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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It consists of commercial announcements from 1892 for: - **New York Life Insurance Co.** (top) announcing dividend returns on maturing twenty-year policies - **Stern Brothers** (cotton dress fabrics) - **H.B. Kirk & Co.** (whiskey and wine) - **Charles Hauptner** (haberdashery) - **Life's Monthly Calendar** subscription ($1.00/year) - Smaller ads for English perfume, and notably **Burnett's Cocaine** for treating dandruff and hair loss The cocaine ad is historically notable—cocaine was legal and marketed for medical purposes in the 1890s before regulation. There is no political satire visible on this page; it represents straightforward commercial advertising typical of period magazines.

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*LI FE: THE New York Life Insurance Co. 3egs leave to announce that its Twenty-Year Tontine Policies, issued in 1872, are now maturing, with the following results: in excess of re example below ) 71 percent. in Daye of insured. (See example «0 to 52 per cent of insured. (S ndowment Policies are returning from 58 to A their cash cost, according Twenty-V exces: below.) Limited Payment Life excess of their « P ash are returning from 43 to 141 per cent, in yage of insured. (See example below.) EXAMPLES OF MATURING POLICIES. ash Value, $1,787.76 2.) Policy takena 38-45 3.) Policy takenata 0: CashValue, has carried the insurance on the receive C miums that have as they accrue, (See der Limited Payment Life Policies may, i dieu of the ontinue their insurance, twithent further payments, 1 DIVIDENDS of from 67 t0 163 per ¢ fall > been paid, and annual dividends hereafter as (See example below.) Stern Brothers direct attention to their Spring Importations of Cotton Dress Fabrics Figured Lawns, Organdies, Batistes, Mousselines and Satin de Chine also White and Colored Demi-Flouncings and Embroideries in Cambric, Swiss and Nainsook, miums that h y accrue Including the new Derby largest and choice effects, forming in all the cr exhibited. 3d ‘St. 3Q WEARS IN FULTON STREET. H.B. KIRK & CO. DO NOT SELL Mixed or Compounded Goods. PRICE ACCORDING TO ACE. No other house can furnish “OLD CROW" RYE WHISKEY. Suid by us as unc ¢ Latest Novelty / -” . Seno & Co's “~~ HIGHLAND Delicate, Fra: unsweetened. Sole Lnporters, p Baldwin, nd f Sha 89 FULTON ST. Rroadway & 27th St., New York. For sale by all tealers ti perfumery. r& EXAMPLES OF DIVIDENDS. 1. Policy No (1) may be continued for the original amount, at origin. rates with annual dividends and thi umulated dividends amounting to $930. may be withdrawn in cash Policy No. ann % 2. (2) may be continued without further payments, receiving 1 dividends, and the accumulated dividends, amounting to 30, may be withdrawn in cash, Persons desiring to sce results on policies issued at their present further particulars as to options in settlement, will please addr Company or its Agents, giving date of birth, | 1. nent of the Company further announce that isol, The Manag: 1, The | st Its Income exceeded that of 1890, tx Ass Iusurance in force were incre Its Mortality rate was much below that called for by the Mortality Table. A Detailed Statement of the published atter tl New Business for exceeded 2 ES both largely 4. Year's Business will be Annual Report is completed. WILLIAM HE BEERS, President; HENRY TUCK, Vice-President ; ARCHIBALD H. WELCH, 2d Vice-President; RUFUS W. WEEKS, Actuary. 346 AND 348 Broapway, NEw York. Charles Hauptner, naberdasher. Collars and Cuffs can be } is not particular as to the mc sell you the latest fashi I details ht anywhere—if one oerect style Lean Je up with tl nat attens tion to fressed men Write for any information to 1280 Broadway, New York City. Only $1.00 A Year. Postage Paid. Life’s Monthly Calendar FOR 1892. SINGLE COPIES, - = r Da TOS DRO DRS 9), xe ° a in English ‘Perfumes. 10 CENTS xc Go" yRNET?, | Promotes 2 growth of tha Hair. Cures DANDRUFF | HEATHER. grant, Lasting Prevents th Har from faling, & Company, & 3 Sun St. Finsbury Sq. London, E. C. NC © IREIAEIAE IZ HHOY Cocoa For Save in rwo wizes, 00 cents and $1.09. comicbooks.com