The Wasp — 1889 — page 24: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising content**, not satirical cartoons. It consists of a directory of hotels and boarding houses across California and Nevada, with a section on "Hotels and Boarding-Houses Supplied at Wholesale Rates" featuring tea and coffee merchants (DeWitt & Harris of San Francisco). The listings include establishments in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and other towns, organized alphabetically by location. Prices and amenities are noted (rooms, meals, rates per day/week). There is **no visible political cartoon or satirical content** on this page—it's a commercial directory typical of late 19th-century periodicals, which often filled pages with paid advertisements to subsidize publication costs.