Life, 1897-07-22 · page 12 of 20
Life — July 22, 1897 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, "Chance Eliminated" **Top Cartoon:** Gummey of Gargoyle questions whether U.S. Senators gamble in sugar stocks. A colleague insists they don't gamble—"they have a sure thing," implying senators have inside information or rigged advantages in stock trading that eliminate genuine risk. This satirizes political corruption and insider trading. **Bottom Cartoon:** Titled "Looking for the Odds," depicts someone searching through papers, likely referencing the same theme of trying to find profitable opportunities through privileged access rather than legitimate market conditions. **Middle Section:** Discusses Yale's declining athletic enrollment, suggesting defeats hurt recruitment more than institutional reputation. **Literature List:** Contemporary book titles and plays from the period. The overall message: senators operate with unfair advantages unavailable to ordinary investors.
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> LIFE: < CHANCE ELIMINATED. = Wut do you think of the charge a that some Senators of the United States gamble in sugar stock?” asked Gummey of Gargoyle. “I do not believe it.” “But the evidence seems very conclusive that they deal in the stock on the New York Stock Exchange.” “Yes, I grant you that, but as for gambling I deny it. They don't gamble. They have a sure thing.” HE enrollment of new students at Yale has been slightly less than was expected, and some foolish observ- - ers have hastened to attribute the deficiency to Yale’s defeats in athletics. - Nonsense! The defeats came too late to affect the enrollment. Yale has had of late rather too much athletic reputation for her own good, and is much — more likely to profit than to suffer by the loss of some of it. a ST “SO SHE SCARED THE BURGLARS FROM HER COTTAGE.” “ves, 1 CAN WELL BELIEVE IT,” SOME CURRENT LITERATURE. The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock: Uncle Tom. Sentimental Tommy: Speaker Reed. Soldiers of Fortune: General Miles and Colonel Hay. The Incendiary: Eugene V. Debs. Fables for the Times: A\l the news that is fit to print. A Woman's Courter: Bok. Urban Dialogues: “Step lively, there.", to h—. The Scarlet Coat; The Golfiac. The Puppet: Quig The Meddling Hussy; Truth Trashmore. The Wisdom of Fools: The Taritf Bill. The Impregnable City: Boston. Critical Kit-Kats: The New York Sun. The Elizabethan Hamlet : Sit Walter Raleigh. Seats of the Mighty: The arena boxes at the Dog-Show, A Tramp Across the Continent : Coxey. The Well-Beloved : Grover. Bound in Shallows : Congress. The Quest of the Golden Girl: Memoirs of the Duke of No-cash. The Ape, The Idiot, and Other People: The Senate. Quo Vadis: Bryan. One Man who was Content: R.H. Davis. The Stand-By ; Mark Hanna. Hell fer Sartin : Pulitzer. How to Tella Story: Hearst. A Strange, Sad Comedy: Puck. The Voyage of the Rattletrap: A Fifth Avenue LOOKING FOR THE OCDS."" Stage in action.