Life, 1906-01-04 · page 13 of 48
Life — January 4, 1906 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book listings** rather than editorial satire. The left column lists recently published books with holiday editions. Below that is a small humorous dialogue titled "Foreformed" about punishment—not political satire. The main content features a **Franklin automobile advertisement** (center-right), highlighting the Type E 4-cylinder runabout as "The Motor Car of the Future." The ad emphasizes the Franklin's air-cooling system, which allegedly eliminates winter freeze-up problems—a genuine technological advantage over water-cooled competitors of that era. Additional advertisements include **Royal 33 linen collars** (left) and the **Hippodrome circus** (bottom). This appears to be a circa-1906 magazine page mixing literary notices with contemporary automotive and consumer advertising.
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edition in one volume. pany. $3.00.) (The Macmillan Com- -t Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth. By Charles Dickens. Holiday edi- on, (The Baker Taylor Company.) Fisherman’s Luck. By Henry Van Dyke. New edition illustrated in color. (Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.50.) The Seats of the Mighty. By Gilbert varker. Holiday edition. (D. Appleton and company. $2.00.) His Version of It. By ¥ day edition, (Dodd, } Leicester Ford. and Company lea ctions from the Poems of John Godfrey ive. (Houghton, Miflin and Company. $1.00.) The One Horse Shay, By Oliver Wendell Holiday edition. (Houghton, Mif- Company. $1.50.) rge Tressady. By Mrs. Humphry Vard. New edition in one volume, (Tae Jacmillan Company.) The United States a Christian Nation. By avid J. Brewer. (The John C. Winston y. $1.00.) hitewashing Julia. A comedy by Henry hur Jones. (The Macmillan Company. ) The Girl with the Green A play by lyde Fitch. (The Macmi ‘ompany. 75¢.) Silex Scintilans. By Henry Vaughn (H. M. Caldwell Company. $1.00.) Lohengrin, Retold in’ English verse by er Huckel. (Thomas Y, Crowell and Com- any. 75¢.) Frozen Dog Tales. By Colonel William C. Hunter. (The Everett Press, Boston, $1.00.) Forearmed. I'm going to punish you se- know a I hid the strap you lick me with.” Leader, I the bad things you've done to-day.” sudon’t, Pa, Youdon't THEe wane = MADE FRANKLIN TYPE E4-CYLINDER RUNABOUT. Twelve Franklin h wer, Fourcylin- der, air-cooled engine, Wheel base 811% inches. Eleven hundred pounds. Forty miles an hour. $1,400 f. 0.b. Syracuse. YOU CAN'T FREEZE A FRANKLIN. An air-cool- ing system won't freeze. The Franklin ‘‘ open season” is every day in the year. A Franklin needs no heated barn; no thawing out; no coddling. Leave it outside anywhere, any day or night. Jump in and be off ‘‘at the drop of a hat.” No need of warming up the cylinders to their best pace. The first shot creates exactly the right temperature for perfect efficiency ; and Franklin air-cooling keeps it right. With the Franklin Auxiliary exhaust a Franklin cylinder can no more overheat than it can freeze. There can be no burning or pitting of valves ; no carbon deposits to short-circuit the spark; no untimely expansion or explosion ; no back pressure; “no kick coming.” Franklin through-and-through refinement ; luxury, durability and “go” put TYPE E alone among all runabouts, Four Models for 1906 ° Four-Cylinder Runabout Four-Cylinder Touring Car Four-Cylinder Light Touring Car Six Cylinder Touring Car Write for the book. H. H. FRANKLIN MFG. CO., Syracuse, N. Y., af.4.Z.4.3/. ‘*The Motor Car of the Future’’ LINEN HIPPODROME' 15¢ “EACH TRIUMPH OF THE AMUSEMENT WORLD “A SOCIETY CIRCUS” (ROYAL 33) With the Court of the Golden Fountains tf YOUR DEALER WONT *]T SUPPLY YOU, WRITE US EMIGH & STRAUB-Dept CC.TROY,NY| Daily Matinees at 2 WASSERMANN BROTHERS 42 Broadway, New York New York Stock Exchange Members of | New York Coffee Exchange Chicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Astor Court (Waldorf-Aetoria Hotel.) Windeor Arcade, corner 46th St, aud Sth Ave, Imperial Hotel. Fifth Avenne Hotel, Ocean Avenue, West End, N.J., daring Sammer months, Management THOMPSON & DUNDY MOST GORGEOUS AND ENTRANCING PRODUCTION EVER YIELDED RY AY STAGE, INTRODUCING THE WORLD WOSDENS IF CIRCUS SPECIALISTS ASD REAUTIPUL SEW Bal Evenings at 8 comicbooks.com