Life, 1890-02-06 · page 2 of 18
Life — February 6, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It features multiple commercial advertisements typical of late 19th-century magazines: - **Lily d'Or perfume** (Gardner's brand, New York) - **Imperia Granum** medicinal food for invalids and children - **Soden Mineral Pastilles** for influenza and sore throat - **Vegetable Glycerine** (Procter & Gamble) - **Life Binder** for magazine storage - **A. Jaeckel, Furrier** advertisement The single illustration shows a Victorian woman reclining on a bed while another woman tends to her, likely depicting illness or recovery—presumably to market the medicinal products advertised. The New York Security and Trust Company advertisement appears at top left. This represents typical magazine monetization of the era rather than political satire.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
New York Security and Trust Co, 46 WALL STREET. Capital, $1,000,000. Surplus, $500,000. CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, President. WM, H. APPLETON, WM, L, STRONG, ast Vice-President. ad Vice-President. JOHN L. LAMSON, Secretary, THIS Company is authorized to act as Executor, Trustee, ‘Administrator, Guardian, Agent and Receiver. Is a legal depository for Court and Trust Funds. Takes the entire charge of real and personal estates, collecting the rents and profits, and attending to all such details as an individual fa lke capacity could do. Receives deposits subject to sight drafts, allowing in- terest on daily es, and issues certificates of deposit bearing interest. USE Lily @Or An Exquisite Perfume. FLORAL ODOR. 5 | ii| DELICATE, ow Ny . lity o' OR, LASTING. i A$) Sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers. W. H. SCHIEFFELIN & CO., NEW YORK DISTRIBUTING AGENTS. HARACTER IN HANDWRITING accurately read. Send one page of your natural writing, with twenty-five cents and a stamp, to C, Rontxso, Calumet, Michigan. INFLUENZA 1S VERY CONTAGIOUS TO PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM IRRITATION OF THE THROAT. BY US- ING THE CE! PASTILLES, THIS UNFAILING REMEDY FOR SORE THROAT, COUGHS, CATARRH, AND HOARSENESS, YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR- SELVES AGAINST THIS DREADED DISEASE. EVERYBODY SHOULD KEEP A BOX OF SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES IN THE HOUSE. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT ase. AND soc. A BOX. EBRATED SODEN MINERAL Pamphlets sent gratis on application by the SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS CO., Limited, 15 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, of, It w soon cure your headache, Gwendolyn :—T ank you so much. “SUPERIOR NUTRITION THE Ure” xe 517 “S77, ‘Tus Ontorxat axp Wontp-nexowNeD DIETETIC PREPARATION 18 A BUNSTANCE OF UNRIVALED Purity s24 medicinal worth—potent for good and powerless to harm. A solid extract, derived by a new process from very superior growths of wheat—nothing more, and asa F000, it would be difficult to conceive of anything ' more wholesome and delicious. It has justly acquired the reputation of being the salvator FOR INVALIOS AND THE AGED) shyincomparepis aliment for the growth and protection of INFANTS AND CHILDREN y * turertor nutritive tn continued fevers, the most nourishing and strengthening food for HURSING MOTHERS & CONVALESCENTS) ana. reviable remedial agent fn all diseases of the stomach and Intestines. John Carle & Sons, New York. VegetableGlycerine PROCTER & GAMBLE’S V Is PUT UI BLE GLYCERINE, BOTTLES E TOILET THESE BOTTLES ARE OF TWO ND AND ONE-HALF POUND, AND ARE SOLD AT $1.25 AND 75§C., RE- SPECTIVELY, 1y YOUR DRUGGIST DORS NOT KERP PROCTER A GAMBLE'S VEGETABLE GLYCERINE, IF WILL RK SENT TO ANY ADDRESS, EXPRESSAGE PRE PAID, ON RECEIFT OF PRICK, BY Procter & GAMBLE, Giycerine Dep't, Cincinnatt, O. re is a bottle of that golignttal Crown Lavender Salts I told you “LIFE” BINDER. CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE, Will hold 26 Numbers. Mailed toany part of the United States for $1.00, postage free. Address: OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 28 W. 23d Street, New York PARIS EXPOSITION, 1889, THE HIGHEST AWARD (THE GOLD MEDAL) For Furs and For Garments PraInDER WAS RECEIVED BY A. JAECKEL, Furrier, tt East 19th St., sear Broadway. comicbooks.com