Life, 1902-07-24 · page 2 of 20
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The main content consists of commercial advertisements for financial services and consumer products popular in the early 1900s: - **Guaranty Trust Co.** (top left): Banking services advertisement - **Principe de Gales** (top right): Advertisement for cigars featuring a mustachioed gentleman identified as "Now King of Havana Cigars" - **Eden Imported Cigar** (bottom left): Premium cigar ad referencing King Edward VII's coronation - **Pure Habana Segars** (center): Cigar advertisement with bull dog imagery - **Century Automobiles** (bottom right): Early automobile advertisement The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and commercial messaging rather than political satire. References to King Edward VII suggest this is from around 1901-1910.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
COPYRIGNT OR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES KEMOEROOR UNOER THE ACT OF te01- GUARANTY TRUST Co. OF NEW YORK NASSAU, CORNER CEDAR STREET. LONDON OF FICES 33 LOMBARD ST., E. C, 60 ST. JAMES ST., 8. W. Capital $2,000,000. Surplus $4,500,000. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS subject to cheque or on certificate. Acts as Trustee for Corporations, Firms and Individuals : and as Guardian, Executor and Administrator; Takes entire charge of Real and Personal Estates; carefally selected securities offered for investment. TRAVELERS’ LETTERS OF CREDIT availabic ta all parts of the world; ALSO COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ISSUED, DRAPTS 0n all parts of Great Britain, France and Germany BOUGHT and SOLD, WALTER G, OAKMAN, President. ADRIAN ISELIN, JR., Vice-President. GEORGE RK. TURNBULL, 24 Vice-President, HENRY A. MURRAY, 3d Vice-President. WM. C. EDWARDS, Treasurer. JOMN GAULT, Manager Foreign Department. E. C, HEBBARD, Secretary. P, C. HARRIMAN, Assistant Treasurer. R. C, NEWTON, Trust Officer, DIRECTORS: Samuel D, Babcock, B, H. Harriman, Levi P. Morton, George P. Baker, R Somers Hayes, Alexander E. Orr, George 8. Bowdoin, Charies K. Henderson, Walter Oakman, August Belmont Adrian Isella, Jr Henry Hl, Rogers, | NOW IKGIINGI Frederic Cromwell, ‘Augustus D. Jutillard, cK. Twombly, Walter R, Gillette, James N. Jarvie. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, AN aAQ G.'G. Haven, Richard A, Mecurdy, Harry Payne Whitney, ORHAVANASEGIGARS) i rat Sed London Committee: ARTHUR J, FRASER, Chairman; — LEVI P. MORTON, — DONALD C, HALDEMAN, Pure Habana Segars— Always AUTOMOBILES 2 Mild are distinguished by the perfected DIRECT SHAT f ‘andl ONE-HAND CONTROL, The finest 4 ; rs * : And Imported Cigar S Aromatic Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. | ; Made in the old-fashioned honest We were selected to make | way of Pure Habana Tobacco the cigars for the delightfully blended Official and Royal Banquets at the Coronation of Look for the Bull Dog on each Box L King Edward VIL J°hn W. Merriam & Co. = The Roycroft Segar Shop, which 0 n cALtETO LOPEZ & CO., is “At the Sign of the Bull Dog” Jase what yor have beet footing forcrenty 0 177 Peart Street, New York. Sees ead Tor partscahae Be fow gtd acwos™ , — Zulueta Street, Mavana. NEW Y ORK——— CENTURY MOTOR VEHICLE CO., Syracas comicbooks.com