Life, 1905-04-06 · page 10 of 62
Life — April 6, 1905 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content**, not satire or political commentary. The top features a **Franklin automobile** advertisement emphasizing its power, lightness, and ease of control—characteristics that made it competitive with other early cars. Below is a large **Kelly-Springfield Tire advertisement** showing a cross-section of their tire with multiple internal layers visible. The ad argues that tire quality matters since "all tires look alike," making the brand name the only guarantee of quality. It positions Kelly-Springfield as the "first choice" and "last touch of distinction" for fashionable drivers. The right column contains **French's Carriages** advertisement (horse-drawn vehicles) and a literary piece titled "Memories of the Old Schoolhouse." There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page—it's a standard magazine advertising layout from the early automotive era.
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FRANKLIN The charm of motoring in a /rvank/zn is due to its enormous power, its lightness and ease of control Water-cooled cars have been developed toa high degree of excellence—especially since they have Fravklin io adopting four cylinders wasteful application, they cannot attain that spirited anc bird-like din every Franklin car. Light Touring-cars '3 Styles 20 and 30 H. P. Touring-cars Send for catalogue and coast to coast buoklet H. H. FRANKLIN MEG. CO., Syracuse, N.Y. M.A.L. A.M. Cc ~*~ HE smartest turnout on the fashionable drive is the surest to be equipped with the Kelly-Springtield Tire. It is the last touch of distinction. It represents “good form’ and “good service.” The economy of quality is the important consideration, for all tires look alike and your only guarantee is the name it bears. The Kelly-Springtield name, branded on every tire, has been “ first choice”’ since the riding world began to roll on rubber. Take no substitute. Write for booklet. The Consolidated Rubber Tire Company 39 Pine Street, New York Akron, Ohio An already considerable incre season in our mail orders, and personal s PLEASURE VEHICLES than which our series was never tensive, complete nor distinctive CATALOGS FOR THE ASKI THE FRENCH CARRIAGE CO! Frevivaxp F. Frexcvt 92-98 SUMMER ST., BOSTON, Mass| Designers, Builders, Distributors Memories of the Old Schoolhouse. | oO. more in fancy | hear the drone of the & re . * Arma virumque cano.” —O shade of | Virgil! 's sonoreus : the Ten Thousar ta; Thalatta 3 German, narrating how Tell ba Stammering accents in Vrench, concernin my uncle; Sines and cosines and roots, and words vation, Then, best remembered of all, the day « Graduation, Parents nds are all there, each wate ce of some loved one Committeemen an: *, and te portant, yet anxic Again [behold the proud youth the rostrem slow stling | hear, as the girls, « like white doves, read True Sphere of Woman?" Seen through the vista of years, how clear the picture ! How fair shines each face, even now, in meni ever you Though the sweet eyelids of some are lifte in heaven. Ah, never more will the skies seem as bright as ¥e ¢ of our school days! Though the full moontide is fair, and beautcous glories of sunset, Fairest of all is the slow that shines on the wings o the morning. —Eugene Barry, in The Aibany Pret comicbooks.com