Life, 1894-12-27 · page 51 of 53
Life — December 27, 1894 — page 51: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political commentary**. It contains three distinct ads: 1. **Golden Sceptre Smoking Tobacco** (top): A straightforward product advertisement showing a man smoking a pipe, offering a 10-cent sample to potential customers. 2. **E.A. Morrison & Son** (left): A Christmas announcement for fancy goods—leather bags, combs, hair pins, photo frames—relocated to a new department store location on Broadway. 3. **United States Mutual Accident Association** (right): An insurance advertisement highlighting their "Square Combination Policy" offering $10,000 death benefits and weekly indemnity. The ad notably emphasizes that accidents often occur during travel even when conveyances aren't wrecked—a selling point for comprehensive coverage at $24 yearly. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture: pipe smoking as respectable leisure, decorative accessories as gift items, and emerging accident insurance as a modern commercial product. There is no apparent satire or caricature present.
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= a WE WANT YOU TO TRY GOLDEN SCEPTRE SMOKING TOBACCO.” % ~ All the talk in the world will not convince you so quickly ——SURBRUG, as a trial that it is almost PERFECTION. We will send on receipt of 10 cents a sample to any address. Prices of Golden Sceptre: 1 Ib., $1.30; !¢ Ib., 40 cents, postage paid. Catalogue free. ‘159: Fulton Street, NEW YORK CITY, Christmas Announcement Our Fancy Goods Department has been removed to the igth Street part of the store, considerably enlarged and newly furnished. The stock consists of a very fine assort- ment of CHATELAINE BAGS, in Real Leather, Crochetted and Beaded with Sterling Silver Mountings. Pocket Books and Card Cases, THE COMBINATION Card Case and Pocket Book, Pursesand (1emorandum Books Real Shell Hair Pins, | Back Combs and Gold Mounted Side Combs Photo Frames and Fans. E. A. Morrison & Son, 803 Broadway. N. B.—Our Carriage Entrance on 1 Ns fs gth Street opens directly into this department. The Square Combination Policy of The United States Mutual Accident Association, 320, 322 & 324 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CHARLES B, PEET, President. WM. BRO, SMITH, Secretary. Gives $10,000 death benefit, $50 weekly indemnity, and liberal indemnities for loss of limb or sight. For accidents occurring while the insured is traveling by steam, cable or electricity; half theabor lents. Other combination policies give double benefits only in case of wrecking of the con- ve for other acci- veyance. Official statistics show that more accidents occur to trav- elers where the train or other conveyance is not wrecked than where it is. It costs only $24 per year, less than stock companies charge for the ordinary $5,000 policy. This policy covers with double benefits accidents to passen- gers whether the conveyance is wrecked or not. comicbooks.com