Life, 1892-10-20 · page 2 of 16
Life — October 20, 1892 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, not a satirical cartoon. The page contains five commercial advertisements: 1. **Whiting M'FG Co.** - Sterling silver flatware and hollowware manufacturer, emphasizing "solid silver" quality to counter consumer concerns about plated goods 2. **Stern Brothers** - Fur garments and trimmings retailer 3. **C.G. Gunthers Sons** - Fur goods merchant 4. **Brewster & Co.** - Carriage manufacturer for the wealthy 5. **H.B. Kirk & Co.** - Wine merchant There's also a small **book advertisement** for "He is Waiting for Me," described as a novel about New York society. The page reflects late 19th/early 20th-century consumer goods marketing. No political satire or significant cartoon content is present—it's standard commercial advertising typical of period magazines.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
WE MAKE SOLID SILVER ONLY, AND OF BUT ONE GRADE—THAT OF STERLING iS FINE THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, AND THE QUESTION “Ig IT SILVER OR IS IT PLATED t" 18 NEVER RAISED CONCERNING A GIFT BEARING OUR TRADE-MARK. Solid Silver Exclusively. STERLING Wultinc M’rc Co, Silversmiths, Union Square & 16th St. NEW YORK. Stern Brothers direct attention to their choice collection of imported and Their Own Make Fur and Fur Lined Garments including exclusive styles of Coats, Capes and Neck Scarfs Made from the very best class of materials also complete assortments of Fur Trimmings, Rugs and Robes. West 23d St. ‘FORS+ [slurRs ~Boas- (APES-GLLARS @ND CRAVAPTES CS O [er TRIMMINGS IN \ALIs KNOWN FURS ATSURPRISINGLSY LOW PRICES# Ty FURS ano FOR MED oops OF EVERY DESCRIPTIONR C+G: GUNTHERS SONS 184 Firtr Ave-NEWyoRK FALL AND WINTER CARRIAGES. Messrs. Brewster invite inspection of their stock of Fall and Winter Carriages in all the fashionable varieties, now on view at their warerooms. Broadway, 47th to 48th St. BREWSTER & CO. 39 Years in Fulten St. B. KIRK & CO. (OP BROOME ST.) Do not sell mixed or compounded goods. Price according to age. No other house can furnish “Old Crow" Rye Whis. Key. Sold by us as uncolored, unsweetencd. Sole agents for The Pleasant Valley Wine Co, Sole agents for the Inglenook Wines. Send for Catalogue. ¢9 FULTON ST. 9 WARREN ST. Broadway and 27th St., New York, ne 18 WAITING FOR ME} ‘rom Sweet Bells Out of Ture. RS. BURTON HARRISON bas a new novel of New York society, is said to be a wonderfully realistic at¢} story, even excelling in interest her novel, ‘The Anglomaniacs," The ( has secured it, and it will begin in? vember number. ‘Sweet Bells Out ol opens with a fashionable wedding. T° ropolitan Opera House, the “so Gil London Chronicle now considers son's work superior to that of Du time of the Commune number. A large first edition will be Everybody will read ** Sweet ‘une. comicbooks.com