Life, 1890-08-07 · page 2 of 16
Life — August 7, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The dominant image is a Victorian-era illustration of a cherub or cupid figure holding a mirror, used to advertise **Williams' Shaving Stick**—a grooming product emphasizing comfort and safety. The page contains multiple advertisements for various products: wine, hotels, bicycles, financial services, and patent medicines (including Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for infants). There is a small humorous section titled "Letters of Credit" with domestic comedy dialogue about social fashion, but this is minor filler content, not political commentary. This represents a typical Life magazine page from the period, mixing commercial advertising with light entertainment rather than pointed political satire.
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LIFE: ttn MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY CENTURY-August number, Containing 160 pages, 6 full-page engravings and more than Go smaller illustrations. Includes illustrated articles on “A Yankee in Andersonville,” by an ex-Union prisoner; “The Perils and Romance of Whaling”; “The Treasures of the Yosemite,” by John Muir, the California naturalist; Joseph Jefferson's remi- niscences of Artemus Ward, “The Little Church Around the Corner,” etc. President Eliot of Harvard University and other writers contribute to this number. Fiction is represented by “The Anglomaniacs” and “ Friend Olivia” (continued stories, and by “The Emancipation of Joseph Peloubet,” a short illus. trated stury by John Elliot Curran. There are also the usual depariments, and poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Frank Dempster Sherman and others. For sale by dealers everywhere, price, 35 cents. THe Century Co., New York. BOTA SOSSSCSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssns VILLACABRAS Hreseribed by Prominent. Ihy sicten A Mild or Strong Purgative, according Small Bottles, 23e, Large Bottles FOR BEAUTY For comfort, for improvement! of the plexion, use only Pozzoni's Po nothing equal to it. WEST END HOT Fort Washington on the Hudses| NEW YORK. SOV 8 04) The Inglenook Wines. SOLO IN CLASS ONLY. Bottled at the Vineyards in California Purity Guaranteed by the Pure Wino Stamp of the State. Also Bottles Wired. PRICE: $4.50 TO $7.50 PER CASE. According to Age. DISCOUNTS TO THE TRADE, H. B. KIRK & CO., Sole Agents tor the Cities of New York and brooklyn, 89 FULTON ST., 9 WARRES ST., BROADWAY AND 27th ST. Established 1833. Only 23 minutes from 3oth Ninth Avenue via Hudson River R 12 minutes from Hotel to Cable i (175th Street), connecting with Elev Railroads. Large Airy Rooms with B Exceptional Table. — Stabling for Horse: CHAS. SAUERLA MULDOON : or not? O'BRIEN: Well, will we go to wurruk Lave us toss up for it. Mutpoox : How so? O'BRIEN: Toss up a cint. If it comes down heads or tails we don't wurruk, If it comes down nayther one nor the other we wurruk,—America, Poets are born—and that’s what the matter. In nine cases out of ten the world would be a great deal better off if they weren't, Somerville Journal. ——_——— No intelligent, observing man can use Williams’ Shaving Stick without seeing for Aim= aeif that in richness and elegance of package, and in copious, delicate, soothing qualities it fs the peer of all others—the very bes¢ Shaving Stick ever offered to the Shaving public. It couts no more than others, but gives vastly more of comfort. One Stick (25¢.) is amply. sufficient for one hundred shaves. Four shaves for one cent. DOGS.—NaLDUUES medicated Soar for washing Resets, removes dO“RT oiroal refreshed and bap} ize nredal soap,ared by all the leading ow: in Barope, Is now sold by Park & Tilford, McKee son & Kobbina, &. Foueraand all Druggista Mas, Jones (a trifle faded, but extremely A): Have you seen the latest fashion- able wrinkle, my dear Mrs, Brown ? Mrs. Brown (those husband admires Mrs. J.): So they've become fashionable, have they ? (with malicious emphasis). hen how very ultra you must be, my dear Mrs. Jones!—Dry Goods Chronicle, Standard —"— Flavor HIGHLY. <9 WILLIAMS? DARRERS? ROAP, Exqcirrs ron TOLET cea Poand packare, de JOSEPH BURNETT & BOSTON AND CHICAGO. TESTIMONY OF DELMONICO CHE} AND OTHERS. i This Is to Certify, That the St Flavoring Extracts of Joseph Burnett ‘LT WONDER you are not afraid to let the baby play with the carving knife like that,” said Mrs, Simeral to Mrs. Snooper. “Oh, she can’t hurt it,” replied the latter ; “it is an old one."—Harfer's Basar. Letters New York Security & Trust Co. 46 WALL STREET. Capital, $1,000,000 Surplus, $500,000. We buy and sell bills of Exchange on and make cable transfers of money to f Europe, Australia, and the 0 West indies; also make Collections and issue Com- mercial and ‘Travelers Credits, available in all Credit. parts of the world. CHARLES S, FAIRCHILD, President. WM. H. APPLETON, 1st V.-President WM. L, STRONG, 2d V.-President JOHN L. LAMSON, Secretary. uniformly pureand reliable brand e/ THE HARTFORD SAFETY. THE BEST @100 SAFETY MADE. Can be adjusted to fit any person, from a boy of 32 toa full-grown man THE MARFORD CYCLE CO., Hartford, Conn. ny i authorized to act as Exect tor, stee, Administrator, Guardian, Agent and Receiver. Is a legal devository 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 in like capacity could do. Receives deposits subject to sight drafts, allowing interest on daily balances, and issues certificates of deposit bearing interest THis Com) Rrewn Broa, £Co.. Hankers, 59 Wa FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOW for fifty years has been used by mothers for their Children while Teething. It soothes the Chi'd, Softens the Gums, Allays all Pain, Cures Win Colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhea. 25c. a Bottle. Extracts, Wh demand the bs get "Burnett s, ACHILLE LENT Chef at Delo» HENRY GERMA Chef at Dele F, FERE, Chet at Ast R, SILVERBRANOT. Chef at 0" comicbooks.com