Life, 1902-03-06 · page 2 of 22
Life — March 6, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page contains **four separate advertisements and content pieces**, not political cartoons: 1. **Haynes-Apperson Automobiles**: Ad emphasizing racing victories and reliability, with an illustration of an early motorcar. 2. **Prudential Insurance**: Life insurance advertisement promising "Food, Shelter, Education and Capital for your family." 3. **"Polly" Portfolio**: Art print advertisement from Life Publishing Company, featuring a portrait sketch of a woman's head. Part of a "Gilbert Portfolio of Pretty Girls" series, priced at 75 cents. 4. **"The Pines of Lory"**: Book advertisement with favorable reviews from contemporary newspapers praising it as an original romance story. This is primarily a **commercial advertising page** with no political satire or commentary—typical of early 20th-century magazine content.
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON. UNDER THE ACT OF 1001. HAYNES-APPERSON MOBILES © <4 WIN EVERYTAING Two Machines entered. Two Machines receive first certificate. Two Machines make higher average than any other machines made in America—our record in New York and Buffalo endurance test. First Prize Long Island endurance test, 100 miles without a stop. First Prize Cup Five-Mile speed contest, Fort Erie track, Buffalo, N. Y. First Prize Cup Ten-Mile speed contest, Point Grasse track, Detroit, Mich, Gold Medal Pan-American Exposition. Every machine we have ever entered in any contest has won first piace. No failure mars our record. We believe this is not true of any other make In the world, Write for catalogue de- scribing our two and four passenger vehicle, Tho HAYNES-APPERSON CO., Kokomo, Ind., U.S.A, POLLY OLLY is one of the ten heads that compose the GILBERT PORTFOLIO OF PRETTY GIRLS. Each head ts an oval, 8 x11, carefully printed in tone on tinted, heavy paper, and mounted ready for framing, on heavy green boards; size, 15 x 19. Price, 75 Cents Each Life Publishing Company 19 West Thirty-first Street NEW YORK CITY ‘Life Insurance Means Food, Shelter, Education and Capital for your family and yourself. The time to pur- chase it is NOW. Write us for information. Dept. The Prudential INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA JOHN F. DRYDEN, President HOME OFFICE NEWARK, N. J. “As ingeniously constructed and as interest- inga story as lately has come from any roman- cer's pen.""— Boston Transcript. “A splendid story is ‘Tho Pines of Lory.’ " —Kansas City Journal. “It certainly is no common creation ; it is vir- ile and breezy, quite out of the way in thought and expression.""—The Chicago Post. comicbooks.com