Life, 1902-12-04 · page 2 of 24
Life — December 4, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** with no political cartoons or satirical content. The ads include: - **Van Norden Trust Company** (financial services) - **Bicycle Playing Cards** by U.S. Playing Card Co. - **Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters** (medicinal tonic, imported from Trinidad) - **Remington Typewriter** (featuring a well-dressed man and the slogan "Slow Work becomes Fast") The Remington ad uses motivational language typical of early 20th-century advertising, suggesting the typewriter increases worker productivity and enables empire-building. There is no satire or political commentary visible on this page—it functions as a straightforward advertising section of the magazine.
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN ey JAMES HENDEROON UNDER THE ACT OF te01- VAN NORDEN TRUST COMPANY 751 FIFTH AVENUE.NEAR 58% STREET NEW YORK Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 eral banking and trust business. Pays interest e charge of investments and collects incumes other business matters, Accepts Trusts, 151 Transacts check, Takes about investments Letters of Credit. No. 15 The Van Norden Trust Company aids depositors or their attorneys in the management of estates, the prepara- tion of trust agreements, and the drawing of wills ; Takes entire charge of real estate, mortgages, and other investments ; Collects rents, interest, coupons and dividends ; Accepts for safe-keeping securities, wills and other valu- able papers, which will be delivered anywhere on the written order of the depositor ; Authorized by law to act as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee, and Registrar or Transfer Agent. The Trust Officer will furnish further information OFFICERS Morton C. Nichols, Vice Pret, amd Sec'y Arthur King Wood, Asstutant Secretary ard 5. Avery, Trait Officer DIRECTORS I Thomas P. Fowler Ernst Thalmann Wilham PF. John H. Flagier James Talcott Hoa. Cornelius N. Bliss John Clafiin Henry H, Henry T. Rronson Arthur A. Fowler Jo’ hbui Jenahsn't Currey One pack Bicycle Playing Cards beats two pair of | Bicycle Cards wear well. Popular price. 29 backs, ] Back shown is “New Fan.” Order by naine, SOLD BY DEALERS { U. S. PLAYING CARD CO., Cincinnati, U.S. A, 7 IX, DR STEGERTS 22 GOLD MEDALS Unrivalled appetizing tonic and stomach corrective. recommended by physicians. It lends the fragrant aroma of the tropics to pure liquor, sherry orchampagne. An exquisite flavoring for sherbet or punch. Grape fruit with Angostura makes a de- lightful appetizer before dinner. Refuse imitations and cheap substitutes. None genuine except Dr. Siegert’s. On the market 70 years. Made only by DR. J. G. B. SIEGERT & SONS. AM Grocers and Druggists. J. W. WUPPERMANN, Sole Agent, NEW YORK, N. Y. LONDON 1862 PHILADELPHIA 1876 VIENNA 1873 CHICAGO 1893 LONDON 1586 BUFFALO 1901 PARIS 1867 1878 1900 Slow Work becomes Fast Hard Work becomes Easy ALL Work > Becomes Pleasant when it is done on the ‘Remington Typewriter In Twenty Years we have saved the world enough labor to build an Empire. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT (Remington Typewriter Co.) 327 Broadway, New York comicbooks.com