The Wasp — 1887 — page 70: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **text and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main article, "Robert G. Ingersoll: The Greatest Pulpit Orator of the Age," is a lengthy biographical essay praising the 19th-century orator and freethinker known for his agnostic lectures attacking religious orthodoxy. The piece celebrates Ingersoll's eloquence while detailing his attacks on organized religion—describing how he denounced religious hypocrisy, challenged Christian doctrine, and championed secular humanism. For *The Wasp's* satirical readership, this represented radical, anti-establishment rhetoric. The surrounding advertisements (saddles, candy, banking services, medical treatments) are typical period commercial content with no satirical significance visible.