The Wasp — 1891 — page 412: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is predominantly **commercial advertisements** for steamship companies, railroads, and patent medicines serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific routes circa 1891. Notable ads include the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (serving Japan and China), and the Northern Pacific Railroad's Yellowstone Park dining car route. The only satirical content is a small section titled **"Odd Fellows"** containing brief humorous dialogue jokes about carpenters and neighbors—standard period humor unrelated to politics. The page also features **Dr. Gibson's Dispensary advertisement** promoting a dubious remedy claiming to treat venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and "manhood diseases"—typical of exploitative 19th-century medical marketing. This appears to be a **filler/business page** rather than editorial satire.