Life, 1902-06-19 · page 2 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four distinct ads: 1. **Van Norden Trust Company** (top left) — banking services advertisement 2. **Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters** (top right) — a medicinal tonic from Trinidad, promoted with gold medal awards dating to 1862 3. **Kodak folding camera** (center) — a $6 pocket camera advertisement, playing on the slogan "If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak" 4. **Prudential Insurance** (bottom) — life insurance ad featuring the Rock of Gibraltar logo, quoting Shakespeare There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine advertising for financial services, patent medicines, consumer goods, and insurance products.
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY UNDER THE ACT OF 1001. VAN NORDEN TRUST COMPANY 751 FIFTH AVENUE.NEAR 58™ STREET NEW YORK Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 Transacts a general banking and trust business, Pays interest on deposits, subject to check. Takes entire charge of investments and collects incomes. Furnishes information about investments and other business matters. Accepts Trusts. Issues Letters of Credit. No. 3 To open a bank account is a. simple process. You do not have to come to our offices—write and ask us for a signature card, which you sign and return by mail with a check. The account is then opened and we send you a pass book and check book. v n + ies : : half a wine-glass in sweetened water, soda The rate of interest paid is determined by the size and LONDON 1862 water or lemonade makes a delightful activity of the account; on an active account, 2 or 234%; PHILADELPHIA 1876 health-giving drink for ladies and chil- ona.time deposic, 35, AILADELP S dren. A few dashes in pure liquor, sherry eee” VIENNA 1873 or champagne, the epicure’s delight. Re- fuse imitations and cheap substitutes. OFFICERS CHICAGO 1893 None genuine except Dr. Siegert’s. On Warer M. Van Norden, President Morton C. Nichols, VieePres, and Sec'y a the market 70 years. Made only by William F, Havemeyer, Vice-President Arthur King Wood, Assistant Secretary LONDON 1886 DR. J. G. B. SIEGERT & SONS. Edward S. Avery, Trust Offcer Sees ° Simkorons BUFFALO 1901 All Grocers and Druggists, John Cl E J. W. WUPPERMANN, Sole Agent, Henrs Jonathan i PARIS — 1867 NEW YORK, N. Y. Benjamin Perkins 3 18781900 ichard L. Edwards h Fowl John H. Washburn Henry 7 Dumont Clarke ‘Cook Hon. Cornelius N, Bliss Thomas P. Fowler Unrivalled appetizing tonic and stomach GOLD MEDALS corrective,recommended by physicians. A Lf wt tsn't an Eastman, it isn’t a Kodak aoe KODAK for the pocket — almost for the vest pocket, at six dollars. Makes pictures 154x 2% inches, loads in daylight, has a fine meniscus lens, brilliant finder, automatic shutter —in fact, has the “Kodak quality” all the way through. No. 0 Folding Pocket Kodak, for pictures 154x214 inches, - $6.00 . LY. “Transparent Film Cartridge, 32 exposures, 156 2'%, - > 228 EASTMAN KODAK CO,, Rochester, N. Y, Do., 6 exposures, - - - JS Catalogue free at the dealers or by mail, $4,000.00 in prises for Kodak and Brownie Pictures. “ My Crown is in my heart, 'tis called Content.”"—Shakespeare. Such a Contentment arises when the Family is Protected through Life Insurance in rie THE PRUDENTIAL STRENGTH OF *¥ Its Participating Policies not only Protect the whole Glar. { Family, but Provide Cash Dividends to the Policy- ire : holder as well, thus affording an Excellent Investment. WRITE FOR INFORMATION, DEPT. 0. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. Home Office: NEWARK, N. J. comicbooks.co