Life, 1904-01-28 · page 19 of 22
Life — January 28, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one small cartoon joke. The cartoon ("Breaking Up Their Game") depicts two elderly men discussing their children's potential marriage. The humor lies in their concern that if their daughter and son marry, they'll lose the competitive stakes of their pinochle card games—winning money from each other will become meaningless within the family. The page otherwise features vintage advertisements for: - Travel (Old Dominion Line steamships, Pennsylvania Railroad Mardi Gras tours) - Patent medicines (Hydrozone for skin diseases, Blair's Pills for gout) - Consumer goods (Aeolian Hall player pianos, Evans' Ale, P.B. Ale, Surbrug's tobacco mixture) - Medical treatment (Maplewood sanitarium for addiction) These ads reflect early 20th-century commercial culture: unregulated medical claims, leisure travel for the wealthy, and alcohol/tobacco prominently advertised without health warnings. The page demonstrates *Life*'s dual role as satirical magazine and advertising vehicle.
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*LIFE- Winter Excursion Tickets TO ALL IMPORTANT FLORIDA, GEORGIA, NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA points are sold over the Old Dominion Line Tickets and stateroom reservations at Piet £6, North Iver, N.Y. Telephone 1080 Franklin, B, Watker, I. J. Brows, Vice-President & TM, GOPLAL STors> Ww Eczema, Salt Rheum, Pimples, Ringworm, Itch, Acne or other skin troubles, can be promptly cured by Hydrozone Hydrozone is endorsed by leading phy icians. It is absolutely harm: less, yet most powerful healing agent. Hydrozone destroys para- sites which cause these diseases. Take no substitute and see that every bottle bears my signature. Trial Size, 25 Cents. At Druggists or by mail, from let on tho rational treate FREE {mont ofdisensee cout tress AEOLIAN HALL THE METROSTYLE PIANOLA The latest development of the Pianola should be ecen by every one considering the pur- chase of a ptano player Pianola, $250 Pianola with Metrostyle $300 A E Oo L I A N SSE] Aeolian Hall 360 Fifth venue Near 34th Axeet Catalogue upon request + AEOLIAN HALL Breaking Up Their Game. IRST OLD CRONY: Your -\ wants to marry my son. Srconxp Otp Croxy: It won't do, it won't do! Why, if that should happen, when one of us wins from the other at pinochle, it won't mean anything. | - daughter MAPLEWooD _A Sanatorium established In 1875 for the private care and medical treatment of Sean Crsciewart Drug and Alcobolic Addictions. Thousands having falled elwewhere have been cured by us Address Tux Dr. J. 1, Sterunxs Co, Dept. 77, Lebanon, Ohio. Homo Treat:nent iw DEsIRgD. * GOUT _& RHEUMATISM BLAIR’S PILLS Ky Sore, Effective. aS (ill Usthe Great English Remedy. ps) b,)): eee &il\ DEUGGIS' ont34 Winee ie, Pennsylvania Railroad Tour to California and New Orleans Mardi Gras. A personally-conducted tour to Southern Cali- fornia will leave New York, Brooklyn, Philadel- phia, and Pittsburg, by special train over the Pennsylvania Railroad, on February 11. The route of the tour will be via New Orleans, stop- ing at that point three days to witness the Starai Gras festivities. The special train will be continued through to Los Angeles, from which point tourists will travel independently through California and on the return trip. The special train in which the party will travel from New York to Los Angeles will be composed of high-grade Pullman equipment, road Tourist Agent. The round-trip rate, $250, covers transporta- tion and all expenses on the special train to Los Angeles, including a seat for the Mardi Gras Carnival. From Los Angeles tickets will cover transportation only, and will be good to return at any time within nine months, via any author- ized trans-continental route, except via Port land, for which an additional charge of $15.00 is made. For complete details and further information apply to Ticket Agents ; Tourist Agent, No. 263 Ph Avenue, New York; 4 Court Street, Brook- ; or Geo. » Broad lyn; 789 Broad Street, Newark, N. W. Boyd, General Passenger Age! Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa. and will be in charge of a Pennsylvania Rail-| Better than all others; better than ali the ales which ever left the antiquated breweries of England to be rocked and harmed on the storm-tossed Atlantic. Proof of its goodness is in every bottle. Any Dealer Anywhere, C. H. EVANS & SONS, Todson, N.Y. Founded 1788, “The Best Ever” Acker, Merrall & Condit. Company P. B. Ale New York Agents $1.50 per dozen pints SURBRUG’S Arcadia MIXTURE. There is only one mixture in London deserving the adjective superb. I will not say where it is to be got, for the result would certainly be that many foolish men would smoke more than ever; but I never knew anything to compare to it. It is deliciously mild, yet full of fragrance, and it never burns the tongue. If you try it once you It clears the When I went away for a holiday anywhere I smoke it ever afterwards. brain and soothes the temper. took as much of that exquisite health- giving mixture as I thought would last me the whole time, but I always ran out. This is tobacco to live for. My Lady Nicotine (p. 17.) comicbooks.com