Life, 1895-12-05 · page 17 of 18
Life — December 5, 1895 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with no political cartoons or satire. It contains six commercial advertisements typical of the 1890s era: **Key advertisements include:** - **Anheuser-Busch's Malt Nutrine**: A "nourishing food drink" claimed to restore health, build flesh, and aid nursing mothers—reflecting Victorian-era patent medicine marketing - **Waverley Bicycles**: Emphasizes scientific construction and American manufacturing superiority - **Adipo-Malene**: A beauty product promising to beautify women's faces (with testimonial imagery) - **American Club House Cheese**: Marketed as a delicacy - **Veloutine**: French toilet powder, awarded at Paris Exhibition 1889 - **Janowitz's Duplex Eagle Dress Bone**: Corset stiffening product **Historical context**: These ads reveal late-19th-century consumer culture priorities: health tonics, beauty enhancement, sporting goods, and domestic/fashion products. The emphasis on scientific credentials and international awards reflects contemporary marketing strategies targeting middle-class consumers.
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Are You Unnerved? Has society or business wearied and weakened you? The nour- ishing food drink, s @e TRADE MARK, will give you new life, restore the falterins circulation, quicken the lagging organs an build healthy flesh at the rate of two to five pounds for every bottle used. It is full of the nourishment needed by nursing mothers. To be had at all Druggists? and Grocers. Prepared by ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS’N, St. Louis, U. S. A. Send for handsomely illustrated colored booklets and other reading matter. FINAL TRIUPMPH—The Supreme Court of Washington, D.C. has awarded to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n the disputed Highest Score of Award with Medal and Diploma of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. ase pf IGYGLES. Are made in the Largest and Best Equipped Bicycle Factory in the World. It requires a corps of scientific men to construct a bicycle that will meet the demands of the modern rider. We have the best men in the world in each departmeut—steel experts, mechanical experts. super- intendent, master mechanic, etc.—the largest and most thoroughly modern bicycle plant in the world— buy the best high-grade material, regardless of cost, and make every part under our own roof—hence we know we are right in warranting the Waverley tobe the best bicvcle built in the world, regardless of price Dovou want the best? “Our catalogue is free by mall. INDIANA BICYCLE CO., 'edianapolls, '04., U.S.A TINE 81 HYGIENIC, ADHCRENT & INVISIB! The only awarded at the Paris Exhibition 1889. VELOU TOILET POWDER — CEX,. FAW, Inventor 9, Rue de ta Palx, Parls.— Cantioa. Nove Genuie but those bearing the word “FRANCE” and the signatare C11. FAY. Last eppiita swith testi. af will be 8 nt died by the use of rd, by return mail. ADIPO-MALENE. LE. MARSH & CO idison Sq., Philadelphia, Pa, Cheese Fanciers everywhere find a N YP pleasing Delicacy re in the soft, rich KIS American ~ Club House Law Cheese. “14 Worthy a Fiace on tha “It Tickles the Palate.” fciiciesiy sented Flas farsto prevent mold and waste. A regularaite jat wil be Seat to Say adress express prepaid, om receipt of s0 cents, “I am exceedingly pleased with bay en CHANDLER & RUDD CO., 36 Euclid Ave., Cleveland,0, ed DRESS BONE PATENTED (G—Send lor vate sampce fo ——— SULILS JANOWITZ— 153 GRAND St. AY. \afural Chal”