Life, 1902-02-27 · page 2 of 20
Life — February 27, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page is predominantly **advertising** rather than satirical content. It contains three advertisements: 1. **The Travelers Insurance Co.** (top left) — promoting life insurance, emphasizing accident coverage and payouts to policyholders' families. 2. **"The Pines of Lory"** (top right) — a book advertisement for a new story by J.A. Mitchell, published by Life Publishing Co. 3. **Waverly Electric automobile** (bottom left) — promoting a "Ladies' Ideal Automobile" marketed as odorless, noiseless, and clean. 4. **Gilbert Portfolio of Pretty Girls** (bottom right) — advertising portrait prints called "Polly," priced at 75 cents each. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture targeting middle-class readers, with particular emphasis on products marketed specifically to women (automobiles, beauty portraits).
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON, UNOER THE ACT OF 1001. Accidents All The Time Nearly every person sooner or iat 200 “Injured by the Dennmito ‘Explosion. 1a New York City, January wth, An Accident Policy lers (the largest Accident Insur. auy in the world) ‘weekly Income and laree ee , ensues stated som 18. paid. Noarlt §37,00000 have heen b A Life Policy in The Travelers provides safe insurance ata lower premiam than mutual companies ant ata guaranteed net cost. In mutual companies the ne: “cont is usually greater than tecauan aerial airceada al estimated divi he net cost is never “y ing Mterature demonatrating the superior advantages of The Trarclere Priicies, Branch offices ta marly every ity. The Travelers Insurance Co. Hartford, Conn. (Founded 1863.) A Ladies’ Ideal Automobile... Odortess. Noiseless. Cleanty Superior Rattery Capacity nitcal 1 Opera IN ERNATION, MOTOR CAR CO, YY DePant went Indianapolis, indiana Chicago Automobile Show March 1 to 8 By the Author of Amos Judd Ghe Pines of Lory A New Story sy J. A. Mirctett Decorative Destons sy A. D. Bi asHrieLo Bounp tn Green ano Gown. Pi $1.50. “Laden with the odor of the pines and charged with the ozone of a sea-girt island of the north, comes ‘ The Pines of Lory.'"— The Globe, St. Paul, Minn. “It is a book ‘which no lodge in any vast wilderness can be complete without."—.VWail and Express, N. Y. City. “A fresh and charming love story, in which humor is as much to the fore as the tender passion.”— The Literary Digest, N. Y. City. LIFE PUBLISHING CO. 19 West 31st St, N. Y. POLLY OLLY is one of the ten heads that compose the GILBERT PORTFOLIO OF PRETTY GIRLS. It is an oval, 8 x 11, carefully printed in tone on tinted, heavy paper, and mounted ready for framing, on heavy green boards; size, 15 x 19, Price, 75 Cents Gach Life Publishing Company 19 West Thirty-first Street NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com