Life, 1900-07-26 · page 2 of 20
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# Analysis This page contains **primarily advertisements**, not editorial cartoons or satire. The visible content includes: 1. **Scribner's Fiction Number** (left): Announces the August fiction issue with stories by Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, and others. Notes a special nine-color cover and illustrations by named artists. 2. **Southern Pacific Railway ad** (center-left): Promotes "The True Southern Route" to Pacific Coast, highlighting Pullman sleeping cars and service between major cities. 3. **Prudential Insurance ad** (right): Targets clerks and salesmen, promoting an endowment policy meeting three investment conditions: small investments, security, and fair profit. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer advertising and literary promotion. No political satire or caricatures are present—this is a commercial magazine page from Life's advertising section.
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SCRIBNER’S FICTION NUMBER Bpootial Cover in Nino Seiors THE SPECIAL FEATURES of the August (F number of SCRIBNER'S include a New Animal Story by Ernest Seton- Thompson, profusely illustrated by bimself a New Story by rish; an amusing story $.H. Preston, most humorously illustrated by A. B, Frost; a Love-Story by J. R. Perry, illustrated by H_C. Christy; anda Short Play by George A. Hibbard, iMustrated by Henry Hutt; also Stories by Albert Bigelow Paine and Arthur Colton, while J.'M. Barrie's great serial, " Tommy and Grisel,” continues with increasing interest. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS has an article entitled ‘' Pretoria tn War Time," which contains an interview Mr. Davis had with, President Kruger Mr. Davis's’ vigorous comments on the con- duct of the British officers will cause surprise, and will give to the article a very special interest. The article is illustrated from photographs. “MIDSUMMER” is the title of a set of eight beautiful full, age designs 1m five colors y' Honey McCarter, depicting wirtons moods of outdoor nature in summer time. meatalans Ernest ee Thompson A.B. Frost Maxfield Parrish Howard Chand- ler Christy This Fiction Number ts specially ree markable for the richnessandva- riety of its tllus- trations, sur- passing in this respect any tssue of its kind ever attempted hitherto, Be~ sides the cover, tn nine colors, it contains a wealth of tllus- trations by well- Anown artists, Henry McCarter Henry UH Hutt EC, Peixotto C.S. Chapman Bernard ion '$itb Partridge NOW READY. erywhere, PRICE 25 CENTS, VETTE VVVVEVSTVVVTUSUTTTVSVTATYB Jessie W.Smith , The True Southern Route Hl BGOGCOGOOCOMOMOLIOGOS OSS OGOGODOGOGOGOGOO TO PACIFIC COAST POINTS SOUTHERN PACIFIC ~~. COMPANY BSunsot Routo Rivals the World for elegance, safety and comfort of its trains. Latest improved PuHman ordinary sleeping cars leave Wash- ington, D. C., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for San Francisco without change. Pullman first-class sleeping-car service daily between New Orleans and Mexico City without change. For further: information, free illustrated pamphlets, maps and time-tables ; also lowest freight and passage rates, apply to E. HAWLEY, Asst. Gen'l Traffic Manager, L. H. NUTTING, Eastern Passenger Agent, 349 Proadway, 1 Battery Place (Washington Building), New York. A sample copy of the ‘Sunset Magazine,” a monthly publica- tion devoted to the development of the Pacific Coast, will be sent on application on receipt of 5 cents in stamps. To Clerks, Salesmen and Others on a moderate salary, a vital question is: ‘*How can my savings be invested to bring the greatest returns at middle or old age?”’ Conditions Essential 1. The possibility of invest- ing small amounts. Absolute security. A prospect of a fair profit. The Prudential meets all these requirements in its profit-sharing Endowment Policy which also protects the family of the insured during the investment period, and returns a cash sum much in excess of the total premiums paid. Write for particulars. WON THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA JOHN F. DRYDEN, Pres, HOME OFFICE: Newark, W. J.