Life, 1893-01-05 · page 60 of 60
Life — January 5, 1893 — page 60: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon page. The content consists of commercial advertisements typical of early 1900s American magazines. The dominant ad is **Redfern's fashion sale** (top), announcing half-price clothing models before stock-taking, with locations in Chicago and New York. Below are various patent medicines and consumer goods: Beeman's Pepsin Gum for indigestion, Borden's Eagle Brand condensed milk for children's health, White Rose glycerin soap, Veloutine Fay powder, and Dentellaria tooth powder. Other ads promote jewelry, olive oil, canned soups, and Jenkins breeches. A brief travel notice mentions Pennsylvania Railroad tours to Washington, D.C. **No political satire or cartoon commentary appears on this page.** It's a straightforward commercial section reflecting consumer culture and advertising practices of the period, including the heavy promotion of patent medicines—common before modern FDA regulation.
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LIFE Redfern In EUROPE and AMERICA. SALE before STOCK-TAKING! Until FEBRUARY Ist, all MODELS will be SOLD OFF a exactly HALF PRICE.’ During JANUARY and FEBRUARY all garments made to order will bi charged at 10 PER CENT. less than our regular printed list. 1702 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, and 210 Fifth Ave., NEW YORI Borden ** Eagle” Brand Condensed Milk. Your grocer A DELICIOUS and druggist keep it. shook taal eae Of the better class speies susicont ts cigeot ae New and Original Sickness Among Children, . BEEMAN’SPEPSIN GUM | ess: sone, preszoecatioes ttc Diamonds. THE PERFECTION avoided by giving proper nourishment and wholesome et Watches, REMEDY FOR ALL FORMS OP f ] 7 ~ Designs, Reasonable BI AR | CHEMICAL co., st Lake St. protic 2. < 9 , OF CHEWING GUM. food. The most successful and reliable is the Gail Jewelry INDIGESTION. roid e| Prices. a ee ) | HENRY ABBOTT & CO., A New Series of Pennsylvania Rail- Y, 14 Maiden Lane, New York road Tours to Washington, D. C. A © There will be six of the popular personally con- ducted tours run to th spring of the new y Guaranteed to contain no rosin, or any injurious A the dates | substances, Delicacy of Perfame unexcelled. the present Soux U. S. Acuwrs, series will be rur which to spend sabi Mi mULHENS & KROPFF, New York. rate of $13 from New sea inc Judes railre hotel accommodations at the best of Washington's the three days spent on the tours. $1.00, National met mation furnmbed_on application to | DUPLICATE WHIST, Tartiang best { Pennsylvan . ilroad Company, or | stamp for rules, etc. . Editor * Whist, Tourist ke 9 Broadwa: w York ~ Is The First Analysts} unquestionably in the World ~ the perfection pronounce it The most perfect toilet powder is of . _. Pure rN T | AY Olive Oil. E LO U l S. RAE & CO. Lacnorn, Iracy. |) Specie! Poudre oe R12 Prepared sh dismoth by CH. FA ¥, Perfomer.@, 7. Sor getaPaie, SE NONE OTHER Caution. — Néce Orneine bevthows earng te nord ‘| FRAXCE p ond the danetare CH. FAY. Milwaukee, Wis. For Cleansing, Beautifying and Preserving And slight the soup and the dinner is spoiled. USE You takenocbanca wih THe TEETH “WHITE LABEL,” norsrurasee eoree"l@.| | DENTELLARIA Send 10 cents, and address of your grocer, for sample can. <f Armour Packing Company, SOUP DEPARTMENT, 17 _Vanicrics Kansas City, Mo. v At All First-Class Druggists. WHY DON'T YOU RIDE? J EN K | N The Only Breeches) 304 Fiftn Ave., N. Y. C2 comicbooks.com