Life, 1904-07-14 · page 40 of 44
Life — July 14, 1904 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **Main Advertisement**: Trimble Whiskey dominates the center with a romantic toast ("Here's to love..."), typical of early 20th-century liquor marketing that emphasized sophistication and emotion. **Financial/Business Ads**: Wassermann Brothers and Morton Trust Company advertise banking services—standard for Life's affluent readership. **Humorous Anecdotes**: The text features brief jokes satirizing American life: - A camping joke about removing window screens (implying mosquitoes/discomfort) - A story about a dying working-class man denied ham at his funeral - Social commentary on "uninstructed delegates" (likely referencing political conventions) - A German immigrant's sauerkraut stockpiling (ethnic humor about thrift and food preservation) **Abbott's Bitters Ad**: Promotes medicinal liquor as a digestive aid—common patent medicine marketing of the era. The page reflects early 1900s magazine culture: genteel humor for educated readers, advertisements targeting the wealthy, and mild ethnic/class-based comedy that was considered acceptable entertainment.
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Gon Pools. you do drink, drink Trim TEMPo il) of rem, fle” “Are you going camping this year j “No, T can't leave my business, but we are going to have nearly the real thing at home, though, My wiie is planning to remove all the screens."—Cleve- | land Leader. ‘Tne Sovrn ror Hosrrratity: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the best inn South, owk/et. Iw a speech that William Waldorf Astor delivered “Here's to love; a thing so divine, before the London Clubmen's Benevolent Society, he Description makes it but the less. told of a costermonger who lay dying. Nevertheless, “Tis what we feel, but cannot define, he expressed a desire for something to eat, and his | "Tis what we know, but cannot express.” wife asked him what he would like. “Well,” said the costermonger, “I seem to smell a ham a-cookin’ somewheres. I think I could eat a bit of that.” “Oh, no, John, dear,” said his wife; “you can’t have that. That's for the funcral.""—rgonant, HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON. The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient fe ‘Whiskey ones ee Green Label. “Buyks overcame a lot of obstacles,” said Banks AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS, to his wife. “He never went to school in his life, but he is a successful business man and prominent enough to be sent as a delegate to the St. Louis con- ven Oh, I know!" exclaimed Mrs. Banks. “He's one WASSERMANN : BROTHERS MORTON TRUST COMPANY of those uninstructed delegates papers tell about.” land Leader. BANKERS AND BROKERS 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Aone its other qualities, a life preserver should . Capital, =~ . - $2,000,000 be able to float.—The Chicago News. 27 William St, and 40 Exchange Place, New York Surplus and Undivided Protts, $6,000,000 Dasnaway: Have you got a cigar for a friend? New York’ Steck Excnange SLRVERTON (bringing out tro and handing him one): Gio ee 11 Members of | New York Coffee Exchange OFFICERS: Dasnaway: Not on your life. Wil take the other, Chicago Board of Trade Tort P. Morton, President, 14 Pranets Secretary. which I sce is one of Fonseca's. I don't want the cigars you Coane He Aen’ Vice Pres, TA Minahan, Aut. Treamre, give your frleads: nen James K. Corblére, VicePres, H. D Berry, Trust Oftcer. Here is a story that illustrates the estimate the |] Astor Court (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel). German citizen places on sauerkraut as a food staple.| J} Windsor penile corner 46th St, and bth Ave. Connects ELIEY ROOT: A German was speaking last fall about the Aa Imperial Hotel. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : price of cabbage. “I tell you, dese kabbages is awful] Fifth Avenue Hotel. Levi P. Morton ‘James N. Jarvi high, dis year,” he said; “me und me vife puts up Café Martin, Fifth Ave. and 20th St. Thomas F. Ryan George Foster six, seven, eight barrels of sauerkraut every year— Ocean Avenue, West End, N. J., dui eas pene FANN ROO a but ve can’t dis year. Dem kabbages dey cost too || months. ms Marry Payne Whitney. much put up some sauerkraut, didn't you, Chris? he asked. ‘Oh, yes—two or tree barrels—just to haf in de house in case of sickness."—-Irgonaut. Mako tho best eocktall. A. delightha 5 Memite ee pres, teas - ‘ ry beverages. A tablespoonfalin anoance Kare: She asked that question just out of idle of sberry” OF sweetened water a/ter peals, affords relief and aids digestion. curiosity, don't you think? —_——_—_———— BITTERS Important to see that it is Abbott's. Tavas busy curiosity. Mer curiosity never idle.—Somerville Journal. Oxe of the daintiest and most attractiv> illustrated 5 tourist books of the scazo1 j a issued by the Ania Cleveland & B it Compaay, whose magnificent i : é A ROMANCE OF MUSICAL ueactie Steamers ply ¢ ts named, leaving each . ing early the following morning. H AND ARTISTICAL LIFE bids fair to become the popular route to and from the | p : Tickets reading over the Lake Shore & Michigan Southera R. R. are accepted on these Steamers i without extra charge. Send four cents in sta:ps to cover | yf > postage for “Summer Tours” to W. F. Herman, GPA, CIRILLO Buffalo Express: \vis a charming book. Cleveland, O. et $1.25 Postpaid New York Evening Sun: The author has aimed high in ** Cirillo,” “Dip you encourage your daughter's literary am: Aad Were can be ao doobt of ber success... bition? 5 Pittsburgh Dispatch : Why aren't more books intended for populit “Decidedly,” answered the matter-of-fact woman. $ reading given such a setting? “If she has the gossiping instinct it is bound to out, and she'd hetter be ies about LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st St, New York nary people than about cighbors."—iVash- ‘ PAE povetas ruTNa ington Star. comicbooks.com