Life, 1891-04-02 · page 2 of 14
Life — April 2, 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising** with no discernible political cartoons or satirical content. The left column advertises Life magazine's April calendar (28 pages with drawings), a Life binder, and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup (a 19th-century infant sedative). The right side features commercial advertisements: Brewster & Co. (coach builders), Stern Brothers (costume importers), Roux & Co. (furniture), Louis Vuitton (trunks), and Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil patent medicine). The only illustrated element is a small figure advertising Scott's Emulsion, but it's a generic product image rather than political or social commentary. This appears to be a standard magazine back page devoted entirely to commercial promotion, typical of period publications that subsidized content through advertising revenue.
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=a BREWSTER&CO (OF BROOME STREET.) BROADWAY, 47th to 48th ST. (ONLY PLACE COACH BUILDERS. Manufacturers of every variety of pleasu| NOW READY! LIFES CALENDAR FOR APRIL! OF BUSINESS) carriages for Town and Country use. THE ACKNOWLEDGED STANDARD FOR FASHION AND QUALITY 'WENTY-EIGHT pages, enriched by the best drawings from Lire Ladies’ luncheon parties find a favorite resort in Taylor's St. Denis restaurant, where the new colonial dining-room, exquisitely furnished and decorated together with the unsurpassed cuisine, which has made this restaurant famous for a ‘eneration, combine to offer attractions not found elsewhere in the city. atl) Brathers ARE NOW EXHIBITING by Gibson, Van Schaick, Atwood, Chip, Howarth, Woolf and others. A month of Lire for only twenty-five cents, or a year for $2.50. All Newsdealers, Booksellers and the Publishers, MITCHELL & MILLER, 28 West 23d Street. THEIR FIRST IMPORTATIONS or Costumes, Wraps, Jackets, ” “LIFE” BINDER. CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE. WILL HOLD 26 NUMBERS. Mailed to any part of the United States for $1.00, postage free. Address OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 28 West 23d Street, NEW YORK. FROM THE LEADING FOR FIFTY YEARS! for icy yrs a caaaiate t PREMIER E. merken Ot jldren while Teething QUALITE CICARETTE DESIGNED AND MADE softens the Gums, Alla A superbarticle ; the standard of purity and s excellence. THEIR OWN WORKROOMS, ALSO MANY NOVELTIES: for Diarrhea. 25. a’ Bottle. ‘The faultiess union of two matchless tobac- cos prevents that dryness of the throat usually’ produced by smoking other brands. Do not allow prejudice to prevent you trom giving’ this incomparable cigarette atrial. It ts sim- ply perfection, and a luxury, and not a low-| priced article. Our Vanity Fair and other Smoking Mix- tures are the finest for the pipe. °OlWM. 8. KIMBALL & CO. 15 FIRST PRIZE MEDALS. FULTON a. B. KIRK & CO. Mixed or Rofnpounded Co Goods. RICE ‘DING TO AG house can furnish “oto Siew RYE WHISKEY. 1d by us as uncolored, unsweetened. Sole Agents for ‘The PLEASANT VALLEY WI Sole Agents for the Inglenook Send for Catalogu NEW YORK. Tea GOWNS! ‘ PARIS MODISTES. 82 to 36 West 28d St. NEW YorRK, IMK ONLY TRUNKS AND BACs Universally patronized by AMERICANS ‘Traveling, home and abroad, are always LOUIS VUITTON’S, Parte 1 Ruc Serie, Londen—454 Strand. OWHERE BLS And Chronto Ds uses.” Thelr cure by William 1 Flemia: Cancer Tumor Tuberculou: Xe amphi Gpataining Informs 1 tm} tuo Ance to sufferers mailed free, The disagreeabi taste of the COD LIVER Oll is dissipated in AY SCOTT'S i Of Pure Cod Liver Oil wif HYPOPHOSPHITES * LIME AND SODA atient suffering from Es much sallsfaction as milk, Physicians are prosct ing Steverywhero. It is a perfect em wlerful flesh producer, Take 100! comicbooks.com