Life, 1891-01-15 · page 2 of 18
Life — January 15, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not editorial content or cartoons. The dominant features are: 1. **C.G. Ganthers Sons** - A fur fashion advertisement showing a woman in Victorian dress, promoting jackets, wraps, and cloaks at 184 Fifth Avenue, New York. 2. **Beecham's Pills** - A patent medicine advertisement claiming to treat various ailments (headache, weak stomach, constipation, liver disease) with an ornate illustrated border. 3. **Scribner's Magazine announcement** - Promoting January content by Henry M. Stanley about African forests. 4. **Scott's Emulsion** and other product ads (cigarettes, hair products, cough remedy). The page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it's a typical turn-of-the-century magazine layout mixing editorial promotion with commercial advertising, reflecting the era's patent medicine industry and women's fashion marketing.
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LIFE -Garsthers Sons~ “S| KNICKERBOCKER 2| STATIONERY. Special attention is invited to our &| unexcelled facilities for executing & WEDDING anp RECEPTION INVITATIONS, The best work in the shortest pos- sible time may be depended upon. G. .P. PUTNAM’S SONS, STATIONERS & ENGRAVERS, 27 & 29 West 23d St., New York. jFASHIONABLE HAIR. Wve will mail goods tore liable parties througbet the United States for ay [SANE 1 persons following a sedentary life, and military, sporting and club men, with a ’, in fact, all persons who know the value of good health, and are acquainted Pills are never without them. They are am csential safcguard to every Sick Headache, Weak “Stomach, Constipation, Impaired Digestion, Disordered Liver, and all Kindred Diseases, y ’ Y nct Ike magic. Taken as directed ‘will quickly restore BEECHAM’S PILLS Fesatas to complete health. A few deter will work wonders upon the Vital Organs, strengthening the muscular System, restoring long-lost Complexion, bringing p back the keen edge of appetite, and arousing with the Rosebud of Health the whole physical energy of the human frame. These are ** facts \dmitted by thousands in all classes of society; and one of the Worth a Guinea a Box. best guarantees to the Nervous and Debilitated is that BEECHAM PILLS have the Largest Sale of any Patent Medicine in the World. Full directions with each ». Propared only by THOS. BEECHAM, St. Helens, Lancashire, England. Sold by Druggists generally, Bs ¥. ALLEN CO., 365 & 367 Canal St., New York, Sole Agects for the United States, who, if ty, Yur druggist does not keep them, wits sai. BEECH. 'S PILLS on wei ov rice, 25 crs. A pox. Mention+ LI in ordering. iS AS IS TIS ASAE TIS AS AS TS GS TS US AS HS SAS AS TS AS AS TS AS AS AS TS ASA AS TS AS AS SATIS a EY p Rai IE ASIST AEA Me prices. No money require! until they are receiret No obligation to kee SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE |PREMiERE, [7 \ 7 ites . QUALITE 460 Wasagten eee eh Benen Hae FOR JANUARY. CICARETTE A NEW ARTICLE BY A superbarticle ; the standard of purityand HEN RY M. STAN LD DY. |] the titiness union of wo matchless tobac- cos prevents that dryness of the throat usually . - produced by smoking other brands. Do THE PIGMIES OF THE GREAT AFRICAN allow prejudice to prevent you trom prt ( For if you do not it may. become con this incomparable cigarette a trial, It issim-|{ SUNPtIvo. | For Canmenption, General Debility and Masting Dis rely apart from ply perfection, and a luxury, and not a al sty the cus priced article. shore is nothing liko ¢ P E emarkable Our Vanity Fair and other Smoking aol With new tures are the finest for the pipe. I I S S WM. 8. KIMBALL & CO. OTHER CONTE: JAPANESE PEOPLE, by Sir EDWIN ARNOLD. Being the second of his 15 FIRST PRIZE MEDALS. { Japonica" articles, Illustrated throughout by Robert Blum, q FRANK R. STOCKTON contributes the first part of an ingenious and mystifying two- ‘ a c! oe Water Devil." Th Iso. a very remarkable short story by Mary ta Vright, entitied THIS PAPER IS PRINTED | MODERN FIRE APPARATUS, by John R. Spears, with many engravings. : . ert ee eats resp PO tSOae evans: || SPECIAL LIEB? INK ¢. James Dwight, the lawn-tennis player. Illustrated. ManGyheriaie '3¥-Tan. THE ROTHENBURG FESTIVAL-PLAY, by E. H. Lockwood. Beautifully Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and illustrated. W. D. WILSON PRINTING HY POPHOSPHITES IMPRESSIONS OF AUSTRALIA, by Josiah Royce, with four full-page engravings. || INK CO., rrp. 140 WILLIAM ST. i Or 5alb6) aan ecas THE ARCHITECT'S POINT OF VIEW, by W. P. P_ Longfellow. N. Y. send for ‘ : | as + Te jpecial Prices and Discounts. It 1s almost as palatable as milk. Fe THREE CHARADES by L. B. R. Briggs. Dbetier than other so-called Emuisivss) THE POINT OF VIEW-The Philosophy of Flattery, Vanity in Authors, Artists as | ki wonderful flesh joe producer. Critics, FOR FIFTY YEARS! The serial JERRY, POEMS, ctc., ctc MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING xnvrl 5 25 Cents a Number ; $3.00 a Year. wccirergmascens. ate “t OOO S EMU sion s all soothes the Child, Softens the Gums, Allays CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 BROADWAY, NEW York. || Pain, Cures Wind Colic, and is the best remedy | tasticheaetentre Get the genul! ~ for Diarrhea, 25c. a Bottle. Fete reenter comicbooks.com