The Wasp — 1889 — page 21: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and transportation schedules**, not satirical content. It contains: - Multiple railroad and steamship company advertisements (Southern Pacific, Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Oceanic Steamship Co., etc.) - Food product advertisements (Liebig Company's Extract of Meat, Tarrant's Extract) - Passenger train and ferry schedules - Ticket office information The only potentially satirical element is **Tarrant's Extract advertisement**, which features a classical religious figure (Saint Benedict or similar) with the slogan **"Never Known to Fail."** This appears to be ironic marketing—suggesting the patent medicine has almost miraculous reliability. The page reflects San Francisco's late-19th-century transportation infrastructure and patent medicine marketing common to that era, rather than political or social satire.