Life, 1889-04-25 · page 2 of 25
Life — April 25, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It contains: 1. **Brewster & Co.** advertisement for pleasure carriages (Broadway, 47th-48th St.) 2. **Beecham's Pills** advertisement—a patent medicine claiming to cure "weak stomach, indigestion, disordered liver" and various ailments. The ad emphasizes it's used "in all classes of society" and guarantees benefits for "Nervous and Debilitated" people. 3. **Noyes Bros.** ads for blanket wraps, tennis wear, and French shirtings 4. **James McCreery & Co.** promoting wash silk fabrics 5. **Roger & Gallet** Paris perfumery advertisement The illustrated vignettes (blanket wraps, lawn tennis, yachting) are decorative marketing imagery, not political satire. This represents typical early 20th-century *Life* magazine content: fashion, luxury goods, and patent medicine advertising alongside editorial matter.
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ANNUAL SPRING EXHIBIT OF PLEASURE CARRIAGES Our Annual Display for the present season em- braces all the fashionable varieties for Town Use; alsc many attractive novelties for Country Driving. We manufacture on the premises the smallest de- tails entering into the construction of a carriage; and invite inspection of the various branches in opet- ation, forming the most complete and best equipped works of the kind in the world. BREWSTER & CO. (OF BROOME STREET) BROADWAY, 47th to 48th ST. THE ABOVE IS OUR ONLY PLACE OF BUSINESS. WORTH A GUINEA A BOX, but for sale by all druggists at 25 cents. A WONGERFUL MEDICINE EECHAMS PILLS FOR ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN. At no time during life is there a period when a man can derive no benefit froma dose of Beecham’s Pills. Boys who look upon the apple when it is green find a staunch friend in them. Club men, with a fondness for late hours and terrapin stew, and all middle-aged and old men, who know the value of good health, are never without them. In fact, Beecham's Pills are essential to every proper and well-regulated life. : BEECHAM'S PILLS, taken as directed, will quickly restore N) ecial females to complete health. a * WEAK STOMACH; IMPAIRED DICESTION; DISORDERED LIVER; they ACT LIKE MAGIO:—a few doses will work wonders upon the Vital Organs; strengthening the muscular System ; restoring loag lost Complexion ; bringing back the keon edge of appetite, and arousing with the Rosebud of Health the whole physical enercy of the human frame. These are" facts" admitted by thousands in all classes of society ; and one of the best guarantees to the Nervous and Debilitated is that Beecham’s Pills have the Largest Sale of any Patent Medicine in the World, Full directions with each Box. Prepared only by THOS. BEECHAM, St. Helens, Lancashire, England. Sold by Drugritts generally, B. PF. ALLEN & CO., 365 and 367 Canal St., New York, Sole Agents for the United States, who, if your druggist does not keep theat WILL MAIL BEECHAM'S PILLS ON RECEIPT OF PRICE, 26 CENTS A 80X, Butinquire first. Mention Liv. Blanket Wraps for Baby. YOR THE NURSERY, Law Tennis and Yachting Suits. | Caps, Betts and Sashes. NEW FRENCH SHIRTINGS FLANNEL, \For Traveling Shirts, | Railway Cars, FOR YACHTING, MADRAS, “* Steamer Wear, abet a Cede TE | | Positively comfortable, sensible and reason, Ble. ; kite Msc Sa isa Sad Case AAD ST | econ enn Coy |SHIRTINGS.| * Yachting Shirta, VOR THE SICK-ROOM, FOR THE BATH, FOR STEAMER TRAVELING, FOR THE RAILWAY CARRIAGE, “ House Night Weaps, “ Bath or Sick-Room, “ Honting and Fishing, “ Lawn Tennis, complete. Alwaya in Stock or to Special Order. Mail Orders Solicited. NOYES BROS. Hoslers, Glovers and Hosters, Glovers and Shirt Makers, Shirt Ors, WASHINGTON & SUMMER STS.,, WASHINGTON & SUMMER STS, Rost ARS. NOSTON, MASS., U.S. A. Mail Orders Solicited. NOYES BROS. i | | A SEASONABLE FABRIC. This refers to a Wash Silk, one that can be washed with- out the least injury to the fab- ric, either in appearance or color. The lack of just such a ma- terial has long been felt, and its introduction will undoubt- edly be received with satisfac: | tion. Wash Silks are light in texture, tasteful in design and coloring, and very dur- able, being thus eminently adapted.for Spring and Sum- mer Wear. We are showing exclusive styles. JAMES McCREERY & CO., Broadway and 11th St., NEW YORK. TAILORS AND IMPORTERS, Nos. 25 and 27 West a6th Street, JOHN PATTERSON & CO., STREET, 9 wi er. BROADWAY AND 27TH ESTABLISHED 185 Roger & Gallet, PARIS. Perfumery Anthea. Exquisite and Perfect Sold by PARK & TILFORD. s H. B. KIRK & co. 4 RELIABLE WINES AND LIQUORS ‘That are well matured, also Medium Ages. 69 FULTON STREET, comicbooks.com