The Wasp — 1893 — page 290: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and notices** with no significant political cartoons or satirical content visible in the image itself. The page contains various product advertisements typical of early 20th-century publications: patent medicines (Damiana Bitters, Asthmalene), banking services (Wells Fargo & Co's Bank), cocoa, and other remedies. The only narrative content is brief anecdotal humor—such as "The One Exception" (a dialogue about health) and "Inherited It" (a captured train robber joke)—but these are generic quips rather than political satire. The page demonstrates how *The Wasp*, as a satirical magazine, funded itself through advertising for dubious patent medicines and other commercial products typical of the era, which ironically became subjects of later Progressive Era criticism.