Life, 1888-07-05 · page 3 of 14
Life — July 5, 1888 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Life Magazine Page 3 Analysis This page satirizes June 1912 political events. The top illustration depicts "The Coming Woman's Season" with competing figures and themes. The middle section references the **St. Louis Convention** and shows political figures (likely including Tariff Reform and related issues). The text mentions significant June events: **Grover Cleveland's** death, **Alma Mater** references, **Chicago bulletin-boards**, and **Hudson River** incidents. Most notably, it references **Emperor Frederick** (likely Wilhelm II's father) and a "son" succeeding to power—possibly alluding to European political succession. The bottom illustration shows a "Battle" scene labeled "Chicago" and "Liberty"—likely depicting the contentious 1912 Republican Convention chaos in Chicago, where Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft competed, ultimately splitting the Republican Party.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
the COMM E-ER MENT SERS. es sn Lovls SONYENTION Ge. JUNE has been a momentous month, She has witnessed the influx into the world of some few thousands of college graduates of both sexes who are ready to reform existing abuses, solve our economic problems, and set things to running in better order than before the classes of ’88 bade farewell to Alma Mater. June has also witnessed a triumph of justice in the renomination of Grover Cleveland for President at St. Louis, and has seen Blaine’s wistful glances at the Chicago bul- letin-boards from far Scotland, turned back to the contemplation of private life for the future. Gov- ernor Hill, all alone up the Hudson, attracted momentary attention by putting a quietus upon the electoral_reform bill, but he will soon fade from sight. Saddest of all upon the June records, however, is the death of the good Emperor Fred: erick IIT, and the accession to power of his war- like son, comicbooks.com