Life, 1896-05-14 · page 2 of 20
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# Page Content Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four distinct advertisements: 1. **Dorflinger's American Cut Glass** - promoting a decorative flower vase with pricing by size 2. **"Four Track Series" Travel Books** - practical guidebooks for travelers 3. **Arnold Constable & Co.** - carpet and rug merchants offering home furnishings 4. **Theodore B. Starr** - luxury silverware and wedding gifts The only editorial content is a brief "Our Book Store" section promoting affordable classic literature titles through mail order. No political cartoons or satirical commentary appear on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century Life magazine advertising, targeting middle and upper-class consumers interested in home décor, travel, and luxury goods.
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“FOUR. TRACK, SERIES” Dorflinger’s American Cut Glass. INTERESTING FLOWER VASE. . 0OWs LIKE ILLUSTRATION, 8 in. SIZE, $2.00 Each. Rah a” eau, PRACTICAL.BOOKS OF 122 & goo TRAVEL FOR PRACTICAL 4 $00 PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL 4 =—— CONTAINING PRACTICALLY euibes GUAT ANG ALL THE INFORMATION- RICHLY CUT. THAT IT IS PRACTICABLE eto TO PRINT IN THIS FORMS C. Dorflinger & Sons, TUUSTRATED CATALOGUE SENT FREE 9t5 Broapway, POST PAID ON RECEIPT OFA 2 CENT oes afi Src STAMP BY GEORGE HDANIELS, GEN'L a PASSENGER AGT, NEW YORK CENTRAL NEW YORK. R.R GRAND CENTRAL STATION,N-Y- Comet, sok exten w eumesk etnc tn Sstaenate nace OUR BOOK STORE Makes a friend of every visitor. Why not? Every worthy book is there—or we'll get it al your word—and WEDDING prices are so litile that the in-the-rut booksellers are aghast. SILVER. Here’s one line of books that everybody knows—and knows * & the usual price. Judge of the book store by them: Special attention giv The most noted works in English litera-|en to the preparatioy Cc A RPETS HANDY CLASSICS ture, well printed on good paycr, in neat | Of articles suitable fo cloth binding. Size 6x4 inches. Our price, 14c. each ; by mail, 20c. each, Abbé Constantin. 4 Ludovic Halévy. Mornings in Florence. By John Ruskin WEDDI NG Bacon's (Lord) Essa: Natural Law in the Spiritual World. By Lowell Brussels, | #k,ot Gotten Deeds (A). * c. M. | “Henry Drammond. PRESENTS. One of the Profession. By Matthew Black ‘Heauty. By Anna Sewall v Axminster, Browning's diobert) Postical Selections. old Mating’ ‘Secret. BYE. Maritt. |COmplete outfits 6 Chideitarciaa Pilgrimage By Bi Pi Eves The sEabock, ; _ hilde Harold's Pilgrimage. ron. | Pleasures of Life, The. ul Wilton Coming Kace: The, By Lord Lytton Poe's Poems. By Edgar Allen Poe. Knives, Forks and ’ Grown of Wild Olive.. By John Ruskin, | Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle. Dreams. By Olive Schreiner. Princess, The. By Lord Tennyson. Spoons and Carve 3 R Mats, Mattin nd Oile| Bream Lite, By Ik Marvel. Reprecnsas eh By John Ruskin. ugs, Mats, Mattings and Ot Eoictetus, Discourses of. Representative Men. iiy H.W. Emerson. Artistic and origina Ethics of the Dust. By Jobn Ruskin. Rasselas. By Samuel Johnson. cloths for Country Houses. | Frankenstein. By Mrs. Shelley. Confessons of an Engl Opium Eater. Heroes and Hero Worship. ty Carlyle. | — De Quincey. 3 laylis of ihe King. ‘by Loe tennyson ey By Thomas Carly) 2 sof the King. By ‘ennyson. omas Cariyl~, WHOLE CARPETS. |initemoriam. iy vara Tennyson ofan African Farm. ‘By Olive Pay’ Lightotasia, hy SicEdwin arnold. | “Schreiner. desk furnishings 5 ; Lamb's Essays of Elia, By Charles Lamb. | Thoughts from Marcus Aurelius. A Designs furnished for Aubusson | Lamb's Last Essays of Elia. By Lamb. Tillyloss Scandal. By Jay James M. Barri 5 Lowell, James Russell. Earlier Poems. | The Premium ‘Cook Book, to which {3 T B S RR Axminster & Oriental Carpets. |Luclle, “By Owen Meredith added the Prepsration of Food for n:| | HEODORED.OTA Lays of Anctont’ ree La vicar ot Wakefield. By Geldsmith, ‘aya of Ancient Rome acaulay, car of Wakeftel 4 * 138 of the Scottlah Cava ere. By Wil. | Whittier, John Greenleaf. Eariler 206 Fifth Ave., Mam Edmundstoun Aytoun. Poems. Broadway High ot. Madison Square. NEW YORK. Filton FEuckes POURTH FEilon. I ToAT.Srewanr & Co, NEW YORK.