Life, 1905-10-05 · page 20 of 44
Life — October 5, 1905 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical snippets typical of Life's format. The main cartoon at bottom shows a dog and pig arguing over "seed" and "slop"—likely representing political rivals squabbling over spoils of office, with the caption "Compliments of the Hunting Season" (hunting season for political positions). The text snippets mock various contemporary issues: Rockefeller's Sunday school donations, Texas prohibition ("tarantula juice"), New York police baseball games raising pension funds, and police playing "hide-and-seek" rather than working. One joke references a Parisian offering money for Mars communication—dismissed as worthless. Another mocks "Man-afraid-of-his-Wife," a familiar domestic stereotype. References to W.C.T.U. (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) indicate prohibition advocacy. The giraffe joke about animals unable to swim appears unrelated wordplay filler. The overall tone is cynical about corruption, gender relations, and social reform movements of the era.
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-, men of this class are doing a great work tow { the Lord,” said John D. Rockefeller this m ‘ess to the Sunday School of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Before the W. C. T. U. got in its deadly work, tarantula juice used to be the s aple producer of joy in Texas. The police baseball games this season have netted forty thousand dollars for the 1's pension fund. Philadelphia Press art he 4 there are sev ach in her own way, has made he fa power in the is one of our best-known and best- rs. Chauncey is young, rich, and beautiful; and Mrs wns a house in Curzon Strset, a place ir a Texas, Two widowed American Du Lady Naylor-Leyla n royalty at Hyd: Slow as usual. New York's police have made more tha that playing hide-and-seek. iM Silver Quee fe smart we tract of lai hy A prize of twenty thousand dollars is offered by a wealthy Parisian for P y d 5 another planet.— Bo the discovery of a method of communicat Transcript It isn't worth that much. To be able to call up Mars er the ‘phone would only add to our troubles. One world ov Men lat de dda begrafva sina dda. Unionen fir dd och “der Lebende lat Recht”. Men det lir icke blot Norge utan iifven Sverige som lefver och som foljaktli ir att Norge skal! i realitet, som i fellt offer, i en form, som York Globe Yes, but Man-afraid-of-his-Wife still lives. ke fir {orodimjukande an’t have a contest unless you have a differen f opinion. Charles it. Very likely, Anyway, we cannot de yes, you can, » difference of opinion between two politicians over the spoils. They both want it and fight for it because they are of the same opinion animal which is unable to swi nal can, if put to The giraffe is the only account of its long neck, E: keep afloat.—Journal of in any kind of water. Messrs. Another not sunk yet Yes, and keep Morton, Loomis, Harri: ilt vietory—W. K.V he St. Cloud races to-day. 's Rooney won the Saint Michael Prize a York Times. No victory for V: lerbilt. Victory for Rooney, the horse, will be inte New V money. It has been at least ten years si for swind culated in even the back districts of Indiana. Any kind ¢ ; dazzles the New Yo A brothe on the grou by the imm man claims that h npany. Itis plain that men who manaze our own dummy- was in having dummy ditcetors in he should be deported. The genth i it not to be subje competit —New York it ¥ aires are punished in this country. and this man does not realize how severely million- A pie exploded in a New Jersey boarding-house and hurt several boarders. Louisville Times. Who probably died of pysemia. COMPLIMENTS OF THE HUNTING SEASON, comicbooks.com