Life, 1905-06-08 · page 3 of 26
Life — June 8, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The advertisements include: - **Liqueur Pères Chartreux** (left): A lengthy historical advertisement for French liqueur - **M & M Portable Houses** (top right): Summer cottages and prefabricated housing - **Various financial services**: Redmond & Co. (letters of credit), Morton Trust Company, Wassermann Brothers (bankers) - **Consumer products**: Blair's Pills (gout remedy), Naturo clothing closets, Alert Athlete sportswear The only editorial content appears to be two brief humorous anecdotes titled "The Race Is Not Always to the Swift" and "No Lack of Variety"—light comedic pieces about a circus-visiting boy and a fishing salesman, typical of Life's gentle humor. The page reflects early 20th-century magazine composition: advertising heavily subsidized editorial content.
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= ‘LIFE: IM @™M PORTABLE HOUSES GRAND GRAND | Summer, Coteges Srarobile, Houses FINALE FINALE ohifgtors’ Gebine TOA TOA | Photograph Galleries, Etc. Made by automatic machinery where the CHAPTER Retter built and better looking U hl | mm. ( c 5 ine Can be i e ly fi 2 NO STRIKES. C. 3 NO WORRY Everything Mts Anyone can erect them, w FREIGHT. Write today f Tell os what you want and we will give ‘red price at once | MERSHON & MORLEY COMPANY, | 900 Broadway, SAGINAW, MICH. 1 | a : ae 2 For sate-missourtrarms| Letters of Credit | wolendid location, alio smaller farms in sizes to suit. Write for State For Travelers and | map lata booklet and weather report: sent fee. Available jn all parts o. the world, fesued by * BAZEL J. MEEK, - - - CHILLICOTHE, MO fire | R d d & Cc _—e ——", Redmon oO. HLADELPHIA, LIQUEUR PERES CHARTREUX —GREEN AND YELLOW— The most satisfactory method to carry funds while traveling. Descriptive pamphlet on request. REDMOND & CO.’S Letters of Credit are obtainable through Banks and Bankers generally. MORTON TRUST COMPANY 38 Nassau STREET, NEW YORK Capital, - - - $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $6,000,000 OFFICERS: LetiP. Morton, President. James K. Cortiere, Vice-Tres. Thomas F. Ry: Pree HLM. Francts, Secretary. Chartes IE Allen, VicePrea, Charles A, Conant, Treasurer, THIS TAMOUS CORDIAL, NOW MADE AT TARRAGONA, SPAIN, WAS FON CENTURIES DISTILLED BY THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS (PERES CHARTREUX) AT THE MONASTERY, OF LAGHANDE CHARTREUSE, FRANCE, AND KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS. CHARTREUSE. THE ABOVE CUT REPRE SENTS THE BOTTLE AND LABEL EMPLOYED IN THE PUTTING UP OF THE ARTICLE SINCE THE MONKS’ EXPULSION FROM FRANCE, AND IT IS NOW KNOWN AS LIQUEUR : Bd PERES CHARTREUX (THE MONKS, HOWEVER, STILL RETAIN THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE OLD BOTTLE ANO LABEL AS WELL), DISTILLED BY THE SAME ORDER OF MONKS WHO HAVE SECURELY GUARDED THE SECRET OF ITS MANUFACTURE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND WHO ALONE POSSESS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELEMENTS. OF THIS DELICIOUS NECTAR Counsel: ELIHU ROOT At frstlags Wine Mere Batjee & ats. Grocers, Hotels, Cates ‘ew York, N.Y or U hited States. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : THE RACE IS NOT ALWAYS TO THE swWieT. Levi P. Morton A Matter of Stripes. ; |. “Berwind 4 Harry Payne Whitney SMALL boy from the North who was visiting a relative in one of the Southe States where conviet labor is employed in pub- 7 The Alert Athlete \ . will make up his mind the very first lic improvements, became very interested in ; i y time he buys an article stamped Sate, Sare, Effective. 0c, eS, | the men and their black and white striped DRUGGISTS, «x 2% William St, ¥. ¥.Pes | clothes. One day he went to a circus and for A. J. & Co. ‘Oh, auntie,” he cried, “look at the convict at ihe price.” Cavatod Gravis mule !"—Lippincott’s Magazine. ARTHUR JOHNSON & CO. 4 SS W. 424 St.,N. ¥. 7 “|[WASSERMANN BROTHERS and have a good, stiff fn store for the man who offers you BANKERS AND BROKERS 42 Broadway, New York New York Stock Exchange Members of } New York Coffee Exchange Chicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Astor Court (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.) Windeor Arcade, corner 46th St, and 5th Ave, Imperial Hotel. Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ocean Avenue, West Ed, N. J., during Summer months, hat it would be wasting time to loo! weeaxebra, that it be wasting time to look f the in its iallest Alter 1,000 Years are you one of those who still use the uncomfortable, _f unhealthful old-fashioned closet ? y After ten centuries of mistakes. "S NATURO ae closet with the slant, is revo- lutionizing ¢ only sort of const is ‘actual healthtal, cleanly Progressive physicians and leading architects are pro- foundly interested and en- dorse uro closets. Book- Jet 7, illustrated, with full de- tails, free on request. THE NATURO COMPANY, Salem, N. J. mething ** just as good Catalog on request. Fred. D, Divine Co., Uti , The No Lack of Variety. make TRAVELING salesman just back from Maine says, in the Boston Record, that he recently asked an old fisherman in a snow- bound hamlet what he did with himseli even: said the old man, easily, “sometimes I set and think, and then again I just set.” comicbooks.com