Life, 1901-09-05 · page 2 of 20
Life — September 5, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Content Analysis This page is primarily **advertising and commercial notices** rather than political satire. It contains: 1. **Life's Gibson Calendar advertisement** (top): Promotes a 1902 calendar featuring Charles Dana Gibson's famous illustrations of idealized women ("Gibson Girls"), priced at $2.00. 2. **Gaeger Woolens underwear ad** (right): Markets "sanitary underwear" available in multiple sizes. 3. **Pozzonl's Medicated Complexion Powder ad** (right): Period beauty product advertisement. 4. **Pennsylvania Railroad tour notice**: Announces a conducted tour to California departing September 23. 5. **Adirondack Mountains travel feature** (right): Encourages September vacations in upstate New York. 6. **Publisher's notice** (bottom left): Requests subscribers provide address change notice by Thursday for proper delivery. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and leisure travel marketing rather than editorial satire.
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READY OCTOBER Ist. Life’s Gibson Calendar for 1902. A HANDSOME GIFT OR SOUVENIR. PRICE, $2.00. The popularity of the Gibson Calendar for 1got has en couraged the publishers to make the new issue larger ar handsomer than its predecessor. It is a distinguished artistic product of the best to be had in drawing, reproduction, and printing. It is unequalled as a gift or souvenir. ONLY TRUE | SANITARY UNDERWEAR 23 YEARS the Standard of Excellence The Most Artistic of the Pictorial Calendars. Thirteen large cards, 1214x151, each having, besides | the usual monthly calendar, a large Gibson picture in black and white, and remark sketches in sepia, held together by heavy cord, and handsomely boxed. ALL WEIGHTS FOR ALL WANTS ILLUSTRA, CATALOGUE FREE 16 West £34 Street NEW YORK: BROOKLYN t BOSTU! PHIUANELPHIA Tu be had of all Booksellers. Stationers and Art. Dealer, or sent Post-free by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City. 4 Chestnut Street 82 State Street TOUR TO THE PACIFIC COAST. | Another Opportunity to Visit California under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Personally-Conducted System. In view of the great popularity of transe dee the’ Personally 1 the recent P ilroad Tour to st and Canadian Northwest, that com- d to run another tour to the ie it to the world- the early Fall, ave New York, PI eIphia, Balti- more, Washington, and other. stati¢ sylvania Rai As in former tours to the auspices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a special train, com- posed af the highest classof Pullman equipment, will be utilized during the entire trip. Excelle Will be served in the dining cars attached to the i except during the stops An observa N ICHIGAN CE ENTRAL Pin American Special A Magnificent New Train. Ly, CHICAGO 6.09 pm. dally . BUFFALO 245 September in the Adirondack appeal to all who ¢ wtepe rd so great a di Nature's beauties as the one outlined below. Westward bound, the tourists will of the Colorado SPECIAL NOTICE... We earnestly request our subscribers to give us a full week's notice of any intended change in their address. Notice of change should reach us by Thursday to affect the issue of the following wee! Under a recent act of Congress, paper mail wiil not be forwarded toa new address, no matter whether instructions are sent to the local post office or not, unless addressee also sends stamps to that office to pr vst of re-mailing Letters are forwarded without any trouble, but papers must be paid fora second time if they are to be forwarded. Please give old address as well as new. Very truly yours, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY. pass through the wild slo | around the Great Salt L of the After visiting all the be: resorts on the sunny California slopes, the journey will be through the Arizo nd Canon of Arizona, Its | painted in mere words, Magnifi ring. awful in its depths, it stands among the natural won the world. ‘Thence across the plains Louis, and through Hlinois, Ind and Penn- it. the tourists reach th thirty d aving made low iennial Ce ention : piscopal Chureh, the Pe i Railroad Com isenabled to offer this superb va je eral T | tion trip at the low rate of $185 for the round trip from ‘ew York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, or any pointon Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pittsburg, one in a berth; and $165 for the round trip, two persons occupying the same berth. The rate from Pittsburg will be $5 less. open, and as the number who lated will be strictly limited, names should be registered immediately. For further information and descriptive pamphlet, to George W. Boyd, Assistant General Passen= , Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. ITAIN BY JAMES HENOERBON desert to the | Mountains. Those who have not spent a September in the Adirondacks have no idea how beautiful they are in that month which forces most families with children back into the city at just the time when nature affords so much to those who can stay in the country and enjoy it. Try it once and you will never regret it, A book oF folder descriptive of the Adirondack Mountains will be sent free, postpald, to any address on receipt of & postage ‘stamp, by George I Dantels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Cen: tral Station, New York, comicbooks.com