The Wasp — 1878 — page 353: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than satirical cartoons. The main advertisements include: 1. **Douglas Silver Plating Company** - promoting affordable silverware sets ($4.00) to "every housekeeper in the country" 2. **Watches advertisement** - offering "$12 watches for only $3 each," explicitly labeled as "a bankrupt stock of watches" that must be liquidated 3. **Weston's Bakery and Restaurant** - a local San Francisco business notice 4. **Patent Covers** - for filing the WASP publication itself 5. **Old Judge Cigarettes** - repeated branding at page bottom The page includes some testimonial text about medical practitioners and healing claims. The advertisements reflect late 19th-century consumer culture, hawking discounted goods and dubious medical services typical of the period's marketplace.