Life, 1905-06-15 · page 8 of 32
Life — June 15, 1905 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political cartoons. It contains four distinct ads: 1. **Williams' Shaving Stick** — uses a testimonial claiming the product signals refined taste and fastidious habits 2. **"Where Health and Pleasure Wait"** — promotes the New York Central's Four-Track Series No. 2, a railroad travel brochure featuring scenic photography 3. **Andrew Usher & Co's Old Vatted Glenlivet Whisky** — includes a chemical analysis testimonial from an Edinburgh chemist (dated 1891) endorsing purity 4. **Delaware & Hudson Railroad** — advertises Pullman service to the Adirondacks, emphasizing comfort amenities and clean coal-burning technology These ads reflect late-19th/early-20th-century consumer culture targeting affluent men: grooming products, luxury travel, quality spirits, and leisure destinations. The scientific testimonials and specific claims reflect marketing conventions of the era.
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“The man who uses Williams’ Shaving Stick is at once recognized as a man of fastidious and exacting tastes’’ WILLIAMS RESERVE Goro moar GLO meas REGISTERED EDINBURGH. ‘2 L Lowvon ano Export AGENTS, FRann BAKEY & 60.59. MARK LANE, EC. SHAVING STICK OLD VATTED GLENLIVET WHISKY — Analytical Laboratory. Surgeons’ Halt, Edinburgh, 2nd November, 1891, I have made a careful chemical analysis of Andrew Usher & Co.'s Old Vatted Glenlivet Whisky (a blend of Glenlivet and other Whiskies) sampled by me from stock in sealed cases ready for delivery from Warehouse, and tind such to be of excellent quality, b and free from objectionable products. It is a very pure Spirit, and either with ordinary or aerated water forms a highly and wholesome Leverage. Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D., F Lecturer on Chemistry. G. S. NICHOLAS, Sole Agent, 43 Beaver St., New York. Where Health and Pleasure Wait N this latest number of The Four-Track Series the pictures tell the story. There are only a few lines of descriptive matter, and twenty-nine of the most exquisite and interest- ing half-tones of charming scenes “ where health and pleasure wait.” This is one of the most beautiful pieces of advertising ever sent out by a railroad company. Fora copy of “Wert Heattit axp Preasere Wart,” i No. 2 of the New York Central's Four-Track Series, senc ent stamp to George H. Danic neral Passenger Agent, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, Room 206, Grand Central Station, New York. to the ADIRONDACKS THROUGH PULLMAN PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS from New York, without change, via the new standard-gauge route DELAWARE & HUDSON R. R. to Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and Adi- rondack points. @ Cafe cars on day trains. @ Magnificent scenery. Anthracite coal—no smoke, no dust, no Cx. cinders, oiled roadbed. . G Send atwo-cent stamp for copy of handsome illustrated folder, "The Adiron- dacks," and four cents postage for * A Summer Paradise,® a general, illustrated, descriptive guide to the northern summer resorts, Saratoga Springs, Lake George. Cooperstown, Lake Bomoseen, etc., with hotels and boarding-house rates, in a hundred cool, delightful summer resting places, to A. A. HEARD, General Passenger Agent Dept. 9, ALBANY, NEW YORK New York Office, 21 Cortlandt St.