Life, 1895-06-20 · page 2 of 16
Life — June 20, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page contains **primarily advertisements**, not political cartoons or satire. The content includes: 1. **Whiting Mfg Co.** - A sterling silver manufacturer advertising solid silver goods, featuring an ornate trophy labeled "Massachusetts Naval Brigade Trophy" 2. **Hilton, Hughes & Co.** - A general retailer (successors to A.T. Stewart & Co.) advertising women's shirt waists, Speedway bicycles ($60), and sewing machines 3. **Merchandise focus** - The ads emphasize quality and value: shirt waists ($0.50–$1.25), bicycles ($60), sewing machines (compared favorably to $150 competitors) The page reflects **late 19th/early 20th-century consumer culture**, showcasing goods targeting middle-class American women—clothing, transportation, and domestic technology. There is **no apparent political satire or caricature** on this particular page.
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Designed and made by Whiting M'fg Co, We OF STERLING QUALITY ify FINE, Solid Silver ( Exclusively.) sT Wuitinc Mec Co. Silversmiths, MAKE Soup SiLvER ONLY, EVERY ARTICLE GEARING OUR TRADR-MARK. THEREFORE PURCHASERS SECURE ENTIRE PREEDUM FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS, ERGLING Broadway & 18th St., NEW YORK. HILTON, HUGHES & CO. Successors to A. T. STEWART & CO. YOU NEEDN'T LOOK TWICE as matter of precaution at anything you buy here. If goods purchased of us are not exactly as represented you can be sure 9 stand behind everything we sell. We two things: 1—That we were deceived first ; 2—That you can have your money back for the asking. Women’s Shirt Waists Surely some good genius devised Shirt Waists, so easy, so dressy, so cheap. Half a dozen Shirt Waists, half a dozen Skirts, jumble them up and you have suit combinations almost past counting. Chintz Shirt Waists, laundered collar and cuffs, gath- ered front, yoke back, white ground with pink, blue and black stripes, 50¢. Percale Shirt Waists, g dered collar and cuffs, hered front yoke back, laun- very neat patterns. 6§c. Fine percale Shirt Waists, white grounds with pink and blue pin stripes, laundered collar and cuffs, $1. Fine percale Shirt Waists, gathered front and back, laundered collar and cuffs, pretty patterns, $1.25. | Sateen Shirt Waists, yoke back, plaited blouse, in pretty patterns, laundered collar and cuffs, $1.75. Shirt Waists in lawn and dimity, laundered collar and cuffs, pretty patterns, $1.75 and $2. Speedway Bicycles $60 High grade Bicycles, with the makers warrant (and ours) behind every one. | Look them over. Get your Bicycle-| wise friend to pass on their points. Not so good machines were $150 a year or so ago. Basement. Sewing [achines So far as we know there isn’t a better | Sewing Machine in the market, no mat- | ed for five years. ter what the name, than the Stewar No. 2 at $18.75. Try it any way, put i to any test, it’s as near a perfect Maching as can be made. When sold in the cow mission way $55 or $60 would be count ed a close price for one. It is becavs we strip off all these extra costs and gitq you the Machine just as we give J any other goods that we can make t4 price so small. The No. 1 Stewart at $12.75 is ful size, with three drawers, and is warratt We believe it to 4 by far the best Machine ever sold for# little as $15 even. Sewing Machines are delivered {4 anywhere in the United States east the Rocky Mountains. comicbooks.com