Life, 1905-02-16 · page 23 of 24
Life — February 16, 1905 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **advertising page**, not a satirical cartoon page. It contains business advertisements typical of early 1900s Life magazine. **Key advertisements:** - **Cailler's Swiss Milk Chocolate**: Marketed as superior to competitors, emphasizing purity and nutritional value for "the busy man's midday lunch" - **Aetna Life Insurance**: Detailed financial statements showing the company's 1904 growth, with President Morgan G. Bulkeley listed - **Goodrich Clincher Automobile Tires**: Promoting their tire as "the Original American Clincher" with a "Grand Prize" award - **Southern Pacific Railway**: Advertising the "Sunset Express" route through western states - **G.H. Mumm & Co. Champagne**: Claiming "131,330 cases"—"the GREATEST quantity ever imported by any brand" - **Penn Mutual Life Insurance**: Offering financial security for children's education The page reflects early 20th-century consumer capitalism and corporate expansion, with companies emphasizing superiority, safety, and financial security—major concerns of the period's middle-class readers.
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: “PIES 1 = = $$ ——_—_—_—__—— . a Etna Life | GOODRICH] AUTOMOE Bite Ti RES Insurance Company, SWISS MILK HARTFORD, CONN. CHOCOLATE AWARDED is most appreciated after you've tried the ordinary chocolates, Among Swiss Milk Chocolates—tong rec- ogniz superior to all others—Cailler’s stands without a rival for richness, smooth- ness, palatability and nutritive properties. Cailler's Chocolate is made wholly of cocoa beans, pure sugar and unskimmed milk from the finest pasturage district in the MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President. THE LEADING INSURANCE COMPANY IN NEW | ENGLAND, AND THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD WRITING LIFE, ACCIDENT, LIA- BILITY, AND HEALTH INSURANCE. GRAND PRIZE HIGHEST AWARD world. Assets, Jan. 1, 1905, - $73,696,178.81 Cailler’s Chocolate is pure, wholesome, | Premium receipts in 1904, 12,868,922.77 delicious—a most acceptable substitute for Meco tribute to thal the busy man's midday lunch; a delightful substitute for candy any time of day, deli- cious for dainty luncheons, dinners, etc. FREE ON REQUEST—Send your address for sample packages of both eating and drinking chocolates. Address Dept. D J. H. FREYMANN, 861 Broadway, N. Y. Agent for the United States Chocolates and Confections Sold where they sell the best Instantaneous Chocolate. Goad with bothing mith. cipal. Whienans Where yo Increase in Total Income, + «+ 5,372,682.20 CASES Suan aa Sey Day in the Year. Increase in Life Insurance Issued and | 1 3 1 ’ 3 3 0 Paid for, « . . . + 2,225,105.00 SOUTHERN PACIFIC Operates daily from NEW ORLEANS to SAN FRANCISCO, Sunset Express Traversing LOUISIANA; TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, OALIFORNIA. InquiRE Bostos, 179 Washington St. K, M9 Broadway and 1 Broadway. Purtapecraia, 652 Chestnut 8t, DatrmMoRk, Piper Building, Baltimore St. Synacvse, 129 So, Franklin 8t Payments to Policy holders in Interest and other receipts in 1904, . ’ . 8,062,633.99 Total receipts in in 1904, 15,931,556.76 1904, Legal Reserve on Pol all claims, . . Special Reacrve in addition to Reserve above given, Life Insurance issued, revived and paid for in 1904, Life Insurance in force Jan. 1, 6,971,798.55 , and 64,845, 752.16 2,294, 786.00 | 28,856,967.00 kill and honesty of pur- pose which for nearly ‘twenty years has been the greatest fsource of tire contentment to all users\ i of rubber tires. The Goodrich Clincher Automobile Tire The Onginal American Clincher rep- tesents our best efforts and its record for splendid service in the severest tests tells a convincing story. 1905, . . + + 287,804,789.00 Accident Insurance in force Jan. 1, 1905, . 217,286, 164.66 The RF. Goodrich Company Guarantee Fund in excess of Requirements by Com- pany’s Standard, Guarantee Fund in excess of 6,555,640.65 rat Gains in Busines Daring 1904, Legal Requirements, . 8,850,426.65 Paid Policy holders since organization, $145,918,246.86. Increase in Assets, . «+ $5,628,316.16 | Increase in Guarantee Fund over Requirement, . . . « 883,884.10 Increase in Premium Income, . ._4,435,668.90 Increase in Life Insurance in Force, - 14,001,862.00 Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,» + + + «+ + 8,658,926.66 Important! If you should die, would your children stop studying and go to work, or have you left_ money enough for their education? Our booklet, ‘The Bow and the Why,” tells how you can do this and the same time. We Insure by Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. 921 Chestnut St., Philadelphia PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORK. Abron, Oblo, Dept. 18 Unparalleled Achievement! IMPORTATIONS IN 1904 OF 6.4. MUMM & C0’S CHAMPAGNE The GREATEST quantity ever imported by any brand in the history of the Champagne trade. Regarding Champagne Importations in 1904, Bonfort’s Wine and Spirit Circular of Jan. 10, 1905, says: “ Messrs. Fredk. de Bary & Co. brought over last year to this side of the water a greater number ots cases of Champagne than has ever hitherto been known, and these importations speak in the strongest terms of the great popu- lar esteem in which G. H. MUMM & CO.'S Champagne is held on this continent,” comicbooks.com