Life, 1892-06-23 · page 6 of 16
Life — June 23, 1892 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 388 The main cartoon depicts a dialogue between a peddler and Mr. Haven Hartford about "prepared glue." The peddler claims railroad companies use it to glue down car windows. Hartford, interested in buying, asks the price. This is a joke about a useless product—gluing windows shut would be impractical and absurd. The humor relies on the peddler's con-artist pitch and Hartford's gullible response, satirizing either credulous buyers or the peddler's deceptive sales tactics common to the era. The page also features "Anniversaries of the Week" with historical illustrations (Shah of Persia visiting Paris, a gorilla landing in Liverpool, and a battle between Robert Bruce and Edward II), plus book reviews and other editorial content typical of Life's satirical magazine format.
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388 * LIFE LIFE’S HEALTH FACTORY. HOSE interested in Lire's summer work for the children will remember that a year ago we moved from our village in New Jersey to the higher altitude of Branchville, Connecticut. Our new home gives us purer air, better accommodation and more extensive grounds, Lire has had no professional experience with inebriates as yet, but he is sole proprietor of a secret process, based upon fresh air, nourishing food and clean beds, by which he gives health, strength and brown cheeks to the faded youngsters from the city, Previously acknowledged From Joe's Penny Box Edith and Dorothy... Amelia and Harry Willard Gladys and Rhoda | Proceeds of a play, | of little girls, Boston, Mass, $1930.42 6.00 5.05 6.00 NEW BOOKS, DOX, FINIMONDONE. By Elizabeth Cavazza, New York: Charles L. ‘Webster and Company. Schools and Masters of Fence. By Egerton Castle, M. A., F.S.A. London and New York: George Bell and Sons. Confessions of a Publisher, By John Strange Winter. New York: The Waverly Company. Nada, the Lily, By H. Rider Haggard, New York: The Waverly Company. The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams, By Richard Malcolm Johnston. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Res Judicatae, By Augustine Birrell. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. The Reflections of a Married Man, By Robert Grant. New York: Charles Scribner's Son From School-room to Bar. By W. H. W. Moran. pincott Company. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- EDDLER: I'd like to sell you a bottle of prepared glue. Mr. HAVEN HARTFORD: I have no use for it. PEDDLER: But this is the kind that the railroad companies use to glue down the car windows with, Mr. HAVEN HARTFORD: How much is it ? bottles ! I'll take a dozen “TOMMY, DIDN'T DE PARSON SAY WMAT WAS DE TEXT OF DE SERMON AT DE SUNDAY SCHOOL YESTERDAY ‘DAT GOD HELPED THOSE WHO HELPED THEIRSELVES !'"" “YES; HE DID.” “WELL, DEN we's COT A Pic-nic. Dg EYETALIAN BLOKE 1S SOUND ASLEEP AN’ WE KIN FOLLER DE SCRIPTURE TEACHIN’S RIGHT UP CLOSE!” ANNIVERSARIES OF THE WEEK. JUNE 20, 1873. THE SHAH OF PERSIA VISITS PARIS, JUNE 21, 1876, A YOUNG GORILLA LANDED AT LIVERPOOL, JUSE 24, 1314. BATTLE BETWEEN ROBERT BRUCE AND EDWARD II. io the cherry season we can all sympathize with the “early bird.” comicbooks.com