Life, 1905-06-22 · page 22 of 26
Life — June 22, 1905 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and contributor guidelines**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Advertisements**: M&M Portable Houses, Hotel Vendome Boston, Rogers Peet & Co. (clothing), Borden's Evaporated Cream, and Talbot fishing reels dominate the layout. **Contributor Guidelines**: The prominent "To Our Contributors" box states Life will pay five cents per word for short stories (under 2,500 words), accepting any interesting material, with submission instructions to their New York office. **Comic Anecdotes**: Several brief humorous stories appear in left column—"Our Foolish Contemporaries"—offering mild workplace and domestic humor typical of the era (servants, horses, milkmen), but these lack political significance. **One Small Cartoon**: Shows a horse jumping over a fence with a rider, illustrating the text's comparison that "the average good tailor can no more make correct livery than the average good horse can jump." This is essentially a **magazine back page** mixing advertisements with submission information—typical of early 1900s publications. No significant political or social satire is present.
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“LEIUPSES M @ M PORTABLE HOUSES PE—“OoR fooish Be Summer Cottages GnTEMPoRARIES A erieeaees Pla Houses ak : | Hunters’ Cabins = => Photograph Galleri: ue. Tell us what you want ered price at once. MERSHON & MORLEY COMPANY, | 900 Broadicay, SAGINAW. MICH. eat houses 1 of the birth o Contributors HOTEL VENDOME. BOSTON | ~ LIFE will pay at the rate of The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient fwe: cenls: ia word {6c |no more make correct livery than clever short stories, preferably the average good horse can jump. not over 2,500 words mn Either may make a_ brave length, accepted for publica- effort; but without experience, tion in LIFE, payment on either is very apt to fall down, acceptance. and few tailors get much experi- . LM a iltle at thsaeawe ae ence in making liveries. Any kind of a story, so On the other hand we do a long as it is interesting, will be very large livery business — have! considered. done it for years, so that we know all the rules of the game by heart. All manuscripts should be Everything that any man ser- accompanied by a_ return vant wears, ready to wear. stamped envelope and be addressed to ROGERS, PEET & CO., The Editor of LIFE, 258-842-1260; Broadway, 17 West Thirty-first Street, (3 Stores) Jew NEW YORK, New York. guests, | The average good tailor can el then se Allen's Foot-F 1 don’t ke nes—then you may say SPEEDOMETER TEARFUL MIL omplair driving on Highest Award World's Fair. Noticing the horse looked ye f : Winner in Tournaments. 1 to the jarvey “Well, Pat, \ \. f SY Hand Made and as Accurate as a Jurgensen Watch. FREE —Bait-Casting Treatise and Catalogue 14M. Ask Your Dealer or Write Wm. H. Talbot Reel Co., Nevada, Mo. comicbooks.com