Life — October 17, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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A PORTFOLIO OF HEADS. A Unique Collection ia Portfolio Form of Ten Sketches of Beautiful Women, by | the author of “ Overheard in the Witting- ton Family.” Each of the sketches is in itself an artistic treasure. subjects themselves beautiful, but the repreduction of Mr. Gilbert's pictures | and the method of mounting make each one a veritable work of art. Each head is an oval Sx1t, carefully printed in tone on tinted, heavy paper, and mounted ready for framing, on heavy, neutral board, 15x19. The portfolio itself is a handsome | production, with special design and lettering by Mr. Gilbert. Price. Five Dollars, carriage prepaid. From all Picture and Booksellers, or on receipt of remittance, from & ot LIFE PUBLISHING COPIPANY, 19 West Thirty-first St., NEW YORK CITY. Not only are the L. P. HOLLANDER & Co. 290 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 202 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON Announce that the complete Importations for the Autumn and Winter Seasons are now ready to be shown, including EVENING and RECEPTION GOWNS A large assortment of plain as well as the more elegant STREET COSTUMES ready tu wear. Also long and three-quarter length COATS and EVENING WRAPS Our MILLINERY Models from the representative houses of Paris now on exhibition. Richard Croker INVESTORS IN OIL STOCKS must realize now, with contracts being made to deliver Texas Oil at &e, per barrel at tidewater and to a limited market the chance Kern County, Cal ILLUMINATI BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS price. 372 Pages. Illustrated. $2 IT HAS: IT HAS: IT HAS: tion. The London Spectator Says : The account of the early history of Tammany, and of the long antagonism of | Burr and Hamilton, is most | interesting, and the lurid episode of the Scannell- Donahue vendetta gives full scope for the display of Mr. | Lewis's talent for melo- drama. to name wells by Hon. WM. C. WHIT) ONLY. OF ALL BOOKSELLERS AND LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West Thirty-first Street New York City Send subscription at once. attaching contract. 309 BROADWAY. Hou. THEODORE ROOSEVEL' Ho JO HAY, Sceretary of « GAGE, Secre | WU TING FANG, Chinese Minister, and Some of the gentlemen are sharcholders It offers an absolute opportunity to every investor to get in on the GROUND FLOOR, having equal chance with the PRESIDENT and DIRECTORS of the COMPANY. Fora SHORT TIME only we will sell our stock AT 50c. PRICE WILL BE ADVANCED NOT LATER THAN NOV. of immediate profit are poor. and other places producing FUEL oil, find the same difficulty of limited market and poor NG oil is scarce and maintains its price. New Amsterdam Oil Company, OF VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, is not affected by these depressing fa Lands producing ILLU} An unlimited market. Immense tracts of lands surrounded by producing wells which we need only purchase at a low fixed price if they produce oil in quantity. Transportation—long es\ No bonuses whatever to pay and no salaries until DEVELOPMENT WORK is complete. A SMALL CAPITALIZATION, $100,000. SHARES $1.00 EACH. NON-ASSESSABLE. A strong and high-class financial institution as depository—THE COLONIAL TRUST CO. Eminect counsel—Chas. S. Daley (office, Walter S. Logan). because— NATING oil worth $2.50 a barrel. Standard Oil Company buys produc: blished—railroads, pipe lines and tank steamers right at hand, Best newspapers in New York in our directorate. Per ion President of the United States; ante 5 ry of the Treasury ; Secretary of the Navy. All money is used for DEVELOPMENT WORK PER SHARE. 1ST. Purchasers of large blocks can pay for same in instalments with no liability NEW AMSTERDAM OIL COMPANY, Telephone 1496 Franklin. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES MENDEREON UNDER THE ACT OF 1001. comicbooks.com