Life, 1896-04-09 · page 17 of 20
Life — April 9, 1896 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains five product advertisements typical of early 1900s American magazines: 1. **Monarch Bicycles** — positioning the bike brand as reliable and worthy of loyalty ("king") 2. **Veuve Clicquot Champagne** — luxury product ad 3. **Acid-Malene** — a beauty/skin treatment product 4. **Tip-Nuh** — appears to be a food or digestive product 5. **Anheuser-Busch Malt Nutrine** — the largest ad, marketing malt beverage as medicinal nutrition for families, pregnant women, and the ill (note the era's looser claims about alcohol's health benefits) 6. **Blair's Pills** — patent medicine for gout and rheumatism The only illustrated content is a romantic domestic scene (man and woman) that accompanies the Malt Nutrine ad, reinforcing the "family health" marketing angle. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page—it's a standard commercial magazine page from the patent-medicine era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
MON ARCH KING OP BICYCLES Beloved by his subjects because he docs right by them. There’s goodness and merit in every inch of his kingly fame. guaranteed, Por eb rere Youo WM LABEL co ae D LABEL "BRUT: How TO MAKE Blair’s Pills Great English Remedy for GOUT and RHEUMATISM. SAPE, SURE, EFFECTIVE. ‘ee 2 Witlass By Now York should study its needs: wholesome food, proper clothing, 4 3 good air, exercise and (not the least necessary) an occasional ¢ tonic. For debility will creep in. ' pNHEUSER-BUScy, e S\uline TRADE MARK is a food drink. One sup of it will give you more grain § strength—actual nourishment—than a dozen loaves of; bread. It gives consumptives and sufferers from wasting { diseases greater strength and healthy flesh, and gives | $ nursing mothers just the nourishment they want. 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. ‘ GENERAL AGENTS: O. MEYER & OO., 24-27 West St., New York City. R. NAEGELI, Hoboken, New Jersey. 3" THIMIG BOTTLING CO., 435 to 443 Atlantic Ave., Sein NY. 4 comicbooks.com