Life, 1897-07-01 · page 17 of 20
Life — July 1, 1897 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **advertisements page** from Life magazine (early 1900s based on styling), containing no political cartoons or satire requiring historical context. The page features period product ads: Armour's White Soap, English tobaccos (W.D. & H.O. Wills brands), Dixon's pencils, Farina Cologne, Blair's Pills for gout/rheumatism, and Woodbury's facial products. A large illustrated ad for Murray & Lanman's Florida Water promotes it as a "handkerchief chief" product and "source of delight." The right column includes a travel section advertising summer resorts around Boston and Newport, Rhode Island—luxury destinations for wealthy Americans. **No satire is present.** This reflects standard commercial advertising practices of the era, emphasizing product purity, English manufacture (a mark of quality), and leisure travel accessibility for the magazine's affluent readership.
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White Soap. An absolutely pure, snow-white, floating soap. For toilet, bath, nursery and fine laundry work, Cleanses thoroughly and leaves the skin soft as velvet. Made in two sizes—a S-cent cake, which is most suitable for nursery and toilet, and a larger cake for laundry and bathroom use. .MN\EXICO, AUSTRALIA, FULL INFORMATION OLSCRIPTIVE PAMPHLETS FREE. 49 Broadvay aot N21 Ballety Place satona ids Those Fine English Tobaccos sires sve Westward Ho rat oy ol, En La maw W. D.& H.O-WILLS a iaeneen ‘Three Castles beobtained for you by your dealer. ! Pas Tf he will not get them, write tous for inown brands, Gold Flake,ete. J. W. SURBRUG, Sole Agent, 159 Fulton Street, NEW YORK. OF WHOM TO BUY CLOTHING ... Established 1844 MENRY KEEN, Tailor, 114 High Holborn, London, W. C. EVERYBODY whorides a Bicycle should have tho Rier ‘Pedal Attachment, Changes Rat Trap to Radbe Peduisin ten seconds, without bole ect pentose mailed for P Pat. Apr. 20,1877. OG "Sto Atlantic Aves toston 735 Market St., San Francisco; 115 Lake St,, Chicago. Biair's Pills Great English Remedy for GOUT and RHEUMATISM. SAFE, SURE, EFFECTIVE. Druggista, or 224 William St, New York.’ = GIVE WOODBURY’S FACIAL SOAP and Facial Cream a trial; trai are made by a der- matologist. who has made the skin, scalp and complexion a study for over 26 years. for a sample of either and boo! {ygatment of the skin, 42d st., New York, Send 0c. in’ Beauty and John i. Woodbury, 137 GENUINE FARINA COLOGNE Inferior products and spurious imitations are now being sold as“ Farina Cologne,” and so closely have the bottles and labels been copied that even dealers are ed. The words, “gegenuber dem Julichs- Yatz,” have not been copied because they coastitote the address of the great Farina distillery,“ gegenuber dem Julichs- Platz” (opposite the Julichs Place), Between your fingers place a Dixon to make [Z iti YZ” Send 16 cts. writing a de- Paget ‘i worth double light. the money. DIXON’S American Graphite PENCILS. 30S. DINOS CRUCIBLE €0., JERSEY CITY, ¥. J. aa Ob TS KOI, TRG aw Ti FPO _ Summer Resorts HOTEL VENDOME-BOSTON Accessible location, excellent table, prompt service LELAND'S OCEAN HOUSE NEWPORT, R. 1. Opens June 26th RiasT ON THE EDGE OF THE OCEAN. Hotel Preston, seacn Biurr, mass. Open June 22, On high bluff, above magnificent beach, only 14 miles from Boston. Entirely re~ modeled this year. fag circulars, etc., address F. H. NUNNS, Proprietor, Vfotel Notilaghaen, Boson.