The Wasp — 1892 — page 525: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily an **advertising page** from *The Wasp* magazine (page 2), featuring San Francisco businesses and products from the late 19th/early 20th century. The one **cartoon element** is a small illustrated advertisement for Napa Soda in the lower left, showing people drinking soda "in the morning" with the caption "We're out all night till broad daylight" and "But we drink Napa Soda in the warning." The joke appears to be a pun playing on "warning" versus "morning," suggesting the soda helps revive night-owl drinkers. The rest consists of business advertisements for local establishments: the Pacific Bank, furniture companies, typewriters (Remington), hotels, and insurance firms—typical commercial content rather than political satire.