Life, 1890-03-20 · page 2 of 18
Life — March 20, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page is **primarily advertisements** with one small cartoon illustration. The ads promote various products (carriages, perfume, jewelry, wine, exercise machines, and meat extract) typical of late 19th or early 20th-century commerce. The cartoon accompanying the **Noyes Bros. Exercising Machine** ad shows a figure using the device. The accompanying text humorously suggests the machine is gentler than typical severe exercise equipment of the era, safe enough for "ladies, men and children" to use without risk of overexertion. The joke appears to mock the period's obsession with mechanical exercise contraptions as a supposedly safe but still-effective fitness solution—appealing to Victorian sensibilities about proper, controlled exertion. The illustration itself is modest and the satire relatively mild.
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- LIFE: OWN AND COUNTRY and inland resorts and Unequaled for beauty of form and perfection of finish. All parts entering into details of construction manufactured on the premises. CARRIAGES. Every variety popular and useful for seaside for Park driving. BREWSTER & CO. (OF BROOME STREET), BROADWAY, 47th TO 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, ust 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 feats and profits, and attending to all such details as an individual fa like capacity could do. Receives deposits subject to sight drafts, allowing in- terest on daily balances, and issues certificates of deposit bearing interest, OLD COLD. We pay cash for old go!d jewelry of all kinds —chains, brooches, old gold watch cases, etc. Turn Your Worn-out Jewelry into Cash. Old gold can be sent to us from any part of | P: the United States by express; we will test it and send you an estimate; if our figures are not satisfactory we will return it to you. We are licensed to buy old gold. A. F. BURBANK, Jeweler, 301 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. ESTABLISHED 1843. Letters ance teat mate calc transfers of money to Eu: i‘ of Australia, and the West In- dies; also make Collections and’ issue Commercial Credit. Fee Brown Brothers & Co., Bankers, 59 Wall St. CROUCH & FITZGERALD MAKE THE MOST RELIABLE Trunks, Bags, etc. 7a3 Sixtn Ave, below g2d St. 556 Broapway, delow Prince St. 14 Coxtianor St., West B'way, NEW YuRK. 48th ST., NOYES BROS.’ BXERCISING MACHINE weicns 1% POUNDS. Two simple screw eyes, one in the floor and one seven feet above, in the most convenient art of your dressing or sleeping room, adjusts it for use for either man, woman or child. Price, $5.00. This Exercising Machine can be used by Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. _ It is light, healthful and wonderful for producing perfect circulation of the blood. Price, $5 00. ‘Toucan Hveat home and make more money at work for ve than at anything else in the world. Fither sex : all ages, Cost Wott FEES. Terms FREE. Adress, TRUE ACO, Augusta, Maine. THE INGLENOOK WINES. SOLD IN CLASS ONLY. Bottled at the Vineyards in California, Purity guaranteed by the pure Wine Stamp of the ‘State. ‘AlsS, bottles wired. PRICES, $4.50 TO $7.50 PER CASE ACCORDING TO AGE. DISCOUNTS TO THE TRADE. H. B. KIRK & CO., Sole Agents for the cities ef New York & Brooklyn. 69 FULTON STREET, 9 WARREN STREET, BROADWAY AND 27TH STREET. Established 1853, NEW YORK. BURNETT’S (, WOOD ‘| VIOLET. This exquisite perfume is made from the true violets and the low price of this article makes it a necessity to those who love the flower. Also Perfume of Garden Hellotrope. Heeeope Perfume of Southern Jasmine, MESS Perfame of English Sweet-Briar, FOR SALE AT RETAIL AT FOLLOWING PRICES Small Size, Gold Plated Sprinkler Top, .35 Four. Ounce Bottle, Glass Stopper, 35 Fight “ $125 Sixteen * 22s For sale generally in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, and all LARGE CITIES AND TOWNS, by dealers in fine perfamery, If your druggist does not keep it,send 12 cents and we will send a good sized sample of any of the above perfumes by mail, securely packed, postpaid, to any address JOSEPH BURNETT & CO., 27 CENTRAL STREET, BOSTON. The health lifts and rowing machines generally used have been TOO SEVERE for people in poor health or troubled with weak- ness of any nature, and are more adapted to producing muscle than to keep up a perfect and even circulation, which health and happi- Ladies, men and children can get the much-needed gentle exercise morning, noon, and night, without the slightest danger of overdoing or severe straining. It tends to ness require. keep the form erect, strengthen weak lungs, and expand the chest. Five minutes’ exercising before retiring at night will produce undisturbed rest and quiet Price, $5.00. NOYES BROS., Hosiers, Glovers and Shirt Makers, Washington and Summer Sts., BOSTON, U. 8. A, at once, THERE is nothing more discouraging than a hurri- cane, Itisaterrible blow.— Washington Post. LIRBIG For improved and eco Company's Dishes (Game, | Fish, EXTRACT Of Meat. etc.), Aspic or Meat Jelly. Keeps perfectly in all climates for any length of time, and is cheaper and of’ finer flavor than any other stock, One pound equal to forty pounds of lean beet of the value of about $7.50. Genuine only with Justus von Liebig’s signature as shown. comicbooks.com