Life, 1903-11-19 · page 19 of 22
Life — November 19, 1903 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **financial and commercial advertisement page** from Life magazine, not a satirical cartoon page. The single humor item is a brief "Reminiscent" joke: a father tells his son that the "good old antebellum days" (pre-Civil War South) were better—specifically because he hadn't yet married the boy's mother. It's gentle domestic humor playing on the common trope of husbands joking about married life being restrictive. The rest of the page consists of corporate advertisements for major New York financial institutions (Wassermann Brothers stock brokers, Morton Trust Company, Guaranty Trust), plus consumer product ads (Pommery Champagne, Blair's Pills for gout, P.B. Ale, Dr. Deimel underwear, and Goodspeed's rare books). These ads showcase the wealth and commercial activity of early 20th-century America and the magazine's affluent readership.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
rice @ POMMERY CHAMPAGNE @tr At important dinners where nothing but the best in viands and wine will do, you are sure to find POMMERY CHARLES GRAEF & CO., Sole Agents for the United States 32 Beaver Street, New York «GOUT & RHEUMATISM Reminiscent. Cate Great Englisn Remedy oy “PAPA, what were the good old ant BLAIR’S PILLS Ke bellum days?" pate, Sores Etective. Heck SE ‘ “* Before I married your mother, my son." WASSERMANN BROTHERS STOCK BROKERS 40 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Capital, - - - $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $6,000,000 OFFICERS: LEVI P_ MORTON, President THOMAS P. RYAN, Vice-President JAMES K. CORBIERE, 2d Vice-Prest. H. M. PRANCIS, Secretary G. L. WILMERDING, Anat, Secrater § Members of New York Stock Exchange BRANCH OFFICES: 753 Fifth Avenue (Plaza Bank). Windsor Arcade, corner 46th St, and Sth Ave. Astor Court (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel). Imperial Hotel. & West 26th St., opposite Martin's Restaurant Fifth Avenue Hotel. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE + Lest P. Morton Josep U. Hendrix Thomas F. Ryan James No Jarvie Edward J. Berwind George Foster Peabody G.G. Maven Jacob H. Schur ‘Wititam ©. Whitney AUDITING COMMITTEE : Richard A, McCurdy. Joseph Larocque Walter 8, Johnston Guaranty Thiet Co. of New York Mutual Life Building, . ER CEDAR STREET. OB FICE ¢ 33 LOMBARD ST., E. C. Manila. Philippine Island Fiscal Agents of the } United States Government. Hong Kong, China. Capital, $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $5,444,146 INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS SUBJECT TO CHEQUE OR ON CERTIFICATE. Acta aa Trustee for Corporations, nd as Guardian, Executor and Administrator; Takes entire charge of Real and’ Personal Estates: carefully selected securities offered for investment. TRAVELERS’ LETTERS OF CREDIT AVAILABLE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ISSUED. Is. | Depository of the Government of ‘ the Philippine Islands, Manila. DRAFTS on all parts of Great Britain, France, Germany, China and Philippines ROUGHT and SOLD. WALTER G. OAKMAN, President. HENRY A. MURRAY, dd Vice-President. WM. C. EDWARDS. Treasurer. F.C. HARRIMAN, Assistant freasurer. R, DIRECTORS Adrian Iselin, Jr., Walter G. Oakman, dames N. Jarvie. Norman B. Ream, ‘Angustus D. Juiiltard, Henry H. Rogers, R. Somers Hayes. Richard A. McCurdy, HH. McK. Twombly, Charies R. Henderson, Levi P. Morton, Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney. London Committee: ARTHUR J. FRASER, Chairman; DONALD C. HALDEMAN. ER. TURNBULL, 2d Vice-President. ULT, Manager Foreign Department. £. C. HEBBARD, Secretary. C. NEWTON, Trust Omticer, F. H, Harriman, G. G. Haven, Edwin Hawley, George F. Baker, Aagust Belmont, George S. Bowdotn. Frederic Cromwell, Walter R. Gillette, MORTON TRUST COMPANY , GOODSEEED'S BOOKSHOP, _ 5A Park Sty Bisten, Mass c . BERRY, Trust Officer The BEST in the WORLD! Evans | Every Bottle Proves It! RARE BOOKS, PRINTS and e- collecto: lines. Your pet nina: olicited. We carry no rub thon of oar in — | bien, Visitor SYTHING THATS A BOOK.” This label— P.B. assures you perfection in Ale Per dozen pinte......$1.50 ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT COMPANY New York Agents The “draft delusion "—the constant fear of a current of air—is quickly dis- pelled by wearing this Underclothing. It allows the air to circulate freely around the body, keeping the skin in acondition of health and activity, that enjoys drafts and resists disease. Booklet, telling all about it, with samples of Linen-Mesh, mailed free. AT LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE. THE DEIUMEL LINEN-MESH CO., (Originators of Linen-Mesh) 491 Broadway, New York, comicbooks.com