Life, 1891-09-17 · page 17 of 18
Life — September 17, 1891 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements and humor** rather than political commentary. The main cartoon warns against **product counterfeiting**. It depicts a child holding a "Danger" sign, cautioning consumers that unscrupulous grocers were selling inferior French soups under the legitimate "Franco American Food Co's" brand name. This was a common 19th-century fraud: competitors would cheaply imitate popular products to profit from an established reputation. The upper cartoon, titled "That Heavy Sleep That Follows a Wake," is an Irish-dialect humor piece (indicated by phonetic spelling like "JUSHT" and "DIVIL") about a man whose goat ate all his hair while he slept off a drinking binge. The remaining content is straightforward advertising for period products: Kodak cameras, Recamier Cream (a skin treatment), Shandon Bells soap, and a Life magazine binder. These ads reflect consumer goods and concerns of the era.
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THAT HEAVY SLEEP THAT FOLLOWS A WAKE, TELLS TI TORY IN THIS WAY: “1 HAD JUSHT DONE A WEE BIT IV BEF ME. LEPT DIVIL A WAN OF ME KNOWS, BUT WHEN I WoKE MAY THE DIVIL FLY AWAY WID ME IF THAT BASTELY BILLY GOAT OF DUFFY'S 4 HADN'T ATE IVRY S$! OF HAIR OFF ME HEAD AND SORRA A FUT CUD I PUT OUTSIDE MY SHEBANG FOR A COUPLE O° MONT’S! Honest (ompetition isall right, but to introduce an inferior article on some one elses reputation is piracy. A few cheap grocers are offering an in- Jerior article under the name of French Soups. Be sure fo ask for the FRANC? AMERICAN Food ©:s DON'T BE HUMBUGGED ecamier S°°euurecam: For Tan, Sunburn, and all Skin Diseases. Apply at night and wash off in the Morning. Price, $1.50 per jar. HARRIET Druggists, Fancy Goods Dealers, and HUBBARD AYER, 305 Fifth Avenue, New York, Take a Kodak Wtth vin ras teteetris terns X OU, Or you can do it yourself.) Send for Catalogue, THE EASTMAN COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N, Y. Leaves a Delicate and Lasting Odor After Ustag. If unable to procure SHANDON BELLS SOAP send cin stamps and recelvo cake by rotarn mall, JAS. S. KIRK & CO., Chicago. SPECIAL. — Shandon Bells Waltz (the Bociety Waltz) nent FREE, to anyoue ling us three wrappers of Bhandon Bells Boap. 2EIED, 28,12 Stamps for sample bottle Shandow Perfume, BINDER. CHEAP, STRONG AND DURABLE, Will Hold 26 Numbers. Malled to any part of the United States for 81, postage free, Address, OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 28 West 234 Street New York. comicbooks.com