Life, 1902-03-20 · page 19 of 20
Life — March 20, 1902 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with one small cartoon at the top. The cartoon labeled "PUZZLE" shows seven people sitting together on what appears to be public transportation (likely a streetcar). The caption asks "WHERE IS THE PRETTY YOUNG LADY SITTING?" This is a visual puzzle—the joke likely depends on the reader spotting a woman among the figures, or perhaps the trick is that there *isn't* one, making it a "gotcha" moment typical of early 20th-century humor. The rest of the page contains period advertisements: Whitman's chocolate, firearms, a theater production, Pabst beer, Angostura bitters, Nabisco wafers, and Spencerian pens. These ads reflect consumer products and entertainment popular in this era. No significant political commentary is evident on this page—it's a standard issue of the satirical magazine dominated by commercial sponsorships rather than editorial content.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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