Life, 1893-11-23 · page 3 of 26
Life — November 23, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page is **primarily advertising**, with one small cartoon at the bottom left. The cartoon labeled "This poor man" / "Alas! He" shows two figures and brief text about someone becoming "a little horse." This appears to be a **medical/health joke** common to the era, likely referencing a condition or ailment, possibly playing on the phrase "I'm hoarse" (losing one's voice). The parallel "has become more horse" suggests a before-and-after comparison of physical deterioration. The rest of the page consists of product advertisements typical of 1893: Krakauer fashions, Dr. Lyon's tooth powder, Club cocktails, Lowell carpets, and various patent medicines and tonics. These ads reflect late-Victorian consumer culture and the era's heavy marketing of questionable health products. The magazine's satirical purpose is unclear from this particular page.
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- LIFE: KRAKAUER, Ladies’ Tailors, 391 Fifth Avenue, Cor, 36th AUTUMK, 1893. Mr. J. Krakauer has returned from Europe, with his usual display y of Novelties and Styles, and begs to it'an carly inspec- tion, We also take pleasure in announcing that at the request of numer- ous patrons, we have opened a department especially for the manufacture of young misses’ garments. Our new scale of prices. moderated to meet the present times, we are confident, will receive instant approval, Perfect Fit Guaranteed. SHAYNE’S FURS NEw YORK, CHICAGO. ARE THE BEST. Seven Highest Awards of the World’s Columbian Exposition Received by us on Garments of RUSSIAN SABLI NATURAL MUDSON OTTER. DYED HUD. YY EI SON BAY OTTER, SEALSKIN, FISHER, FUR PELTS DRESSED READY FOR USE, ALL KINDS. THE NEW NECK BOA. with head and claws in perfect representation of the animal, in all leading fashionable furs, which will be found useful for one's own use or for Christmas Gifts. _ Goods sent, post-paid, at follow- ing prices: Gesnine mink. $5: better gmnde, 88, and the handsomext for Geantne Hirdaca's Ray Sable. good quality, $10; better for 0. $5; handsome for $20; very handsome darkest Sot ghaiceat for $30. Human Sable, $30, $75, $100, $156, $300 Fashion Book Mailed Free. C. C. SHAYNE, Manufacturing Furrier, 124 & 126 West 42d 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 tack of LOWELL BRUSSELS AND WILTONS. Carpets It, ia the business of T ERS" BUREAUS 0} (Herkimer, , trustworthy informat resorts. Inquiries should be accom: panted by 19 cents In stampa, WHERE FOR THE WINTER? @ |) DEAFIESS.&.1649.Noises cunen ea all remedies fa sola iy by F, Mascon, 659 Bway, Nes Witte for book ot presto REE. Are YOUR Teeth Worth Saving? Cleanses and Preserves Them. URSE GIR POND Nurse Gt “Do you like it?” “Like it? Why, it is right in front of a police station."— Exchange. So you've got a new place. Yes. Smatt Boy : lady ? Para: Well, I never heard of a widow gentleman. —New York fournat. Papa, is it correct to say a widow They are Read wherever English is Spoken, What? TOWN TOPICS. (32 pages.) The brightest, wittiest, spiciest, most complete and en- tertaining Weekly ever published. (Bressand Public all concede this.) And TALES FROM TOWN TOPICS. (as6 pages.) Quarterly Magazine Of the best novels, racy short stories, poems, sketches, burlesques, etc., by the cleverest writers of the day. Now is the time to subscribe for both these publications to avail of following SPECIAL INDUCEMENT. For $5.00, both will be sent throughout entire year 1894, and Town Topics for the rest of this year, ree. in- cluding great Christmas Number (price 25 cents) and TALES FROM TOWN TOPICS Holiday Number (10) containing the great prize novel, ANTHONY KENT, will be sent rxex, postpaid, or For $1.00 trial subscription for three months any hack Number you may specify of Tales from Town Topics will be sent rex, in addition to the Weekly TOWN TOPICS for one-quarter year, N. B.—Remit ‘now in cheque, money order or postal note, to TOWN TOPICS, 2 West 23d St... N.Y. $227" For Christmas Number (double) of Town Topics, out December 7th, the best of the year, ask your news- man, or send stamps, 25 cents, as above, This poor man Alas! He has become a little horse, has become more horse, If you become a little hoarse, You should be cured, at once, of course. More hoarse it does not do to be ; Better use Whitman's Jujube. WHITMAN'S JUJUBE. For Si Speakers. Keeps the Throat moist and Sold everywhere. Mailed for 25 cents, STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & 80N, 1816 Chestnut Street, , Philadelphia, Pa, ers and Public ¢ Voice clear. A BETTER COCKTAIL AT HOME THAN IS SERVED OVER ANY BAR IN THE WORLD. The Club Cocktails MANHATTAN, MARTINI, WHISKY, HOLLAND GIN, TOM GIN and VERMOUTH. We guarantee these Cocktails to be made of abso- lutely pure and well matured liquors, and the mixing equal to the best cocktails served over any bar in the world; being com- pounded in accurate proportions, they will always be found of uniform quality, and, blend. Ing thoroughly, are superior to those mixed as wanted. We prefer you should buy of yourdealer. If he does not keep them we will send a selection of four bottles, prepaid, for $6.00. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., proprietors, 39 Broadway, N. Y., Hartford, Conn., and 20 Piccadilly, W. London, Eng. $97 For sale by all Druggists and Dealers WINE OF HEALTH, As prepared by the old Moors of Gnaxapa from a recipe by the ILLUSTRIOUS MOHAMED BEN HASSEN This magnificent preparation 1s of the purest Andalusian Wine with the most healthful herbs, and 1s ono of the greatest aids to health and longevity. A Stomachio and Tonic for Aneamta, Malaria, Indl: gestion, Loss of Appetite, Lassitude and Weakness of the Digestive Organs. Sold by all Grocers and Druggists. SENO FOR DesoniPTivE CIRCULAR. NEW YORK-Roche & Co,, { 120 Brondway & CHICAGO—A. W, Cobb & Co., 41 River Street, BOSTON—Maynard & Child, 102 State Street. SOLE PROPRIETORS, W. C. BEVAN & CO, Malaga Spain) The Celebrated ‘‘Red Label’? Champagne, extra dry and Brut, is known everywhere and recognized asthe best. Maison fondee en_1864 by Vve Theophi Roederer & Co., successors. T. W. temmler & Co., Union Square, New York, Sole Agents. comicbooks.com