Puck, 1879-12-31 · page 14 of 16
Puck — December 31, 1879 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Puck magazine (page 708), not a political cartoon. It features various commercial advertisements for late 19th-century products and services, including: - Boot and shoe stores - Piano manufacturers - Wine and champagne importers - A tailor (Nicoll) - Mineral waters and patent medicines - Cigars - Beer breweries The only illustrated advertisement of note is the **central "Puck" cigar brand** featuring the magazine's mascot—a mischievous imp or fairy character riding a cigar like a broomstick. This serves as brand recognition, associating the popular magazine with the tobacco product. The page reflects **Gilded Age consumer culture** and advertising practices, with no apparent political satire or social commentary.
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s7GREAT BARGAINS + = WM. NEELY’S FAMILY Boot & Shoe Store, 348 BOWERY, t Jones Street, Opposite Third Street. Cor. q ‘Wholesale House: Cor. Church & Duane St. ONE PRICE, ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ¢ Largest Stock acd the Lowest We believe we h: ‘Hestablished 1 PACHTMANN & MOELICH Tporters, Manufacturers and ‘tere fs Watches r. ‘of every description neatly ex COB TS Rie PART OF Tite U.S —F csgpeiimmmmata +D. A. MAYER, ; HUNGARIAN WINES. 626 BROADWAY THE ONLY HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE 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 RUNK & UNGER, No. 50 PARK PLACE, Sale Agents tor Ayala-Chateau d’Ay CHAMPAGNES. be NATURAL, MINERAL Ww) WATER. fampier & Co., Bordeaux, Cares, "Hoe & Delamain, Cognacs,; WILLIS a HAUSER, 149 PEARL STREET. Junction of Wall & Beaver Sts, ‘keep constantly on hand a large assortment of WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS Oar tends are VaR OUERATR PRICES | iy ur friends are invited to supply their demands for the coming HOLIDAYS. TAPE WORM. INFALLIBLY CURED with two spoons of medicine in two or three hours. For partic ress with stamp to HEICHAURN: No. St Marks Place, New York. L. DE VENOGE, 37 South William Street, New York. GENERAL ACENT. NICOLL, the Taller 620 Broadway, near Houston St., axo 139 to 151 Bowery. N. Y. ‘ar BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES. 8 GRAND DISPLAY or WINTER GOODS. PANTS TO ORDER Fevet od ten ‘STO OR! to $40.00. OVERCOATS AND ULSTERS TO ORDER trom Biss up. etric Light ased.—Colors seen as distinct as io day THE PUREST CHAMPAGNE ‘Samples sent to every part of the United States, with instruc tioos for self-measurement. SANDIFER, =_/DIAMOND MERCHANT 5th Avenue Hotel, Waldstein, Expert Optician, NO FANCY PRICES. known in Vient wards of a Cent eaetes Sued “Only the finest Optical Goods kept oa Stock, w are respectfully tovived to laapect. WALDSTEIN, 41 Union Square, Cor. Broadway and 17. Str. Try the: “PUCK”? CIGARETTE, yufactured by B, Pottax, New York. ch the Public masur: GRAND, SQUARE and UPRIGHT ewrEA INTO S. Prices reasonable. Terms ‘WAREROOMS, is 5th Ave. and West 16th St., New York. 1¢ genuine Elastic Truss is worn perfect comfort, night and day, jing rupture untler the hardest exercise of everest Sold at really seduced peices, and scat b fal t2 all parts of the i Send for fal descriptive Greslar, to N, Y, ELASTIC TRUSS CO., rodway, Now York. POND’S EXTRACT. No home, no school, no hotel, no sear side cottage, no country farm, no board- snghouse should be without this Remedy. It diseases that are 0! nme. Be = therin, and Sore igs Caation.—Pono's Extract is sold the glass. PURE BREATH is the most disagreeable result of de- cayed teeth, as well for the afflicted one as for his surroundings. ‘The cause may easiiy ye removed by cleaning the teeth daily with the popular, fragrant SOZODONT. Itsweetens the breath, cools and re- freshes the mouth, hardens the gums and whitens the’ teeth —Gentlemen that smoke should regularly use SOZODONT. It removes the disagreeable smell of Tobacco. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT. PRINOIPAL DEPOT OF EUROPEAN MINERAL WATERS. Carlsbad, Eos Friedrichshall, GieshObler, Homburg, Bitterwater, Kronthal, Kissingen, Marienbad, Palla: bach, Selters, Taunus, Vichy, Birmensdorf and fifty ot DEPOT FOR ALL AMERICAN WATERS. Bottler’s of Kinctaa’s New York, Cincinnati, Toledo and Milwaukee Beer. Agents for BRUEDER HOEHL, Geisenheim. Rhine Wines, TH. LAMA! rdeaux. Clarets. DUBOIS FRERE & CAGNION: Copene, Brandies. PH. SCHERER & CO. 8 College Place, near Barclay PH. & WM. EBLING'S AURORA PARK ALE AND LAGER BEER BREWERY, St. Ann’s Avenue, Cor. 156th St., MORRISANIA, N.Y. Special Attention given to Bottling and Shippiog Trade. comicbooks.com