The Wasp — 1879 — page 298: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than satirical cartoons. It features: **Main Advertisement (left side):** H.T. Helmbold's "Compound Fluid Extract Buchu" — a patent medicine claiming to cure bladder and kidney diseases. The ad promises the remedy "does in every case" and lists numerous ailments it supposedly treats. Priced at $1.00 per bottle. **Supporting Advertisements (right side):** Multiple San Francisco merchant ads including C. Herrmann's hats, S.B. Watson & Co. cigars and tobacco, J. Kenz's wines and liquors, and Gundlach's cable wines. The page demonstrates how 19th-century satirical magazines subsidized operations through patent medicine and merchant advertising, regardless of dubious or false health claims that were common in that era.