Life, 1886-07-22 · page 16 of 16
Life — July 22, 1886 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains commercial advertisements for late-19th century consumer goods and services. Notable ads include: - **Perry Davis's Son** (left): A quack medicine pitch offering a free "treatise" on cholera symptoms—typical of the era's dubious patent medicines before FDA regulation. - **Vichy Water** (bottom): Promoted as a genuine French spring water for gout, rheumatism, and kidney disease—legitimate mineral water marketed with medicinal claims. - **Sporting goods, champagnes, and whiskeys**: Standard luxury import advertisements. - **Summer resorts** (Campobello Island, Tower Hill House): Tourist destination promotions. - **Williams' Shaving Stick and Wood's Blacking**: Grooming product advertisements. The page reflects consumer culture of the 1880s, when patent medicines, imported luxury goods, and emerging tourism were significant commercial enterprises. The ads reveal period attitudes toward health and marketing before modern consumer protection laws.
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“LAWN. AND FIELD GAMES. Every variety suitable for out-door sports for ama- teur and professional. (We claim for our goods they are unexcelled, and our prices as low as anywhere.) A. G. SPALDING & BROS., 108 MADISON STREET, 24r BRoaDWay, CHICAGO. NEW YORK, JOHN OSBORN, SON & CO., 45 BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK. - SOLE AGENTS FOR VIOLIN STRINGS. 3d Ave. Theatre, J sind the Phith i ” 1D please 0. AN CHAG.H.PAREONS & CO.,.202 Broadway. N-Y PIPER-S EC SUMMER RESORTS. CHAMPAGNES. ALSO AGENTS IN THE U.S, FOR send to us Campobélle [sland, (SE Forrester & Co.....7.. Or & Manuel, Gaztelu'e Vriarte. jose E. Gome: ——— iy. Dru Dru Geisweiler & OFF THE COAST OF MAINE, : 10 lite Elk ‘in l I ———— “Scotch Whisky R EA | S E Olive Oil and Irish and Scotch Whiskies. HIS attractive summer resort, well known as one of ‘ Se e the most popular on the American Coast, lies in TOs Temareiendist Crom) Riis: on the Passamaquoddy Bay, seventy miles east of Mt. Desert. | SOLE PROPRIETORS “OMNIBUS” RYE, The island is ten miles long, from two to three miles : Lie wide, and the drives are delightful. The interior abounds Pure Old Pennsylvania Whiskies. in lofty and densely wooded hills. The shores are rock- N A T U R Ee bound, and giant clifs overhang the sea for many miles, NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. MONTREAL. Comfortable carriages, village carts, wagonettes, well- equipped saddle horses, steam launches, row boats, sail- owe Beathand canoes with Indian guides will always bearthe | DO YOU command of patrons. ‘The hotels are unique, and are exquisitely furnished, They will be open June 23th. For, Cottage lois and general, information, apply to 1 s = ; ot this ALEX. S. PORTER, 27 STATE ST., BOST he ntact te 2 famous ‘Genuine Yankee Dread DISEASE. [TOWER HILL HousE,/@ att tt ai NARRAGANSET7 PIER, R. 1. Free fo any addvess. OPENS JUNE 26, 1886. The coolest and healthiest SHAVING STICK,” place to spend the summer, its seashore and country a an th Pe ry D mS Charms are unequalled; has large, elegantly furnished a soap containing all those RRY DAVIS, SON, rooms, and all other first-class accommodations for the qualities which have given the comfort t and pleasure of its guests. Four nice cottages to “Yankee Soap” its world-wide a.) ROV DENCE RA, Tet. ‘Terms very reasonable. Send for circular. peputaden aaa romsared A. N. SOUTHWICK, Proprietor. Swi such form as to render it 2 HERBERT L. ROBINSON, Manager. great convenience to those who SSM shave while away from home = and all who desire to dispense AK iE 5 with the use of the shaving Wi if GM cup. This soap is exquisitely Us AM i fumed with Attar of Rose ach stick enclosed in a tum- # é mee ur ie é . ed-wood case, covered with HA ceraae A ALE S| Saihontis: AEonnee RETA PY ASS Doane CONVENIENT, ELE- 2 ur y Howtano aN LAY GANT, DELIGHTFUL 55457 BEAVER St NY. B LAC K ING WILLIAMS’ SHAVING STICK, PRESERVES AND SOFTENS THE LEATHER, FOR iT OR SEND 25 CENTS FOR A SAMPLE BY MAIL TO CONTAINS NO. SHELLAC OR ACID. THE J. B. WILLIAMS COMPANY, ~+MIGHEST AWARD, GOLD MEDAL, GLASTONBURY, CONN. AT THE NEW/OBLEANE EXPOSITION. (FORMERLY WILLIAMS 4 BROS.” ‘MANCHESTER, 1840.) Bottle contains double quantity, Use no other CROUCH & FITZGERALD y GEO. H. WOOD & CO., Manufacturers, Boston. LMI E LT STATES. CANAD MAKE THE MOST RELIABLE “BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.” <7 f=) TRUNKS, BAGS, THE ONLY Is &e., &e., 723 SIXTH AVE., below 42d St. 556 BROADWAY, below Prince St 5 CORTLANDT ST., cor. B'vay ‘ NEW YORK. Send for Catal fe IS FROM THE SPRINGS OWNED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. eeesie, ee HAUTERIVE ; Prescribed for the Gout, Rheumatism, Diabetes, Gravel, Diseases of the Kidneys, oa &e., &e, CELESTINS ee GRANDE GRILLE—Diseases of the Liver. Ss Sovcieh HOPITAL—Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. Machinists’ Co»| . a (Limit’d) 239 Colum- To be had of all respectable Wine Merchants, Grocers and Druggists. ‘bus Ave., Boston, Mass, comicbooks.com