is Absolutely Pure; Cleansing, — for “Chap; Hands’ hness which sensitive skins are liable. ‘An Exquisite Bath and Does Boap ata Be to ee Osram a Pouxp Packace ov your Davocrer. A Semple for trial sent upon ‘stamp THE J. Be WILLIAMS co., QLASTONBURY? CONN ae oF TY RORMERLY Wiriiass & Bros., )