Life, 1895-05-23 · page 2 of 18
Life — May 23, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a large advertisement for **Whiting Mfg Co., silversmiths** located on Broadway & 18th Street, New York, showcasing solid silver items like letter openers, boxes, and decorative vessels. The surrounding advertisements include: - A book about "Suppressed Chapters" by Robert Bridges - Hotels and restaurants (Vendome, Profile House) - Beecham's pills - European travel tours - Various retail establishments There are no political cartoons or satirical commentary visible on this page. It represents a typical early 20th-century *Life* magazine layout, where editorial content shared space with commercial advertisements from established New York businesses and publishers.
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(ConveiGuTEn) * LIBRE Solid TRADE (Exclusively.) Wuitinc M'rc Co. Broapway & 18TH Sr., Nrw York. Silver © (Hate Actual. Size.) s |Suppressed Chapters NEW AND OTHER BOOKISHNESS “ By ROBERT BRIDGES BOOK | coxrewta: Suppressed Chapters— Arcadian Letters—Novels that Everybody Read—The Literary Partition of Scotland—Friends BY in Arcady—Arcadian Opinions. IN UNIFORM STYLE DROCH. | ” uNeur £0 CHARLES SCRIB! GILT TOP, 12mo, $1.25 SONS, Publishers, New York ¢ ¢ Overheard In Arcady (Third Edition) ! The Ideal HOTEL of America wee VENDOME «»- dosievard, BOSTON. wcsttrate C. 1. Greextear & Co. PROFILE | WHITE HOUSE MT'NS Indisputadly Location un- the leading surpassed in Summer Re- scenic at- sort of tractions, Tarr & Greencear, Beecham’s pills for con- stipation roc. and 25c. Get the book at your druggist’s and go by it. Annual sales more than 6,000,000 boxes. No “OLD CROW RYE” fs gennine unless the word OY E {s printed on the label and case, and our frm name is on the case, cork, capsule and label. Many counterfeits are offered. Every barrel of rye whiskey made at this dis- tillery for the past 23 years has been sold and felivered to us. The ROBERT STEWART RYE Is the best Eastern rye. Train's “RESERVE STOCK" RO. B. Glenlivet Scotch Whiskey, bottled in Glasgow: very old and choice, ‘All the popular brands of wines, liquors, malt liquors, &c.; very old and medium ages, H. B. KIRK & CO., 69 Fulton Street. Also Broadway and 27th Street. Private European Parties (nicuTn season.) May 11, tour of 63 days: June 8, tour of s6 days; June 20, tour of 64 days; June 29, tour of 87 days. Comprehensive and delightful routes. For descriptive book and reference, address, TRS. MN. D. PRAZAR & CO., 70 and 71 Globe Building, Boston, Mass.| Ninth Street. BROAD HEE IOKSs. hepa FOURTH AVE. Successors roAT.Sitwart & Co, FOURTHA THE SPIRIT OF SPRINGTIME is all over the store—with glance ahead toward Summer. Light and airy Dress Goods ; co} and comfortable Wrappers and Shirt Waists; a wilderness of eas} breezy shapes for men’s neglige wear, and all the comforts th Awnings, filmy Curtains and lazy Hammocks can bring. Gathered with a liberal hand, price-marked sometimes so you think we mean to do business as a pastime. WITH THE SILKS. Don't judge of qualities by prices. It wouldn't be fair. The makers ha | dream of such low figures nor had the importers—nor had we, for that matter. } it's a great thing to be able to take Opportunity by the hand, [t's a greater thing. have the nerve to do it. This grand merchandise outlet of ours, growing gra i every day, warrants us in taking any lots no matter how large they are—if the po are but interesting. WITH THE BOOKS. Take one hap-hazard. Look at the pencil mark inside the back cover. Itt > the price, almost always much lower than the publisher's price. No danger of pay‘ too much in a live bookstore when the prices are all plainly marked. Another surprise—more cloth bound books at 12e, each, handsomely printed good paper, clear type, 5x63¢ inche: Love Letters of a Worldly Woman—Clifford | Beyond the City Gate —Conan Doyle. The Man in Black.—Stanley Weyman. The Hired Baby —Marie Corelli. The House of the Wolf,—Stanley Weyman. A Romance of Two Worlds.— Marie Cor Ships That Pass in the Night.—Harraden A Case of Identity —Conan Doyle At the Green Dragon. —Harraden. A Yellow Aster.—lota. Dodo —Benton. Charlotte Temple,—Rawson. Vashti and Esther. Esther Waters.—George Moore. The Sign of the Four.—Conan Doyle. Singularly Deluded.— Sarah Grand. Reveries of Bachelor.—Ik Marvel rah Grand. A Study in Scarlet.- Conan Doyle. | Miss Milne and I.—Gaffyn | | Four from miscellaneous tables, almost at random. ‘ Decisive Events, or Half Hours with American | The Viking Age.—Early history of the Ea# History. by Charles Morris, Illustrated, | speaking nations, by Paul Du Chaillu, 1) Qctavo, 1074 pages, leather, $4; our price,| illustrated. 2 vols., 8 vo., $7.59: OUF $1.25. 2.00. Popular History of England, by Charles Knight; Half Hours with the Best Authors, 9 vols., illustrated, $9; our price, $4.50. Knight, 4 vols., 12 mo., our price $1.75. COrTRT F08 GAtAT GaiTaun OT aint RORDEASOR comicbooks.com