Puck, 1879-10-01 · page 17 of 18
Puck — October 1, 1879 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine (page 481), not a political cartoon. The page contains numerous commercial advertisements from late 19th-century New York businesses, including: - Racquet and tennis equipment dealers - Furniture and carpet retailers - Dress goods and clothing merchants - Champagne importers - A diamond merchant The only illustration with potential satirical content is **G. Humm & Co.'s Champagne advertisement**, featuring a large bottle with a cherub or putto figure. However, this appears to be straightforward product advertising rather than political satire. The page reflects **Puck's business model**: generating revenue through luxury goods advertisements targeting wealthy urban readers, rather than editorial cartoons on this particular spread.
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481 SCOTCH AND GIBRALTER STRUNG RACQUETS Cork, Cedar and Cane Handles, NEWPORT NETS AND SEVERAL OTHER New Dodges TENNIS. FINE PRIVATE BATS BY ALL THE BEST MAKERS. HALL, NICOLL & GRANBERY, 20 & 22 JOHN ST., NEW YORK, Successors to Scuuren, Hantiny & Gnamaw, In the Fancy Goods Department. BOLTON HALL. D, W. GRANBERY. BENJ. NICOLL, Arnold, Constable & CO.,; Broadway and 19th Street. APTRAGTIVE NOVELTIES FALL AND WINTER 1879. NOW OPEN, An Hlegant Stock of ENGLISH AND FRENCH DRESS GOODS MAJOLIQUE cLotHs, NATTI GLACE, LARNACA, “PERSIAN AND PALM LEAF CACHEMIRES, ALSO, PLAIN MATERIALS IN ALL THE Popular Colorings and Fabrics. FANCY AND CLAN PLAIDS. FANCY AND PLAIN HOSIERY, In COTTON, BALBRIGGAN, MERINO and SILK, UNDERWEAR In all makes for Ladies, Children and Gentlemen. CORDUROYS, SUIT and MABIT CLOTHS, BUITINGS, CASSIWERES, CLOAKINGS, &c, BLANKETS and FLANNELS, COMFORTABLES and ‘QUILTS, BED and FAMILY LINENS, DAMASK TABLECLOTHSfand NAPKINS,” STOWELS and TOWELLINGS, . 2 WHITE GOODS, &c. Gentlemen's Dress. Shirts, Neck Dressings, Buckskin and Flannel Underwear, And a General Stock of Articles in this line. Infants’, Children’s and Ladies’ Outfitting Department, REPLETE WITH NOVELTY. * | Domestics. The Bodega The Bodega a. ahh The Bodega The Bodega The Bodega Supplies the very finest imported Wines and Spirits b bottle gallon or Hegshead at Peholesale prices: also samples by = “TIMOTHY STEVENS, Proprietor. Sole Agent for Jures Ciavmiua’s Clarets; Manerr & Co's. Brandis; Ackexman-Laumance Champagnes; Mackunzit & Co's, and Moncax Bros., THE BODECA, 83 Codar Street & 351 Broadway, N, ¥, G. H. MOMM & C0,’S CHAMPAGNE. mportation 1x, 1878 35,906 Cases, The Bodega or 16,270 cases More than of any other brand. 1879 JONES 1840 OPENING FALL GOODS. * « *y ” *y * Hovsarunwtsiaxc Goons. SILVERWARE. GLASSWARE. CROCKERY. “CHINA. FANCY GOODS. MILLINERY. Boys’ SUITS GLOVES. LACES. ighth Avenue Eighth Aven: SHUES. CLOTHS. DRESS GooDS. UPHOLSTERY. SUITS & CLOAKS. FURNITURE, ee * ty len of goods, wd Mousekeep! Samples sent free Send 3-cent stamp for I 100 pages. A frettul mother and cross child indicates ill Health, requiring oaly Hop Bitters to remove. SHAWLS, SKIRTS, &. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL, North German Lloyd STEAMSHIP LINE serweex ‘New York, Southampton & Bremen. Satling every Saturday, ‘Company's Pier, foot of Second Street, Hoboken. Sept 17 | MAIN xoo+- Saturday, Oct. 15 RHEIN ....Saturday, ‘Saturday, Oct. 18 NECKAR....Saturday, Rates of passage fom NEW First Cabin. crag Return tickets at reduced rates. c, 8 . paid Steerage C NBS of tecrage tickets to all points in the Sout OELRICHS & CO., General Agents, No. 2 Bowling Green. FURNITURE. CARPETS, BEDDING otc., ete. BM. COWPERTHWAIT & Co., (Estabiished 1607.) 153, 155 & 157 Chatham St. EIGHTEEN SHOW ROOMS. EVERYTHING FOR HOUSEKEEPING, ALSO, Store, Office and Saloon Forniture, PAYMENTS MAY BE MADE. WEEKLY or MONTHLY. OLD etal TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES, ro Cur. x MILD "Rare. Old, Virginia. Kat VES Rare Old Perigue and Virginia. New combi of these Fragrant Tobaecos. AVS UPTO THE STANDARD. ‘Sit Fint Price Medals. Paris 1878, Peerless Tobacco Works. ‘WM. S. KIMBALL & CO., Rochester, N. ¥. ANNOUNCEMENT. For DIAMONDS go to SANDIFER the Diamond Merchant, 5th Ave. Hotel. comicbooks.com