Life, 1904-01-28 · page 20 of 22
Life — January 28, 1904 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains product and service advertisements typical of early 1900s publications: **Notable ads include:** - Williams Shaving Stick (personal grooming) - Hylo lamp (lighting technology) - Southern Pacific Railroad's "Sunset Limited" (oil-burning locomotives) - Winter cruise packages (Hamburg-American Line) - Pennsylvania Railroad Florida tours - Burpee's seed catalog - Wabash railroad line **Historical context for modern readers:** These ads reflect Gilded Age consumer culture—railroads dominated travel, steamship cruises were luxury leisure activities for the wealthy, and mail-order catalogs were major retail channels. The emphasis on "cleanliness" and "comfort" in transportation reflects early anxieties about industrial travel's dirt and dangers. The page documents how Americans of this era marketed modern conveniences and leisure opportunities to an affluent audience through magazines like Life.
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Luxury and Economy for all. ’ Shaving Stick suppl » cup required, Just a brush and the shaving stick. One stick furnishes over 300 shaves. The J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbery, Cona. Cleanliness in Traveling -seNO SMOKE, NO DIRT, NO CINDERS Southern Pacific OPERATE OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES Sunset Limited ailihof lone Ihe itt oF a mere ein Daily from New Orleans sect entirely according to the way you bull the string. Anybody can attach It the famne as ry plnary Seon t. balb, Gives greater satis. +++ TRAVERSING ... ii ae cere LOUISIANA, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, plea, a color Se ARIZONA, and CALIFORNIA f ae CAUTI v—Genuine HYLO Lam} havea label ve tus iealvetsoes, lecringernests and substitutes, Reston 100 East Halt t ‘ian the genuine HYIO in haltimore Mock'aed will apply If yoo laws 1s city 29 South Franklin Street, THE PHELPS CO., 3State St, Dettoit, Mich. OM x 3 Rea oe Setar Pract, Cul Houston, Texas ERESTING WINTER CRUISES. It proof were needed that Americans are # traveling people, 4s Well as prosperous, It 1s atforded in the success Of the’ cruixes started fifteen ‘years wgo by the Hamburg. ‘American Line, and which long since became so popular as to sail at regular intervals, The shortest of these cruises Is (wenty.tive days’ tour of the West Indies (Cuba, Ber. anda, etc.) and the Bahama Isiands ; tar, Spal, Alexatdria, longest being @ tour of the world, occupying four and a half months. Three crulses to the West Indies, this season, will start from New York on January 9, February 6. and March 8 Among the places to . San Juan, Martinique, Jamaica, Havana, Urst-cluss. passengers, limited to two hander no upper berths : abe carriesnelther fretght nor malls, but aboard, as Well as a ibrary abd & FLORIDA. Two Weeks’ Tour via Pennsylvania Railroad. The first Pennsylvania Ratiroad tour of the Season to Jacksonville, allowing two weeks tn Florida, will leave New York, Philadelphia, Baltt- more, and Wasbington by spectal train on Feb- ruary cursion tickets, including ratlway transpor- tation, Pullman accommodailons (one berth), and meals en youte in both directions while traveling on the spectal train, will be sold at the following, York, $50.00 ; Trenton, $49.00; Phita- deiphia, Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Washington, $45.00; Pittsburg, $53.00; and at proportionate rates from other polnts. For tickets, Itinerarles, and other information, apply to ticket agents, or to Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, BURPEE’S Farm Annual for ly LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOGUE who want the BEST SEEDS! An Mailed FREE to all sean tot shits pace eth hws ‘ions and six superb colored plates, it Is now brighter and better than b ures for 1904,. Pa ay valuable RARE NOVELTIES which cannot be had elsewhere, Write TO-DAY! A postal card will secure a copy hy tirst mail,—provided you intend to parcbase eceds ; otherwiee the price is ten cents, which is less than cost to us, ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. Anever-increasing fow ef travel over THE WABASH LINE ecrween ST. LOUIS, AND CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, OMAHA, DES MOINES, TOLEDO, per nelts NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW Y! BOSTON, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, MINNEAPOLIS ANO ST. ‘PAUL. CHICAGO AND PEORIA, GALVESTON, LOS ANGELES, TOLEDO, DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON AND MONTREAL. KANSAS CITY AND DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS AND BUFFALO. ST. PAUL AND LOS ANGELES. ‘The Wabash Line has its own rails direct to the World's FairGroands fn St. Louis All Wabash through trains pas through the beautiful Forest Park and stopat World's Falr Station in order to give fasmengers ‘an opportunity to view from the trains the World's Pair Bulldiogs, Cc. S. CRANE, GENERAL PASSENGER AND TICKET AGENT, ST. LouIs, MO. ‘PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS &2negte