Life, 1895-08-29 · page 2 of 16
Life — August 29, 1895 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not editorial satire. The top features a decorative silver trophy cup, promoting Whiting Manufacturing Company's solid sterling silver products at their Broadway location in New York. The accompanying text emphasizes their quality and use of maker's marks to ensure authenticity. The bulk of the page contains a major advertisement for Hilton, Hughes & Co.'s blanket sale. The copywriting uses seasonal logic (buy blankets in August when prices are low before winter demand drives them up) and employs marketing language about savings and value. Below that are smaller product advertisements for trunks, groceries, and other household goods. **There is no political cartoon or satirical content visible on this page**—it is a commercial advertising section from Life magazine.
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Designed and Made by Whiting M''g Co “ Mischief” fgr DANES Lip € defeating * Atalanta” in AMERICA'S CUP RACES. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ST SERVE TO EMPHASIZE THE CONCERNING ARTICLES STAMPED ERLING IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVING THE MAKER'S MARK. WE MAKE 5 OF STERLING EVERY ART! TRA THEREFORE ENTIRE PREEDOM OLID SILVER ONLY, QUALITY Wh Fixe; ICLE BEARING OUR DE MARK: PURCHASERS SECURE FROM FALSE IMPRESSIONS. HILTON, HUGHES & C Successors to A. T. STEWART & CO. BUY BLANKETS IN AUGUST! Why not—when prices are near to half! Solid Silver (Exclusively.) STERLING WHITING y Mrc Co. Silversmiths, Broadway & 18th St, NEW YORK. 09 Think Three winks of the moon and it will be Winter—and Blanket prices will be as stiff as icicles. then of 30 or go, maybe 50 per cent. saved on the Blanket money just by putting it out two or three months ahead of time! Beats owning a share in a Giant baseball team—just now. This Blanket movement ts as notable as the Carpet sale that has been making such a sensation. Not a mean Blanket in the lot, not a hurt or a smirched Blanket. These are brand new, spick and span, big and generous. The size range is from Crib Blankets to the biggest “tuck ins” fora double bed—maybe a hundred sorts. A few all cotton, some cotton and wool, mostly Pure Wool, and in every case we give you the size as the yard-stick shows it and the precise weight. $1.50 BLANKETS AT $1 PAIR. pounds. These are sturdy gray Blankets, | $6.50 BLANKETS AT $5 PAIR. |$9 BLANKETS AT $7.50 PAIR. Allcotton. Called 10-4, actual size 4x72 in. cotton warp and wool filling, Called 11-4, actual size zox82 in., weight 5 1 ize 70: i These are white cotton Blankets— reali) $4 BLANKETS AT $3 PAIR. pounds. “Every thread woolgood wool, | IN Sry way White ¢ pounds en BO Blankets—not the wide domet flannel kind |” Cstieq 41g, actual size joxto in, weight clean, soft and white. With gombed faces that so many stores) (Tt de.'sightly, serviceable white Blank: | $7.50 BLANKETS AT $6 PAIR. | MISCELLANEOUS. ; $3 BLANKETS AT $2.50 PAIR. Eetion warps hidden oy the mellgws fure| “pounds “Fine, lease wale wool” puk toe | Double Hed Spreads @is eee Called 1-4, actual size 7oxS2 in., weight 5441 wool filling. | gether in the best blanket way. Double Marsellies Spreads, 82.50, ould not be repeated now. And so the story goes. We made arrangements for this sale months ago at prices which ci quantities are large, but we have no hope of continuing these prices after these lots are gone. TRUNKS Steamer Chairs, $2 to $3.75. Marked and ed on steamer oF cars free. for travelers or stay at home, for every trunk s jk ‘The everything. What a comfort for the house- | wife to Know that she can order Groceries without guesswork. Claret Lemonade, finest quality, used ice water ; three days only, 26¢. bottle. Knapp’s Root Beer Extract, cach bottk deliv BASEMENT. use, and the most interesting trunk prices ever made in New York, they sa Duck covered muslin lined Dress Trunks, 2 trays, best brass Excelsior locks and rollers, 32 in., ®5.50: 34 in., @6; 36 in., 86.50. Regularly $4.50 to $7.50. Grain leather Gladstone Bags, nickel trim- mings, 18 in., $3.50; 24 in., 84.50, Grain leather’ Club Bags, leather lined, all sizes, ©2.65. Steamer Trunks, cloth lined, best brass locks, 83.75 to $6.50, HIGH GRADE BICYCLES $50. Rakish, light strong, dust proof bearings, first- class in every way and just the kinds that are now bringing $1oo in some stores. Bring your wheelwise friend and let him tell you how good they are. If you knew the maker's name that would be enough, BASEMENT. GROCERIES. Buy at random. You're safe. He warrants the wheels, We warrant Jersey cold-packed Tomatoes, best quality, more economical than fresh tomatoes for stewing. Three days only, Ze. can. California, Breakfast. Gem,“ Pettijohn's original breakfast food. The best. This week only Se. 2 Ib, package. Belfast Ginger Ale (Corry & Co.'s), best quality, no corks to pull, patent stoppers —no holder necessary, 10. bottle; @1.14 dozen ; $5.50 5 dozen case. Pure Fruit Syrups, all kinds, made expressly for us, $2e. pint, Sac. quart. makes 6 to 10 gallons, 1¥¢. bottle. French boneless Sardines, finest quality pure olive oil, 28¢. large ¢ French Olive Oil, our own importation, nose finer, Gate. larg 7.20 doz. ; 36e medium, 24¢, small bottle. Sliced Bahama Pineapples, eyeless and core less, heavy syrup, 18, can, Oyster Bay Asparagus, finest quality, key j attachment, a full’ bunch of large, shi tender spears, 1895 packing, Sic, can 83.60 dozen. The Entire Block, Broadway, 4th Ave., oth and roth Sts. Torrent Foe unoee THe TAT parvum OY DAWES WENCERSOP scr oF sees icbooks.com