Life, 1905-04-20 · page 27 of 28
Life — April 20, 1905 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with minimal editorial content. The major ads include: **G.H. Mumm Champagne** boasts record 1904 importation figures, asserting market dominance in the champagne trade. **"Essays of Little Bobbie"** is a humorous children's column from Chicago featuring naive observations about city life and divorce, written in deliberate misspelling to capture childlike perspective. **The Bogey Golf Ball** advertises a new rubber-core construction promising durability and performance. **Knox Hat** promotes spring styles as "the creation par excellence of the nation." **Club Cocktails** emphasizes brand authenticity against imitators, highlighting proprietary formulation and aging. The brief **Carnegie reference** appears to be satirical commentary on Andrew Carnegie's wealth and philanthropic reputation. The page captures early 1900s consumer culture: luxury goods (champagne, quality hats), emerging recreational products (golf balls), and brand-building rhetoric emphasizing superiority and exclusivity.
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Unparalleled \ Achievement! IMFORTATIONS IN. 1904 OF 6H. MUMM & 60.’S CHAMPAGNE 131,330 CASES | 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; ations speak est terms of the great popu- which GH. MUMM ‘ne is held on this We're “schooled” to making good liveries. For coachman and groom. ROGERS, PEET & CO., 258—842—1260 Broadway, (3 Stores) NEW YORK. Essays of Little Bobbie. cHicaco, HICAGO is ak and a big place full of people & dirt and It Milw parts of ch is bound side by ther sides us the > is a nise place Ruber going to to hold myself. for yu to go when heels, foyu fall nse ik yuoa 1 he joak h down s card abont a little boy who was going / The Boer Gorr BA re AN entirely new principle of construction is employed in manufacturing Bogey Golf Balls. RUBBER CORED AT HIGH TENSION p by tension a series TOR DURABILITY, RESILIENCY, ACCURACY, PUTTING AND CARRYING QUALITIES IT HAS NO EQUAL The price, $4.80 per dozen, postpaid. Sample ball, 40¢. to an ess on receipt of price. RALL FLOATS 1UGH and An the only t tal raaranterd to play 18 holes withont Cracking. place, witout cost to you, any hall that 'doca not tat Is guarantee, Send for Mlux- trated Booklet. SEAMAN MFG, CO., 210-312 Mitwaates St, Miwaokee, Wie, all abost and he Goodby Ig that’s all i know about chic: to move to chicago was and said saying his he Lord we are ess he was rite. zo it aint much. DIVORCES. divorces is whare a man and his wife either one sees some one else they may like better, lawyer & he tells th a house, then the judge taiks and they after, Ma and Pa never had a divorce I guess if they did i wouldnt hear so much scrapping. When i get to be a man if i want 2 wives, one at i i alimony y what ever to have a divorce. BEw YORK, HAT @ creation par excellence of the nation. Spring styles now ready. Agencies in all the principal cities in the world. GOOD thing is usually a tar- get for imitators. Be sure to insiston CLUB COCKTAILS if you want the satisfaction that goes with a royal drink. It is not enough for imitators to use the same ingredients — the secret of CLUB superiority is the exquisite proportions of liquors used and the ageing. This formula cannot be imitated —so CLUB COCKTAILS remains the only brand. Seven kinds — Manhattan, Mar- tini, Vermouth, Whiskey, Holland Gin, Tom Gin and York. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors Hartford New York London for cheap. is what yu pay but sum a divorce frum yure wife CARNEGIE, mister Carnegie is a fine old) mann s checks and furnishes reeding for of fokes. he isent related to Cassie Chadwick, but she got him in trubble over some noats or sumthing and . 1 well we can arrange this alrite, J the notes and your part will bee to pay them mister Carnegie is Skoch by desent and looks. that like mister Burns but no wimmen ever maid Burns pay over any fortuns he was too foxie heekaus he was a poet and w ae up iam going to bee a poet—Milcaukee Sentinel. No, unpacking when you arrive; no pack+ Wardrobe Trunk is the one perfect trunk for both men and women. itis instantly accessible, No trays to lift—drawers for everything—lasts a lifetime, Price $35.00 and Upwards, ite sor our sinstrated book, Tips to Travelers," "sent on request Abel@ Bach Re EAny: comicbooks.com