Life, 1904-05-12 · page 19 of 20
Life — May 12, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial content. It features period advertisements (likely early 1900s based on style) promoting various products and services: **Notable ads include:** - **"A Chance Courtship"** — a book promotion for the Lackawanna Railroad, using romantic illustration to advertise railroad resorts - **Glycozone** — a patent medicine claiming to cure dyspepsia and stomach troubles - **Evans' Ale** — beverage advertisement - **Knox Hat** — men's fashion, emphasizing American manufacturing - **Illinois Central Railroad** and **Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited** — competing rail services - **Bond & Lillard Whiskey** The page reflects early advertising strategy: using lifestyle imagery and health claims (now recognized as dubious) to sell products. The romantic couple in the Courtship ad exemplifies how advertisers used aspirational imagery to market unrelated goods like railroad travel. This is a straightforward historical document showing consumer culture and advertising practices of the era, rather than satirical content.
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On|) ie Courtship is a story of an unconventional love match, well told and beautifully illus- trated. The small picture above only suggests the real charm of these illustrations. As a bit of readable fiction the story is well worth writing for. It is contained in a handsomely bound book of 128 pages, a portion of which is devoted to the attractive mountain and lake resorts along the Lackawanna Railroad. It is a book you will like to see. It may be had by sending 10 cents in postage stamps to T. W. Lee, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Railroad, New Dyspepsia and other stomach troubles quickly relieved and in most cases surely cured by the use of Glycozoné This scientific germicide is abso- lately harmless; it subdues the inflammation of the mucous mem- brane of the stomach, and by re- moving the cause, effects a cure. Used and recommended by leading phy- si Take no substitute and see that re bottle bears my Signature. Trial size, 81.00, at druggists or by mail, from Cf Chestctanctne 60D Prince St. = = New York. Send for Booklet How to Treat Diseases. THE SWELL ENGLISH LONG POINT. ELFAST RAND Surrey Gay 25° EACH SCARF ID Coo. SLIDES EASILY- ASK YOUR DEALER SEE? EMIGH & STRAUB, MAKERS. ARE YOU SATISFIED with your present position and ealary 1 If not, write us for plan and booklet, We h penings for Managers, 8: vertising Men, Salesmen, Lookkeepers, ete., paying from §1,000 | to $10,000 a year, High grade exclusively, MAPGOODS (Inc.) Suite $09, 309 Broadway, New York BOND &LILLARD WHISKEY IS THE BEST DAILY FAST TRAINS, Elegantly equipped and with Dining, Buffet-Library, Sleeping and Reclin- ing Chair Cars, from its northern and southern terminals, connecting at its numerous gateways with trains from the East, South and North. Particulars of agents of the Illinois Central and connecting lines. A. H, HANSON, Gen'l Pass'r Agent, CHICAGO, Whatever the basis of com- parison, the conclusion is sure |to be in favor of It’s the best for good reasons, and wisely economical. ‘There's proof of its superiority In every bottle, Ale Sellers Everywhere. Patronize American industries, Wear a KNOX HAT par exc the creati ¢ of the nation. Agencies in all the principal cities in the world Cleanliness in Traveling aseNO SMOKE, NO DIRT, NO CINDERS Southern Pacific OPERATE OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES Sunset Limited Daily from New Orleans +++ TRAVERSING ... LOUISIANA, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, and CALIFORNIA INQUIRE AT 110 Washington Street, 109 South Thint, Street, - Whine hia 210 North Charl ‘Street, 49 Broadway, New York Tattimore i} oo 129 South Frankiln Street, Symcuse Lt Nurmixa.o Paiarecnttrit T. J. comicbooks.com