Life, 1892-09-01 · page 2 of 16
Life — September 1, 1892 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial or satirical content. It contains multiple commercial advertisements for products and services typical of the era: - Whiting Mfg Co. (solid silver goods) - P&P Kid Gloves (with an illustration of children) - Flandrau & Co. (carriages) - H.B. Kirk & Co. (mixed goods) - Lowell Carpets and Brussels/Wilton Carpets - Grand Rapids Portable House Company The P&P Kid Gloves ad includes the phrase "Can't tear them / Every Pair a perfect fit," suggesting durability claims for children's gloves. There is one brief book review of *Cross Currents* by Mary Angela Dickens (No. 92, Town and Country Library), but this occupies minimal space. **No political cartoons or satirical content is present on this page.**
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Solid Silver Exclusively. ees TRADE WwW MARK STERLING, Wurtinc Mrc Co Silversmiths, UNION SQUARE & I6TH ST. New YorK. WE MAKE SOLID SILVER ONLY, ANO OF BUT ONE GRADE—THAT OF STERLING y\y FINE; THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, AND THE QUESTION “Ig IT SILVER OR IS IT PLATED t"* I$ NEVER RAISED CONCERNING A GIFT BEARING OUR TRADE-MARK, Every Pair aperfect fit Gr{ fear them To know what one wants, and to get what one wants, are two different propositions. This is as true of gloves as of anything else, You want gloves that won't rip or tear, gloves that will wear well. "You can always get them if you will see that this brand is on the inside of the glove. We are spending a great deal of money to let every one know that the P, & P. gloves with this brand inside are reliable. why we adver his is PINGS & PINNER, 384 and 386 Broadway, New York. GRAND RAPIDS PORTABLE HOUSE COMPANY, “We GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “~ Hunters’ Cabins, Club Houses, Summer Cottages, Photograph Galleries, ORENGRM Lawn Houses, Play Houses. Absolutely portable. All sizes ~~ and designs. ‘Especially designed for Camping, Hunting and Fishing. Are made of three-ply veneer. very light, strong and durable. All parts thoroughly seasoned and painted in attractive colors The fastenings are iron pins. No nails or screws used. Easily erected or taken down without mutilation. Send stamp for Catalogue. NORMAN BARBOUR, Eastern Agent, 77 Warren Street, New York. Cross Currents, By Marv ANGELA Dickens. No. 99, Town and Country Library. 12mo. Paper, $0 cents ; cloth, $1.00, “ There have been few better judges of fiction than Charles Dickens, and had he lived to read his granddaughter's first. novel, the veteran writer would have found pleasure in the thought that, after he was gone, the name of Dickens would still be honorably associated with imagi- native literature. * Cross Currents" ts not only an excellent novel, but it is distinguished by a kind of excellence which is exceedingly rare in the work of a beginner. . Every page of “Cross Currents” inspires one with a desi to meet its author again... ."—Londe Spectator, promise.”— novel of original power and great “Its equality of excellence is as uncommon as it isdelightful.”"—Londow Academy. “ Decidedly above the average of contempo- rary romances, We turn the last page with regret." London Telegraph. For sale by all booksellers Ht be sent by mail on receipt of price by the publishers, D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3&5 Bonn Street, Ne Lowell Lowell Carpets have been famous for more than half acentury. The best quality, designs, and coloring. To protect buyers from tion.the word Lowell is woven in capital letters at each repeat of the pattern in the back of LOWELL BRUSSELS AND WILTONS. Carpets York, Pande c(i NEW YORK. 372, 374, 376 Broome Street. Broadway, Glst St. and 7th An ELEGAN arrlages FOR TOWN AND COUNTR! And of Every Variety of Desigs Color and Weight. , Correspondence Solicited, 39 H. B. KIRK & CO. DO NOT SELL Mixed or Compounded Goods) PRICE ACCORDING TO ACE. No other house can furnish “OLD CROW" RYE WHISKE! Sold by us as uncolored, unsweetened. S| Agents for —————————————— YEARS IM FULTON STREET The PLEASANT VALLEY WINE © Sole Agents for the Inglenook Wine Bend for Catalogue. 69 FULTON 8T. ® WARREN S| Broadway & 27th St., NewYork comicbooks.com