Life, 1905-11-23 · page 19 of 22
Life — November 23, 1905 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertisements** interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine format. **The jokes** are genteel social humor: - "She Knew Him": A lady admits she knows the architect of the church's nave (a pun—"nave" sounds like "knave") - A Chicago man forges a laundry check - A wealthy man condescends to a poor acquaintance, claiming poverty no longer excuses social inferiority - A farmer on a train, annoyed by a lady's lavender salts masking a glue factory's stench, demands she cork her bottle **The advertisements** include whiskey (Gibsons, Old Crow, Sanderson's Mountain Dew), ale, and transportation. Notably, whiskey is marketed "for the use of invalids and Connoisseurs"—reflecting pre-Prohibition era attitudes where alcohol held medicinal legitimacy. The page contains no political cartoons or caricatures. It's a snapshot of genteel American commercial culture and gentle, class-conscious humor from the early 1900s.
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26 pHmoueH TRAINS PureRye Whiskey For the use of invalids Twenty-six fast through trains every day—a train every hour in the twenty-four and even better—be- tween the big cities—Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Buffalo, New York, Boston. Such is the extent of the splendid service—the greatest in America—af- forded by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. in connection with the New York Cen- tral, Boston & Albany, Pittsburg & Lake Erie and Big Four Route. The Lake Shore is widely recog- nized as the most comfortable fast service route in America. Address undersigned about your travel matters. A. J, SMITH, Gen. Pass. Agt., Cleveland, 0, C. F. DALY, Passenger Trafic Manager, Qhicago, I. A Beefsteak Dinner is not complete without Evans’ Cream Ale. TSAR and Connoisseurs. In Bond and Tax Paid, Bottled in Bond under the supervision of the U. S. Government officials. For sale by all dealers Agape She Knew Him. Na t remarked to a lady that he had been to sce the great nave in t new church. The lady replied, “Don’t men- n names; | know the man to whom you re- er!"—Sacred Heart Review. INANCIAL genius is getting down to a fine point. A Chicago man forged a Chinese laundry check and walked off with emember when T was as poor as you said Mr. Dustin Stax, patronizingly nswered the impecunious man who | CAN “Yes, that is no reason for assuming that you are now my social equal."—Iashington Star, BY the side of a certain portion of a sub- urban railway stands a glue factory which sometimes gives out a particularly offensive smell. A lady who was obliged to travel on this line quite often always carried with her a bottle of lavender salts. One morning an old farmer took the seat beside her. As the train neared the factory the lady opened her bottle of salts, soon the whole car was filled with the horrible odor of the glue. put up with it as long as he could, then shouted: “Madam, would you mind puttin’ the cork in that ‘ere bottle?"—San aa | News-Letter. another fellow’s shirts—Atlanta Constitution.’ | has been reading about tainted money. “But | The farmer | SANDERSCN'S “ Mountain Dew” Scotch is a very old and mellow whisky. It is made of the finest Highland Malt, which is dried over carefully chosen aromatic peats. @ All the ingredients are pure and sound, Gg The whisky is made in an old style Pot-still and is then @ The result is a finely flavored, pure and healthful whisky with a delightful Scotch flavor. @ @ Ask for a Sanderson Dewball. thovoughly aged. © LD CROW RYE rear WHIS K E’Y soe correans, New vork. comicbooks.com