Life, 1893-04-06 · page 2 of 16
Life — April 6, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. It contains four commercial advertisements from circa 1901 (based on the copyright notice): 1. **Whiting Mfg. Co.** (top) - A silversmith advertising "solid silver exclusively" using a decorative ewer as their showcase piece 2. **Hollanders** (left) - Boston and New York clothiers advertising ladies' dresses, capes, tailoring, and a "new sleeveless jacket" 3. **Brewster & Co.** (center) - Manufacturers of pleasure vehicles (carriages) for town and country use 4. **Stern Bros** (right) - New York corset sellers advertising "Classique Corsets" and "Empire Styles" There is one small editorial item: **"We Pay Postage"** (bottom right) - promoting life insurance information from Penn Mutual Life. The page contains **no political cartoons or satirical content**—it's a standard advertising section from a magazine of this era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Solid Silver Exclusively. WE MAKE SOLID SILVER ONLY, AND OF BUT 4 ONE GRADE—THAT OF STERLING, o> FINE; THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, AND THE QUESTION “‘IS IT SILVER OR IS IT PLATED?” IS NEVER RAISED CONCERNING A GIFT BEARING OUR TRADE-MARK. y, STERLING WHITING MFG CO. Silversmiths, Union Square & 16th St. « eS Tne “Gear Cur’ ror Scnoontns. Won ay “ Marauenrre.? HOLCANDERS NEW YORK: 290 Fifth Avenue. We are now prepared to show our customers OUR NEW MODELS OF Ladies’ Dresses and Capes, comprising many entirely new ideas in designs made especially for us by the leading houses of Paris. . We have also received our new FABRICS and TRIMMINGS from which to take orders, : Ladies’ Tailoring ana Riding Habits. We are making a specialty of the NEW SLEEVELESS JACKET. FLANDRAU & Co., 372, 374, 376 BROOME ST. Pleasure Vehicles for Town and Country. All Standard Designs and Novelties. LARGEST STOCK FINISHED VEHICLES IN THE WORLD. _ NEW YORK. Brewster & Co. (Of Broome St.) direct attention to their Celebrated Classique Corsets in models adapted to all figure: Also The new Empire Styles and Brassierd with complete assortments of their well known Hand-Made French Corsets in exclusive sf Broadway, 47th to 48th St. Only Place of Business. Manufacturers of Every Variety of Pleasure Vehicle For Town and Country Use. Four-in-Hands and Tandems A SPECIALTY. WE A¥ you have guessed about life insurance may be wrong. If you PAY wish to know the truth, send for POST- “How and Why,” issued by the PENN MUTUAL LIFE, 921-3-5 AGE Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. comicbooks.com