The Wasp — 1891 — page 350: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains business notices and commercial advertisements typical of late 19th-century American publications. The main items include: - **Union Iron Works** (mining machinery) - **Parke & Lacy Co.** (machinery merchants) - **Bartlett Spring Mineral Water** ("the health giving drink") - **The Ebbitt** (Washington, D.C. hotel) - **Germea** (breakfast product) - Various patent medicines and dubious health products ("Sexual Power," "Weak Men" cures, "I Cure Fits!") - Shipping and commission merchant services **Notable context:** The quack medical advertisements are historically significant—these represent the largely unregulated patent medicine industry of the era, before FDA regulation. The prominence of such ads reflects both the magazine's audience and the period's medical skepticism. No political cartoons or satire are visible on this page.