Life, 1904-06-23 · page 19 of 20
Life — June 23, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with no political cartoons or satirical content. It consists entirely of commercial advertisements typical of early 1900s American publications. Notable ads include: - **Knox Hat**: Appeals to nationalism ("Patronize American industries") - **Union Pacific Railroad**: Promotes fast Chicago-to-California travel - **Hydrozone**: A patent medicine claiming to cure skin diseases - **Financial institutions**: Morton Trust Company and Wassermann Brothers banking - **Pennsylvania Railroad**: Summer excursion guidebook - **Evans' Ale**: Beverage advertisement with classical imagery - **The Villa Claudia**: A novel by J.A. Mitchell - **Old Crow Rye Whiskey**: Spirits advertisement The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and advertising conventions. The "Evans' Ale" ad features classical figures, while patent medicine ads (like Hydrozone) represent now-discredited medical claims common to the era. No satire or political commentary is apparent.
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“DRE EW YORK, Patronize American industries. Wear a KNOX HAT the creation par excellence of the nation. Agencies in all the principal cities in the world, CHICAGO CALIFORNIA IN THREE DAYS VIA UNION PACIFIC AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC SHORTEST ROUTE FASTEST TIME SMOOTHEST TRACK Electric Lighted Trains Daily E. L. LOMAX, G. P.& T. A, UNION PACIFIC Omaha, Neb. Skin Diseases of the most stubborn and chronic kind are promptly relieved and eventually cured by the use of Hydrozone This powerful germicide is ab- solutely harmless. | It has cured cases pronounced incurable and will cure you. By killing the germs that cause skin diseases, it allows Nature to restore a healthy skin, Used and endorsed by lead- ing physicians everywhere for the last 12 years. Booklet on request. Sold by leading druggists or trial boitie sent prepaid on receipt of 25 cents. Chet Chesteate bet.D, 60 Prince St., New York. MORTON TRUST COMPANY 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Capital, - - - $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Proits, $6,000,000 Levi P. Morton, President. Thomas F. Ryan, Vice-Pres Chartea TT. Allen, Vice Pres James K. Corbiére, VicePres, I. B. Berry, Trust Otticer. Counsel: ELIHU ROOT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Levi P. Morton James N. Jarvie Thomas F. Ryan George Foster Peabody Edward J. Berwind ——_Elthu Root G.G. Have Jacob H. Senter Harry Payne Whitney WASSERMANN BROTHERS BANKERS AND BROKERS 27 William St, and 40 Exchange Place, New York { New York Stock Exchange Members of 1 New York Coffee Exchange Uchicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Astor Court (Wablorf-Astoria Hotel). Windsor Arcade, corner 46th St. and 5th Ave, Imperial Hotel. Fifth Avenue Iotel, Café Martin, Fifth Ave, and 6th St, Ocean Avenue, West End, N. J., during Summer months. The Pennsylvania Railroad 1904 Summer Excursion Route Book. On Janet the Pasenger Department of the Pennsylvania Rall- road Company will publish the 19% edition of the Summer Excur- sion Route Book. This work Ia designed to provide the public with descriptive notes of the principal Summer resorts of Eastern America, with the best routes for reaching them, and the rates of fere, It contains all the principal seashore and mountain | resorts of the East, and over seventeen hundred different routes or combinations of routes Tao book bas been compiled with the | greatest care, and altogether Is the most complete and compre- | benstve handbook of Summer travel ever offered to the public. The coveris handsome and strikiag, printed In colors, and the book contains several mapa, presenting the exact routes over which tickets are sold. The book is profusely illustrated with fine baif.tone cuts of scenery at the various resorts and along the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On and after June 1 this very interesting book may be pro- cured at any Pennsylvania Railroad ticket office at the nominal price of ten cents, or, upon application to Geo. W, Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa, by mail for twenty cents, Stop on Sight of a sign bearing the legend and refresh the inner man. “A charm of narration that is exhilara- ting." —Baltimore Herald, I will enjoy myself.—Horace, THE ILLA CLAUDIA Mitchell, author of ** Amos Judd," “The Last American,” ‘The Pine: cf "etc, Fifty decorative designs, W ‘a all Booksellers and By J Lory, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY $1.50 H. B. KIRK & CO., OLD CROW RYE STRAIGHT WHISKEY SOLE BOTTLERS, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com