Life, 1897-07-01 · page 2 of 20
Life — July 1, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains three advertisements: 1. **Waltham Watches** (top left): Promotes American-made watches as superior value to foreign equivalents, highlighting specific grades ("Riverside" and "Royal"). 2. **Public Opinion Magazine** (top right): Advertises a weekly journal covering current affairs, literature, science, and business, with subscription pricing ($2.50/year). 3. **Framed Proofs** (bottom): Life Publishing Company offers framed reproductions of original drawings from Life magazine, with pricing based on size and whether frames are included. The illustration accompanying the framed proofs shows a woman in Edwardian-era dress but serves only as decorative advertisement material, not satire. This page reflects early 20th-century publishing business practices and consumer goods marketing.
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e The Cou rse of Ti me u weekly journal of 32 or more pages, devoted tu the reprocuction, # condensed form, of the most iuteliigent thought of the world upog is best measu red by a Waltham Watch. every topic of general interest and importance. Its departments are WALTHAM WATCHES, the most accurate it is possible to make, are sold Foreign Affairs for less money than foreign watches : Sociology of inferior quality. The “R/VERSIDE” Religious Scien tifig and “ROYAL” grades are specially Letters and Art recommended. Look for one of these Business and Winance names on the plate, and always the word Book Review “WALTHAM. The most expensive _ The American Affairs department is especially valuable, reflect foreign watch is no better. as it does, the sentiment of the press of the entire country. By reading this one paper you can be as well posted as though yy i} oy, read 3,000 each week. Our editors do that for you. Sold by all retail Jewelers. PUBLIC OPINION may be just the paper you have wanted [ years, Send for sample copy and premium list. The subscription price $2.50 per year, $1.25 for six months, 65c. for three months, THE PUBLIC OPINION COMPANY 43 Astor Place American Affairs Framed Proofs of Originals from LIFE ROOFS of any of the original drawings from Lire will be furnished, suitably and daintily framed, on application. Large double - page drawings, including frame and transportation within one hundred miles from New York City, $4. Smaller drawings, $2. Proofs without frames at half the above prices. Make selections from files of Lire and orders will be promptly filled). .... Proofs are same size as illustrations in LIFE. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 and 21 West Thirty-first Street, . New York City. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT ORITAIN BY JANES MEROCABON VNOER THE ACT OF 1001,