Life, 1905-10-05 · page 28 of 44
Life — October 5, 1905 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous anecdotes typical of Life's satirical style: **"An Incident of the Road"** depicts a rural man's opportunism: after his dog is killed by an automobile, he accepts $5 from the motorist. When a lawyer hears this, he pursues the case and wins $2,000 in damages—keeping $1,500 for himself. The joke satirizes both rural naïveté and lawyer greed. **"Wood Nymphs"** shows a humorous misunderstanding between a humorist and a park keeper, poking fun at pretension and miscommunication. Additional shorter pieces mock writing composition ("I got into a crowded train..."), a woman's attempt to plagiarize Victor Hugo scholarship, and a schoolteacher's promise that backfires. The page is primarily **advertising and humor content** rather than political satire. The advertisements for Wilson Whiskey, Evans' Ale, and Esterbrook's Steel Pens are era-typical. The humor targets universal human flaws—greed, vanity, foolishness—rather than specific political figures or events.
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AN INCIDENT OF THE ROA. An automobilist who was touring through the country saw, walking ahead of him, by a dog. As the machine drew ited sud a man Mowed ear them the dog lenly to cross the road; he was the car and killed immediately, The mote Tee Wee ERE eueRD IN DOUBT ABOUT THE HEAD, his machine and approached the owner. “I'm sorry, my man, that this has happ “Will five dollars fix it?” “Oh, yes, down Tremont ad by a brick which fell after bein 1 for a lawyer. One fine spring day old Farmer Doyle ned,” | atrick Murphy, Said, as he mopped his br Street, was hit on fro It’s time I started now he said the man; “five lars w vt object to honest building in pr Qhesot iaihiaiiiiaaiciinasa x taken home ai Pocketing the money as the car disappeared ir distance, he looked wn at the dead “I wonder whose dog it was?” he sa T know T ought to prow the soil, put to bed, was to ser \ few Evening Post. his law But T hate to soil the plow ays later he received word to call, as settled the case, He called and re ceived five new $100 bills. Tey were two buyers from the West, and were “How much did you get?" he asked exchanging experiences the other evening at a well “Two thousand dollars,” answered the lawyer. A wostay who was called upon to write a paper at known Broadway botcl “Two thousand, and you give me $500? Say, a suburban current topics club on Victor Hugo, wert T used to be a drui + for a big Cincinnati who got by that brick, or Boston to the Carnegie Library erceted there, and collated ber gehotesale eho Biwi “aid < my district i Herald. cts from a number of eneyclopxdias, When ske cluded a larg tof rural Ohio. T recall once that — had finished, having a quarter inch of space at the I got into a crowded train, and the only seat I could end of her paper, she thought she would ad some ‘ find was one near the car I became interested thing original, an le: “Whatever we a ceeding generations na conversation hetweer akemen. One was a stations, and call them out at each stop. So, w IN VAIN wssible. 1 I never marry the instru There is some other man, 4 “SMI right,’ was the reply iteeneet Thave a for any other man.” Why do you tell me that?” “To save your face, if yo her regard for you called out: ‘Wapakoneta! Way At ke girl. s face brighte udly answered the high-spirit Ilis countenance at dis end of de car Verw York Tribun fatlen.—Chicago Tri woop NYMPHS. q “Ciitores,” said the or draw inspiration fror “I'm a humorist swered the party on the ing. At last she made the ann she As of this advice, Tomm cutside, “I vsed to write jokes for the comic js would kiss the first. pupil to arrive at ‘ out the »wing composition: “We ers house the next morning. At sunrise th "1 In me there is my stummick, lungs, the keeper of the keys. “In the meantime go the schoolhouse, and by 6 o'clock every the apples, one piece one stick of Ie sit down in the shade of that chestnut tree ay school and four of the directors were wa for he my dinner."—The Independ: t. nake yourself at home."—National Hotel Reporter, to arrive New Vork Tribune, Live is publ every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to Vo contri Ul be ret tanied by stamped and ads foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.01 a year extra urrent copies, dressed envelope 10 cents, Back numbers, after three publication, 23 cen Lave is for sale by all Newsdealers Company, Hream’s Building, Ch. nal News AGENTS Prompt notifieatic be sent by subscribers of any change of addre Evans? em" WHISKEY ore That’s All its side: Or shake it | ESTERBROOK'S ° inside. No Sediment, | Sold Everywhere e The Best Pens Made comicbooks.com