Life, 1897-01-28 · page 17 of 20
Life — January 28, 1897 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertisements**, not editorial content or satire. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine advertising with no political cartoon or satirical commentary. The ads promote consumer products: Armour's beef extract for soup, Savannah Line steamship travel to Florida, Blair's Pills for gout/rheumatism, Hartshorn smelling salts, Grande Maison de Blanc linens from Paris, Listerine tooth powder, Williams' shaving stick, Farina Cologne, and Hartford single-tube tires. The only quasi-humorous element is the tire advertisement's emphasis "IT'S NOT THE NAME"—a tongue-in-cheek claim that quality matters more than branding, ironically undermined by the ad's own heavy branding. This is a straightforward commercial page reflecting late 19th/early 20th-century print advertising conventions: product endorsements, claims of European prestige, and medical remedies (some now recognized as ineffective or harmful).
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/ Savory Soup : | | may be made in a few minutes by using as ‘‘stock” | Jee. “BEEF. It will be digestib/e soup; entirely free from grease; delightful in flavor. g Armour & Company, Chicago. c Savanna ans ana TENCAAND AnD Savannan |UTHULal Florida, this Winter? Think it Over! i Blair’s Pills Great English Remedy for GOUT and RHEUMATISM. LABEL anseey THE GENUINE HARTSHORN The label of every bottle of genuine | Farina Cologne bears the word ** Gegeniiber.”’ | See that this label is on the bottle you buy. Send for free pamphlets to Sehletfetin & Co., Sole Agents, New York. GRANDE ‘es Seriiiage ») MAISON DE BLANC Established in Paris 1864. TABLE AND BED LINEN, woven by hand and bleached on the grass. lace Curtains, Centre Pieces, Bed Spreads, Quilts, Handkerchiefs. TROUSSEAUX OF FOAM IS ITS We invite inspection of our goods, feeling sure by you will find the quality much higher and 5 the prices lower than elsewhere. ES DDD0009299DNN2907299299222; THE NAME THAT MAKES THE I AK = I S a _—J = =— cr} = — (+ i—] fe = = = > the best; it’s the tireitself. ¥ KEKE EK 2399229922020 DPDIIINNIIN. eeeeeeseeeeety SLE 301 Fifth Ave., New York.| > THE HARTFORD RUBBER WORK" (°, new roms, cmcaes, eostom, THE J.B.WILLIAMS C racer treme oat ite CCASTONOLR EERE CEDPDDIDDDDDDDDIDDN EERE comicbooks.com