Life, 1894-08-09 · page 2 of 14
Life — August 9, 1894 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **predominantly advertising** from a late 19th-century issue of Life magazine, not political satire or comics. The main visual element is a decorative silver cup—the "Larchmont Cup for Schooners, 1893, won by 'Lasca'"—advertising Whiting Manufacturing Company's sterling silver goods. This appears to be a luxury product advertisement celebrating a sailing trophy. The remaining content consists of commercial ads for upholstery services (Hilton, Hughes & Co.), housefurnishing goods, luggage, and railroad service ("America's Greatest Railroad"). There is no evident political cartoon or satirical commentary on this page. It represents typical Life magazine advertising space from the 1890s, showcasing middle and upper-class consumer goods and services.
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DESIGNED AND MADE BY WHITING M’F'Q CO. LARCHMONT CUP FOR SCHOONERS, 1893. won by “Lasca.” We sage Soup Siiver oxey, OF STERLING QUALITY Yi EVERY ARTICLE BEARING OUR TRADR-MARK, THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM FROM PALSE IMPRESSIONS, Solid Silver Exclusively. ST WaltTinc Mc Co Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th St. NEW YORK. HILTON, HUGHES & C0., Successors to A. T. STEWART & CO. Upholstery Dep’t. Hammocks, All Kinds, 75°**- rm 4,25 3 Mosquito Bed Canopies, il (for double beds), 2.'° 0 3. Furniture Slip Covers, g.°° Lace Curtains cleaned equal to new, 70°: 5. Other Kinds, 1 25 ° pr. Reupholstering of Housefurnishing Goods. Most superb stock ever gathered to- gether for complete outfits for dwellings. apartments, yachts, offices and hotels. No seconds in our stock, Every article guaranteed Solid Leather Dress Suit Cases, Linen lined, brass spring lock, turned over edge, all sizes, 4. cach; (reduced from 6,50, 7.00 anc Ladies’ Traveling Trunks. Best finish, lock, linings, rollers, ete.. 28 to 4oin,, 4.10 7.0: (worth 5.50 and 9.00). per set of 5 oF 7 pieces | Furniture at very jowest rates. Estimates furnished, | THE BNTIRE BLOGK, | Broadway, 4th Ave, 9th and 10th Sts, UNDOUBTEDLY TRUE The ** New York and Chicago Limited * is the successor to the New York Central's famous ‘Exposition Flyer" between New York and Chicago, every day in the year. Leaves Grand Central Station, New Vork. at 10,30 A. M. to-day. Arrives Lake Shore Station, Chicayo, at 9.30 A. M. to-morrow. Leaves Lake Shore Station, Chicago, at 5.30 P. M. to-day, Arrives Grand Central Station, New York, at 6.30 P.M. to-morrow. This is the most comfortable and most in- teresting thousand-mile railroad ride in the world, as it is over the great Four-Track Trunk Line of the United States, through the beautiful Mohawk Valley, and along the historic Hudson River—via “AMERICA’S GREATEST RAILROAD.” Do not sell Mixed or Compounded Goods. according to age. No other house can furnish “04 Crow" Kye Whiskey. Sold by us uncolored, unset ened. Tho Robert Stewart Ryo Whiskey. at the Distillery. The best Eastern Rye. Sole agents the Pleasant Valley Wine Co. Sole agents {or 4 Inglenook Wines. Send for Catalogue. 69 Fulton St., Broadway and 27th St., New Yt 40 Years in Fulton St. A.B. Kirk & Co. comicbooks.com