Life, 1889-11-21 · page 20 of 20
Life — November 21, 1889 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoon**—it's primarily advertising. The content includes: **Silver-Plated Wares Advertisement**: Meriden Britannia Company promotes decorative household items, emphasizing holiday shopping and Paris Exposition awards. **Harriet Hubbard Ayer's Toiletries**: A prominent beauty products line featuring creams, balms, and soaps. The advertisement includes testimonials and a cautionary note warning against counterfeiters and dishonest employees—suggesting the product's popularity made it a target for fraud. **Equitable Life Assurance Society**: A detailed insurance policy advertisement describing a modern "tontine" policy (a form of life insurance investment popular in the era). It emphasizes simple terms: immediate payability, no travel restrictions after one year, and multiple settlement options. The page reflects late-19th-century consumer culture: holiday gift-giving, beauty industry expansion, and the growing sophistication of financial products. No satire or political commentary is evident.
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In anticipation of the coming holidays we have provided a larger assortment of articles for the toilet, for ornament, and for use than ever before. These objects brought thus carly in the season to the attention of the public comprise not only those designs which secured a gold medal at the Paris Ex- position, but also a vast number of later pieces of the richest and most artistic character. MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, 46 East 14th Street, UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. Harriet Hubbard Ayer’s OILET PREPARATIONS AND REMEDIE?. EK CREAM, for tan, sunburn, + a beautifier, pure AME ROAD DTION, for freckles, ations. Price, R, for toilet, nure SOAP~—The best in the Price, scented, so cts.; unscented, 25 cts, fh am Prof. Sri Man, the Eminent of Chemistry of the Sti sof your Récamier Prep. yred Respectfully i TILLMAN, M.Se., Castle, Oct. + From Mavann ADELINA CAUTION | Beware of swiniers and discharged employees. | 1 employ 2@ + agente; the secrets of my Formulas are,unknown outside of my Laboratory. RECAMIER MANUFACTURING CO., HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, President, © S@ and G4 ark Place, New York City. j THE EQUITABLE LIFE ~ ASSURANCE SOCIETY'S NO CONDITIONS INCONTESTABLE NON-FORPEITABLE WHATEVER APTER APTER NEW FORM OF POLICY} (LIKE A BANK DRAFT) IS A SIMPLE PROMISE TO PAY, ON THE BACK. TWO) YEARS. THREE UNRESTRICTED AS TO TRAVEL AND OCCUPATION AFTER ONE YEAR PAVABLE TONTINE A CHOICE OF SIX) METHODS OF SETTLEMENT AT TONTINE IMMEDIATELY. PROFITS. THE: END OF THE PERIOD. For particulars, apply to the chief office, 120 Broadway, New York, or to any of the Societys Agencies throughout the United States. H. B. HYDE, President. Press of Fleming, Brewster & Alley, New York. comicbooks.com