Life, 1905-05-04 · page 8 of 48
Life — May 4, 1905 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and editorial page** from *Life* magazine, not a political cartoon. The left side features **product advertisements**: Mullins Stamped Steel Boats (unsinkable vessels), a Torpedo stern motor boat, and Murad Cigarettes. The cigarette ad includes a cartoon showing two men, where one offers a cigar to another as a "delicate test of friendship." This is straightforward advertising playing on masculine social conventions of the era. The right side contains **editorial content**: an advertisement for the Peoples Line steamship service between New York and Albany, and submission guidelines for short story contributors to *Life* magazine, offering five cents per word for stories under 2,500 words. There is **no political satire or social commentary** on this particular page—it's a standard magazine issue mixing advertisements with publication business information.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Street, Salem, Ohio, afactan Beautiful HUDSON bY Searchlight~ _ iS \ PEOPLES LINE Between NEW YORK and ALBANY The favorite and most attractive route tor Business Men and the ‘Traveling Public-SteamersC. W. Morse (steel) and Adirondack. Leave New York at 6 P. M. Leave Albany 8 P. M. Week days only. Sundays, June 1st to Oct. 1st, Send 5¢. for C.W. Morse Souvenir. J. H. ALLAIRE, Gen’! Pass. Ageat Pier 32, N. R., New York ‘OU should exercise more care in offering a man your cigar ette case than in signing your name. A proffered cigar- ette is a delicate test of friendship representing your own taste and your opinion of the man to whom you give it. MURAD CIGARETTES are the selection of an expert in Turkish tobacco, a man who served for sixteen years as the ae IGARET TE is the offering of an expert to a connoisseur. 10 for 15 cents kish government expert. A MURAD | To Our Contributors LIFE will pay at the rate of five cents a word for clever short stories, preferably not over 2,500 words in length, accepted for publication in LIFE, payment on acceptance. Any kind of a story, so long as it is interesting, will be considered. All manuscripts should be accompanied by a return stamped envelope and be addressed to The Editor of LIFE, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York. comicbooks.com