The Wasp — 1878 — page 261: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It contains commercial advertisements for local San Francisco businesses including: - Scollay's Aquarium - Chicago Brewery (Henry Ahrens & Co.) - Patent covers for filing the Wasp - Mountain Best whiskey (Otto Rudolph, Proprietor) - Humboldt Brewery (Noethig & Turk, Proprietors) - Heald's Business College - Pacific Business College - Muller's Optical Depot and Opera Glasses There is also a prominent notice offering back issues of the Illustrated Wasp at ten cents per copy. The only notable non-commercial content is Prof. J.D. McLachlan's advertisement claiming to cure "all sickness and disease of whatever name or nature...without medicine," using psychological methods—a typical medical quackery advertisement of the period.