Life, 1887-09-15 · page 16 of 16
Life — September 15, 1887 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains Victorian-era product advertisements with minimal editorial content. The main visual element is a **Pears' Soap advertisement** featuring cherubic figures in a classical style, promoting the product as beneficial for infants' skin and complexion. The ad emphasizes the soap's economy and global availability. Surrounding this are ads for luxury goods typical of the era: Underwood Spring Water (claimed to prevent Bright's Disease, a kidney ailment), Delbeck Champagne, Russian Rye Whiskey, and services from a New York merchant tailor and beauty practitioner offering skin treatments. The advertisement for "Common Sense Binder for Binding Life" suggests readers could preserve magazine issues. **No clear political cartoon or satire is evident.** This represents straightforward late-19th-century consumer advertising targeting wealthy New York readers, reflecting period attitudes about health remedies and cosmetic treatments that would strike modern readers as dubious or dated.
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NDERWOYT — SPRING WAY PUREST NATURAL WATER Healthful Cooling and Refreshing. Preventive of Bright's Disease. For Sale by all Druggists and Grocers. SEND FOR CIRCULARS THE UNDERWOOD CO. GENERAL OFFICE, DELBECK+ EXTRA DRY and Procurable Everywhere. sa19uMhs04q OTQUIND024 We offer the DELBECK CHAMPAGNES with a full conviction that there are no better wines imported. WE EXCEPT NONE. E. LAMONTAGNE & Sons, ‘53. 55 and 57 Reaver Street. | A SPECIALTY For INFANTS, The best for the Complexion. A ‘‘balm for the Skin.” RE 1 ie 4 The most economical; it wears to thinness of a wafer. maae sy The 85 Bs | Pears’ Soap is sold in every City in the World. AUS end Commo Sime Haowrex fone \cavanagh, Sandford & Co., “LIFE. Merchant Tailors Cheap, Strong and Durable, Will hold 2% numbers, Mailed to any part and Importers. of the United States for $1. _Adéres: ofhce of FE - 8 W. aw NV 16 West 23d STREET, rt A Roosevert » Howtano « Wrinkles, Hlnck-Hends, | ‘, 55457 BEAVER St 8% || Y. Nol iad Scperduows iiss | Opposite Fifth Ave. Hotel, NEW YORK | ; Moles and Superduous permanently removed, Flesh fncreased of reduced. plex. Tons beautified. ‘The Form developed . 7 Hair, Brows and Lashes colored and re MAKERS OF Stored, "Interesting ook and (testimonial, X jame Velaro, city. THE © & § SHIRT 2, Mention this paper.| PAJAMAS AND Unpirwean. ‘sent seal