Puck, 1879-05-14 · page 14 of 16
Puck — May 14, 1879 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine (page 158), not a political cartoon page. It contains commercial advertisements for various products and services popular in late 19th-century New York, including: - German beer and Bohemian beverages - Vienna coffee pots and house furnishings - French champagne and wines - Swiss watches and clocks - Umbrellas - Cabinet furniture - A lottery advertisement The only notable satirical content is a **Louisiana State Lottery advertisement**, which humorously promotes itself as an "unprecedented attraction" despite lotteries being widely condemned as fraudulent schemes during this era. This reflects Puck's tendency to mock dubious enterprises through advertising parody. The page primarily reflects the commercial interests and consumer goods of affluent 1890s urban America.
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Og Covvmexrip. IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF GENTLEMEN’ S HATS 174 Fifth Ave., 169 Broadway, Between sad and 234 Streets. Near Cortlandt Street, NEW YORK. BOHEMIAN BIER. SCEIMITT ¢ KOEHNE. CENTRAL PARK LAGER BEER eh BOMEMIAN BIER” to equal in all pepecta, and to Excel Domestic ‘stern, Hiers In Taste, Color and making it the “ BEST SHIPPING BIER.” Soup cuaaran Tuan Wasten Bren. PACHTMANN & MOELICH,. 363 CANALST NEW YORK, Manuficture Gold and Silver Medals and any part of Beaten. — Wedding Winge trom 9 to'$19, all sizes, Keya that wind any Watch 25cis. Auto. el Btera- srindere $10.—Any of theeo goods sent free GJ on receipt of price. < Estastisuxp 1858. CORRECT TIME per TELEGRAPH. HAMANN & KOCH. Red No. 9 Maiden Lane, IMPORTERS OF PARIS CLOCKS. DEALERS IN AMERICAN AND SWISS WATCHES, AND! ALL KINDS OF -JEWELRY. Remember the Red 9. NPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION. Over Half » Million Distributed. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Institution was regularly incorporated by the Legislature of pducational and Charitable purposes (1068, for Ot #350,000. take place NEVER cates on Fostrones. Look at the following GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, during which will take place the 1ooth GRAN] NTHLY EXTRA sneeee Ry sea MANNUA, 1 DRAWING, ‘ar 2 Large Prizes of 4 Large Prizes of Prizes of not. ‘Commissioners. ication for rates (o.clubs should oaly be made to the office pany ia New Orleans, ‘White for circulars or send orders to M. A. DAUPHIN, P.O, Box 692, New Orleans, La. or Same at No. 319 Broadway, New York. Vienna = Goltoe E Pot, Beautifully finished, of burnished brass, with burnished brass bow, porcelain base, porcelain handies to lamp and extinguisher, porcelain knob on cover and spout, and one brass and one glass cover. IMPORTED FROM VIENNA ONLY BY US. raize. = $5.00 sire. 8 Cups. EDWARD D. BASSFORD, HOUSE FURNISHING STORES, China, Glass, Catlery. Silverwa 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, RUNKE & UNGER, No. 60 PARK PLACE, Sole Agents.Jor Ayala-Chateau d’Ay CHAMPAGNES. TAUMtene Gon Kusdetheln, Reins Woes L Tampier & Co., Bordeaux, Clarets. Roullet & Detamain, Cognacs, *m009 09 SsuD UT SOMUTUTR, *z0q. 10d 93°18 SUF Mx “O1S MHA Sr “Gs SUPA 2g Spend ‘sasuy uy L. DE VENOGE, 41 South William Street, New York. Isaac saith sUmbrellas INGHAM, s27 sr. HE PUREST CHAMPAGNE | | Champagne on Draught 10 Cts. a Glass. jo. 10 BARCLAY ST., N.Y. - ‘Gar Any of the above sent by ex press, securely packed, on receipt of Price. 2 COURTLANDT STREET, near Broadway. 36 FULTON ST., near Pearl. 104 BROADWAY, near Wall, BROADWAY, near agth st. BROADWAY, near Canal. ESTABLISHED A. D. (802. MATHESIUS & FREY, ‘MANuractuRens OF CABINET FURNITURE Upholstery, Decorations, c., at Prices to suit tho times. Every Article guaranteed. No. 1567 & 1569 Broadway, cor. 47th St, N. Y. HEAPEST BOOKSTORE IN THE WORLD. 68,672 Mtandard English Booke AT OUR PRICE. ‘75,276 Miscellaneous American ks, AT YOUR PRICE. 112,736 AT ANY ¥ PRICE, Catalogue of LEGGAT, BROTHERS, “PIPER-HEIDSIECK.” We guarantee this mediam 417, wine to be superior in quality to any other CHAMPAGNE ane Ta more adapted to the German and Eng out bit 1d acidity, and dryer than ny wine ported. Ts leaves the most dellcious after tate 03 ‘Sous Aexire ne Tux ‘Unrrap States axp Camapa, JOHN OSBORN, SON & CO., 45 To N.Y., And 44 St. Sacrament Street, Montreal.