Life, 1904-09-22 · page 19 of 20
Life — September 22, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of early 1900s Life magazine. Rather than political satire, it contains commercial notices for consumer goods and services. The advertisements include: - **Corticelli silk** for sewing (emphasizing value) - **Belfast Brand scarves** (25¢ each) - **U.S. Government employment** promoting "Good Salaries" - **Hamburg-American cruise lines** offering luxury ocean voyages to Italy and the Mediterranean - **Rambler automobiles** (touted as reliable, understandable machines) - **Evans ale** brewery (established 1786) - **Surbrug's Arcadia tobacco mixture** (endorsed by author J.M. Barrie) - **Southern Pacific Railway** to California ($50 from New York) - **Life Publishing Company's circular** offering suggestions There is one brief joke: a wife appearing "uneasy and restless" when "at home"—suggesting marital discord. The page reflects affluent early-1900s American consumer culture: leisure travel, automobiles, imported goods, and tobacco products.
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FOR MEN. Shoes sin the uperior Everybody knows Corticelli is the best silk for sewing or em- broidery. As it costs no more than poor silk, how foolish it is for anyone not to ask the clerk es- pecially for Corticelli! HE SWELL ENGLISH LONG POINT. QELFAST RAND Surrey 25° EACH ‘ame! ASK YOUR DEALER EmMIGH & STRAUB, MAKERS. SCARF SLIDES EASILy- SEE? Good Salaries pPald by the U. S.Government growth of th ¥ Ie constants Ineteas LIFE’S LATEST CIRCULAR “A Few Suggestions” UPON REQUEST To LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-First Street New York “EE? viPvowy 18 Different Cruises and Special Services 8. 8, DecrecitasD 2 VAST TRIFS TO ITALY from New York, Janu- nd February 7. : CRUISE, from New York, January 39, 1905, Cost $900 upward, 8S. Prinzessix Vicronta Loire CRUISES TO THE WENT IN every Saturday. including state: Send for Hustrated Booklets before decidtag Winter plane HAMRBRURG*AMERICAN LINE SEW YORK PHILADELEHIA, cuicaco STO: ST. LOUIS Agencies in AU Principat Cuties ESS: That Mrs, Gaddie seems to be at home wherever she may be. Jess: 1 saw her in a place y where she appeared decidedly uneasy and restless. “Where was that “At home."—Philadelphia Press. Do you want an automobite you can drive year inand year out witeoutconstant worry | Do you ant @ machine that has few parts apd all of them Instantly accessil'ke | Do you want to un- derstand fotelligeatly the oper: tion of every partin an hour's time? Then you want to boy Eny one of the six models of + , Touring Rawbler co rs Modet “H" $850 at the factory Model “11,” here shown, will carry four people anywhere nny car can go. It has full elliptic springs, two poweriul brakes 28-inch wheels, Sinch tires, kl-inch wheel base, Large cylinder, lamps and horn, det for only 8! factory. Six different models, $10 to $1.89 at the factory, Write for new ‘Art Catalogue ana’ A Little History.” THOS. B. JEFFERY @ CO. Kenosha, Wis., U. S. A. cmicaco Rr rr Ww 10x 145 Columb COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT ORITAIN Uf JAMES HENOERSON UNDER THE ACT OF ACCURATE. knowledge of brewing gained by 118 years of Ale making, coupled with scientific bottling, has placed Evans at the head of the ale brewing industry of the world, It is the superlative in brewing and par- ticularly adapted to the requirements of the critical American taste Any Dealer—Anywhere C. H. EVANS & SONS, Established 1786 Brewery and Bottling Works, Hodson, New York SURBRUG’'S Arcadia MIXTURE. “When he Jimmy was at school, Moggridge smoked a cane-chair, and he has _ since said that from cane to ordi- nary mixtures was not so ~|noticeable as the change from ordinary mixtures to the Arcadia.” J. M. Barrie, CALIFORNIA VIA Southern Pacific $ 50.2 FROM NEW YORK SEPT. 14TH TO OCT. 15tH VARIETY OF ROUTES iwauine Bostox, 170 Washington St. PHILADELE#H1A, 65% Chestaut St. M9 Broadway —Batrinone, {10 No. Charles St. New Your, |"; proadway Srmaccsn, 1:0 80. Franklin St