Life, 1890-03-13 · page 20 of 20
Life — March 13, 1890 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements**, not satire or political commentary. It showcases various consumer products typical of the 1890s: - **Caligraph typewriter**: marketed as fastest and most durable at $85 - **Pears' Soap**: a greeting-card style ad asking "Have you used Pears' Soap?" - **Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup**: a patent medicine for teething babies (note: such products often contained opiates, now recognized as harmful) - **Williams' Traveler's Favorite Shaving Stick**: emphasizing luxury grooming The page includes a character-reading service advertisement and mentions a legal case involving George Bernard Shaw (though details are unclear from the OCR). For modern readers: this reflects an era when patent medicines made unregulated health claims, and advertising aggressively marketed new technologies (typewriters) and consumer goods as luxuries. The "shaving stick" ad's emphasis on leisure and travel reveals aspirational marketing to middle-class readers.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
GALIGRAPH GREATEST SPEED! BEST FOR MANIFOLDING. 100,000 Dally users. THE MOST DURABLE. PRICE, - EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS. For account of speed contests and Circulars, address, THE AMERICAN WRITING MACHINE CO. HARTFORD, CONN. BRANCH OFFICES:~ 237 Broaoway, New York 14 West 47m Sracer, Cincinnati, O. 1003 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. HARACTER IN HANDWRITING accurately read, Send one page of your natural writing, with twenty-five cents and a stamp, to C, Rost Calum ichigan. THIS LABEL 18 ON THE RIBBON MADE. Tt. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT. En the Migh Court oi Hac, Mr, Justice Chit restraining Mr Georve from tetringin Foun Gusnett & Cos Have you Mee Shave Yourself? [Marcu 13, 1890, Mass. ate DUN'T Spaik your Fest with CHEAP SHOES! 4% FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP for Sty years has been used by mothers i while Teething. It Soothes the Child, Allays all Pain, Cures Wind Colic and \s for Diarrhea. @5c. a bettie. Awarded nine USE ‘Ask your dealer edals at lead~ forit. This isthe ini ition, Michelsen’s | ctiy purearice, The fast at th imported pe = eustaths BAY RUM. |imred,! Universal ia sition, Paris, 89. | Sold Kvervwhere. | the West Indies —Then make a Luxury of the exercise. WILLIAMs HAVING STICK offers the means of doing $0. | So E scented with the most delicate ATTAR OF ROSES. is a Strong, durable. Never breaks, ends never come out. Travel a million miles with it —always intact. Rich maroon leatherette cover, gold lacquered metal in- tide. Ask YOUR Dacccist for it AT ONCE. It cost'no more than others delicate, cream-li) lather! Exquisitely ‘The new case is a beauty. CH™ If your Drugzist does not have Witttams’ Saving Stick, we will mail you one neatly packed, postage paid, for 25c. in stamps. ‘One Witttasts’ SHAVING STICK is enoug! for aso shaves. 10 comfortable, refreshing shaves for Oxe Cent. Try It. Address THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn., Established half a hundred years. Makers of the famous Ganuime Yawxes Suavinc Soar Press of Charles K. Alley, New York. Lal 28 comicbooks.com