Life, 1906-01-04 · page 12 of 48
Life — January 4, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The dominant image is a **Peerless Motor Car advertisement** from Cleveland, Ohio. It shows an elegant early automobile and pitches the car as superior quality—emphasizing that buyers should let the Peerless salesman demonstrate why it's "the highest grade car on the market." Below are two smaller ads: one for "Boss" crackers (promoted as perfect for dinner with hard water) and another for a G.W. Cole Company gun product about proper maintenance. The right column contains **"Books Received,"** listing recent publications including biographies, children's books, and literary works. This appears to be a standard **Life magazine page mixing advertisements with book notices**—typical of early 20th-century publishing, where ads subsidized content.
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Whether you pick out yo your leisure later 0 There people ir Direct Di L ake the salesman prove his claims. ots less ted on poo! Dealers. sel! | THE AIM OF EVERY GUN owner is to keep his gun faultless—the, finer the gun the harder he trigs. If he uses “3 in One” the easier he tries, | “3 1N ONZ’? oils every action part properly, cleans out the residue of burnt or smoke! der, prevents rust on every metal part, cleans and polishes the stock, contains no acid. Write for generous sample-tree. G.W. COLE COMPANY wa om ti NEW YORK Books Received. the recent nglish Men of contributions to tl a Letters series arc phy of Sir Thomas Browne, by Edm and one of William Hickling Pres« by Harry Thurston Peck. (The Maemill A new edition in « of Alfred Lord Tens has been published (The M millan Company. $4.00), also a life of Eds MeMasters Stanton, by Frank Abial Flow: which a cypher and + duces Grant to the ranks (The Saalfield Pr long list son, by his so makes Lincoln ot lishing Company). ‘There is assorted books for boys ages. Kirk \ Mikado, the stery of a the late war (Harper and Lonely O' Malte oy Arthur Springer (Houghton, Mifflin $1.50); Vulage Hide and Seck Wilson (Consol 5); Mie C Party, by Mittin Company 's Spectacles, a doe lau (The ldventures of Jack girls of assor adventures es. For nroe’s. instar boy's Brothers. $1 y. for boys and boy sympathi | Company Bingham. 1 Booksellers. $1 (The 3 Surprise (Houghto ed Reta x. ny. $1.50); Olive and by Evelyn Sha Krist Thorne M $t2 of fairy tal Macmillan Company and Jill, by on (Dodd, Mead and Compan » (Little, Barbara Yeel: $1.30); The Ou Clifton Johns » edited f Brown nd Company Boston. $1.75); Fifty aud One Tales of Mod ern Fairyland, by F. Strange Kolle (Th C ton Press. $1.30), and 7h ter News Mother Goose, listory of various ¢ friends written by Carolyn twin Bailes (Henry Holt and Company, $1.50). Letters to Beavi anew “real boy” hook. by Henr A. Shite (The Everett Press, Boston. 50¢) There are several compilations which may find interes! Beethoven and Mozart as revealed i editions of ch $1.00); Words of Gar! 1 readers; own words from the German 1 Kerst CB. W. Huebse (lou $1.23): Catchwords of Ww series, compiled by Sara A, Hub- bard*(.A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago) and Eve's Daughters, a illustrated by A. U, Learned, (Dana Estes and Company, Boston.) The Religion of Duty is a treatise by Felix Adler (McClure, Phillips and Company, $1.25). The Story of the Champions of the Round Table is a companion volume to the King Arthur written and illus- trated by Howard Pyle. (Charles Seribner’s Sons. 0.) ison Company ollection of quotations OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. The Seven Seas (Dd. By Rudyard Kipling. Hol- edition Appleton and Company. $2.00). Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South. By F. Marion Crawford. New (Continued on opposite page.) YOUNGER'S SCOTCH AL ing beverage. Best for buil js a wholesome, nourish dv, 1 comicbooks.com