The Wasp — 1888 — page 244: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and entertainment listings** for San Francisco venues and patent medicines, typical of late 19th-century magazines. The main visual element is a portrait of **W. E. Lane**, labeled "Everybody's Plumber" at 505 Kearny Street—straightforward advertising for his plumbing business. **Dr. Gibbon's Dispensary** and **Dr. Liebbe's "Wonderful Cure"** advertisements occupy significant space, promoting dubious health remedies common to the era—typical patent medicine marketing making grandiose claims about treating venereal disease and "vital exhaustion." Theater listings (Hush-street Theater, Tivoli Opera House, Pavilion) and Salfeld's "Rejuvenator" tonic advertisement round out the page. **No political satire or editorial cartoon is present**—this appears to be a standard commercial/entertainment page from the magazine's back matter.