Life, 1903-05-28 · page 2 of 22
Life — May 28, 1903 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. It contains four advertisements: 1. **Van Norden Trust Company** (top left): A financial services ad offering investment management and security deposit services for wealthy clients during summer absences. 2. **Lundborg's Perfumes** (top right): A decorative ad for perfume featuring classical imagery ("Golden Jasmine," "Swiss Lilac"). 3. **"O Lucky Bee" promotion** (bottom left): Life Publishing Company promoting an upcoming June 4 issue with a special cover design by John Cecil Clay, emphasizing the magazine's high-quality advertising possibilities. 4. **"Rhymes and Roundelays"** (bottom right): A book advertisement featuring whimsical illustration and poetry, marketed as a gift book. The small cartoon on the page is merely decorative, accompanying a perfume ad. There is no political satire present.
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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENOEREON UNDER THE ACT O1 VAN NORDEN TRUST COMPANY 751 FIFTH AVENUE.NEAR 58™ STREET NEW. YORK Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 No. 26 When absent from the city during the summer months, Van Norden Trust Company will take entire charge of your investments, thus relieving you of all inconvenience and anxiety. Securities may be deposited for safe-keeping, or for delivery in case of sale. Coupons, rents from real estate, interest on mortgages, and all other forms of income will be collected when due, and credited to your bank account or remitted. OFFICERS Warner M. Van Norden, President Arthur King Wood, Secretary & Treat, William F. Havemeyer, Vice-President William W, Robinson, Ast't Treasurer Morton C. Nichols, Vice-President James B. Haig, Jr, Ass't Treasurer TRUST DEPARTMENT Edward S. Av Trust Officer "> IRECTORS Dumont Clarke ‘Thomas P. Fowler Ernst Thalmann Charles W. Morse Mahlon D. "Thatcher Henry H. Cook Henry T. Bronson Arthur A. Fowier Warner Nat Nor: Joba Claflin Lundbore’s’ For over fifty y¢ standard of superio: elicacy and refinement. MR. ADVERTISER If you ever had a half-formed, lingering tendency to advertise in LIFE, a careful examination of our next special monthly number, “O LUCKY BEE” Out June 4, will clinch it. This number will be published in a superb cover in colors by Joun Cecit Cray, wh ality and dainty color schemes in designing LIFE’S covers are attracting marked attention. As a brilliant example of LIFE’S possibilities in magazine making, from its beautiful cover design in colors to a remarkably choice aggregation of strictly high-class advertising, it will stand out in bold relief, unique, interesting and suggestive, and fundamentally different from any other publication in the field. It will be well worth your while to secure a copy of this issue for reasons which will be quite apparent when you look it over. Advertising rates furnished upon request, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 AND 21 WEST THIRTY-FIRST STREET, NEW YORK and Roundelays FROM “LIFE.” A Dainty Gift Book. Clever Society y Verse by “Life's” Best 'W Writers, SE Reason with pleasure: Wisdom with mirth, Profusely Illustrated by “Life's” Best Artists. 146 Paces. Bound in Boards, 75 Cents; Bound in Leather, Green and Gold, $1.50. ‘Rhymes and Roundelays"’ and ‘* Taken from Life,"” and green and gold, in neat box, $3.00. both in leather The above for sale by all dealers or sent on receipt of price by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 19 West Thirty-first Street, ~~ ‘e New York comicbooks.com