Life, 1892-07-21 · page 2 of 16
Life — July 21, 1892 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It features multiple commercial advertisements from the 1890s era: - **Whiting Manufacturing Co.** advertises solid sterling silver goods for silversmiths in New York - **D. Appleton & Co.** promotes books including "The Naturalist in La Plata" and "December Roses" - **Tabourettes** (decorative stools) are advertised by Wm. B. Mershon & Co. - **Grand Rapids Portable House Company** markets prefabricated portable structures - **Kenwood Manufacturing Co.** sells bicycles, emphasizing their quality as "High Grade" - **Life's Monthly Calendar** for 1892 is offered for $1.00 annually The page contains no political cartoons or satirical commentary—it's a standard magazine advertising section typical of the era, showcasing consumer goods and services available to late-Victorian American readers.
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EEE: Solid Silver | Exclusively. STERLING. mane Wuitinc Mc Co. WE MAKE SOLIO SILVER ONLY an OF: BUT Silversmiths, ONE GRADE—THAT OF STERLING ja FINE; THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE OTR QUETN UNION SQUARE & 16TH ST., “Ig IT SILVER OR 1S IT PLATED 2" 1S NEVER RAISED CONCERNING New York A GIFT BEARING OUR TRADE-MARK, D. APPLETON & CO’S NEW BOOKS. The Naturalist in La Plata. By C. H. Hupsox, C. M. joint author of “Argentine Omithology." With 27 lustrations, ‘8vo, 388 pages. Cloth, . * Mr. Hudson is not only a clever naturalist, but he possesses the rare gift of interesting his readers in whatever attracts him, and of being dissatisfied with mere observation unless it enables hia to philosophize as well. With his lucid accounts of bird, beast, and insect, no one will fail to be delighted.""—London Acadenry. “Soe Tt would be easy to multiply extracts from this most interesting book. But it is one to buy and read, for matter and style are alike excellent. ondon Spectator. **December Roses.’ By Mrs. CAMPRELL-PRAED, joint author of The Right Honourable.” No. 96, Town ‘and Country Library. '12mo. Paper, so cents; cloth, $1.00. “+The Right Honourable’ is an enjoyable and superior English novel... . Mrs. Camp- | 's labor in the w re ance and sentiment is admirably done.” —/adependent. “* Several of the personages in * The Right Honourable ' are worthy of Trollope at his best.”” - WM. B. MERSHON & (0, Literary World, t Appletons’ Canadian Guide-Book. Saginaw, E. S., Mich. Part Il, WESTERN CANADA-1. £., From OrTawa AND MONTREAL TO THE Pa- ciric OCEA A companion volume to Part I. With numerous Maps and Illustra- tions. By ERNEST ERSOLL, 12m0, Flexible cloth, $1.25. It is safe to say that no two volumes dealing with Canada present so much helefal and os, entertaining information, in so convenient a form, as Appletons’ Canadian Guide-Books. The Guide to Western Canada, like its predecessor, is elaborately illustrated, and contains the latest GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. maps of all the districts described. ’ - . Appletons’ Hand-Book of American Summer : GR airs Houses PS eee eee Gattaces, Photograph Galler Resorts. i and designs. Especially designed for Camping. Hunting and Fishicg T abourettes, Turkish, Moorish and Indian Designs, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. . r . . METI Are made of three-ply vencer, very light, st I pa Table of Railroad Fares, etc. New edition, revised to date. BY TAly rorouxhly seasoned and painted Yn stiractive colors, The Latene Bal! are iron pins, No nails or screws used, Easily erected or taken é0 without mutilation. send stamp tor Catalogue. RMAN BARBOUR, Eastern Agent, 77 Warren Street, New Yor With Maps, Ilustratio 1amo, ' Paper, 50 cents. For sate by all booksellers; or D. APPLETON & CO. 1, 3, & § Bonp Street, New York. Ul be sent by mail on receipt of price by the publishers, BICYCLES can be had at all price Only $1.00 a Year. Postage Paid. There's a difference, howev ‘There are many so-called High Grade . y bicycles.—To a novice they look alike. L 1 fe S M on t h ] y C al en d alr There’s a great difference,—Better buy | the best—a Kenwood, Send for Catalogue. FOR 1892, KENWOOD MFG. CoO., HICAGO—263 & 266 S. Canal Street—CHICAGO. Single Copies, 10 Cents. comicbooks.com