Life, 1905-07-13 · page 4 of 26
Life — July 13, 1905 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains four distinct advertisements from the early 1900s: 1. **Murad Cigarettes** - promotes Turkish tobacco, featuring a man smoking 2. **Brownsville Water Crackers** - highlights a food product's versatility with cheese 3. **Delaware & Hudson Railroad** - advertises travel to the Adirondacks via Pullman cars 4. **Andrew Usher & Co's Whisky** - promotes Scottish "Old Vatted Glenlivet" with analytical certification The page reflects period consumer culture: luxury imports (Turkish cigarettes, Scottish whisky), leisure travel to mountain resorts, and packaged foods. No political cartoon or satire is evident. The content demonstrates what Life magazine's advertising market looked like—targeting affluent readers interested in quality goods and tourism.
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hi HT ‘| Murad Cigarettes, though but recently introduced, have in reality stood the test of time. Allan Ramsay who makes them—and who considers them his best production, has made for sixteen years the exclusive brands used in Turkish court circles, MURAD CIGARETTES are the choice of discriminating smokers, because of the assured excellence and purity of the Turkish tobacco they contain, and the blend, which gives a flavor and fragrance never equalled before. 10 for 15 cents BY MAIL POSTPAID.—It you can't ret Murad Cigarettes from your deaier, send 16c. for ten, 75c. for fifty, $1.50 for one hundred ALLAN RAMSAY, 111 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK CITY 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 cinders, oiled roadbed @ Send a two-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. Tt makes no difference what kind of cheese you like best, rownsville 4 aterCra ckers: “The Cracker that has Brownsville on it” go with any kind of cheese. ‘They are not too hard, and they never get too hard. They are crisp and stay crisp. If you could see them being baked in the old-fashioned brick ovens, you would know why they taste as good as they look. Get your grocer to get them. CHATLAND & LENHART Brownsville, Pa. S. S, Pierce Co., Hoston. Park & Tilford, New Yo Acker, Merrall'& Condit The Joseph R. Peebles” Geo. K. Stevenson & Pittsburg, Pa. Finley Acker Co., Philadelphia. com Jevne & Co., Chicago. It you cannot bay these crackers of any grocer that you can reach easily, we will mend tea pounds for 8! press prepald, or two pounds for 9 cents, express pre} OLD VATTED GLENLIVET WHISKY pe meade REGISTERED EDINBURGH. TONDON 1873. CALCUTTA 1808 Lowoow ano Export AGENTS, FRann Baier & 0.59. MARK LANE EC. Analytical Laboratory. Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, 2nd November, 1891. T 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 find such to be of excellent quality, being thoroughly matured and free from objectionable products, It is a very pure Spirit, and either with ordinary or net ter forms a highly palatable and wholesome bev PhD., PRS, Lecturer on Chemistry. Stevenson Macadam, G. S. NICHOLAS, Sole Agent, 43 Beaver St., New Yors.