Life, 1901-01-31 · page 2 of 20
Life — January 31, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Content Analysis This page is **primarily advertising** rather than satirical content. The top half features two ads: one for The Prudential Insurance Company's "Endowment Policy" and another promoting a free signed Gibson Drawing offer from Life Publishing Company. The Gibson Drawing ad features a profile sketch of a young woman's face in the classical "Gibson Girl" style—the idealized feminine beauty standard popularized by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson in the early 1900s. The offer promises subscribers a signed original drawing for $5, with a deadline of February 1st. The bottom advertises "Masques and Mummers," described as "the most brilliant book on the theatre ever written by an American," by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, priced at $1.50. No political satire is evident on this page.
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The ENDOWMENT POLICY Provides for the payment of the amount of the policy to the insured, if living, at the end of a certain term of years. In case of his previous death, the full amount of the policy is paid at once to the beneficiary. This popular policy Is issued by The Prudential in amounts from $1,000 to $100,000 at low cost, consistent with safety, and stands as One of the Most Popular Forms of Life Insurance ‘Write for Information. Dept..O. A HEAD of Gisson’s Most Bewitching Girl may be yours for nothing. Each proof signed personally by C. D. Gibson, matted and ready for framing, 14 inches by 11 inches in size, on Japan paper. We show herewith a sketch of the beautiful heroine of Mr. Gibson’s new series of cartoons, ‘*A Wipow AnD HER Frienps,” Mr, Gibson's latest and most important work, which is now appearing in Lire. The portrait is much larger and shows her full face. You can secure the signed portrait only by sending $5.00 for a new subscription to Lirr for one year. The drawing will not be sold or reprinted. It is for the exclusive ownership of our subscribers. At the expiration of this offer the plate will be destroyed. New subscribers will receive for five dollars a year's subscription to Lire and the signed por- trait which you can get in no other way, also all the copies of Lire in which cartoons of “The Widow" series have already appeared. This offer is net. THIS 18 NOT THE PICTURE YOU WILL RECEIVE. THIS MERELY GIVES AN IDEA OF THE WIDOW. Lire Pustisuina Co., 19 West 8ist St.,N. Y. FREE! A SIGNED GIBSON DRAWING! THE PLATE WILL BE DESTROYED FEBRUARY FIRST. THIS OFFER EXPIRES ON THAT DATE. The most brilliant book on the | MASQUES and theatre ever written by an | American— — By Charles Frederic Nirdlinger Price $1.50 COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT RITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON NDER THE ACT OF 1891. “< .< MUMMERS | For sale by booksellers and news: stands, or sent postpaid on receipt of | price by Lire Pustisuina C | 19 West Thirty-first Stree’ comicbooks.com