The Wasp — 1887 — page 377: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **text and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The left column contains an article titled "WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE?" debating authorship of Shakespeare's plays, followed by a humorous dialogue between "Smith" and "Dunley" about a widow in Harlem. The right side features **period advertisements** for various products and services: Anderson & Tallon (optician), Elwood/Cleewood/Hudson furniture, a scientific optician's patentee invention, and dubious remedies for weak men, catarrah, and opium addiction—typical of late 19th-century patent medicine marketing. There is also "A Hindu Legend" poem and a small notice about "14,799 SOLD IN 1886" with an ornamental furniture illustration. **No significant political satire is visible on this page.**