Life, 1892-11-10 · page 16 of 16
Life — November 10, 1892 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements**, not editorial satire. The content includes: **Left side:** Ads for a tailoring service (Stoll Tailor), hosiery (Waukenhose), and musical instruments (Vose & Sons pianos). **Center/Right:** A railroad advertisement for the Great Rock Island Railway, promoting two daily trains to Colorado—the "Rocky Mountain Limited" and "Big 5"—emphasizing speed and comfort for summer vacation travelers to Denver and Colorado Springs. **Bottom:** Food and consumer product advertisements: Armour canned soups ("White Label," marketed as "indisputably correct") and Oakley's California Violets essence. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** visible on this page. It represents typical early-20th-century *Life* magazine advertising, targeting middle-class travelers and consumers with emerging convenience goods and transportation services. The railroad ad particularly reflects the era's enthusiasm for rapid railway expansion connecting urban centers to western destinations.
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At Home, Abroad or Traveling WE can serve you just as easy—Make your clothes better and cheaper than anybody else—Send them to you or to our Pretty Stock and Low Prices quite an stores in other cities. inducement. Garments to order, $5 to $50. Stores in all principal cities. ey mw een TAILOR = INGTON, MEW YORE. woumasous orry,* An PRancreco, “ armeArous. PORTLAND, ORE LOS ANGELES. Utaukinhose The New Shape in Hoslery. Save Discomfort and Daring. Would you like an Illustrated Booklet free ? PWAUKENHOSE COMPANY, 76 PWAUKENHOSE COMPANY, 76 Chasncoy St., Boston,” Mase. St., Boston,” Maes, MOSK 6a LN LO SS Pure Tone, Elegant Designs, Superior ratniiey: ®oLD ON mASY TERKe. e014 instruments taken in exchange. Write for catalogue and full information, 170 Tremont 8t., Boston, Maes. Chicago to the Rockies Either one day or one night out, hy The Great Rock Island Railway; two grand through limited trains daily, “ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIM.- ITED” and “BIG 5s.” No. 21, known as the “ Rocky Mountain Liitep,” leaves Chicago daily at 10.45 a.m., arriving at Denver and Colorado Springs in the afternoon of the next day, earlier than any of its competitors—no extra charge. “Big 5” leaves Chicago at 10 p.m., and arrives at Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo the second morning, being but one day out, via Omaha. No. 11, will leave as heretofore at 6 p.m., arrive at Kansas City at 9 a.m., and will reach Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo the second morning. Our Colorado service is made perfect by this new “ Rocky Mountain Limitep” and the “ Bic 5," and gives to the travelling public Two FLYERS DAILY each way. Manitou passengers should consult the map and time-tables of our line, to fully appreciate the advantages in time saved by taking this route when on their summer vacation. E. ST. JOHN, General Mgr. W. I. ALLEN, Ass't Gen'l Mgr. CHICAGO. Se SS Is taking chances; but with our 17 varieties to suit any one taste you take no chances in using ‘WHITE LABEL,” A 17 to Los INDISPUTABLY CORRECT JOHN SEBASTIAN, Gen'l Ticket and Pass. Agt. Send 10 cents, and address of your grocer, for sample can. Armour Packing Company, SOUP DEPARTMENT, Kansas City, Mo. CONSERVED SOUPS. =~ URE FC mHERE AL, ELS = zap, Testes good. Cee FS CONS pat Et a SENCE OF * OAKLEY S cauioenra voters comicbooks.com ee ag ee