The Wasp — 1879 — page 390: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It consists almost entirely of commercial advertisements for patent medicines and other products typical of late 19th-century publications: - **H.T. Helmbold's Buchu**: A purported cure-all for bladder, kidney, and various ailments - **Chicago Brewery** advertisement - **Patent covers for filing the WASP** - **Feisel & Gerard**: Chiropody services - **Wine and liquor dealers** (San Francisco) - **Ginn's Famous Spiked American Table Wines** The only potentially satirical element is the small "Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing" illustration at top right, showing before/after figures, though this appears to be advertising chiropody services rather than political satire. The page demonstrates how *The Wasp* financed itself through patent medicine advertising—common practice for 19th-century American publications.