The Wasp — 1889 — page 295: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is predominantly **advertising and transportation schedules**, not satirical content. It contains detailed timetables and service information for: - Southern Pacific Company train schedules - Local ferry services (Oakland-Alameda routes) - S.F. & Northern Pacific Railroad - Pacific Coast Steamship Company - Various shipping and steamship lines The bottom third includes business advertisements for services like fur dealing, book binding, and patent law. **No political cartoon or satirical content is visible on this page.** The Wasp masthead appears at the top, but the bulk of the material serves as a commercial directory and transportation guide for San Francisco Bay Area residents in the 1880s. This represents the type of practical content that supported the magazine's publication alongside its satirical commentary elsewhere in the publication.