Life, 1888-07-12 · page 14 of 14
Life — July 12, 1888 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **primarily a commercial advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon page. The dominant content consists of business advertisements from the 1880s. The main features include: **"Red Fern" store announcement**: A Fifth Avenue retailer announcing expansion from Fifth Avenue through to Broadway, with enlarged showrooms and stockrooms for fall/winter business. **Sports equipment ad**: Peck & Snyder advertise the "Beeckman" tennis racket, endorsed by R.D. Sears (the championship player), selling for $6.00. **Patent medicines**: Tarrant's Seltzer Apperient advertises as a digestive remedy used by physicians and military officers for bowel regulation and dyspepsia treatment. **Household products**: Advertisements for ribbons, furniture, and Brown's French Dressing (awarded highest prize at Paris Exposition 1878). **Period context**: These ads reflect Gilded Age consumer culture—mass-marketed sporting goods, proprietary medicines (largely unregulated), and department store expansion. The page contains no satire or political commentary; it's a straightforward commercial publication.
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Ned fem ENLARGEMENT OF PREMISES. WING to the large and steady increase in our business, we have been compelled to build an extensive addition to our premises. Avenue to Broadway, with entrance on both avenues. When completed, our show-room will run clear through from Fifth Large work-rooms and stock-rooms will also be added, so that any orders we may be favored with for the Fall and Winter Season will, with our increased facilities, be got out with the greatest possible dispatch, 210 FIFTH AVENUE, through to 1132 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. PECK & SNYDER’S CELEBRATED TENNIS. The ‘‘Beeckman”’ Racket. JOHN PATTERSON & CO., Tailors and Importers, Patterson Building, Nos. 25 and 27 W. 26th St., NEW YORK, SILK AND SATIN RIBBONS FREE LADIES, THIS 1S FOR YOU! Accore gift (or the ‘Get 3 tends to join you thereby wetting 4 boxes for only 81; can do it tn a few based'on thie tet —hons who trad The Tournament Strung. The quality of our striny Price, Each, $6.00. in this celebrated Racket causes it to be esas coher by Goalies Blayers inthis country: The fo lowing from the present champion, R. lay cleding Beeckman, Slocum, Clark ads and Taylor. Sears, will speaicfo tae wn Pive have let= in- st Beacon Stage, Boston, May 14, 1887. Messrs. Peck & Svypkx: Gentlemen, have given your * Beck man" Racket « thorough test, and Iam very pleased to say that I have never had a better racket of either English or RICHARD D. SEARS, vised Playing Rules of LawnTennis, containing a complete price-list of every requisite for playing the game, Yours truly, he readers of this Wreenupes postal application. Secures Healthy e “PECK & SNYDER DECORATION e Action of Bowels The Original! Furniture Curtains 133 FIFTH AVENUE WEW YORK [incites ne 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. @ Asa house- hold medicine for children or adults it has no equal.@ Druggists everywhere sell it. @ Be sure you get the true, real, genuine article. Thoroughly Drives e eeee Out Dyspepsia American make. lanufacturers 124, 126 and 128 Nassau S BROWN’S FRENO H DRESSING. are of Imitations! AWARDED HIGHEST PRIZE AND Hughes IS, ER ROS brane RoRion. Pore ee og