The Wasp — 1878 — page 277: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and business notices** rather than satirical content. The visible advertisements include: - **Scollay's Aquarium** (top left) - promoting a curiosity show claiming to cure various diseases "without Medicine" through a healer's mysterious powers - **Chicago Brewery** (Henry Ahrens & Co.) - **Dr. Salfield's Rejuvenator** - a patent medicine claiming to restore vitality - **Humboldt Brewery** (San Francisco) - **Muller's Optical Depot** and **Pacific Business College** The page also contains a request for **back numbers of The Illustrated Wasp** at ten cents per copy. While the page header indicates this is from *The Illustrated Wasp*, a satirical magazine, this particular page contains minimal satirical cartoon content—it's dominated by period advertisements for dubious patent medicines and educational services typical of late 19th-century American publishing.