Life, 1890-11-13 · page 15 of 20
Life — November 13, 1890 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **commercial advertising page** from Life's Christmas 1890 issue, not a political cartoon. The page features: 1. **Deutschel advertisement** (top): A clothing retailer promoting cloaks, jackets, and millinery at Fifth Avenue and 22nd Street, using illustrated fashion figures as marketing. 2. **Popular Monthly Magazine promotion** (center): Announces the Christmas issue with 150,000 copies sold, 1,200 pictures, and a colored art plate for $3.00. Emphasizes literary and artistic quality. 3. **Book advertisements** (right): "An Old Maid Kindled" and "Cosette" (likely meaning Hugo's *Cosette*). 4. **Product advertisements**: Alkatherapy chocolate sample offer and Liebig Company's Extract of Beef (a meat concentrate). 5. **Printing ink credit**: Notes the page uses "Special Life Ink" by W.D. Wilson Printing. The page demonstrates late-19th-century magazine monetization through advertising while promoting Life's editorial prestige.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
TOUR TRADE MARK IN EVERY GARMENT 1S A LASTING GUAR: cscs | FIFTH AVE. con 2209 ST. CHRISTMAS NUMBER feaoy VALLE gona gratifying success which, during the past has attended the efforts made in behalf ever-increasin ng literary and artistic excel- this MONARCH OF ILLUSTRATED MAG- insures a redoubled energy in the continuance Ml of those efforts in the future. The current Christmas number (for Hoe December, 1890) brilliantly closes Volume XXX., and the fifteenth year, withan 0 0 re) P I E medition of 9 and still holding the lead 3; every other periodical of its class. Among fi the improvements already effected, and which will be further carried out during the coming year, are to be noted, an increase in the number of illustrations, combined with a marked advance in their quality; with a corresponding elegance and clearness of the typographical make-up. EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIGER TO THIS MAGAZINE RECEIVES COLORED ART PLATE, * "a aaa cnidts Popular Monthly in always interestio haa swine Soe ‘st ens upon topics ersentially of the -, and subjects intrinsically attrac ory i tka with pictures fr rican and European sources. ticles.on subjects ot American History and t lograshles ; chronicles of Travel, ating articles; popular science papers eerial and # pera; Uterary, and geographical news. There are, on 80, average, oae handeed Hiustrutions to every numbe EK YEAR. SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENIS. sones Mrs. FRANK LESLIE," hii" For Sale by All Newsdealers or Sent on Receipt of Price. OUR TRADE MARK IN EVERY GARMENT] ISA CASTING GUAR: ANTEE POR FIRST CLASS MATERIAL SUPERIOR WORK MAN > Snip AND Exccusive DESIONS NEW NOVELS, - READY TO-DAY. “AN OLD MAI By Atas Date, Author of * Price, D KINDLED," ‘A Marriage Below Zero." 0 cents. COSETTSH, By Vicror Hvco, GW. DILLIN Price, so cents. Publisher, New York. > XGi, GET wile a “he ‘yes \o os ‘ Ws a 7H) ANS ohhre Peover THIS PAPER IS PRINTED PECIAL: LIFE: INK MANUFACTURED BY THE W. D. WILSON PRINTING INK CO., 11. 140 WILLIAM ST. N.Y. send for Special Prices and Discounts. LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF BEEF frets For improved & eco- nomic cooker. 5 it for Soups, Made Dishes (¢ iG; Fish, etc.) The pur lest meat preparation Contains no added salt. Is cheaper and of finer flavor than any other stock. One pound equal to forty pounds of lea beet of the value about $7.50 Genuine only with Justus von Liebig's signature, as shown, comicbooks.com