Life, 1904-11-17 · page 22 of 24
Life — November 17, 1904 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** with some poetry and a brief anecdote. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - W.L. Douglas $3.50 shoes (emphasizing value and durability) - "Keeley Cure" for liquor and drug addiction (claiming 25 years of medical success) - Pope Motor Car Company's electric station wagon ($2,000) - Colt automatic pocket pistol **Editorial Content:** - A humorous poem titled "The Land of 'Here Insert'"—satirizing flowery, formulaic poetry by offering a template readers can fill in with their own mythical land names - "A Sad Case"—the beginning of an anecdote about Senator Fairbanks' political campaigning in Indiana, suggesting practical politics required door-to-door canvassing **Context for modern readers:** This reflects early 1900s consumer culture, including the era's patent medicines (the Keeley Cure was a real addiction treatment), emerging automobile industry, and political campaign methods. The poetry parody gently mocks sentimental Victorian verse conventions.
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W.L. DOUGLAS MAKES AND SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES than any other MANUFACTURER in THE WORLD. The reason W. L. Do the greatest sellers in the world is bec of their excellent style, easy- a ating qualities. If I could show y difference between the shoes made ia my f other makes and the high-grade leathers used, you would understand why W. iglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they bold their shape, fit ear longer, and are of $3.50 shoe on the market to-day, and why the sales for th $6,263,040.00. W. 1. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and price oa the bottom. Look for it — take no substitute, Sold by shoe dealers everywhere. Superior in Fit, Comfort and Wear. “ Thare worn W, L. Douglas $3.50 shoes for the last 12 years with abso faction, 1 final them superior in fi-comfort and te to othera costing from 85 to 87. h McCUK, Dept. Coll,, US. Int. Recenue, Richmond, Va, NW... Dougta 5 O Shoes. Corona . Colt in cone: Fa nt Leather made, te used exclusively. for Liquor ana Drug Using A scientific remedy which has been skilfully and successfully administered by medical specialists for the past 25 years. The illustration shows ELECTRIC STATION WAGON Model No. 30 PRICE, $2,000 which has met with instantaneous success, It runs perfectly in any weather, sum- mer or winter, We make fifteen models for business or pleasure, Write for Catalogue. POPE MOTOR CAR COMPANY Indianapolis, Ind. The Land of ‘Here Insert.” “THE Land of Hope” and of Pretty Soon,” * The Land of the Never-to-be,” And “The Land of Might” and The Land of Dreams” Are worked to the limit, see? And other varieties of strange lands Have steaded the poet's spurt : But 1—1 sing of whichever you choose — Of the Land of “Here Insert!” Ah, all of the dreams of youth come true In the land of (Here Insert!) The girls have eyes of a wonderful hue In the land of (Here Insert !) Never 2 sorrow and never a pain, Never a loss but always gain, Ever the sun and never the rain In the land of (Here Insert !) Faith is a fadeless plant that grows In the land of (Here Insert !) And lips make mock of the red June rose In the land of (Here Insert !) And death sifts downward soft as sleep On eyes that never have learned to weep, And fine dress patterns cre sold quite cheap In the land of (Here Insert !) = And so, kind friends, if you happen to have A special desire to sing A land of any particular style, Yet haven't the time for the thing, Verses (easy as dirt !) Just take the second and third of these And put the name of your mythical land Where it tells you to * Here Insert!" —New Orleans Times-Democrat, ONE of the notable inventions of the day— the Automatic Colt Pocket Pistol. Carries eight cartridges and has a firing velocity of 1,200 feet per second. The first shot can be discharged more quickly than from any am | = made. Send for illustrated circular. Colt’s Patent Firearms Co., Hartford, Conn. A Sad Case. SENATOR FAIRBANKS!’ first experience with practical politics was in connectiot with a county office for which he was a cat didate. Politics in Indiana are very practical indeed, and the candidate is expected to make a house-to-house canvass as thorough as 4 census-taker’s. In this particular year there s a full ticket, Natiot State and local. On the first day of Mr. Fairbanks’ visitations {he drove up to a small farmhouse on a cros- road, and, swinging his fect easily outside the buggy, he addressed a woman who was leanicg over the front gate. “Madam,” said the aspiring politician, your husband at home?" “Yep,” answered the woman “Can I see him?” ““Reckon you can, after a bit. He's dowt 4 in the back pasture burying our dog.” “Ah, sorry to hear the dog is dead. killed him ?’" “Wearied himself out barking at candi dates.""—Saturday Evening Post. What comicbooks.com