Life, 1902-06-26 · page 25 of 31
Life — June 26, 1902 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It's a collection of commercial advertisements from the early 1900s, with no apparent cartoon or satirical content. The ads promote luxury goods targeting affluent consumers: Turkish and Havana cigarettes, olive oil, imported cigars (one celebrating King Edward VII's coronation), chocolates, banking services, and stock brokers. Notable is an ad for a children's toy revolver—a "Young America Double Action Revolver"—marketed as "safe" and preferable to "cheap toys," reflecting an era when such items were sold without modern safety concerns. The only potentially notable element is the prominence of financial institutions (Morton Trust Company, Wassermann Brothers stock brokers) advertising alongside consumer goods, suggesting the magazine's audience was wealthy and investment-focused. The page reflects early 20th-century commercial culture and attitudes toward product safety that would be unthinkable today.
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No better Turkish Cigarette can be made Egyptian Deities Cork Tips as well Rae’s Lucca Olive Oil appreciated by connoisseurs for its Delicate Flavor (No rank smell nor taste, so frequent in some brands of Olive Oil.) Guaranteed Pure Oil of Olives seconly wee @ S. RAE & Co. (Established 1896) LEGHORN, ITALY Pure Habana Segars— Always Mild And Aromatic Made in the old-fashioned honest way of Pure Habana Tobacco delightfully blended Look for the Bull Dog on each Box J°hn W. Merriam & Co.|/ The Roycroft Segar Shop, which is “At the Sign of the Bull Dog” NEW YORK Morton Trust Company 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Capital, = - : $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $4,500,000 OFFICERS: LEVI P. MORTON, President THOMAS P. RYAN, Vice-President JAMES K. CORBIERE, 2d Vice-Prest. H. M. FRANCIS, Secretary EUGENE EB. VARET, Asst. Secretary G. L, WILMERDING, Asst. Secretary H. B. BERRY, Trust Officer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE; Levi P. Morton Joseph C. Hendrix Thomas F. Ryan James N. Jarvie Edward J. Berwind George Foster Peabody G. G. Haven Jacob H. Schift William C. Whitney Issue Foreign Redmond, ( cc" Kerr & Co. are EDT 1 Sterling, BANKERS, Francs, Marks 4 or Dollars, payable in all parts of the world, Chicago Office, 232 La Salle Street. : Philadelphia, Graham, Kerr & Co. WASSERMANN BROTHERS STOCK BROKERS 40 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK Members of New York Stock Exchange BRANCH OFFICES: 753 Fifth Avenue (Plaza Bank), Windsor Arcade, corner 46th St, and Sth Ave, Astor Court (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel), Imperial Hotel. . 5 West 20th St., opposite Martin's Restaurant. Fifth Avenue Hotel. The boys are bound to make noise, but don't let them take chances with cheap toys when they can celebrate safely and to their entire satisfaction with the Young America = Double $2.25 Action Revolver Safe. Rollablo. 22 Caliber, 7 abot, rim fire. $2 Caliber, 5 shot, rim or center fire. Tf not tobe had of your dealer write ns, enclosing amount, and we will supnly you by return mail, sending prepaid. Catalogue free, HARRINGTON & RICHARDSON ARMS CO. Dept. 4 Worcester, Mass. Chocolate STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & 80: 1816 Chestnut Btreet, Phited \ The finest Imported Cigar Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. | We have been selected to make the cigars for the Official and Royal Banquets at the Coronation of King Edward VII. CALIXTO LOPEZ & CO., 177 Peart Street, New York. Zulueta Street, Havana. comicbooks.com