Life, 1887-02-10 · page 16 of 16
Life — February 10, 1887 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. It consists of commercial advertisements for late 19th-century products and services. The main illustrated content shows **"A Skin Without Blemish"**—an advertisement for Cuticura remedies (soap, salve, and blood purifier) featuring a woman's face with decorative fan-like design. The ad uses testimonial letters from satisfied customers to promote the product's claimed ability to cure various skin conditions. Other ads include pianos, champagne, toboggan equipment, bicycles, hair tonic (Barry's Tricopherous), and mineral water (Vichy). There's also a small illustrated cartoon for what appears to be a theatrical production in the lower right. The page reflects the era's approach to medical advertising, where companies made sweeping health claims for patent medicines without modern FDA regulation. No political satire or social commentary is evident—this is a standard period advertising layout with one decorative product illustration.
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DECKER BROTHERS’ MATCHLESS PIANOS 33 Union Square, N. Y. ELBECK EXTRA DRY and Procurable Everywhere sory MSr0A OTQRANIOI We offer the DELBECK CHAMPAGNES with a full conviction that there are no better wines imported. WE EXCEPT NONE. E. LA MONTAGNE & SONS, r Street. TOBOGGANING. The most fascinating of Winter Sports. Use the celebrated PROCTOR TOBOGGAN, which for strength, finish and speed excels all others. Discount to clubs.’ Send for circular. NEW YORK BICYCLE CO. Acents, 38 Park Place. on James River, Va. in Claremont Colony. Illustrated Circular Free. J. F. MANCHA, Claremont, Va. 1801, ai Ancaplierens FOR This excellent article is admitted to be the standard preparations for all purposes connect- ed with the hair. It ~" prevents its falling off, eradicates scurf, dandruff, etc., and keeps it in the most beautiful condition. Its Habitual use renders the use of oil, pomatum, or any other preparation, quite superfluous, It is, richly perfumed with the most delicious floral fragrance, and is warranted to cause new hai ‘ow on bald places. A SKIN ‘WITHOUT BLEMISH. No organ is so perfect and so beautiful as the skin. Soft as satin, sensitive as a camera, tinted with the: loveliest delicacy, it yet has the strength and elasticity sufficient for the protection’ of all the underlying frame; tissue, muscle, bone, and nerve, Everywhere a network of sudorific ducts, veins, and pores, it con- stantly renews itself, and not only with its ceaseless desquamation, but with its natural functional action, eliminates all waste, accumulation, and disease. Hence, a skin without blemish means more than beauty; it means health. Curicura, the great skin cure, and Curicura Soap, an exquisite skin beautifier, prepared from it, externally, and Curicura Resouvenr, the new blood purifier, internally, are a speedy, economical, and infallible cure for every species of torturing, dis- figuring, itching, scaly, and pimply diseases of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, from pimples to scrofula. For the last year I have had a species of itching, scaly and pimply humors on my face to which I have applied a great many methods of treatment without success, and which was speedily and entirely cured by the Curicura Remepies, Mrs. ISAAC PHELPS, Ravenna, O. Curicura Remepies are absolutely pure, and the only infallible skin beautifiers and blood purifiers. GF Send for “ How to Cure Skin Diseases,” 64 pages, 50 illustrations, and x00 testimonials. PIMP! LES, black-heads, chapped and oily vented by Curicura MEpicaTep Soai “BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.” THE ONLY GENUINE VICHY IS FROM THE SPRINGS OWNED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. AND CELESTINS See, Be, GRANDE. GRILLE — Diseases of the Liver. verte | HOPITAL — Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. Prescribed for the Gout, Rheumatism, Diabetes, Gravel, Diseases of the Kidneys, To be had of all respectable Wine Merchants, Grocers and Druggists | T have suffered all my life with skin diseases of different kinds and have never found permanent relief, until, by the advice of a lady friend, 1 used your valuable Curicura Remeptes. I gave them a thorough trial, using six bottles of the Curicura REsoLvenr, two boxes of Curicura, and seven cakes of Curicura Soar, and the result was just what I had been told it would be—a complete cure. BELLE WADE, Richmond, Va. Reference, G. W. Latimer, Druggist, Richmond, Va. Some five months ago I had the pleasure to inform you of my improvement in the use of the Curicuxa Remepies in my case of severe Chronic Eczema Erythematosa, and to-day cheerfully confirm all | then said. I consider my cure perfect and complete, and attribute it entirely to your remedies, having used no others. FERNAN ESENCHARDO, 3306 Penna Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. | Iwas almost perfectly bald, caused by Teter of the | top of the scalp. Curicura Remepres in six weeks | cured my scalp perfectly, and now my hair is coming | back as thick as it ever was. | J. P. CHOICE, Whitesboro’, Texas. | | Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, soc.; Soar, a5c.; RESOLVENT, $1. Prepared by the Porter Duc anv CHeMicat Co., Boston, Mass. HANDS soft as dove’s down and_as white, by using Curicura Mevicarup Soae. MARECHALE ~EXTOAD Roosevert gy Howto 55457 BEAVER St Nv comicbooks.com