Life, 1900-06-28 · page 2 of 21
Life — June 28, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The left side features a life insurance advertisement for The Prudential Insurance Company, using the famous "Rock of Gibraltar" imagery to convey strength and stability—a common advertising approach of the era. The right side advertises summer novels and a product called "Londonderry Lithia Water," described as "a pure sparkling healthful water." The water advertisement shows two people drinking, likely promoting it as a health tonic (lithia water was marketed for various medicinal purposes in this period). There are no political cartoons, caricatures, or satirical commentary visible on this page. It's a straightforward collection of commercial advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazine content.
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-LIFE- i 1] i 1 | : | | : : | : $ questions 1.—Do you realize what your income means to the wife and children dependent upon it for the neces- saries as well as the comforts of life ? 2.—Do you realize what the effect would be to them if this income should suddenly stop? 3.—Have you protected them so that if this event should occur they would not be compelled to suffer ? This Protection is accomplished by Life Insurance in The Prudential Write for particulars. Address Dept. O. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. JOuN F. DRYDEN, Pres. COVPTSTSVVVLVVVAVVVVIVVVSSVVASUTVTOVUVEVTSFEEVUTUETUTESETEVUOB The New Summer Novels. “ There is a charm about whatever JAMES LANE ALLEN writes.” THE REICN OF LAW. By JAMES LANE ALLEN, author of “The Choir Invisible,” “A Kentucky Cardinal,” ete. “ The story has not only the extraordinary beaut} work a place by ite/f in our literature, It bas —Boston Herald, A TALE OF THE Kentucky HEMPFIELOS, Cloth, $1.50 which aites Mr AUen'e {so great sptritual depth, and unusual grasp of thought."—Hamitton W. Manre in ‘Tux OvTLOOK, If your people are away, send them the new novels. THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER, one of the authors of * The Short Line War.” A Story OF A Corner IN LARD. Cloth, $1.50. Sure to appeal to men, for they can appreciate all the scale of «motions that hang upon the variations of the Stock Market. An uncommonly attractive story, Put one of these in your vacation bag. A FRIEND OF CASAR. By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS, “Asa story... there can be no question of Cornelia and Drusus les at the soun A TALE OF THE FALL oF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. Cloth, $1.50. its auecese . . , while the beautiful love sweet beart of the story, to sey 0 is to give @ most meagre Idea of the large sustained interest of many tncidenta 10 eheid, v0 briliant, Chat they fix themaetoes in the the whole: . , There are ancy Huston Baxs In Tue Booxmax. These will interest the friends you are to visit. | AS THE LICHT Leb. By JAMES NEWTON BASKETT, author of “At You All's House.” Cloth, $1.50. Striking pictures of rural Missouri late in the “sixties.” when a wave of debate on denominational difterences swept the whole region, affecting the local politics and dividing friends and families with a | bitterness not even yet forgotten. as | THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, Publishers, New York. THE WEB OF LiFe. By ROBERT HERRICK, author of “Tee Gospel of Freedom.” Cloth, $1.50. Mr. Herrick’s “Gospel, of Freedom,” sald the Hoston Herald, is “ witty, origiwal and thoroughly modern . . . ideas." ‘The / led tt The great novel of American social life” with “big ideas bebind It," sald The Bookman. ondonderry | LITHIA WATER A PURE SPARKLING HEALTHFUL UNDER THE ACT OF