Life, 1902-04-10 · page 2 of 20
Life — April 10, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire or editorial content. The left side features ads for the **Haynes-Apperson Automobile** (an early motorcar manufacturer) and **The Travelers Insurance Company** promoting life insurance policies. The right side advertises **"The Pines of Lory,"** a book praised by contemporary publications, and the **"Gilbert Portfolio of Pretty Girls"** — a collection of ten portrait prints of women, each 8x11 inches, priced at 75 cents. The featured portrait is labeled "Marion." There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century Life magazine content: advertisements mixed with product promotions, reflecting consumer goods and services marketed to middle-class readers of that era.
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COPYRIGHT FOR CREAT ite HAYNES-APPERSON AUTOMOBILE The Most Practical Automobile in the World Rexavovt. 6H. P, 32-inch Wheels, 1,250 Ibs. $1,200. Every one of the so-called ‘* weak” or ‘* unreliable” features of gasolene machines has in ours an alternative. Each cylinder of our machine is a complete engine in itself, capable of bringing the car home under all ordinary conditions. There are two Vaporizers—The mixture is mechanical and must be mechanically deranged to be affected. Our Spark is taken from a Magneto—Should it give out (a rare occurrence), you switch to the starting battcries and continue to run. Each Speed Clutch is complete 1a stself—Should one give out you have three others. Nine years’ experience is back of its simplicity, strength of con- struction and practicability. No failure mars our record. Every machine we have ever en- tered in any contest has won first place. Send for catalogue. We refer you to our record and our customers. HAYNES-APPERSON CO., Kokomo, Ind. ‘The oldest makers of gasolene motor cars in America. ‘The details of a carriage cannot be perfected in one seasva. “ It is a delightful tale in every way.” —Army and Navy Journal. “The tale is rather poor.”* —The Bee, Sacramento, “ There is not a dull paragraph in it." —Chicago Tribune, “A story that keeps one’s interest from beginning to end.” —New York Evening Sun, The Mortgage on Your House can be paid after your death and a home saved for wife and children if yoo have a Life Policy in The Travelers In- surance Co. It provides safe Insnrance at a lower euaranterd net it ele ance only: therefore the net cost of a Travelers’ policy Is Finteedand known beture- rence in cost cket first to last, y person, or later, meets witb an acel- dent. Injaries usually mean loss of tacome and auded ex- pe An Accident Policy TU “3 RS «, fertor eyes, 4 stated #um Iy $27,000,000 Ibuted among , piders or their farnilles for tnjaries or death ‘Agentelnerey towns or write Sor interesting literature. The Travelers Insurance Co. Hartford, Conn. (Founded 1863.) MARION ] ARION is one of the ten heads that compose the M GILBERT PORTFOLIO OF PRETTY GIRLS. Each head Is 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 tach Life Publishing Company 19 West Thirty-first Street NEW YCRK CITY comicbooks.com