Puck, 1879-08-27 · page 14 of 16
Puck — August 27, 1879 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements**, not satirical content. It displays commercial listings typical of Puck magazine's revenue model, featuring various 1880s-era businesses and products: engraved metal signs, gentlemen's hats, elevated railway information, stomp lamps, umbrellas, wine, elastic trusses, shaving apparatus, photography services, tailoring, and patent medicines. The only illustration with potential satirical intent appears to be **D.A. Mayer's Hungarian Wines advertisement**, which features ornate heraldic imagery with lions—likely mock-heroic branding to suggest Old World legitimacy and superiority, a common advertising trope mocking consumer pretensions. The **"Tape Worm" patent medicine ad** at bottom represents period quackery—dubious medical claims that Puck might have satirized elsewhere, though here it appears as straightforward advertising rather than critique.
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ZERO MARX, ‘Designer and Manufacturer of ENGRAVED METAL SIGNS, GLASS SIGNS, : WIRE SIGNS, Druggists’ and Barbers’ Glass Labels and Glass Letters, EMBOSSING ON WHITE & COLORED GLASS, 184 East Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. axp 127 Market Street, LouL OLD & RELIABLE Fascnanreuntry ra TOBACCO’ AND CIGARETTES. Lone Cur. “MILD "—Rare Old Virginia HALVES “Rare Old of these Fragrant New Combinations Tobeoses, "ALWAYS UP rot THE STANDARD. (Six Price Medals, Pate sby8. Poet DIAMOND THE BEST TRUSS EVER MADE. MERCHANT Sth Avenue Hotel. NO FANCY PRICES MN. Y, ELASTIC TRUSS CO.. 683 Gronaway, New York. DLA MAYER, 4 HUNGARIAN, “WINES, - 526 Broadway, NEW York. IME ONLY HOUSE IN. THE UNITED STATES WHERt HUNGARIAN WINES ARE:-SOLD, WHICH HAS BEEN AWARDED FOR. “PURITY” AND “SUPERIOR QUALITY” BY. THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSIONERS, 1876. No connection with any other House in the United States BOHEMIAN: BIER. SCEBMaOTT & HOEENE. CENTRAL PARK LAGER BEER BREWERY, INT, 1:9 165 2. ton ‘Tce-bouse and $24 ba Sires Ave Ay and Rat We eo > BOMEMIAN BIER” to equal Im: jor tnd abstances thas Western ‘Biers firecte, taking {t tho “BEST SHIPPING BIER.” Covyniexrap. IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF CENTLEMEN'S HATS 174 Fifth Ave., 169 Broadway, Between sod and #3¢ Streets, Near Cortlandt Street, NEW YORK, THE OELEBRATED GERMAN STUDENT LAMP. Inrontap onty sy E. D. BASSFORD, HOUSE-FURNISHING, HARDWARE, CHINA, GLASS, CUTLERY, SILVERWARE AND COOKING UTENSILS. 1, 2, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16 &17 COOPER INSTITUTE, W. Y. CITY. Isaac Smith's Umbrellas hay of the shove sent by ex: press, packed, on receipt price. 2 COURTLANDT STREET, ear Broadway. 36 FULTON ST., near Pearl. 104 BROADWAY, near Wall. earr ESTABLISHED A. D BROKHMAHNE'S COMBINATION SHAVING APPARATUS. 1802 Strap, Razor Case with Razor, Shaviny with and Brush, All combined ry one aad new invention is the most useful and convenient This entire en at home as well as traveling. article for gen! Descriptl CELEBRATED FOR THE MANUFACTURE ov Fine Silk Dress, Stiff and Soft D\ FELT ats FOR‘GENTLEMEN’S WEAR. NICOLL, the Tailor, Metropolitan “Elevated. Railway, OPEN FROM 6:30 A.M. T012 P.M. RECTOR ST.—Nearest poiat for Wall street ferry, connects with cas for South ANDT ST.—Nearest point for Jersey City and Com- LACE—Nearest point for Post Office, City Hall and a erect ot for 10 Hoboken. Nearest point for Pavonia and Erie Railway (FRANKLIN ST. GRAND ST “Nearest sey City, and connecting w! treet ferries. “BLEECKER ‘ST.—Connects with cars for east and west. 8TH ST.—Connecting with cars for Christopher street and East "Tenth street eres necting with cars for East Twenty-third and mite -fourth street ferries. ST.—Connecting with cars for Twenty-third street fe to fersey City and East Thirty-fourth street Yerry for Hunt at. int for Desbrosses street ferry for Jer- cars for Desbrosses and East Grand soTH ST. 58TH ST.—Sixth avenue entrance to Central Park, connecting with cars of Belt Line Railroa pb ST. AND STH AVE. sgTHST. AND 9TH AV. uD SPP AND gTH AV. 81ST ST. sBH AV. “uD ST. AN STHAV, SuTHST. AND gTHLAV. FoR OF TOWN TRAINS take east side stations. FOR DOWN-TOWN Trains take west side stations. Trains wili run to s8th st. and 6th av, and roth st. and gth av. alteroatelye Sid alas rom sage P.M, ll 2 Midaeht except between the hours of and 7:99 A.M. and 5 and 7P.M., om ‘when the fare is § cen WM. R. GARRISON, Mm. VAN BROCKLIN, Superintendent. MANHATTAN BEAGH. Gilmore’s Band and Levy Afternoon and Evening. (crossing the steamer ts Al Trains | {-hourly “Sylvan G cr thereafter to 8.45 P.M. ‘Returning trains leave Manhattan Beach half-hourly for New York via Greenpoint to 10.35 P M. oads run to South Fer hourly, from 9.35 A. 945, with steamer connectin M., via Bay l, to 8.2 Pl ight’ leave N hourly to Pier 8, 9. ua Sigamery “Thomas Collyer” and lings—From 22d st., 9:10, 10.25 Leroy st, 9.35 A-M,, aod hourly to 6.35 and hourly to6.35 PM. Returning tins leave Manhattan Beach for New York, via Bay Ridge, jourly to. ALBANY AND TROY BY DAY BOATS, G, VIBBARD and DANIEL DREW, commencing Jun your 8 Pay AEs and eqth Stag A beat from BROOKLYN 3 A. 2 banaling at EST POINT, CORNWALL, NEWBURGH, RuINEBEGK CA SON. jengers landit NeWuuRii can retura eal doce teats ices et ond Kee age checked north and west. Tickets or coupoas good on Hud- ton River R. R. received for passage. Photographer 41162 Broudway, River PM. ‘AM, American Institute Fair, New York. PACHTMANN & MOELICH, TAPE WORM. INFALLIBL/ CURED with ovo spoons of medicine m two or ee em two eee HE uicinons, ch harks Place, New York.