Life, 1905-07-27 · page 24 of 24
Life — July 27, 1905 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements**—not satire or political commentary. It contains period commercial pitches for: 1. **Havana cigars** from Cuban factories (pre-Embargo era) 2. **Delaware & Hudson Railroad** promoting Adirondacks vacation travel via new standard-gauge routes from New York 3. **E. E. Gray's horse-trading business** in Illinois, with detailed breed descriptions and guarantees 4. **Andrew Usher whisky** from Edinburgh, including a scholarly certification from a chemist attesting to the spirit's purity The only visual element approaching illustration is a woman's silhouette figure in the railroad ad. These ads reflect early-1900s American commerce: luxury tourism, livestock trade, imported spirits, and Cuban tobacco before US trade restrictions. There is no apparent satire or political commentary on this page—it's straightforward commercial content typical of *Life* magazine's advertising revenue model.
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ou) Lal |) 8: | Dye July 27, 1905. ' LR RRAS i Yi ! Leading Brands of HAVANA CIGARS From the Independent Factories of Cuba Punch Belinda Redencion Rey del Mundo Por Larraiiaga Romeo y Julieta H. Upmann Partagas y Co. La Devesa La Diligencia All of the above brands are manufactured under the personal supervision of the men who for years have made Havana Cigars famous. Why not 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. G Cafe car day trains, @ Magnificent scenery. G Anthracite coal—no smoke, no dust, no - cinders, oiled roadbed. 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 Span 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. about a horse? Most persons who have not made a business of it know very little about a |horse, outside of his general appearance. | do not claim to know it all, but have spent lyears in the business and want to give my customers the benefit Jof the knowledge I have. I will send you a horse witha | |POSITIVE GUARANTEE that he is just as I have repre- | sented him, in every respect, or no sale. ? [have a full line of Saddle, Road, Coach and Speed Horses and will be glad to send you full descriptions of them and solicit ' your inquiries. Just describe what you are looking for and let me show you how nearly | can meet your requirements. Here are two selections from my Coach Horse Department. If they interest you, write me for further details. No. 88—Pair of standard and registered trotting bred coachers, 16 hands, 1,200 Ibs., and very high going; cit: broken and good mannered; long talls, Absolutely ‘sound. q Rich bays. The kind you are all looking for. 4 No. 89—Pair of French Coach mares, by Indre. Sound and right, with size and manners. Five years old this spring. City broken and a very high-class pair. Chest- nuts, with small strip. Best of commercial and bank references furnished. E. E. GRAY, Speed Merchant Long Distance ‘Phone, Hinsdale 201 HINSDALE, ILLINOIS Hinsdale is located 17 miles west of Chicago, on the C., B. & Q. Railway panne USHER & Cas REGISTERED ae EDINBURGH. Gx Cowon ano Export AGENTS, FRANK Baer & 60.59. MARK LANE, EC. Analytical Laboratory. Surgeons’ Hall, Yovember, 1891. Edinburgh, 2nd 3 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 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 aerated water forms a highly palatable and wholesome beverage. Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D., F.RS.B., Lecturer on Chemistry. G. S. NICHOLAS, Sole Agent, 43 Beaver St., New York.