Life, 1895-03-07 · page 2 of 20
Life — March 7, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire or editorial content. The top features **Whiting Mfg Co.**, a silversmith advertising solid silver goods from their Broadway location in New York. The ornamental trade mark (a lion with a shield) emphasizes product authenticity. Below are three separate ads: **Chocolat Suchard** (Swiss chocolate), **Holton, Hughes & Co.** (a harness and grocery department store with locations across Broadway and various avenues), and **Stern Bros** (showing Paris dress goods and fabrics). The only illustrated figure is a stylized woman in the Chocolat Suchard ad—a generic advertisement image, not a caricature or political reference. There is no discernible satire or commentary on this page; it represents typical *Life* magazine commercial space from the late 19th or early 20th century.
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‘LIFE: Solid Silver (Exclusively.) We make Soup Sitver onty, OF STERLING QUALITY Wily FINE; EVERY ARTICLE, BRARING OUR TRADE-MARK. THEREFORE PURCHASERS ; SECURE ENTIRE FREEDOM STERLING WauitTine Mrc Co. Silversmiths, ROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS. Broadway & 18th St, NEW YORK. are now showing their importations of High Class Broadway, 4th Avenue, 9th and 40th Streets, |Novelties Successors to A. T, STEWART & CO., in | OUR NEW Paris HARNESS DEPARTMENT. {Dress Goods consisting in part of These lines of Handsewed Harness are| Great Sale of Crepon Vaporeux, the cheapest in this city. | Ciepon'Barese Chocolate Buggy Harness, Gen- STABLE BLANKETS. ee eae ; uine Rubber Trimmed, $15 00 | rant size, 614 ete: repon;ounlane: Connoisseurs appreciate a cup First Class in every . ull size, O34 Ibs... . . . GG ets Crepon Tricotine. of Chocolat Suchard. Its purity, respect... delicious flavor, and delicate | be 3 a >) e tt lity if quality have marked Suchard as ne ioe Runa- \ $28 00 7 eeqney Mohair and Goat's Hait the European Standard for the ees Fawn Shape Blanket, . . $360 in new effects. past seventy years. You. cannot do better than in our} . Also Coach and Four-in-Hand = Hamess.| ‘These Blankets are easily worth double | ly | of Obtainable from all Good Every article is guaranteed. —the quantity is limited. xceptionally large assortments Grocers. Black Crepon Chiffon, J 1 hard Crepon Chalis and Chocolat: Suchen Our New Grocery Department. Tissu du Jour. Ui: Dene 73 Water Purest Goods—Expressed free within 100 shipping miles. West 23d St | SRST Von GREAT OnTAN OY AMD RERDERION AOE THE ACT OF teat. Another—same weight, He ots. ' Silk and Wool.