Life, 1905-04-27 · page 23 of 26
Life — April 27, 1905 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, circa 1904-1905, containing no political cartoons or satire requiring historical context. The page features standard commercial advertisements for products including Knox hats, Centemeri gloves, Budd shirts, Whitman's chocolates, and G.H. Mumm champagne. Most notably, there is **one humorous illustrated advertisement** for "The Stork Express Company"—a joke ad personifying the stork as a delivery service for babies, complete with verse describing the stork's "monopoly" and inability to be evaded or prepaid. This is gentle, family-oriented humor playing on the contemporary euphemism of "the stork brings babies." The remaining content includes practical classified ads (Missouri farmland for sale) and notices about railroad rates and embroidery supplies—typical magazine filler of the era. There are **no political references or satirical commentary** on this particular page; it represents straightforward commercial content interspersed with mild domestic humor.
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creation par exce Spring styles Agencies in all the principal cities in the work, Pennsylvania Railroad, Account vis and Clark Exposition and ybody knows **Corticelli” is the best for sewing, stitching, crocheting, art llework, Mountmellick and Hardanger yidery. Send yc. in stamps for our Lessons in Embroidery."" Address Silk Milis, 46 Nonotuck St, Florence, Mass FOR SALE-MISSOURI FARMS 1.200 acres, fine combination grain and stock farm, highly improved, ‘ocd location, also smaller farms in sizes to suit. Write for State tated booklet and weather report : sent free. \ZEL J. MEEK, CHILLICOTHE, MO, Kid Gloves. Soft, Elastic, Durable. Silk Gloves. Remarkable for Finish and Beauty of Texture. 50¢., 75¢.5 $ 31 years on Broadway, CENTEMERI just above soth St, Gramercy. $1.50. The Stork Express Company. IIE Stork Express Line is a Competi You v It is the \ huge gives rebates When told 16 Its shipments you can not evade, Nor are*they eve © prepaid They ys reach us CO. D. However much it may a And, worst of all, the and *Beeft’” tarned blue, He even tries to d You'd think that he Make free to ¢ In this worst trust of all the But let us hope that is 1 —Hayden Carruth, i Budd Mapison Square, WEST SHIRTS from an_ exceptionally comprehensive range of fine cotton cloths, man- utactured expressly for SAMUEL BUDD by the most celebrated looms in Scotland. Prices, $4.00, $4.25, $4. TRADE MARK LINEN I5¢ EACH ADRIAN IF YOUR DEALER WONT SUPPLY YOU, WRITE US EMIGH & STRAUB-Dept CC.TROY,NY| To sweetly wedge your way into her affections keep her well Chocolates and Confections Unparalleled Achievement! IMPORTATIONS IN 1904 OF 6 H. MUMM & CO.’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. de Rary & C year to this side of the water ‘of cases of Champagne than been known, and in the strongest te ht over last ) © LD @ RO Ww RY E staAotir WH IS K EY soe ea CO comicbooks.com