The Wasp — 1887 — page 347: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and commercial content** rather than political satire. The bulk consists of Sacramento and Stockton business advertisements for services ranging from clothing merchants to banks, furniture storage, and patent medicines. The only clearly satirical content is the poem **"When the Cows Come Home"** (attributed to Clarence Ladd Davis), a rural comedy piece with no apparent political message. It humorously depicts farm life and cattle, using folksy dialect for comedic effect. The page also features advertisements for consumer products, including "Baby's Skin & Scalp Cleansed," optical services, and printing businesses—typical of 19th-century satirical magazines that relied heavily on advertising revenue to offset publication costs.