Life, 1898-07-21 · page 2 of 20
Life — July 21, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# The Evening Post, July 6, 1898 This page is primarily a newspaper front page with multiple news stories about maritime disasters and military conflicts, likely from the Spanish-American War period (references to "Spain's Future Fleet" and Cuban matters are visible). The bottom half contains an advertisement for "Framed Proofs of Originals from LIFE," offering to frame drawings from the satirical magazine for customers. The illustrated figure appears to be a fashionable woman in period dress, serving as decorative marketing material rather than political commentary. The handwritten annotations overlaid on the newspaper appear to be later editorial marks or corrections, not part of the original publication.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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