Life, 1893-09-14 · page 2 of 18
Life — September 14, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising** with minimal editorial content. The main advertisements are: 1. **Whiting M'f'g Co.** (top right): Promotes solid sterling silver flatware and serving pieces, emphasizing quality and the company's sterling mark. 2. **Flandrau & Co.** (left): Advertises pleasure carriages and vehicles for town and country use, claiming to manufacture "the largest stock of finished vehicles in the world." 3. **Life Magazine subscription** (center-left): Announces Volume XXI bound volumes available in multiple bindings. 4. **New York Central Railroad** (right): Advertises the "Exposition Flyer," a high-speed 20-hour train between New York and Chicago, and the "Empire State Express." The remaining ads promote insurance and photography services. There are no political cartoons or satirical commentary visible on this page—it functions primarily as a vehicle for commercial advertising typical of late-19th-century magazine publishing.
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- LIFE: WE MAKE Sou Stuvex Oxey, AND OF BUT ONE GRADE, THAT CF STERLING JA FINE THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIKE FREEDOM FROM PALSE IMPRESSIONS, AND THE QUESTION “1s IT SILVER OW IS IT PLATED?” IS NEVER RAISKO CONCERNING A GIFT BRAKING OK TRADE MARK. Solid Silver Exclusively. WHITING MFG CO. Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th Street, “Gorter Cur” ror ScHoonens, won ny " Sacneat.”” NEW YORK. 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. NOW READY. t ; Volume XXI. of Lire, Bound (January to June, 1893), ‘in Maroon and Gold, Green and Gold, and Fué/ Black. Prepaid to any address in United States or Canada. $5.00 per Volume. | Office of “LIFE,” 28 W. Twenty-Third St. NEW YORK CITY. Price, “EXPOSITION FLYER” Is the name of the new 20-hour train of the NEW YORK CENTRAL between New York and Chicago,—every day in the year. This is the fastest thousand mile train on the globe, and is only in speed to the famous EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS whose record for two years has been the wonder and admiratice the world of travel. The New York Central stands at the head for the speed comfort of its trains. A ride over its line is the finest ont railroad ride in the world. For a copy of the" Luxury of Modern Railway Travel” send two a-cent stamps to GEORGE H. DANIELS, renerat Passenger A Granp Cextrat. STATION, PENN “A solid policy in a solid company STCHARTSHORN S suntenous is a solid comfort in any situation | Fre MUTUAL: life.” None better; we NOT mato know of none so good as! AUTOGRAPH LIFES: issued by this Company. Home OF office, o21-3-5 Chestnut St., Philad'a. Convent FOR Gneat om) prererrrt tes] comicbooks.com