Life, 1905-06-15 · page 29 of 32
Life — June 15, 1905 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains multiple product advertisements rather than political cartoons. The main ads feature: 1. **Nestor Cigarettes** - emphasizing the brand's Egyptian origin and quality tobaccos 2. **Makaroff Russian Cigarettes** - claiming to lack nervousness-inducing "dopey" effects and leave no odor 3. **Union Pacific Railroad** - promoting vacation travel to Western attractions and the Lewis and Clark Exposition (Portland, Oregon, 1905) 4. **Denver & Rio Grande Railroad** - offering excursion rates 5. **Keeley Cure** - advertising treatment for "liquor and drug using" The cigarette ads are notable for their health claims—then-common marketing assertions that their products were superior, pure, and wouldn't cause undesirable effects. The Makaroff ad explicitly addresses nervousness concerns, suggesting contemporary awareness of tobacco's effects, even while promoting smoking. This reflects early-1900s advertising standards before modern regulations on health claims.
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keeps, so are smokers of ESTOR (NESTOR GIANACLIS, CAIRO) CIGARETTES You can smoke MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS from morning until night without a trace of that “dopey” or nervous feeling induced by other cigarets. They will leave in your office SPECIALTY. — Twenty-two Carat Gold-Tipped ‘‘ Queens" and “Kings.” or apartments no trace of the odor usually associ- ‘Nothing ia the market like them — quite unique. ated with cigarets. A FACT. —The delicacy and flavor of Nestor Cigarettes are better retained when They are made of real tobacco, pure, clean and sweet, and nothing else. ey are mild and WEDGE, SONS:ACO: Sole lemporter’ so. eateal St Boston: smooth, but rich in natural flavor, and as {ull of “body” as the most critical connoisseur could wish. They contain a less percentage of nicotine than UNION Why not spend your vacation in } | any others and the mouthpiece takes up most of PACIFIC Colorado, Utah, or on the || ‘at. Asa man is known by the company he . Keak Aho 7 Gly recognized to be discriminating judges of all that goes to make perfection in cigarette construction, ‘The tobacco never comes !n contact with the mouth, Pacific Coast ? therefore does not become wet bitter, to spoil the a . ., flavor and st: the fingers, Very low rates will be made to Denver,Colorado Springs, i 1 2 Manic nwoed Springs Salt Lake City, Yellowstone || They are rolled by hand, and incased in the thinnest Park and California {rom all eastern and southern terrie the world. No paste is tory, and also to the Northwest, on account of the x ford to go into this matter thoroughly, You Lewis and Clark Exposition cannot afford not to, if you want to enjoy cigaretsat their without injury to your health or offence to your own, evel On ers nse of refinement or that of yo ds. 7g re Tell direct to sme first clubs and hotels, I . q will gladly send Tull information about these cigarets, but of the American Continent: Yel- Q ‘ the final and only test, if you are in earnest, is a trial of lowstone National, Park; Great % the goods. I take all the risk of this trial, So there is no ¢ Falls; The Columbia . : reason why you should delay i Kiver ; Mount Hood ; Big Trees of : 3 The Yosemite ; Lucia : A New Kind of Offer Cut-off,” across Great Salt Lake Send me your order for a trial hundred of the size and ; f quality you er. Try the cigarets thoroughly, smoke CAN ALL BE SEEN ON A TRIP OVER ae z the full hundred if you like. Then, if you do not like them, ThE o,: : | and I will return your money. I do not ask the rets. Iprefe! y g them to some one who will like them and who will Union Pacific “Sy a Send 3 cr now and get acquainted with ‘ to Dealers. —Iam_spendi ver $1,000.00 & ANO CONNECTIONS AS fi e advertising to introduce these goods, ass dealer in every town of importance TO THE 4 blished and growing. Write me. : Jam:s Howard Kehler, 850 Fine Arts Building, Chicago p ie MATL THIS COUPON TO - LEWIS & CLARK : JAMES HOWARD KEHLER E X P os | T | fe] N es " wo Fine Arts Building, CHICAGO SOLE DISTRIBUTOR IN AMERICA FOR PORTEAND OREGON To enable the tourist to visit the thousand and one ints of interest along the line of the June 1 To Oct. 15, 1905 Le re baal — Denver & Rio Grande Railroad | || yew vor this Company has arranged a series of low-rateexcursions | || = Chicago E.L. LOMAX,G.P.&T.A. {yom Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou and Pueblo; | || & ie ie: Very liberal limits and stop-over privileges will be crante Omaha. Neb on alltickets, "Write for free booklets and particulars. S. K. Hooper, G. P.@ T.A., Denver, Colo. for Liquor and Drug Using A scientific remedy which has been % ia A skilfully and successfully administered by , ‘ fee wnichi please medical specialists for the past 25 years, send me, prepaid] At the following Keeley Institutes: Ls F ? a White Plains, 8. Ys Putts: enclosed} Wasslaztoa, B.C. Lexington, Mass, Bt Leela ee 4 peiee Laren Mhambra Not Springs, Hea eee wt MAKAROFF al -) } ¢ Befaies te r | [S827 (write your name and:address in the margin comicbooks.com