Life, 1902-06-19 · page 17 of 20
Life — June 19, 1902 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from *Life* magazine, not a political cartoon. It contains no satire or political commentary. The page features early 1900s consumer product advertisements, including: - **Photography equipment** (Goerz camera) - **Automobile tires** (Hartford and Dunlop brands) - **Foot powder** (Allen's Foot-Ease) - **Shoe trees** (Leadam brand) - **Cigars** (Eden brand, notably claiming appointment to supply King Edward VII's coronation banquets) - **Travel literature** (Delaware & Hudson Railroad vacation guide) - **Chewing gum** (Beeman's Pepsin Gum, claiming digestive benefits) - **Bicycles** (Columbia, Cleveland, Crescent, Crawford, Imperial, Monarch, Rambler, Tribune brands) - **Whiskey** (Old Crow Rye) The advertisements reflect contemporary consumer culture and product claims typical of the early 1900s, including dubious health benefits now recognized as misleading.
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TE GOERZ _— “ANSCHUTZ i CAMERA LL make pictures Le eee ts fail, and will take anything others can. Needs Less Light Than Any Other Most compact, lightest and most com- plete. A wonderful instrument for obtaining full-timed results when speed fs essential. Fitted with the famous GOERZ LENS AND FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER C. P. Goerz Optical Works Room 53, $2 E. Union Square, N.Y. MAIN OFFICE: Berlin, Friedensu, Germany, me S FOOT-EASE SIAKE INTO YOUR SIIOES al Bhe ty Hartford Single- -Tube The unexcelled qual- ity and high-grade construction of these two tires have made them supreme in their respective fields We have in atock. and will eupety, the ‘and ephendid wearing qualities are a guarantee of tts uniform qualtt Is made of only the Users ot our tres will save delay by dealing with finest materials our branch houses in all principal cities, and which fare in charge ef our direct representatives Ghe HARTFORD Double-Tube = —Gire Is remarkable for the simplic- tty and ease with which It can be repaired. It combines all the best features of other double-tube tires, with a few special virtues of Its own % Ne These are the only tools you will need RUBBER WORKS COMPANY MARTFORD, CONN., U.S. A, WELL GROOMED | men and women will see and appreciate the The superior Imported Cigar smoked by fashionable men. Owing to the favor with which our brands have been received by the English aristocracy, we recently earned the honor of being appointed to make the cigars for the Of- ficial and Royal Banquets at the Coronation of H. M. King Edward VII. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900. CALIXTO LOPFZ & CO. 377 PearlSt., New York. Zulueta St, Havana, difference made to their shoes if they keep en not in use on LE "Ss SI lattened + the levei t hinged lasts or ot $1.0) a pair, Illustrated boi ows dey in You need hever fore: ler for them b ‘are of Shoes ** WHEN PLANNING YOUR VACATION “A Summer Paradise” JUeT ISSUED BY THB DELAWARE & HUDSON R.R. Fully Illustrated, Colored Maps, Rates, Routes, Hotel Directory, etc. Mailed on receipt of four cents postage. J. W. BURDICK, G. P. A., Albany, N. Y. WY, Ticket OSice and Barean of Information, 21 Cortlandt St, CHEW BEEMAN’S PEPSIN GUM Cures Indigestion and Sea-Sickness, AM Others are Initaticas. For Health, Pleasure and Business, Ride | Creccenv- > Ronee Laibume, Bic YCLES MOHAIMLESS | For Sale by all Dealers omAMERIOAN OYOLE MFO. 00. cH1CAGO SAN FRANCISCO H. B. KIRK & CO., SOLE BOTTLERS, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com