Life — May 23, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON UNOER THE ACT OF 1801. Sporting Number of Life Copyright, 1901, by Life Pubtioding Co A MORNING RUN. LIFF does not inflict so-called special numbers every other week upon a long-suffering public. About six times a year it publishes the real thing. The recent Easter issue, No. 961, is an illustration of this proposition. This Number had the largest sale and received the greatest number of complimentary notices of any in the history of the paper. : : Our next special, with colored covers and all the well-known artistic f ures, will be issued about June ist. It will be filled pictures illustrating summer sports and pastimes and goes to make the summer vacation enjoyable. z Respectable advertising of all sorts will be welcomed to its colutnas. Every advertiser who is not a regular customer of LIFE should take a flyer in this number. Fuller information and specimen copies of previous special numbers sent on application. : Life Publishing Company 19 WEST 3lst STREET, NEW YORK B. C. EVERINGHIM, Advertising Manager Girts of Sterne Sitver for Weddings and all Anniver- sary and Particular Occasions may be selected from the very large stock of the GORHAM CO. with complete assurance of their value and beauty of design. Attention is called, also, to the very moderate prices and the wide opportunity for choice, from the simplest object of personal adorn- ment or usefulness to complete FAMILY SERVICES. The GORHAM Co. Silversmiths @ Goldsmiths BROADWAY & 19th STREET and. 23 MAIDEN LANE Special Prize Offers for Readers of Truth RUTH will give to any art student a scholarship of one year at any Art School in the United States, er one hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of artists’ material, or one hundred dollars in gold, for the best full-page illustration in colors of the story “*D'ri and I,"* now running in the Century Magazine. Sketches must be 15 3-4 x 10 7-8inches. The award will be made upon the merits of the picture for repro- duction in colors, the choice and handling of the sub- ject and composition. # # @ aa aR BEBE TRUTH will give to any amateur story writer, one hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of books, to be-chosen in any book store in the United States, or one hundred dollars in gold, as a prize for the best story of one thousand words. The subject is to be taken from some news item appearing in a newspaper of the writers’ locality. The clipping upon which the story is based must appear in the paper on July 1. # #@ #22 oo As it is necessary to be a subscriber in order to take part in these competitions, we will, upon receipt of one dollar, place your name on our subscription list and will send you TRUTH for the remainder of the present year, commencing with the May number.¢ #¢ 4424 8 The names of those who wish to compete must be in this office not later than the First of July. ¢ 9 @ @ Illustrations and manuscripts must be in this office by October 10thh #@ @ @ aa aaa esaanaaa For Further Particulars, Address Conductor of Truth Prize Competition, 19th Street and Fourth Avenue, New York TWO PURPOSES ACCOMPLISHED By an Endowment Policy It insures your having a round sum in cash, with profits added, when the policy matures. It insures your family, business or estate for full amount of policy in event of your death before policy matures. The Prudential will freely send you Sample Policy STRENGTH OF | f) GIBRALTAR Write for information, Dept. 0. a The Prudential Insurance Co. of America JOHN F. DRYDEN, President HOME OFFICE: Newark,N.J. comicbooks.com