The Wasp — 1887 — page 281: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily advertising and transportation schedules**, not political satire. It contains timetables for: - Southern Pacific Company trains - S.F. & North Pacific Railroad - Pacific Coast Steamship Company - Various local transit routes The only notable illustrated advertisement features **Tarrant's Extract** with a religious figure (appears to be Saint Anthony or similar) promoting a patent medicine for "CUBEES AND COPAIBA" — treatments for venereal diseases. The imagery uses religious authority to market medical remedies, which was common period advertising practice. The page's satirical value, if any, lies in juxtaposing sacred religious imagery with commercial medical claims — a commentary on how advertising exploited authority figures.