Life, 1905-01-12 · page 18 of 20
Life — January 12, 1905 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with minimal editorial content. The layout features various product advertisements interspersed with brief satirical anecdotes in Life's characteristic style. **Key Content:** The anecdotes are short humor pieces mocking social pretension and absurdity—a baby-bottle inventor's failed product, a woman's obsession with counting, references to literary figures like Alfred Austin. These are typical Life magazine filler jokes. **Notable Advertisements:** - **Pommery Champagne**: Positioned as a status symbol for entertaining guests - **Stoll & Co. Whiskey**: Advertises a "Grand Prize" award from St. Louis, 1904 - **Redmond & Co. Bankers**: Offering high-grade bonds and stocks - **Surbrug's Arcadia tobacco**: An extended testimonial praising the product's qualities The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture where luxury goods (champagne, fine tobacco, investments) signaled social respectability. The advertisements target affluent readers, while the satirical anecdotes gently mock human vanity and gullibility—Life's standard editorial approach.
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FULL DIRECTIONS FOR USE. The inventor of a new feeding bottle for infants Bent out the following ng his directions for using y is done drinking it P If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk, it should Collier's Weekly, The Manor, Asheville, a, is the best inn South TO SERVE POMMERY AT YOUR TABLE REDOUNDS TO YOUR JUDG- MENT AS A CONNOISSEUR IN THE EYES OF YOUR GUESTS. nt one hundred whenever you But it didn’t do any good, ma. the Jones boy did while I counted! HOTEL VENOOME, BOSTON The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient Miss Tartun loosened up and s: 3 she said that whei with you one fou tig a fool as you appeared to be—Chicago Tribune, read AMfred Austin's last poem?" wines, etc., contains much useful ge Arches, New York. Send for illustrated catal “Raatsieicn tells me he is writing a ERAKD PRIZE STOLL&CO LEXINGTON KY. ' g.did you have any trouble “insisted upon his smoking a Fonseca cigar, him in such good humor that he sa n very well, but he doesn’t BOND LILLARD BOTTLED IN BOND te was a relative of y: he’s a rich one." Cared te STAY CURED. So Medicines TLHAROLD MAYES, Haffala S. Ye Investments. “We offer a eclected liet of HIGH GRADE BONDS and guar- anteed STOCKS paying from 3% to 5%. The securities are on band for immedi- { ate delivery. Lists and full particulars upon application, Redmond & Co., s BANKERS. 607 Chestnut St., 4{ Wall Street, PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK ———_——— | SURBRUG’ Ss ! Arcadia | There is only one mixture in London deserving the adjective superb. I will not say where it is to be got, for the result would certainly be that many foolish men would smoke more than ever; but I never knew anything to | compare to it. It is deliciously mild, yet full of fragrance, and it never burns the tongue. If you try it once you smoke it ever afterwards. It clears the brain and soothes the temper. When I went away for a holiday anywhere, I took as much of that exquisite health-giving mixture as I thought would last me the whole time, but I always ran out. This is tobacco to live for, My Lady Nicotine me p- 17.) comicbooks.com