Life, 1893-10-05 · page 2 of 16
Life — October 5, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is predominantly **advertising**, not satirical content. The main advertisements include: - **Whiting MFG Co.** (silversmiths): Promoting solid silver goods, featuring an ornate vase that won a New York Yacht Club prize - **The Club Cocktails**: A spirits brand advertisement - **Franco-American Food Company**: Soup products - **Stern Bros.**: Millinery department store - **Lowell Carpets**: Home furnishings - **Dentellaria Tooth Wash**: Dental hygiene product The only potentially satirical element is the small text accompanying The Club Cocktails, which humorously claims "A BETTER COCKTAIL AT HOME THAN IS SERVED OVER ANY BAR IN THE WORLD"—a self-promotional boast typical of advertising hyperbole from this era. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and product marketing to affluent readers.
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we Make Sotio Sitver ONLY, AND OF BUT ONE GRADE —THAT OF STERLING ff FINE: THEREFORE New Yor Yacut Crus WON BY ** MONTAUK.” A BETTER COCKTAIL AT HOME THAN IS SERVED OVER ANY BAR IN THE WORLD. The Club @oektails MANHATTAN, MARTINI, WHISKY, HOLLAND GIN, TOM GIN and VERMOUTH. pl We guarantee these Cocktails to be made of abso- lately pure and w matured liquo and the mixing equal to the best cocktails served over any bar in the world; being com- pounded Inaccurate proportions, they will always be found of un quality, and Ing thoroug superior to. those mixed as wanted. We prefer you should buy of your dealer, If she does not keep them we will send a selection of four bottles, prepald, for $6.00. ‘G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., propretors, . 39 Broadway, N. Y., Hartford, Conn., and 20 Piccadilly, W. London, Eng. {2- For sale by all Druggists and Dealers, he Tus MANHATTAL Ouest txoly 4H eubeits HASERS SECURR ENTIRE *- LIFE: Solid Silver Exclusively. AND THE QUESTION “OS IT SILVER OR {8 IT PLATED?” IS NEVER RAISED CONCERNING A GIFT BRAKING OCR TRADE-MARN, WHITING M’F’G CO, Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th Street, NEW YORK. r We Cannot Supply soups for the million. z We are content to cater to the taste of the thousands who are most fastidious and | whose appreciation of the |; Franco - American Soups is | keen enough to cause them | to use no other. Sample can mailed on re- ceipt of postage, 14 cents. All grocers have them. Wren Poa, Clam Chowder, C Class "Broth, Peart Tapioca - Franco-American Food Company. West Broadway & Franklin Street, New York, Lowell Lowell Carpets have been famous for more than half a century. The best quality, designs, and coloring. To protect buyers from decep- tion, the word Lowell is woven in capital letters at each repeat of the pattern in the back of LOWELL BRUSSELS AND WILTONS. BWING & COMPANY, - Jersey City. Car p et S corrmant Yom GReaT oni wns mERDL NEON wncen tHe EVERY MORNING AND NIGHT — USE — Dentellaria Tooth Wash. For Cleansing and Preserving your Teeth. AT Att First-Ctass Davcctsts, OR FROM THE PROPRIETORS, are exhibiting in their Millinery Dept’s their Autumn Importations of Trimmed Hats & Bonne including correct effects in Polichinelle Hats for Street wear; Bandeaux and Toque For Evening and Theatre. West 23458 comicbooks.com \ 2 Le