The Wasp — 1888 — page 348: what you’re looking at

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This is primarily a **title page and advertising section** rather than a satirical cartoon page. The issue shows *The Wasp* masthead (Volume XXI, Number 18) dated San Francisco, November 3, 1888, priced at 10 cents. The page is dominated by commercial advertisements typical of the era: a piano manufacturer, photographer, dentist, hotel, business college, patent water closets, and various local San Francisco merchants and services. The only illustration beyond the ornate title lettering is **Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler** advertisement, featuring a man's portrait promoting it as "The Only Successful Home Treatment" for respiratory ailments including catarrh and asthma—a common patent medicine claim of the period. No political satire or editorial cartoons are visible on this particular page.