Life, 1903-06-04 · page 8 of 36
Life — June 4, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page consists entirely of **period advertisements**, not satire or political cartoons. There is no editorial content. The four ads promote: 1. **Lundborg's Perfumes** — a luxury fragrance brand featuring classical imagery of a woman with flowers 2. **El Príncipe de Gales Cigars** — "King of Havana Cigars," showing a gentleman in top hat reading 3. **Boston Garter** — a men's sock garter with a "cushion bulge clasp," emphasizing it won't slip or tear 4. **Walter Baker & Co. Chocolate** — promoting their "Caracas Sweet Chocolate," claiming 123 years as purveyors to Americans These represent typical early 20th-century consumer goods targeting middle and upper-class readers. The ads reflect period aesthetics: classical refinement, formal dress, and luxury consumption as markers of respectability and status.
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Lupdbores, Perfumes "For over fifty posrs tho ‘lity, All over the civilized world THE IMPROVED BOSTON cates tS KNOWN AND WORN Every Pair Warranted WER the Name is stamped on every loop— The een. CUSHION BUTTON CLASP Lies fiat to the leg—never Slips, Tears nor Unfastens ALWAYS EASY GEO. FROST CO., MAKERS, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES Send 50c. for Silk, 25c. for Cotton, Sample Pair. NG (Om BEXZANT@IGARS Purveyors to the American People for 123 years Walter Baker & Co., Ltd. COCOA & CHOCOLATE To introduce our -— CARACAS SWEET CHOCOLATE )\ the finest eating chocolate in the world, we \\\ will send you a quarter-pound package for ‘ ten cents in stamps or money. We cannot | send more than one package to the same address. JUST TRY IT Walter “Baker & Co., Ltd. Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. 40 Highest Awards in Europe and America comicbooks.com