Life, 1902-04-17 · page 2 of 22
Life — April 17, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising rather than political satire**. The left side advertises *The Prudential Insurance Company* (emphasizing life insurance protection of $15-$100,000) and *The Pines of Lory*, a book by Amos Judd. The right side promotes a "Memory Training" course by D.F. Urbahns, with his portrait shown. The ad claims his practical memory system helps students and businessmen succeed, positioning good memory as key to "Twentieth Century Progress." It promises free particulars to interested readers. There is **no political cartoon here**—this is a commercial page typical of early 20th-century magazines, where ads subsidized publication. The memory training pitch represents period-typical self-improvement marketing.
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN UNDER THE ACT OF The Benefits of Life Insurance are well known and the need for it almost universally recognized. Nearly everyone believes in Life Insur- ance. What you and your family need, however, to assure protection, is not mere KNOWLEDGE, but the Actual Possession | of a policy in The Prudential ;| AMOUNTS— $15 to $100,000. Write for particulars. Address Dept. O. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. JOHN F. DRYDEN, Pres. HOME OFFICE : Newark, N. J, ~——) jsieealrar f By the Author of Amos Judd Ghe Pines of Lory A New Srory ey J. A. Mitcuent Decorative Desions ny A. D. BLasHrie.D Bouno in Green ann Gown. Price, $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.”"—l/ail and Express, N.Y. City “A fresh and charming love story, in which humor is as much to the fore as the tender passion.""— he Literary Digest, N.Y. City. LIFE PUBLISHING CO. 19 West 3ist St, N. Y. Memory Training New Practical System for Developing and Perfecting the Memory Discovered by an Indiana Student-Business Man. Is Rapidly Becoming the Wonder of Twentieth Century Progress. Needed by All, Possessed by So Few, a Good Reliable Memory Is the Key to Success. Anywhere, Everywhere the Person Having the Best Memory Rises to the Top. PARTICULARS FREE TO ALL WHO WRITE, D. F. For years the world has been waiting for someone to discover a system of memory tratoing which might be of actual benefit. Not a theoretical method requiring months or years of bard study, but a simple, practl- cal system which accumptishes the most in theleast time. {thas remained for Mr. D. F. Urdahns, 8 student business man of Fort Wayno, ind , to bringoutauchasystem. Tt is 80 easy that even a child cannot fail to Understand, It ts 40 plain and attractive that one can burdly belp becoming interest- fn it, and above all It ts s0 intensely practical that it helps one over the rou rocks of Iife to success, where without its aid absolute failure would be the result, Lot the reader recall his or her own ex: rioace : bas there ever been a time in your lite when you lost money by forgetting a sot of figures or a business appointment? Did you ever lose a friend by forgetting a name or face which you most wished tore- member? Did your friends ever do you an by forgetting you when you should mm remembered? Did you ever for- t anything which, remembered, would jave been valuable to you in avy way! These aro questions worthy of careful thought. sod when one stops to consider that a system fs now being used which will overcome all these serious obstacles to suc. cess, what need is thereto hesitate? Any bank, business house or minister of the Gospel in Fort Wayne will be glad to tell what they know of Mr. Urbabns. Hie inter: rity and honesty of purpose ts unquestioned. He ts prepared to furnish plenty of evi dence as to the value o amone those who have used it, and it doe seem tbat anyone who feels the need of & better memory can not do a wiser thict than to investigate this new system thor oughly, coming as It does from @ source eo tirely trustworthy. Simply send your name and address to Mr. D. F. Urbabna, 123 Bats Block, Fort Wayne. Indiana, and the {ull 1oformation and particulars will beforward: ed to you free by retarn mail. Readers aro requested to write withoat comicbooks.com