Life — December 3, 1898 — page 39: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

WALTHAM WATCHES Ask your jeweler for a WaLTHAM watch and he will supply it, no matter if he happens to have personal prejudices in favor of some other. Insist upon having a WaLTHAM and no other.’ There are other American watches and other American watch companies, but none of them can make a WaLTHAM watch. The American Waltham Watch Company is the first American company; the first to be organ- ized (nearly half a century ago), and the first at the present time in the quality and volume of its product. _WaLTHAM watches are all good time-keepers—some of them better suited for one class of service, some for another. We particularly recommend the move- ment engraved with our trade-mark “Riverside,” as combining high quality and medium price. AMERICAN WaLTHAM WatTCH Co. - Waltham, Mass. For sale by all jewelers. comicbooks.com