Life, 1897-05-06 · page 20 of 20
Life — May 6, 1897 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and business notices** for Life magazine and various products, with minimal editorial content. The main cartoon appears at bottom center: a humorous exchange between a drunk man and a photographer. The drunk (identifiable by "the breath of gin") attempts to proposition the photographer about making "kinetoscope fillums"—early motion pictures. The joke satirizes both the man's intoxicated state and the nascent film industry's desperation for content and funding. The credited source (Indianapolis Journal) suggests this was reprinted humor. The page otherwise advertises Life's services: framed reproductions of cartoons ($2-4), subscriptions ($1/year), and merchandise including Rambler bicycles, Pears' soap, and Old Crow Rye whiskey. A note warns counterfeiters of whiskey—suggesting commercial fraud was common enough to warrant public service announcements. The content reflects 1890s consumer culture and Life's role as both satirical publication and business enterprise.
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LIFE dite 8, LIFE’S COMEDY. NEW YORK. L ‘DIES’ COTTON DRESSES. 1G MANY NOVELTIES, WITH Cort OF THE L MADE OVER SILK BER OF WHICH hAVE ODUCED AT LESS THAN ONE- HALE THE COST OF ORIGI MODELS. IN ADDITION TO A LARGE AND VAR. ASSORTMENT IN PIQUES, DIMI CRASH AND LAWNS SUITABLE FOR MORNING WEAR. ENTRANCES, W8th ST., 19h ST. and 6th AVE. (J8th St. Elevated Station.) In the interest of Justice and Fair Play . we ask all who use our Old Crow Rye to disfigure or remove the Pi ladel when the bottle is mimeery empty, as the commercial they can find and refilling them with trash. Buy your ies of reliable dealers you will receive the genuine article. H. B. KIRK & CO., 69 Fulton Street, Also Broadway and 27th Street. “1 ast subject to fits,” said the man with the air of sin and the breath of gin, as he stuck his head in the door of the “You can't beg a cent here,” photographer. ‘Get out.” “T ain't beggin’, I didn’t know but you and me could come to terms on get- tin’ up a few kinetoscope fillums.” —Indianapotis Journal. said the} Printed on Magnificent Paper HIGHEST STYLE OF THE... PRINTER’S ART? Then Subscribe for LIFE’S COMEDY, Published Quarterly at $1.00 A YEAR BY s & & LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City QUEER STATEMENTS by envious would-be competitors, who resent the rearrangement of bicycle values, cannot shake the public con- fidence in popu- lar Rambler Bicycles NEW PRICE, ‘Framed Proofs of Originals from LIFE ROOFS of any of the original drawings from LIFE. will be furnished on application, suita- bly and daintily framed in either a gilt or a Japanese oak frame. Large dou- ble page proofs, including frame and transportation within one hundred miles of New York, $4.00. Single page, or smaller proofs, $2.00. Proofs with- out frames at half the above rates. Make selections from files of LIFE, and state, when ordering, the particu- lar style of frame desired, and orders will be promptly filled. Proofs are the same size as Illus: trations in LIFE. '19 and 21 West 3ist Street, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, New York City 7 Peas Sew. 1883 “Tam told that my comes | dation of Peurs’ Seap te opened for it a larco stleistt 2) \ United States I stand by every word in farorelé that Lever uttered. A mas est be fastidious indeed who iss] satisfied with it.” ee Y WARD BEECED Ht (896 =: SOAP is oom ite | eryehere—uved Try Pears’ Shaving Stick. TUS ORIGINAL AND wEey, NOTICE. iS CESERIBERS To: ‘LIFE | will please give old addres as well as new when rt questing change of samt. CoMmehbooks-com