Life, 1905-12-07 · page 7 of 60
Life — December 7, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** from a vintage *Life* magazine, not satirical cartoons. The ads promote travel and leisure services: 1. **Raymond & Whitcomb Co.** offers railroad tours to California, Mexico, and worldwide destinations. 2. **Pinehurst, North Carolina** advertises as a winter golf destination with exclusive shooting preserves and riding facilities. The illustration shows a golfer mid-swing. The text notes "consumptives are absolutely excluded"—a historical reference to tuberculosis sanitariums that were common in that era, with Pinehurst positioning itself as a healthy resort for the wealthy. 3. **Santa Fe Railway** quotes Rear-Admiral R.D. Evans praising the "California Limited" train's dining-car service. 4. **New York Central Lines** promotes the "Twentieth Century Limited," an eighteen-hour train between New York and Chicago. This reflects early 20th-century luxury travel marketing.
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RAYMOND & WHITCOMB TOURS TO CALIFORNIA _ Special Vestibuled Trains of Sleep- ing, Dining, Library and Obse vation Cars leave the East frequently and run through to the Pacific Coast without the usual change of cars. No worry or trouble or risk of missing connecting trains, Either one-way or round-trip tickets at regular rates, or tickets including all ex- penses sold for these trains. MEXICO. Finely equipped trains with Dining and Ot- servation Cars afford every comfort for seeing places of historic and picturesque interest in Mexico that could not otherwise be visited with any comfort. Interpreters provided. OTHER TOURS To California, Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Japan, Around the World, Hawaii, Europe, etc., including every traveling and hotel expense and the services of experienced and competent repre- sentatives who relieve the traveler of every care. Railroad and Steamship Tickets everywhere. Send for Book, mentioning information desired. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. New York : 25 Union Square. Boston : 306 Washington St. Philadelphia: 1005 Chestout St. Chicago: 133 E. Jackson Boulevard Pittsburgh: Park Building Rear-Admiral R. D. Evans, of the United States Navy, once said, speaking of the California Limited “The Santa Fe cer- tainly has the finest Francise an 2. For descriptive booklet, address Passenger Dept. AT.USF.Ry. Sytem. Railway Exch'ge, Chicago dining-car service in the world.” IN NORTH CAROLINA One Night from New York, Boston and Cincinnati Every outdoor sport is at its height when the North is snowbound. The golf links, of nine and eighteen holes, are the best in the South. ‘The championship tournament of the North and South is held on them annually. There are 35,000 acres of exclusive shooting preserves, with expert guides and trained dogs, fine saddle and driving horses, a model dairy, a casino, tour hotels under one management with prices ranging from $2.50 per day upwards, and a splendid pre- paratory school, so that children need not miss thzir studies. CONSUMPTIVES ARE ABSOLUTELY EXCLUDED. Send for descriptive book handsomely illustrated in water color, free. Address, General Manager's Office, Pinehurst, North Carolina, or Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass. THE FAMCUS Twentieth Century Limited GREAT EIGHTEEN HOUR TRAIN BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. It saves a day, and practically makes the run in a night. NOTHING QUITE EQUALS IT. A copy of the sz-page Ilustrated Catalogue, giving a synopsis of each of the forty-one books now comprising the New York Central's * Four-Track Series,” as well asa small half-tone reproduction of each of eleven beautiful etchings of scenery along our line, will be sent free, postpaid, to any address, on receipt of a two-cent stamp, by George H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York comicbooks.com