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This page is primarily **advertisements** from a late-19th-century American magazine. The main content includes: **Notable Ads:** - **Armour's Beef Extract**: A soup flavoring product - **Reed & Barton silverware**: Ornate spoon/fork display - **Bibber Cigarettes**: Imported tobacco - **Travelers Insurance**: Company promoting accident insurance with financial details - **Halcyon Matrimonial Co.**: A **matchmaking service**—the most striking to modern eyes **The Satire:** Two brief jokes appear: 1. A man invited to an alderman's house with "ten lovely daughters" needs a catalogue to navigate them 2. A grumpy station master enjoys seeing people miss trains daily **What's Dated:** The Halcyon ad treats marriage-brokering as a legitimate business with fee schedules and client profiles seeking wealthy spouses—reflecting pre-modern dating conventions where matrimony was openly transactional. The insurance ad's lengthy financial claims emphasize company stability during an era of frequent corporate failures.

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That Delicious Flavor which your relish so much in Soups served in the best Cafés, can be secured at home, by using Extracto BEEF, Itgives to S make delicious Bo and a pinch of salt, —mailed free. Hon or clear Beet $ Nothing simpler. <a zest and flavor attainable in no other way. ap with Armour’s Ext Send for our boox of “Culinary Wankles * Armour & Company, Chicago. THE LATTER END of a contract is vastly more im- portant than the front end. Five dollars saved on a premium is a trifle; five thousand dollars lost by bad security when the claim falls due is not a trifle. Always try to find out which is likely to live longest. you or the company you insure in; and therefore whether the company is insuring You or you are insuring the company. A thing you can't get after you have paid for it isn’t cheap at half a cent. THE TRAVELERS OF Hartrorp, Coys. 1s the Ol¢est Accident Company In America, the Largest in the World, and has never reorgan- ized or frozen out any of Its claimants, Rates as low as will give permanent security of receiving the face value of the policy. Policies world-wide, and as liberal as consist. ent swith the Company's Reefing alive to pay Asis, SITSBKOQ0, Sup, $2,472.00. Paid Pollcy-Holders, $27,000,000 $2,161,000 In 1894. JAMES G. BATTERSON, President. RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. ds u SZUNION SQUARE 2" “SASMAIDEN LANE + ; Ue Sst R77 (0, old chappie, I hear you have got an invite to the alderman’s? I suppose you are aware he has ten lovely daughters ?” “Jupiter! How isa fellow to know his way about ?” * You'd better ask for a catalogue."—Ex. “THAT sour old fellow, Grumpus, has a job that just suits him.” “What's that?" “He's station master where Blty trains go out every day, and he sees somebody miss every one of them,."—Chicago Record. ALL IMPORTED TOBACCO. HIGHEST IN PRICE FINEST IN QUALITY. 25c. a Bundle, ro in Bundle. Trial Package in Pouch by mail for 25c. H. ELLIS & CO., Baltimore, Md. Tux American Tonacco Co., Successor. Importer and Maker of RICH FURS, 24 East 23d Street, Madison Square, South. Our Jacket Models for the coming Winter are ready for inspection. An entirely new departure in Sealskinrzand ersian Lamb. A large assortment of Capes and Collarettes in the new combinations of , ¥ Persian and Chinchilla, “SEALSKIN AND CHINCHILLA.” Sealskin and Imperial Ermine. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT. Special attention to the furnishing of skins and trimmings for Tailors and Makers of Robes et Manteaux. o Telephone, 656 18th. F, Youncuuseann, Treasurer. The Halcyon Matrimonial Co. Procures desirable partners for those matrimonially inclined. FULL PARTICULARS WITH BEST REFERENCES REQUIRED, O. Spooxer, Gen'l Manager. LICER, President. Possesses a fine voice and cultivated man- ners, Would like to sing in grand opera. Will marry desirable gentieman of easy disposition, who is musical and wealthy. Not particular astoage, Retired missionary, with no income, but has a large heart, and would bestow unbounded affection on the right sort of wife. Would prefer a widow with ample means and no children. SCHEDULE OF RATES For Candidates under 30 years of age, - - $50.00 i ‘between 30 and 45, - : 60.00 “ 60, 75.00 60 ‘ 100, - 95.00 A preliminary deposit of $25 to be made in all cases. Address all communications to HALCYON MATRIMONIAL CO., 21 West 31st St., N.Y. l Payable J nuptials