The Wasp — 1891 — page 147: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. It contains a directory of hotels and boarding houses along California's Pacific Coast and in San Francisco, followed by numerous patent medicine and product advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazines. The ads include: - **Vinegar Bitters** (temperance tonic) - **Tarrant's Extract** (for urinary issues) - **Various "cure-all" remedies** (Pennyroyal Pills, Vigor of Men, Weak remedies) - **Sexual Power restoration** products - **Consumption cure** advertisements These reflect common medical quackery of the era. The page shows how satirical magazines like *The Wasp* supplemented editorial content with lucrative patent medicine advertising, even while occasionally mocking such products in their actual editorial cartoons.