Life, 1904-03-10 · page 19 of 20
Life — March 10, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The layout features early 1900s patent medicine and commercial advertisements: **Key Content:** - **World's Fair excursion**: Pennsylvania Railroad promoting low-cost coach trips to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) - **Evans' Ale**: Claims to "quiet nerves" and benefit digestion—typical of era's dubious health claims - **Proprietary medicines**: Advertisements for Blair's Pills (gout/rheumatism), Hydrozone (skin diseases), and Bronchitis remedy—all presented with medical endorsements that would be illegal today - **Equitable Life Assurance Society**: Financial statement displaying company assets and growth **Historical Context for Modern Readers:** This reflects the early 1900s before FDA regulation (1906). Patent medicines routinely made unsubstantiated health claims. The ads use "scientific" language and doctor endorsements to build credibility. The fair promotion and insurance statistics suggest economic optimism of the era. **No political cartoon or satire is present**—this is straightforward advertising content.
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All sorts and conditions of men WORLD’S FAIR AT ST. LOUIS. : e can add to their happiness by drinking FIRST GREAT EXCURSION. Via Pennsylvania Railroad, May 10. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will open at St. Louis April 30, and will be in perfect condition on that date. The Pennsylvania Rail- road Company will run the first low-rate coach excursion from the East to the World’s Fair on May 10, affording residents of the Eastern section an opportunity to see the great Exposition in all the glory of its pristine freshness. Tickets will i be sold from all principal stations on the Penn- COUGHS, SORE THROAT, HOARSE- sylvania Railroad System. The fare from New NESS effectively retleved. = York will be <0; fom Philadelphia, $18 BponCHat Sold in boxes only. fold tmttations. It quiets the nerves, benefits the with proportionate rates, approximating one cent “roo faccmimibe LES Morr brs \stomach and braces you up per mile, from other points, These tickets will be good going only on special coach trains to be run on May 10, and returning in coaches of regular trains leaving St. Louis not later than May 19. FUTURE USE OP KaDies & GOUT & RHEUMATISM BLAIR’S PILLS KA \ a ‘ {il A Big Statement. ‘The forty-fourth annual statement of the Equitable is out | Large increases are shown in different items, aud all the amounts are stupendous when the length ve in which they have been accumulated is con- THE EQU AB LIFE 18,742, and er than atthe end of 1902 7,472,147. js the largest increase ever ASSURANCE SOCIETY : in any year. The new busi 2,047,968, an increase ove S GITE rgest amount previously written of $10, : OF THE UNITED STATES. sseis ae all sound and conservative inves HENRY B. HYDE, Founder. s. and amount to $381 3 being $21,830,497. “STRONGEST IN THE WORLD” gourees, $7 Outstanding Assurance . and total payments to policyholders 27 are each larger than at auy previous Dec. 31, 1903... $1,409,918,742.00 tine in the history of the Society. - = New Assurance Issued kin Disease in 1903... ...... 322,047,968.00 Eczema, Salt Rheum, Pimples, Income......... 73,718,350.93 Ringworm, Itch, Acne or other skin troubles, can be promptly Assets Dec. 31, 1903 . 38 I, 226,03 5 53 cured by Assurance Fund and all other liabilities. . 307,871,897.50 Surplus... 2.2... 54,138.0 Hydrozone i is endorsed by leading P 733 54113 3 It is absolutely harm: Paid Policyholders in yet_ most powerful ‘healing agent. Hi drozone destro yS para- 1903 .... Take no substitute ‘and see that every bottle bears my signature. JAMES W. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT. Trial Size, 25 Cents. JAMES H. HYDE, Vice-Presipent. At Druggists or by mail, from Qe Chat 2D nur {Booklet on the rational treat. PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO. NEW YORK, comicbooks.com