Life, 1889-06-27 · page 15 of 17
Life — June 27, 1889 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** with one small cartoon. The main satirical content is a brief comic dialogue between a hotel proprietor and his stableman "Pat" about a dead horse. **The Cartoon's Joke:** The proprietor is shocked that a dead horse has any value, but Pat explains the hide can be sold for $1 and the carcass can be hauled away for another $1—totaling $2. It's a darkly humorous Irish-servant stereotype joke playing on unexpected practicality: even a worthless dead animal has salvage value if you think creatively about its parts. The humor relies on Pat's working-class resourcefulness outwitting his educated employer's assumptions. **The Advertisements** showcase late-19th-century products: Kodak cameras (emphasizing ease-of-use for amateurs), hotel resorts, portable houses, carriages, typewriters, shoes, and beauty products—typical consumer goods of the period.
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The Kodak “Vou press the button, we do the rest.” ; The only camera that Price, $25.00, anybody can use with- Leaded for 100 Pictures. out instruction. For sale by all Photo. Stock Dealers. Send for copy of Kodak Primer, with sam- fle photograph. THE SPRING HOUSE Richfield Springs, N. Y. tsites Comparison with the est Summer Hotels Open Saturday, June 22. T. R. PROCTOR. LAKE Vi EW H O U SE Proprietor (to his hostler): Wit. PAT, SO THE OLD MARE 15 DEAD? Pat: SUE 1S, SIR; AND A FINE RUNNER SHE Was, SIRE A PETY IT Is. VESTEKDAY SHE WOULD BOLTON-ON-LAKE-CGEORCE. BRING AN EASY SIVIN HUNDRED DOLLARS, AND TO-DAY SHE IS ONLY WORTH TWo, Ansommccduies 14 Proprietor: Two DOLLARS? I FAIL TO SEE HOW A DEAD HORSE 1S WORTH ANYTHING. ° Pat: SURE, SIR, YOU OUGHT TO KNOW HER HIDE WILL SELL FOR ONE DOLLAR, AND IT'S WORTH deen JUNE 10TH TO OCTOBER 10TH.], portar To cart HER Away. R. J. BROWN, PROPRIETOR. GRAND RAPIDS PORTABLE HOUSE CO. TRE. ONLY PRACTICAL SAN dey Summer Cottages, Hunters’ Cabins, Play Houses, Camp-Meeting Cottages, Low PRICED TYPEWRITER Club Houses, Photograph Galleries, Lawn Houses, ete., ete. . Made of 3-ply veneer, very light, strong and durable, and all parts, fluor included, are thoroughly First-Class, Rapid, Durable, Business IM siesta a cat BS taal Sod Suey pat oped by we es Puiliseccioss | WORLD TYPEWRITER, 44 charac- for setting up are sent with cach house. Send stamp for catalogue. ters, $10; 77 characters, $15. NORMAN BARBOUR, Eastern Agent, 81 New Street, New York. Catalogue tre, Typewriter Dept., POPE MFG. CO., toaton, NV’ JAMES W. RENWICK 39 & 41 Wooster Street NEW YORK, Has in stock and under construction a large assortment of seasonable car- riages, which are offered at very mod- erate prices. This cut represents my Patented Spring Buckboard Wagon, which for casy riding surpasses anything yet constructed for rough roads, Made for two and four passengers, ai with or without tops. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. the world. Examine his VINE HA WED SHOE, oO dand 's* SCHOOL SH ‘All made In Button and Lace. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 SHOE cadres. Rest Material. Meat Style. at Fitting. ater ears le has th WY L. DOUGE LAS 8! ORES reticut rast ~0m Jan 2 stamped ou bottoms. pit hin dawn as fra pat by juurtdesicr, write W. Eee DOUGLAS. BROCKTON. MASS. Caitey ‘ual with contd comicbooks.com