Life, 1903-09-10 · page 20 of 20
Life — September 10, 1903 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements**, not political satire. The ads include: 1. **Barton & Guestier** (Bordeaux wines and olive oil) — a luxury French import advertisement 2. **El Príncipe de Gales** cigars — featuring a bearded man labeled "King of Havana Cigars" 3. **Life Publishing Company subscription pitch** — offering readers $1/hour to recruit new subscribers by persuading friends the magazine is "the wittiest paper published in all this world" 4. **Cook's Malto-Rice** — a health food product claiming rice and malt provide superior nutrition and energy The subscription recruitment ad is the most noteworthy editorial content, essentially asking readers to become salesmen for a $5 annual subscription. No political figures or events are referenced; this is a commercial page typical of early 20th-century magazine publishing.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
September 10, 1903, BARTON & GUESTIER BORDEAUX Established 1725 Fine Clarets, Sauternes, Cognac Vierge, and Olive Oil Rr have all own cellars, BORDEAUX trmawces \\ HUILE D'OLIVE \ Superfine Clarifiee / FACSIMILE OF THE CAEL E. LA MONTAGNE & SONS JAMES DE FREMERY & CO. 45 Beaver St., New York | San Francisco, Cal. Q Would you like $1 an hour Q Five hours a day Q For about thirty days > We want a few of our readers to see their friends and secure annual subscriptions for LIFE. LIFE is $5 a year. Almost anyone who has the time to spare and is not afraid of his friends would do them a favor by asking their subscription wittiest paper published in all this world. This proposition is open to those who will write at once and tell us in as few words as possible the argu- for what is said to be the ment they will use to secure new subscribers. Address LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West 31st Street New York City COOK’S Malto-Rice, A Pure, Perfectly Cooked Rice Malted. RICE contains more nutriment and supplies eT] more energy to the human body if MALT as a marvelously bene- so$2 oon 144 ficial stimulant man has known for I ee generations, but only yesterday did he learn to combine it to the greatest advantage. COOK’S MALTO-RICE is a perfect blending of Malt and Rice. comicbooks.com