Life, 1888-06-14 · page 14 of 16
Life — June 14, 1888 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **commercial advertising page** rather than a satirical cartoon page. The dominant content consists of period advertisements for late 19th-century products and services. The top features a large decorative header "PEDLER" with illustrations of women in Victorian summer fashions—advertising ladies' tailors in Newport and New York offering yachting and tennis gowns. Below are typical era advertisements: folding beds, camera equipment, trunks and bags, portable hunting cabins, and whiskey. Most notably, a substantial ad promotes **Tarrant's Seltzer Apperient**, a digestive remedy claiming to cure liver problems and dyspepsia—representative of the patent medicine marketing common in this period. The only text-based humor is a brief quote: "Love is an intermittent fever—followed by a chill," attributed to the Chicago Herald, likely commenting on romantic disappointment. The page reflects Gilded Age consumer culture and the widespread marketing of dubious medicinal "remedies" before modern FDA regulations.
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Summer Gowns of light weight. 119 Bellevue Ave., Newport, R. I. are Run Daily between CHICAGO, ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS via the Fast Mail Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RAILWAY. UPRIGHT AND CABINET i FOLDING BEDS ALL STYLES. ALL PRICES. Send for Catalogue. “ANDREWS MFG. CO. 686 Broadway, N. Y. CROUCH & FITZGERALD MAKE THE BEST TRUNKS & Baas. 723 Soetn Ave. $56 Broapway, the princi; ture of this Cam- era. We have in it all the desirable faciliti plicity and ease of working ia small. est space, and with the ‘least weight, and eve Contenlence “and facility possessed by any Camera. A. partial front view or thec folded, show: sunken tripod with clamping screw in centre. Send 10 Cents for 1888 Edition tlustrated Catalogue, 150 pages. Brinfut of wre and improved apparsten, «The Amateur Guide in Photography. THE REVISED EDITIO: Is the most comprehenstve treatise for the beginner fa patllenery leaned from THE BLAIR CAMERA CO. 208 State St., Chicago, 918 Arch 8t., Philadelphia. OFFICE AND FACTORY: 471, 478, 475 & 477% Tremont St., Boston, Mase chill.—Chicago Herald. LADIES’ TAILOR. ABLE COTTAGES. All sizes. Especially designed for Fishi ing. Other styles for Residences, Bath, Lawa and Houses, and Photograph G. f three ply veneer, vei ighly seasoned, Ktractive colors. The fasténings are iron pins, 09 nails ther by two per- jastructions for setting up are sent with each house, Send used. Can be easily and quickly put toge stamp for circular. NORMAN BARBOUR, 81 Love is an intermittent fever—followed by a THE ENGADINE Booguet, Atkinson's New Perfume. This superb tion sweetly recalls fragrant Swiss flowers. Rright jewels in a setting of perpetual snow. Brown’s French Dressing The Original! Beware of Imitations! AWARDED HIGHEST PRIZE ve PARIS EXPOSITION, 1878. Highest Award New Orleans Exhibition. Yachting and Tennis Gowns, 210 Fifth Avenue, HUNTERS’ CABINS. leries. ‘These are strictly Portable Bui light, strong “LIFE” BINDER. lammadias Cheap, Strong and Durable; Mailed to any part of the United States for $1.00, postage free. Address, Oftice of * LIFE,"' 28 W. 23d Street, New York. 7 New York. Will hold 26 Numbers. Teadq Whiskies, Old Crow" asd Hermitage Sour Mash. or Sold absolutely pure, unsweet- ened, uncolored. “Various ages. V None sold less than four years old. Reliable for medical use We have taken every barrel of Rye Whisky made at the Old Clow Distillery sioce Jan., 8p. Sole Agents for The Valley Wine Co. Full lines of relial A Wines, Liquors and Segars. H;B..KIRK & CO: B" 7b St, for Si Incites the Torpid Liver e to Healthy Action e Tarrant's Seltzer _Apperient is the most prompt, gentle and certain regulator of the bowels and digestive organs. @ For 44 years it has been used and recom- mended by the physicians, @ © Army and Navy officers use it all over the world. @ As a house- hold medicine for children or adults it has no equal. @ Druggists everywhere sell it. @ Be sure you get the true, real, genuine article. Secures Healthy e e Action of Bowels Thoroughly Drives e e e eee Out Dyspepsia comicbooks.com