Life, 1905-06-08 · page 21 of 26
Life — June 8, 1905 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** with two brief humorous anecdotes. The main satirical content is "Mutual Recognition"—a short joke about a lawyer traveling by train who claims to be from Nashville's newspaper staff to impress the conductor. When confronted, he admits he's not actually the editor but assumes the conductor will let him pass anyway. The humor mocks both social pretension (claiming false credentials) and the conductor's apparent gullibility or indifference. "Her Motherly Deception" is a sentimental domestic joke about a mother keeping a doll from her daughter to preserve it. The **advertisements** reveal period attitudes: Knox Hats promotes American manufacturing; Rogers, Peet & Co. sells formal attire; Centemeri offers gloves; and Egyptian Deities cigarettes advertises tobacco using orientalist imagery (the pharaoh head logo), reflecting early-20th-century exoticization of non-Western products as luxury goods. Club Cocktails advertises home drinking, typical of the pre-Prohibition era.
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LINEN 15¢ EACH ARABIC IF YOUR DEALER WONT SUPPLY YOU, WRITE US EMIGH & STRAUB-Dept C.C.TROY,NY Kid Gloves. , Durable. $1.50. Silk Glove Remarkable for Finish and Beauty of Texture. » $1.00, 34 years on Broadway CENTEMERI 911 Broadway, just above zoth St. ‘Telephone, 1135 Gramercy. OFT, Liveries that score wherever ap-| pointments count, | Absolutely correct. For every manservant, | ROGERS, PEET & CO., | 258—842—1260 Broadway, | (3 Stores) NEW YORK. | Mutual Recognition. American lawyer says that ‘o he went to a Western S.ANARGYROS The conductor looked ct him s: “The editor of that paper is th f fies you, © conductor into the was explained. Mr. Edi cognize him as one of the sta Come with me. train you recognized me? I'm his pass, should give me a: Patronize American industries, Wear KNOX HAT tion par excellence of the nation. ing styl ready. Azeucies in all the principal cities in the world. CLUB COCKTAILS— For the home, for the club, anywhere, are unrivalled. Choicest liquors, exquis- itely proportioned and blended and aged make ag perfectly royal drink. Seven kinds—Manhattan, Mar- tini, Vermouth, Whiskey, Hol- land Gin, Tom Gin, York. pte G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO, r1oS2tSore Hartford New York London 4 and w —Tit-Bits, Her Motherly Deception. ITTLE Alice, nother not to let rema doll when it was I have been try from knowing The fame of Egyptian Deities embraces two continents and follows the critical smoker into all corners of the world. In America, in the capitals of Europe, even in Cairo and Alexandria, the great Turkish tobacco marts, it is impossible to find a better or more expensively made cigarette than EGYPTIAN DEITIES In their composition, only selections of the finest Yacca leaf are used, which in itself is Nature's own delicious blending of fulsome strength and aromatic lightness. Thence follows perfect curing, handling and the expert finish of the best Egyptian workmen. comicbooks.com sred to death lest you much distu urbed, , begged her