The Wasp — 1881 — page 161: what you’re looking at

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This page is primarily **advertising and business notices** rather than satirical cartoons. The layout includes: 1. **"Retiring from Business" notice** by J.H. Tobin (Merchant Tailor) advertising a clearance sale of clothing and goods 2. **"A Disturbed Prayer"** - a satirical short story about Reverend Wingtop's visit to the widow Peckles, touching on hypocrisy and class distinctions in church society 3. Multiple commercial advertisements for Royal Baking Powder, Boker's Bitters, E.H. Jones & Co., and a major "Bankruptcy Sale" notice for Kennedy & Durr The brief satirical piece mocks religious pretense and social climbing rather than political figures. This appears to be a typical 19th-century magazine mixing advertising revenue with light social satire.