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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertisements** with no political cartoons or satire. The content includes: - **Raymond & Whitcomb Tours**: promoting luxury California winter travel with transcontinental trains - **Anheuser-Busch Malt Nutrin**: a beverage marketed for children's health and vigor - **Beecham's Pills**: a constipation remedy - **Columbia Bicycle**: highlighting women's fashion-appropriate cycling wear - **Stern Bros**: fur garments and accessories - **Hilton, Hawkes & Co.**: department store merchandise (women's wraps, gloves, dress goods, Black Goods) The only potentially satirical element is **"Have the Birds Told You,"** a Hilton, Hawkes & Co. advertisement using flowery language about store merchandise quality, though it reads more as period marketing hyperbole than sharp satire. This is a commercial page typical of early 1890s Life magazine, reflecting era-specific products and consumer culture rather than political commentary.

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ALL TRAVELING EXPENSES INCLUDED. e . e e A Winter in California. Special trains of magnificent vestibuled sleeping and dining cars will leave New York at frequent intervals tor California. The tickets cover every expense of travel both ways, and give the holder entire freedom of movement on the Pacific Coast and for the return trip. They may be used returning on any regular train until July, 1896, or on our own special vestibuled trains with personal escort. Choice of routes for the outward and return trip. These tours are in- tended principally for those who wish to travel In the most comfortable manner. Tours to Atlanta Exposition, Florida, Cuba, Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, the Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite Valley, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, Europe, including Russia, etc., etc., in season. Independent Railroad and Steamship tickets to all points. Sond for descriptive book mentioning particular information desired. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, Lincoln Building, 31 East 14th St., Cor. Union Sq.. West. New York. Rollicking Childhood. It is surely your dearest wish to see your children strong and happy with sparkling eyes and lively, sturdy limbs. ANHEUSER-BUSc), ° TRADE aay, is the ideal y for growing a dren. They like the taste and it will nog mothers. TO BE HAD AT. DRUGGISTS « GROCERS. Prepared by ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS'N, St. Louis, U.s Send for handsomely illustrated colored booklets and other reading matter SPECIAL NOTICE. The Supreme Court of Washington, D. C., has awarded to the Anheuser! Brewing Ass'n the disputed Highest Score of award with Medal and Diploma d World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 1893. 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. BROADWAY OE 1OUSia POURTH AVE. it here—full of it around town and voice merchants from all over the ing was ever done before. WOMEN’S WRAPS. There's a just-right length, there are j| stylish shapes, there are proper stuffs, there are making aod trimming, and all that. just as there should be. The ideal stock wou'd have just such things and nothing else. See if we haven't come nearer to it than any store you ever saw. Practical, ‘beautiful, stylish Capes and Coats, and the prices surprisingly low. $1 AND $1.50 GLOVES, soc. The Woman's glove marvel of the year Real Nappa dog skin, heavy, warm, grace- ful, perfect fitting and easy on the hand. 4 strong, big, real horn buttons, embroid- ered in the newest spear point style. Browns, tans and reds. Will outwear six gloves of poor quality. The poorest could not be reproduced under $1, or the choice of them for less than $1.50. DRESS GOODS of every kind are at their very best.‘ Not in 1g years have I seen anything approach- ing the'variety and exceilence of this assort-| Cycling Delight is at its greatest these days. Cool, bracing air; hard, smooth, dustless roads. The COLUMBIA BICYCLE holds $100 of de- light in every dol- lar of the $100 it costs. You may just as well buy your machine for Text year now. POPE MFG. CO., on c ‘Amo vacro: HARTFORD, CONN. Filton FeuckesV@y Successors roAT.Stewarr & BROAOWAY SAEIOASS FOURTH AYE. HAVE THE BIRDS TOLD YOU of our wonderful store doings ? The air is full of around the country. With one land say that no such store-keep- ment at anything like these prices.” A dress goods man with a lifetime of ex- perience said thaton Saturday. Of course he is right. Nobody has seen the match of this gathering. Crepon Soyeuse, latest designs, and color combines, $2.50 up to $6. English and Scotch Cheviots, in heather mixturcs, $1.50, $1.75 and 2. Mohair Natte, solid colors, lustrous, #2. szin. Mohair and Worsted novelty, 6 col- orings, $1.25. 44in, wool and camel's hair Cheviot, 6 new les, #1. sz-in, mohair and wool Suiting, 756. 4oin Mluminated Novelty, knots of mohair over surface, GRe. 38in silk mixed Plaids, 7¢. Wool Plaids, 5 and 58c. BLACK GOODS so-in. Boucle, full lustre yarn, ®1. sein wool and mohair Fancies, 75. so-in, English clay Diagonal, $1. 4z-in. Storm Serge, double warp, 50e. 38 in, tufted Vigogne, S8e. sein wooland mohair fancy Jacquard, $1 the latest Parisian 83,50 up to 85, COPTmAT OR GAtAT OaTam VADER THE AGT Stern Bro Extreme Novelties in High Grade Fur Garments, Jackets and Capes For Street and Evening Wet Coachmen’sFus Floor Rugs, Fur Trimming West 23d SI icbooks.com