Life, 1904-12-01 · page 45 of 64
Life — December 1, 1904 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it is primarily **advertising**. The content includes four product advertisements typical of early 20th-century magazines: 1. **Meriden Art Craft** (silver goods for Christmas gifts) 2. **Blue Label Soups and canned foods** by Curtice Brothers Co. (Christmas dinner ingredients) 3. **Acker, Merrall & Condit Co. crackers** (positioned nostalgically as "the cracker our grandmothers used to eat") 4. **Fairy Soap calendar** (offering free lithographed calendars in 13 colors) The only notable historical detail is the **Fairy Soap advertisement**, which references the product's purity and offers decorative calendars as promotional incentives—a common marketing practice of the era. There is **no satire, caricature, or political commentary** on this page. It represents typical commercial content from Life's advertising sections.
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inent thout ving. com- tate.” rest ibject Meriden Art Craft Includes almost every conceivable work in Silver from the fin- est silver plated ware in the world to the most costly & beau- tiful Sterling Silver hand-wrought pieces for use & decoration. The Fifth Ave- nue store is replete with suggestions from match boxes at 50c. to the most elaborate, sets and pieces suitable as gifts for Meriden Co. Christmas Silversmiths International Silver Co., Successors 218 Fifth Avenue, New York 1o-pound can boxed for shipment. The Cracker Our Grandmothers Used to Eat. Baked just as it was 50 years ago. Very crisp and dainty. Exceptionally nice for soups and salads, chafing dish lunches, children and invalids. On sale in New York at all stores of ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT CO. If the dealer in your town doesn’t have them, write direct to CHATLAND & LENHART, Brownsville, Penna. Your Christmas Dinner Blue Label Soups Delicious—A ppetizing— Satisfying Any one of the 20 Varicties makes “a good start for a good dinner" Late— Blue Label Fine Stringless Beans Makes an Incomparable Salad As a finish—either Blue Label Plum Pudding or ‘‘ Pleasant Dreams’’ Mince Meat (for pies) gives a dessert “ fit for a king's table” These are only a few of the many articles prepared by us Our booklet of “Original Rec. ipes? tells of our full line of canned. Fruits, | Veyetanles, Meats, Retebu, Jama, Jellies Curtice Brothers Co, Rochester, NY, Four sheets like above, representing Morn- FAIRY cartitban FREE igistsstecoing Sgt and ote sheet bearing the year's Calendar, Size § x 19 inches, free from advertising, beautifully litho | graphed in 13 colors from original drawin: ey, A. Barse Jr., of The National Academ Mailed free for 10 box fronts from Fi Pp, the oval ‘cake, or, if fer, 250. | in stamps, Fairy Soap is ube purest and best white’ soap for the toilet and baths ceats | a cake at grocers and THE No Ie FAIRBANK COMPANY, Dept. 79, Chicago, comicbooks.com