Life, 1887-06-30 · page 20 of 21
Life — June 30, 1887 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with no political cartoons or satire—just commercial notices typical of 1880s American magazines. The page features endorsements for **Ridge's Food for Infants**, presented as testimonials from doctors and mothers claiming it successfully raised healthier children than competitors. The ads use medical authority and consumer testimonials as marketing tactics. Other advertisements promote **Wood's Ladies' Blacking** (shoe polish, awarded a gold medal at the New Orleans World's Exposition), the **Hotel Breslin** resort opening in New Jersey, merchant tailors, champagne, and **genuine Vichy water**—a French mineral water marketed for treating gout, rheumatism, and digestive ailments. The only notable element is the "Beware of Imitations" warning for Vichy water, reflecting 19th-century concerns about product counterfeiting. This page reflects how American publications mixed editorial content with patent medicines, infant foods, and luxury goods marketed to middle-class consumers.
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Lt ws undoubtedly true that more chil- dren have been suc- cessfully reared by the use of Ridge's Food than by the use of all the other foods combined, Do not experiment with your child, but take the food that has stood the test of time. Sold KrerywheS FOUR SIZES +35 65 1.26 1.78 THESE ARE SOLID FACTS: Betntenes, Inp., January 30, 1885. I received a sample of Rivce's Foon from you last fall and have given it a fair and complete trial, and have ordered it extensively among children and adults suffering from indigestion, diarrhcea, cholera infantum, infantile dyspepsia, acute indigestion attending febrile disorders, and it Aas invariably given satizfaction. 1 feel prepared to recommend it for its palatability, purity, and bone'and flesh forming properties, and I am highly pleased with it. Yours, ete.. BF. SCULL, M.D, Inptanarouis, Inp., November 11, 1886. Some two years ago I received a circular from you advertising RIDGE'S FOOD FORK INFANTS. 1 had a little girl about two months old then, puny and cross, but Rrvca’s Foo enabled me to raise her nicely, and she is fat and healthy. 1 have another babe now and cannot get good milk for it, and have been induced to try * and # ‘milk, bot neither seemed to do any good. I believe every mother in this city would use Rivce’s Fooo if they knew of it. Yours truly, Mrs. N. R. THAYER. Send to WOOLRICH & CO., PALMER, MASS., for pamphlet entitled “Healthful Hints," sent FREE to any address. Mention Lire. T the World’s Exposition at New Orleans, where all manufacturers competed, the committee of experts recognized its superior qualities and pro- nounced Wood’s Ladies’ Blacking the “BEST,” and awarded the only gold medal. It contains no acids or ingredients injurious to leather. It produces a Jet-black polish. It will not crack the shoe, but it softens and preserves the leather. Your shoe dealer will keep it if you ask for it. y Tue HOTEL BRESL LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J. WILL BE OPENED FOR THE SEASON OF 1887, JUNE Ist. \ . ym For further information as to rooms, terms, etc., address G. M. BROCKWAY, General Manager, | Cilsey House, New York City. |\Cavanagh, Sandford & Co., Merchant Tailors and Importers, IN 16 West 23d Street, Opposite Fifth Ave. Hotel, NEW YORK. MAKERS OF THE © & § SHIRT PAJAMAS AND THE WINE OF “BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.” THE ONLY CENUINE VICHY IS FROM THE SPRINGS OWNED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Prescribed for the Gout, Rheumatism, Diabetes, Gravel, Diseases of the Kidneys, keoind &e., &e. CELESTINS ue GRANDE. GRILLE — Diseases of the Liver. HOPITAL — Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. HAUTERIVE ; To be had of all respectable Wine Merchants, Grocers and Druggist EXTRA DRY, OR BRUT. UVIVIERKGO. ‘49 Broao Sr, New YORK, Branoies BC. Fine Wines, comicbooks.com