Life, 1900-11-22 · page 2 of 20
Life — November 22, 1900 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content**, not political satire or comics. The main content includes: - **Department store advertisements** (Henrooz furs, Arnold Constable laces, bridal veils) - **Telephone Service ad** promoting residential connectivity - **Life's Picture Gallery** promoting reproductions - **Magazine promotions** for *Everybody's Magazine* (Christmas issue) and *The World's Work* (Doubleday, Page & Co.) The *World's Work* section quotes various professionals—railroad presidents, teachers, doctors, business managers—praising the magazine's quality and usefulness. This appears designed to build credibility and circulation. There is **no political cartoon or satire visible** on this page. It reflects early-1900s consumer culture and magazine marketing strategies rather than commentary on current events or social issues.
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Importer and Maker of Rich Furs Formerly No. 24 East 23d Street Recently No. 275 Fifth Avenue Has removed permanently to No. 8 West 33d Street Opposite Waldorf-Astoria A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR REMODELLING FUR GARMENTS Rich Laces. Real Lace Collars, Lace Handkerchiefs, Lace Barbes, Mouselines, Chiffons, Gauzes, All-Overs in Gold Effects, Gold Lace Bolero Jackets. Bridal Veils. Lace Robes, Feather Boas. Broadway Hoi 9tb a. NEW YORK. Telephone Service puts the hall-mark of real comfort on a well-appoint- ed private residence. Telephone Service puts the whole organiza= tion of a great city at your fingers’ ends, day and night, in all weathers. Rates In Manhattan from $5 a Month. One year contracts. Monthly payments. NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. 15 Dey Street. 111 West 38th St, LIFE’S PICTURE GALLERY NEW EDITION FOR 1905 Ne $41 Reproductions - - - Price 10 Cents LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF EVERYBODY’S MAGAZINE Ready o Ro * 10 Cents A splendid issue—the best yet—and this is one of the reasons: With the December Number, Everybody's Magazine becomes an integral part of the great Wanamaker Book business circulation, will begin at the change. Already popular, a new career of growth, in character and The highest editorial and literaty ability, superior good printing, artistic illustration, will be so strongly united as to make Everybody's zine the first populac periodical in the country. Its spirit will be patriotic and strongly American. Its tone will be strong and elevated. I's style will be bright and breezy. Then we shall make Everybody’s Magazine especially the monthly for the bome. The Christmas number has a beautiful cover in gold and green, and contains the following : A Bird's Eye View of the Century— illustrations by Granville Smith and others, o cities and methods of living in 1800 and 1900.) The Moonshiner’s Serenade— By James Whitcomb Riley. Jilustrated by B. Ostertag. The Fisherman Who Caught a Bear— By Charles Major. author of When Kn ghthood was in Flower."* lilustrated by Mark Baker-Baker. Ten fonths in the Nonitor— By Capt. Louis N. Stodder, With unique decorative pictures by I, W. Taber. A Christmas Ghost— By Mary E. Wilkins, With pictures by Gustave Verbeek. Between Two Fires— | Alone in the Arctic Wilderness— f | ByA . J. Stone. Mlustrated from photographs by the au Joscelyn Cheshire— A Revolat onary Komance of the Carolinas. With petures by Harry C. Edwards. By Sara Beau- mont Kennedy, A Marriage by Proxy— By Abraham Caban, Illustrated from life by Egbert YN Clark * A Green Christmas— By Edwin Asa Dix, author of “ Deacon Bradbury.” How a Famous Actor Got a Start— By William H. Crane, With two portraits in the char- By Carl ttovey, A ‘True Story of American Heroism, scree. of David Herne: iltusteated with portraits and decorative headpiece. | The Month’s Best Selling Books— To increase the paid subscriptions to One Hundred Thousand, a very special list of premium offers has been made out, It will be mailed to you upon request. Price, $1 a year. 10 cents a copy. JOHN WANAWMAKER Publishing Department of Book Store, NEW YORK Quick Appreciation THE WORLD’S WORK (Doubleday, Page & Co.’s New Magazine.) If quick sale on news-stands and among sub- scribers and generous praise from the people for whom the magazine is made—the people who do things—mean anything, the success of the maga- zine is realized. A RAILROAD PRESIDENT WRITES: “ THERE 18 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD, and It ts sure to become an essential force.” A LAWYER : “A magazine which busy people CAN AFFORD TO TAKE THE TIME TO READ.” AN EDITOR: It is a great thing to flod an editor with courage enough to emancipate bimeelf fiom ‘literature’ and to content himself with presenting facts and solid opimion based on information and DOING IT ALL IN SOUND ENGLISH.” A COLLEGE PROFESSOR: “ THE IDEA fs capital.” A RAILROAD MANAGER: “Tbe magazine COMMENDS ITSELF TO THINKING MEN, and I congratu- late you." A BUSINESS MAN: “A SUPERB WORKING OUT of a grand idea." A BANKER: “1 DID NOT SUPPONE THERE COULD BE ANYTHING NEW IN MAGAZINES—I seo I was wrong. ‘The World's Work * will succeed because the active man will want it.” A TEACHER: “especially ike THE HOPEFUL CONFIDENT TONE of the magazine—it's a relief.” A DOCTOR: “ THE PRINT 18 GOOD FOR BYES that now need help.” - These letters are from buyers. Price 25 cts. $3 a year. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & Co. COPYRIGMT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON UNDER THE ACT OF 1801.