The Wasp — 1887 — page 95: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and transportation schedules**, not political satire. It contains numerous railroad and steamship timetables from California companies (Southern Pacific, S.F. & North Pacific R.R., Pacific Coast Steamship Company, South Pacific Coast Railway, etc.). The only non-advertisement content visible is "**THE BOSS**" - a small box promoting a saw manufactured by Pacific Saw Manufacturing Co., priced at $1.50. There are also advertisements for **Tarrant's Extract** (a patent medicine for digestive issues) and **Napa Soda Springs** resort. No political cartoons, satirical commentary, or identifiable caricatures appear on this page. It represents typical late-19th-century magazine filler content combining transit schedules with patent medicine and consumer product ads.