The Wasp — 1892 — page 391: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains roughly a dozen commercial advertisements for San Francisco Bay Area businesses from what appears to be the early 1900s, including: - Optical instruments (L.A. Berteling) - Cocoa (Epps's Cocoa) - Champagne (Veuve Clicquot) - Pianos and organs (Steinway & Sons) - Banking services (Wells Fargo & Company) - Beef extract (Liebig Company) - A flower shop - Tobacco/pipe mixture (Mastiff) - Notary public services The page also contains two brief satirical pieces—"Our Jury System" (a doctor-patient dialogue mocking jury duty) and "Business About to Pick Up" (a florist joke)—but these are minor relative to the advertising content dominating the layout.