Life, 1888-05-03 · page 14 of 16
Life — May 3, 1888 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal satirical content. The page features commercial advertisements for luxury goods aimed at affluent readers circa the 1880s-1890s: **Key Advertisements:** - **Red Fern**: Ladies' tailor offering yachting, tennis, and walking gowns ($85+) - **Scribner's Magazine**: Announces May issue featuring literary contributions by Robert Louis Stevenson and articles on railways, explosives, and decoration - **Brown's French Dressing**: Hair product claiming "Highest Prize" at Paris Exposition 1878 - **Emerson Pianos**: Boston-made instruments - **Bent & Co.'s Water Crackers**: Hand-made digestive biscuits The page reflects **Gilded Age consumer culture**, targeting wealthy urban readers interested in fashionable clothing, refined literature, and manufactured luxuries. No political satire or caricature appears present—this is straightforward commercial messaging typical of Life's advertising sections.
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LADIES’ TAILOR. YACHTING anp TENNIS GOWNS rom $85 Walking and Traveling Gowns. ESPECIAL ATTENTION IS NOW BEING PAID TO THE WEIGHT OF GOWNS MADE BY US—OUR CLOTHS AND STYLES ARE DESIGNED SPECIALLY TO MEET THIS MUCH DESIRED END. No. 210 Fifth Avenue, New York. CRIBNER’S rormay MAGAZINE BRICHT AND INTERESTING IN THE STEAMERS’ TRACK, by W. P. NorTHRuP. The story of a pilot-boat’s PRINTED INDIA PONGEES, es, ane 36 ihatratoas by Bareofeod ‘Halsall \ SALMON ANGLING ON THE RESTI- CORAHS. rom \ GOUCHE. A delightful out-of-door paper. With illustrations by A. B. FROST. “GENTLEMEN i is the title of Mr. RopertT Louis STEVENSON’S contribution this month, and one of his most charming essays. ALEXANDER POPE. A biographical paper by Austin Dos- VEOCL SON, apropos of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. With an esti- o3 dw 4 & 19th 3! mate, in verse, written in his own manner by Mr. Dobson. With portraits. New Yfork. THE CENTRE OF THE REPUBLIC. The concluding A fresh importation will be opened this week. paper by Prof. JAMES BALDWIN. A timely contribution in connection with the celebration of the Centennial of the Ohio Valley. The preceding paper > A has attracted wide attention among all people who are interested in the de- Brown’s French Dressing velopment of the West. ga Peo’ done Crgiaalt__vomare' of Dnitations! MODERN EXPLOSIVES. An interesting, practical paper by AWARDED HIGHEST. PRIZE AND CHARLES E, MONROE, Chemist, U. S. Torpedo Corps. 20 illustrations. THE DECORATION OF VASES. By W. P. P. Loncrettow. A suggestive paper, profusely illustrated. Contributions by Epirh M. Tuomas, MARGARET Crossy, and others. . | the June number the great series of papers on railways will be begun PARIS EXPOSITION, 1878. by an article on “The Building of a Railway,” by Mr. Thomas Curtis Highest Award New Orleans Clarke, Engineer of the Poughkeepsie Bridge and parts of the Elevated UNCOVERED. dreads ay Road in New York. The papers will be written in a popular and untech- it nical way and superbly illustrated. iia : silt 25 CENTS A NUMBER. $3.00 A YEAR. For sale by all dealers. Siren reer eras te CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK | yromid and teralied upo . a he FI N EST ESTABLISHED 1801. Becta eae tne EMERSO BENT & CO.’S % el id. Celebrated Hand-Made Aranda] 40.009 EN | WATER CRACKERS. Sey ceo emcee ie te geaa mae ae rene WARRANTED) ose na f if fs GUARANTEED r vorld, y f 4 SEND FOR Easy of Digestion, Absolutely Pure. e value; thousands will through i be led to. profitable work, GATALOGUE. : BENT & CO., Milton, Mass. : store your uaine und sdsees printed in tnisdiectoey: EMERSO 0 ertise your hotel in The Richfield Newh ‘Address, AMERICAN AGENTS’ DIRECTORY, Augusta, Maine, t N PIANO CoBOSTON MASS. fh Saratoga News, The St. Augustine New) comicbooks.com