Life, 1905-06-29 · page 21 of 29
Life — June 29, 1905 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four unrelated commercial advertisements from circa 1891-1904: 1. **Andrew Usher Whisky** (top left): A Scottish spirits brand authenticated by a chemistry professor's analysis from Edinburgh. 2. **Murad Cigarettes** (top right): Turkish cigarettes marketed as superior, claiming the manufacturer Allan Ramsay served as a Turkish government tobacco expert for sixteen years. The accompanying illustration shows well-dressed men in formal wear enjoying cigarettes. 3. **Prudential Insurance** (bottom left): Life insurance promotion using the metaphor of a "safe road" to financial security, advertising the company's Grand Prize at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. 4. **Hydrozone** (bottom right): A patent medicine claiming to treat various skin irritations, insect bites, and poison ivy using "nascent oxygen." These ads reflect early 20th-century consumer culture: imported luxury goods, emerging cigarette marketing, life insurance expansion, and unregulated medicinal claims—all now considered dubious or banned.
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pROREW USHER & SPECIAL \ RESERVE OLD VATTED GLENLIVET WHISKY REGISTERED EDINBURGH. aC) TOnoon 1073. AccuTta res Lowoom ano Exponr Acenrs, Fann Baer 600.59, Mann Lane, EC. Analytical Laboratory. Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, 2nd November, 1891, alysis of Andrew Usher T have made a careful chemical 3B Co." s Old V. ted Glenlivet Whi isky (2 ble nd fh seed and aed es such to be of nd free from pure Spirit, and either ated water forms a highly palatable objectionable produe with ordinary or and wholesoie be Stevenson Macadam, D'hD., PARSE. Lecturer on Chemistry. G. S. NICHOLAS, Sole Agent, 43 Beaver St., New York. ‘J Murad Cigarettes, within a few months of their introduc- tion, have brought all competition to a standstill. Such an achievement is only possible with a Turkish Cigarette of and arith a blend never before imitated. ees a4 5 CIGARETTES are exact reproductions of the private brands of the Turkish court, heretofore withheld from America. The man who makes them, Allan Ramsay has served for sixteen years as government expert of Turkey. 10 for 15 cents BY MAIL POSTPAID.-If youcan't get Murad Cigarettes from your dealer, send 16c. for ten. 75c for Sty, $1.50 for one hundred, Breed RAMSAY, 111 Fifth Avenue, NEW RS The Safe Road To Life- Insurance Leads Direct To This Rock Taking a Life Insurance Policy is not particularly difficult bur there is much in being able to select the right Company and choose the Policy of greatest advantage. Take The Prudential Road. It will interest you to get particulars THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA. Incorporated aa a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey, JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. Dept... Home Office, NEWARK, N, J. Awarded Grand Prize at St. Louis Exposition, 1904. will instant y allay the irritation and subdue the in- “ flammation caused by Sunburn, Poison Oak, Prickly Heat, Water Blisters, Nettle Rash, ‘Sea Nettles, Red Bugs, Mosquitoes, Sand Flies, Deer Flies, etc. A prominent Ame physician states : ‘* We have in HYDROZONE an exceptionally successful remedy for the relief of Rhus (Poison Ivy) poisoning, a single appli- cation being sufficient to convince the most skeptical. It should be applied freely, at, intervals of two to four hours. Usually in less than twenty-four hours the inflammation will be fully under control.” Preparations bearing similar names are con- coctions containing only water, oil of vitriol, sulphurous 1 and inert impurities. Nas- cent Oxygen (near to the condition of Ozone) is the only healing agent con- tained in HY DROZONE, The label of every bottle bears my Scld_by all lead. ing druggists. Coupon good only A FREE TRIAL BOTTLE should Prove to the most skeptical the healing properties of ser esr Si rng your drugrtit, to CHARLES MARCHAND, 57 Prince St., New York City. esta unaccompanied by Wamupa Paris, Pram comicbooks.com