Life, 1896-06-11 · page 15 of 20
Life — June 11, 1896 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains product advertisements typical of early 20th-century American magazines: **Key Advertisements:** - **Armour's Beef Extract**: Uses a Macbeth reference ("Double, double toil and trouble") to mock old-fashioned soup-making, positioning their instant extract as modern convenience - **Fibre Chamois**: Endorsed by celebrities (Sara Bernhardt, Lillian Russell) as a beauty product for skin softening - **Crème Simon**: Another skincare product claiming superiority to competitors - **Pabst Malt Extract**: Features German brewing heritage imagery with a singing lark - **The Club Cocktails**: Emphasizes quality ingredients and professional mixing - **Tiffany & Co.**: Luxury goods retailer advertising European locations - **Pennsylvania Railroad**: Promoting discounted excursion fares to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago The page reflects **consumer culture and product standardization** of the era, with heavy emphasis on convenience, celebrity endorsement, and imported sophistication. No political cartoon or satire is present.
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“Double, double toil and trouble; “Fire bura and cauldroa bubble.” ‘That's the old way of making soup, Put your meat and soup- bones in the *‘cauldron’? and fuss over it for hours. Extracto BEEF saves you all that ‘toil and trouble.” ec" Add wat water to the Extract and you have, instantly, a really palatable Bouillon or Clear Beef Soup. Anyone can do it. Armour & Company, Chicago, ‘The Ideal Intertining Recommended and Used by Sara Bernhardt Lillian Russell Mrs, Jenness Miller Redfern sofas Fibre Chamois $6 F x N softent and perfuming thep and complexion. Most efficacious for Light CUCUMBERS (2tections of the akin. SIMON Soi rue de Provence EARis co . Hark! gate sae he yourtody Let yoo HE CLUB = T ees MANHATTAN, MARTINI, . WHISKEY, HOLLAND GIN, TOM GIN, VERMOUTH and YORE. We guarantee these Cocktails to be made of absolutely pureand well matured liquors and the mixing equal to the best cocktails served over any bar in the world. Being compounded in accurate proportions, they will always be found of uniform quality. Connotsseurs agree that of two cocktails made of the same material and propor- tions, the one which is aged must be better. our, YORK, Cocktall—made without jany sweetning.—dry and delicious, ‘or sale on and Buffet Cars of the principal of the U. 8. AVOID IMITATIONS, : For Sale by all Druggists and Dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props., 69 Broadway, N. Yn Hartford, Gonn. 20 Piccadilly, W. London, Eng. ° 161 BROADWAY. 688 BROADWAY. 701 SIXTH AVENUE. Reduced Rates to Chicago via Pennsylvania Raliroad, For the Democratic National Convention, to be held at Chicago, Il, July 7, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will seil on July 3. 4, 5, and 6 excursion tickets to Chicago and return ata single fare for the round trip. These tickets will be good for return passage until July 12, inclusive. For special rates, sleeping-car accommodations, and time-tables apply to nearest ticket agents. Visitors to Eosrape are invited to visit our Branch Establishment at Avenue de [’Opera, 36 bis, Paris, and Nos. 221 and 22ia Regent Street, W., London. x ‘TIFFANY & Co. UNION SQUARE NEW YORK comicbooks.c