Life, 1902-03-27 · page 12 of 36
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# Life Magazine Page 254: "Life's Anecdote Contest" This page features two humorous photographs labeled as contest entries, plus comedic illustrations of a fencing duel. **Top left:** Shows Van Sweller Ironhurt's automobile mishap in a city park—apparently a comedic staging showing an auto accident with exaggerated chaos. **Top right:** Depicts children gathered around Mr. Sofily Hardcash's broken "naptha-motor" automobile, "The Abattoir," with the caption suggesting mechanical failure and children's amusement at his misfortune. **Bottom section:** Contains anecdotes about legal/social embarrassments—one involving an English barrister's court case, another about John Van Buren (son of a U.S. President) in a tavern argument. **Lower illustrations:** Show a fencing duel sequence titled "L'IMPÉRIALE FOREVER! ANOTHER FRENCH DUEL," satirizing French dueling culture with sequential action drawings. The page is essentially a humor/comedy compilation typical of Life's satirical format.
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&—Mr. Van Sweller Ironhart, in his autoloco, The Raddy Shambles," ran {nto some obstruction, on entering the Park, and struined his lamp badly, For tho best interests of the Clab, there ehould be a law enacted, requiring wagons, horses and pedestrians In our city streets to bo at large only at certain houre, Life’s Anecdote Contest. OTICE TO CONTESTANTS : WM this leswe ts published the last contre butions to the Anecdote Contest, Announcement of the winners in ils contest will be made in Lir® for April 24th. Newnn 69. ‘Mr. Oswald, who had the reputation of being the hardest fighter at the English bar, was arguing a caso in the Court of Appeals at great length, ‘The Court had intimated pretty clearly that it had heard enough, but Oswald, treating theso {ntimations in his usual manner, went on raising point after point, “ Really," at last one of the justices remonetrated, really, Mr. Oswald, §f you intend to rely on these points, }oa should havo raised them in the court below, : “80 I did, my Lord,” replied Oswald, “ bat their lordships stopped me.” “They stopped you, did they?" foquired Lord Esher, eagerly, * How id they do it?"—From Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar. T. H. Flood and Company, Chicago, 1899, Nemnen 6, John Van Baren, tho celebrated lawycr, and eon of the President of the United States, was one day eating oysters in a tavern, when a friend reproach folly said to him, in reference to a very bad case in which he had recently been engaged: “I don't eappose there 1s any case 60 disreputable that you 4.—Something went wrong with the gearing on Mr, Softly Hardrush's naphtha-motor, “The Abattolr,” and while stopping to fix {t, a number of children got {9 front of the machine, At the moment of starting, and jast previous to his running them down, our photagrapher took this picture. His friends aro now cruel enoagh to joke him abont ft, claiming he stopped to let the little ones get out of his way. Those who know Hardrush will not, however, take this picture eeriously, LIIMPERIALE FOREVER! ANOTHER FRENCH DUEL, comicbooks.com