Life, 1905-05-04 · page 7 of 48
Life — May 4, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page**, not satirical content. It contains four separate advertisements: 1. **Smith Premier Typewriter** - Emphasizes its "complete keyboard" with keys "in straight lines" and "a key for every character," requiring no shift-key. This highlights a competitive advantage in typewriter design of the era. 2. **Brownsville Water Crackers** - A food product advertisement appealing to housewives as a quality purchase item. 3. **Prudential Insurance** - Uses a dramatic image of Gibraltar on fire to warn about home insurance urgency. 4. **Meriden Co. Silverware** - Markets "Family Plate" as an heirloom-quality silverware for families to accumulate across generations. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer advertising targeting middle-class households, emphasizing quality, status, and domestic security.
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The Smiru Premier p Tyrewrirer is the only typewriter with a complete keyboard, keys in straight lines and a key for every character. No shift-key is necessary nor employed in the Smiru Premier, When Your House is in Flames it’s too late to insure. Don't put off Life Insurance till it is impossible for you to get it. Write today for Book Con- taining Rates. The Prudential INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA JOUN F, 'YDEN, Home Office: I F. DRYDEN est © NEWARK, N. J In summer time begin dinner with light, thin soup, Water Crackers ** The Cracker that has Brownsville on it.” A good housewife is known as much by what she buys as by what she makes, Brownsville Water Crackers are made just as a good house- wife would make them if she made crackers and knew how. ‘They are not made with sponge dough and cannot sour. Your grocer can get them of us if he wants to. CHATLAND & LENHART Brownsville, Pa. ‘ierce Co., Boston. & Tilford, New York Acker, Merrall & Condit Co., N ‘The Joseph R. Peebles Geo. K. Ifyou cannot bay there crackers of any grocer that you ean reach easily, we will press prepaid, of two pou! The gradual accumulation of the more important pieces of Silverware is a work which should be carried on successively by each generation of a well-to-do family. Meriden Sterling Silverware and Silver plate of contem- porary manufacture, compares favorably in design and work- manship with the cherished heirlooms of the past, and is worthy to be added to the most menittorious collection. SILVERSMITHS INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., SUCCESSOR 218 Fifth Avenue Madison Square NEW YORK comicbooks.com