The Wasp — 1890 — page 268: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and notices** rather than political satire. The dominant content includes real estate listings (Easton Eldridge & Co. auctioneers, Western Addition property lots), and various business advertisements for products like Radam's Microbe Killer (a patent medicine claiming to cure diseases), champagne, and mineral water. The one illustration present depicts a **patent medicine advertisement** showing a figure (appears to be a doctor or vendor) presenting bottles to customers. The accompanying text satirizes patent medicine's pseudoscientific claims and guaranteed "cures," typical of late-19th-century consumer fraud that The Wasp frequently mocked. The page reflects San Francisco's 1890s development boom and the era's widespread quackery in unregulated medicine sales.