Puck, 1879-12-24 · page 15 of 16
Puck — December 24, 1879 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine (page 699), not a satirical cartoon page. The layout features multiple commercial advertisements for goods and services typical of 1880s New York City: - Piano manufacturers (Sohmer, Calenberg & Vaupel) - Furniture dealers (Arnold, Constable & Co.; Mathesius & Frey) - A Vienna Coffee Pot (housewares) - Roofing materials - Carpet and rug merchants - Cabinet photography services The only editorial content is a small piece titled **"The Sun for 1880,"** which discusses The Sun newspaper's editorial principles and circulation rates. This page demonstrates how 19th-century magazines subsidized publication through extensive advertising rather than reader subscriptions alone.
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PUCK. 698 PIANOS... (CALENBERG & VAUP Sopra others in Tone, Darabity, iaaaship; have the endorsemes $ ofthe Leading Artists, First Medal of Merit FACTORY AND and Diploma of Honor at Centennial Fx- d Hy hibition, Reduced Prices, Cash or Time. RYERESICING TmAT RENDERS th St, Sohmer & Co., 149 E. 14th St, N.Y. [4 Pino PERFECT, roxy bh & en ARNOLD, , THE FAMOUS Vienna Coffee Pot. CONSTABLE & CO, Beautifully finished, of burnished brass, with burnished brass bow, porcelain base, porcelain handles to lamp and extinguisher, porcelain knob French Cardigans, Smoking Jackets, Elegant Persian Silk Mufiters, Flannel Traveling and on cover and spout, and one brass an: 8 cover. IMPORTED FRt ONLY BY US. Shirts, Dress Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, Buckskin Underwear, Chosson’s Celebrated Kid Gloves, 8 to to Buttons, &c. EDWARD D. BASSFORD, HOUSE FURNISHING STORES, lass, Cutlery. Silverware, Woodenwaro and Refrigerator: Broadway, Cor. 19th Street. ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & C0, WHOLE CARPETS; ORIENTAL RUGS, MATS, &c, An invoice of RARE NOVELTIES for the HOLIDAYS, just received. ‘Tue Sun will deal with the events of the year 1839 in its own | aggerate the importance ot the political events which it has in fe tive expenditure of time, The greatest with the Text unpro Interest to the greatest number=that is the Taw contreling ts | No daly make-up. “Tenow has a circulation very much larger than | at all tines prepared torepead liberally Yor the benefit ders. People of all conditons of life and all ways of | years opened ‘und read Tite Sux, and they all derive satisfaction | ton intrenched at Washington. eng the gane and breaking ith po which they, were driven by th : Ts fices they stole The past decade of insolent Administra Cid. something toward berm clearly. aod cheney and right ‘of philosophical good humor in looking atthe fe people. and. the principles of the Con: lat the same time eatertaining history of mnentou the fact« as they are developed fearlessly in the tA Feason it party, class, Bove.” It will is evil, taking care that its language is to the point and plain, be- Yond the powsibiity of being misundertocd. "It is 'uninflusnced y motives that donot appear on the surface; it bas no opinions to sell, save those which may be had by any purchaser for two cents. It hates injustice and rascality evea more than it hates un- 5 necessary words. It abhors frauds, pities fools ond deplores nia- | Our rates of subscription remain unchanged. For the Dany e by mail, including czepoors of every spevies. It will continue throughout the year | SUN, a fourpage shect of twenty 4 + th 1880 to chastise the first class, instruct the second, and discounte- | post’paid, 1+ 53 cents a mon : i nance the third, All honest men, with honest convictions, whether | the Sunday paper, an eigh jumns, the sound or mistaken, are ite frends.” And Tue Sun makes no bones | price i 3 ceots a month, or 87.70 a year, postage paid. uh tale fends cad shout lia tends whenever | | The Sunday edition of ie Som labo fursahe separately at afford tS close his eyes to publicists,” Heb topo 18 ox: | Address, I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher of “The Sun,” New York City. ight. |-O = Broadway, Cor. 19th Street, RICH AND ELECANT FURS. Russian Sable Seal, Fox, Chinchilla, Ermine, (Fe) Wet Cellars, Damp Walls made water- &c., in Sets, Singly and Trimmings by the yard. | RESPONSIBLE GUARANTEE FOR A TERM OF YEARS. Refer to R, Hox & Co.; Hanrex Bros.; Lawrence Bxos., Bankers, 3 Broad St,; Baur & Betts; Broadway, Cor. 19th Street.| G2 Van Orden's Asphalte-Slate Roofing & French Asphalte-Rock. | —_ So IMPERISHABLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE. = ———— MEO EEC ree Ronee Laver ee MATHESIUS & FREY CET epwo. vAN ORDEN & GO., Established 1857, 79 Maiden Lane, N.Y. 1 o Se ence ee eee eet 2 ae ee : PATENT COVERS CABINET 308 Broadway, von FURNITURE NEW YORK. FILING ‘PUCK’ Upholstery, Decorations, &c., at Prices to suit the times. Every Article guaranteed. PUBLISHER OF Micieirvibersmeen cement CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS OF CELRBRITIES, Price $1.00 ‘Manvvactunans oF DENTAL OFFICE ENLARGING OF PHOTOGRAPHS, Philippine Dieffenbach-Trachsess CRAYON WORK, FOR SALE AT THE‘PUCK* 162 West 23rd sre, bet Ot Pract ‘Tth Avenues, N.Y. PORTRAIT PAINTING. OFFICE, “PUCK” CIGARETTES aro tho best. Specialty: PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOW-CARDS FOR THE PROFESSION, 91 & 83 Warren St. Manufactured by B. Pottax, New York, Agents wanted in every City. Price-list mailed free on application. © And throughany newsdealer comicbooks.com