The Wasp — 1891 — page 535: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and business listings** rather than satirical content. The central image is a portrait labeled "REV. DR. R. S. STORRS," identified in the accompanying text as an eminent divine and pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York. The text notes he was highly influential, once received a $40,000 check from his congregation, and was influenced by Henry Ward Beecher. The remainder of the page consists of commercial advertisements for San Francisco Bay Area businesses: banks, importers, machinery dealers, and patent medicines (Epps's Cocoa, Tutt's Hair Dye, etc.). There is no identifiable political satire or cartoon on this page—it functions as a standard advertising section typical of 19th-century periodicals.