The Wasp — 1892 — page 147: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and notices** rather than satirical cartoons. The content includes: - Banking advertisements (Wells, Fargo & Company) - Product ads (Liebig Company's beef extract, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, Pansy Pills) - Mining company notices and shareholder announcements - A small section of humorous dialogue titled "TRICKS IN ALL TRADES" featuring a customer and watchmaker The dialogue satirizes incompetence—a customer brings a broken watch, and the watchmaker admits to being "a doctor" (quack) who simply claims to know a trick rather than actual repair skill. This is gentle social humor mocking fraudulent tradespeople rather than political satire. The page reflects turn-of-the-century San Francisco commerce and small-scale deceptions common in retail trades.