Life, 1903-08-06 · page 5 of 32
Life — August 6, 1903 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four advertisements from the early 1900s: 1. **Oldsmobile** ("Early or Late"): Promotes the car's reliability and speed, priced at $650. 2. **Peerless Touring Car**: Highlights the vehicle's advanced features and ease of operation. 3. **White Rose Glycerine Soap**: Features a woman at a shop window, emphasizing the product's purity and fragrance. 4. **Rock Island System (railroad)**: Advertises Colorado as "a Paradise for Children," promoting family travel with low rates and splendid service. There is no political satire or caricature present. The page reflects early-20th-century consumer culture, showcasing emerging automobile technology and leisure travel as aspirational lifestyle products for middle-class Americans.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
or Late There's an exhilaration In the early morning spin. Nature is at her best and the Oldsmobile reels off the miles with tireless energy and undiminished speed. The one essential point in a gasoline motor—the regular supply of a prop: erly proportioned fuel mixture to the cylinder—is taken care of with absolute certainty and exactness by the special Olds Mixer or Carburetter, so there Is. “Nothing to watch but the road,?? The Oldsmobile + goes,” and after a long day's touring is still ready for aqulet moonlight drive ‘ J have had no trosble learning ° to operate my pew Poerlest Tourt a summer evening's pleasure made possi- oh it rane beau titelly no trouble, ble by the machine that is bullt to run no caro—just real mtisfaction, AND DOES IT. Mea 0 Horry Price $650 09 +7 Kéneeed Aves, Caicage. Any of our selling agencies, estab- lished throughout the world, will gladly take you fora trial drive and show you how easy it Is to run the . Oldsmobile, Write for new illus- \ foals att fa = the part trated catalogue to Dept. J ; \ ~ by tne Peerlons thow co Conse vesy ideal arrangements of parts coupled p v Few of * Thi Ide rt Ver four cylinder, DETROIT, NICH. who does, Ste! ty tell you they mean Peerless by Name—Peerless in Sepaurnnee fasion in Action Members of the Association Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. d PEERLESS MOTOR CAR CO. —Cllovoland, Ohio Go to Colorado this sum- mer—and take the youngsters AS with you, It’s the chil- dren’s paradise— the biggest and hap- piest playground in America, A month there will give you—and them—a new grip on life. ot at all after you get there seo 80, via the oc Rock Island fra Splendid service from Chi- System ont ae ma other towns and . cities in the West ‘The best glycerine Soap, “No. 4711."" Its purity is absolute ; its perfume unequalled. Used far’ years in the Court of H. I. M. the Emperor of Russia, Can be applied to the most tender and delicate sk Manufactured by FERD. MULHENS, Cologne, 0/R, Germany. Sole U. S. Agents, MULHENS & KROPFP, 298 Broadway, New York. JOHN SEBASTIAN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cutcaco, Int, Send 15 cents for full size sample cake. comicbooks.com