Life, 1896-04-16 · page 2 of 20
Life — April 16, 1896 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Content Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains: 1. **"Chip's Dogs"** (left): A collection of humorous dog drawings by "Chip," a cartoonist known in Life magazine, priced at $1.00. 2. **"Life's Comedy"** (top right): An advertisement for the second issue of Life's Comedy series, devoted to sweethearts and lovers, featuring 32 pages with illustrations, priced at 25 cents. 3. **Multiple book and clothing advertisements**: Including "Books at Random" (Holton, Hughes & Co.), ladies' clothing from Arnold Constable & Co., and French underwear from Stern Bros. The page represents typical late 19th/early 20th-century magazine advertising rather than satirical political content. The "Chip" cartoons appear to be lighthearted animal humor rather than social commentary.
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““Chip’s”’ Dogs. SW | LIFE'S COMEDY. A collection of humorous drawings by the famous | “CHIP,” so well known in the columns of Lire and elsewhere. Large Quarto 9% x 12, on plate paper, handsomely bound, Price, $1.00. For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of price by the publishers, HE second number of Lire’s Comepy, devoted to FETHEARTS AND LOVERS To be ready MAY 1st. It will contain 32 pages of beautifully printed illustrations on heavy calendered paper, with a specially decorated cover printed in colors. Price, 25 CENTS. Subscriptions, One Dollar a Year, Postage Paid. Drawings by Gibson, Wenzell, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sulli- vant, and others. NEW YORK, PUBLISHERS, 19 & 21 West 3ist St., New York City. Ladies’ Cloths. English, Irish and Scotch Tweeds and Homespuns, Shepherd Checks, English Costume Cloths, Golf, Cycle and Tennis Suitings, Black and Colored Serges, Fancy Checked Skirtings, Broad Ribbed Corduroys, Covert Cloths. Venetians, Kerseys, and Mixed Meltons. ' White and Colored Ducks. Broadway L ‘ 96 ot. ie NEW YORK, BROADWAY e, OAE1OdSe ‘OURTH AVE. if you picked and chose. By Fr son BURNETT. 12mo. $ 10, Little Rivers, By HENRY VAN Dyke. Fully illustrated. $2.00, Our price, 81.50, Madame Roland." By Ips M, TARBELL. With 12 illustrations. $1.50. Our price, ‘81.10. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. By Eugene Field. $1.25. Our price, 90¢. The House. An episode in the lives of Ruben B. Astronomer, and his wife, NE FIELD, $1.25. Out Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Peoples’ pictorial edition, Being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers. Condensed and arranged for popular reading. Pub- lished by the Century Co. 324 pages. Illustrated with nearly 1,000 cuts. Ob- long quarto, 11x13 inches. Our ‘price, The Red Republic. A Romance of thé Commune. By Ronert W. CHAMBERS. 1.26. Our price, 90¢. Cieg Kelly, Arab'of the City. By S. R. CROCKETT. $1.50, Our price, 81.10. Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, By ‘ONAN DOYLE. $1.50. Our price, e 8i.10. | Voice Building and Tone Placing. By H, HoLproox Curtis, price, 81,50, $2.00, Our Filton, Fouakes VB Successors roAT.Srewarr & Co, BOOKS AT RANDOM Tell the story of our Bookstore as well as Every book that ought to be there is there—standard, popular; for children and for grown folks, and oftener than not the prices are less than we ever knew: ROADWAY PALIORSa FOURTH AVE Marte Corelli's Latest Books: The Mighty Atom, $: Our price. The Sorrows of Satan, $1.50. Our} price, $1.10, = Cameos, $1.00. Our price, 75¢. Vendetta, $1.00. Qur price, 15c. Barabbas, $1.00. Our price, 75e. Three Gringos in Venezuela and C tral America. By RICHARD HARDING Davis. Fully illustrated. $1.50. Our price, 81.10. The Bicyclera and Three Other Farces. By JouN KENDRICK BaNos. Illus- trated. $1.25. Our price, 90¢. Books and Thelr Makers During the Middle Ages (476 to 1600). By Gro. HAVEN PUTNAM. $2.50, Our price, 81.90. Glimpses of the World. Containing a rare and elaborate collection of photo- graphic views of the entire world of nature and art. Prepared under the supervision of the distinguished lecturer and traveler, Joun L. SToMDARD, Over soo views with description for each. Ob- Jong quarto, 134x113 inches. Our price, Library Atlas, 1896 Edition. Rand, McNally & Co.’s Atlas of the World: Colored Maps of every country and civil division. With marginal index. To- gether with historical, descriptive and Statistical matter pertaining to each. 64 Dages., Site, r4isntrié inches. Our Stern Bro ni | In addition to their Unusually Large importations f Ol Ladies’ French Underwear are showing a choice collection of Hand Made Dressing Sacques and Shirt Waists Of Lawns, Dimities, Ecru Lig Dotted Swisses, China Brilliantine and Taffeta Silks. so Exclusive Novelties Of their Own Manufacture.