The Wasp — 1890 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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This page features biographical sketches of two prominent San Francisco civic figures: **Duncan McPherson**, editor and proprietor of the *San Francisco Chronicle*, and **J.H. Bartlett**, a progressive public-spirited citizen involved in city improvement enterprises and park development. The text praises both men's contributions to San Francisco's advancement. Below the biographies is a comedic dialogue among club members ("The Club Will Now Disband"), satirizing upper-class social pretension and the superficiality of gentlemen's clubs. The "Lovers' Logic" section at bottom presents romantic banter, likely mocking sentimental clichés. The satire appears directed at self-important civic boosters and affected social conventions rather than partisan politics.