The Wasp — 1879 — page 247: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The visible advertisements include: - Palmer's department store (Market Street, Philadelphia) - California Pine and Eucalyptus Porous Plasters (medical product) - Chew Jackson's Sweet Navy Tobacco - Muller's Optical Depot - **City Lots in North Denver** (prominent large ad offering free lots) - "History of the Bible" book promotion - Old Judge Tobacco (repeated three times at bottom) The Denver real estate advertisement is the most substantial content, emphasizing free lots "situated in North Denver" as part of a development promotion strategy. There are no visible cartoons or caricatures on this page—it's a typical late-19th-century magazine page dominated by commercial advertisements typical of *The Wasp's* revenue model.