Life, 1896-05-28 · page 27 of 28
Life — May 28, 1896 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains five liquor and beverage advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazines: 1. **"The Club Cocktails"** – promoting home cocktail kits (Manhattan, Martini, etc.) as superior to bar drinks, emphasizing quality control and uniformity. 2. **"Vino-Kolafira"** – a tonic wine claiming to have helped the Yale athletic teams win Cambridge Games, marketed as beneficial for invalids with "sustaining power" for heart/nerve conditions (typical patent-medicine claims of the era). 3. **Veuve Clicquot Champagne** – French champagne advertisement. 4. **"Cold Lack Brut" Champagne** – another champagne brand. 5. **"Old Crow Rye"** – whiskey advertisement featuring an octogenarian testimonial about 60 years of use. The page also includes subscription information for back issues of *Life* magazine itself. There is **no political cartoon or satire** present—this is a commercial advertising section.
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LIFE A better Cocktail at home than Is servea over any bar In the World. HE CLUB = i COCRPAIS MANHATTAN, MARTINI, WHISKEY, HOLLAND GIN, TOM GIN, VERMOUTH and YORE. We guarantee these Cocktails to be made of abso! cand well matured liquors and <qual to the best cocktails served ov y ba e world. Being uniform quality that of two cocktails naterial and propor- theoue whlch Ieaged. must ‘be YORK Cocktail—made without z—dry and delicio the Dining and Buffet Care of the principal railroads of the AVOID IMITATIONS. For Sale by all Druggists and Dealers, F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props, 69 Broadway, N. Y.. varttors ‘cen: 20 Piccadilly, W. London, Eng. YELLOW LABEL"SEC. GOLD LABEL "BRUT? THES STANDARO OF FINE CHAMPAGNES. THE HALCYON. (Formerly Haleyon Hall.) MILLBROOK, DUTCHESS CO. N.Y. CHAMPAGNE \y, Prance. st and delicate character peculiar to the wines of the famous AY district, Agent C. H. ARNOLD, 278, Willlam § And in its Hollow Tones is Heard The Thanks of Millions Yet to Be. This refers to the paeans of praise sung by an octogenarian who had used the “OLD CROW RYE” for the past sixty years. And he is right. Its the best whisky in the world and al- ways reliable nuine. Look sharp for the word RYE in large red letters on the bel, and our firm name on . cork, capsule and label H. B. KIRK & CO., Sole Receivers, Established 1853, 69 Fulton St., also Broadway and 27th St., New York. 3ack numbers ot Lire can be had by applying at this office, 1g and 21 West gist St, New York City. Vols. I. and II. out of print; Single copies of Vol. 1, bound, $30.00. Vols. IL, VIIL, XID. and XIV., $20.00 each, bound. Vols. VIL, X, XL, XIL, XV. and XVI, $15.00 each, bound. Vols. IIL, IV., V., VI. IX., XVII. and XVIIL, $10.00 each, bound. Vols. XIX x XXL, XXIL, XXHL, XXIV. XXV. and XXVI., $5.00 each, comicbooks.com