Life, 1906-01-04 · page 40 of 48
Life — January 4, 1906 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements and brief humorous anecdotes**, not political cartoons. The content includes: **Short comedic pieces**: "The Fault of the Clock" depicts an Irish domestic worker (identifiable by dialect: "toimes," "Oi") frustrated that her employer's clock runs slow. "The Escape of Mark Twain" jokes that the famous writer avoided becoming a Senator—a lighthearted jab at political corruption. Other quips mock vanity (girls checking for rival photos in suitors' watches) and the mystery of why public figures' friends only hear negative gossip. **Travel advertisements**: Competing railroad and steamship companies promote luxury winter tours to the American Southwest and Mexico, emphasizing comfort, scenic beauty, and reasonable costs. **Product ads**: Heublein cocktails and the Rock Island railway line. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and gentle humor targeting domestic life and social pretension, rather than political satire. The Irish-dialect humor was standard for the era, though considered ethnic comedy.
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All the Way Take the luxuri- 4 -. For descriptive book- lete, address Pas- seager Dept. A. T.@S. F. Ry. System. Railway Exch’ ge. Chicago The Fault of the Clock. RS. HOOLIGAN looked up at the clock, and then slapped the iron she had lifted from the stove back on the lid with a clatter. out toime an’ toide waiting fo: © muttere she hurried into t “there's toimes they wait an’ toimes don't! Yisthe: at. thi “twas but tin o'clock, an’ to-day ‘tis quarther to uth’s Companion. very minute twelvy SEMI-WEEKLY SOLID, VESTIBULED SPECIAL TRAIN Berwren St. Louis ana City of Mexico vw— TRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE Texas & Pacific, nternational & Great Nortaern and the National Lines of Mexico LEAVE ST. LOUIS, 9.00 A. M. TUESDAYS AND’ FRIDAYS ARRIVE MEXICO CITY, 8.30 P. M. THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS INITIAL TRAIN, JANUARY 161 Composite STATEROOM OUSERVATION. DINING AND STANDARD SLEEPING CARS \ LA Sutherland 1s quoted as saying of the Grand Canyon of Arizona The perfect service at El Tovar hotel aston- ished me. The Escape of Mark Twain. T hasn't been mentioned, but it is also to his credit that Mark Twain has reached sev- enty without ever having become a United States Sen ‘ork Commercial. SA FTER a girl has acquired a beau the first thing she does is to look in his watch- another girl's picture. case to see if it contain —Chicago Daily ; @ The trip is not as Vou of an undertaking as Cc you may suppose. Go sos Sree: houses. They see and enjoy as much as those who spend thousands. @ Most people go in the comfortable, cleanly tourist cars and live at moderate Gt would cost you something to live at home; put a little more with it and you can have the trip to California. It's all in the planning and “knowing how.” Let us help you plan and send you our new “Califor: nia Train Book” and 1906 edition of the “Golden State”— beau- tifully illustrated, @ Address with six cents | in stamps. JOHN SEBASTIAN, Passenger Traffic Manager, CHICAGO. WINTER TOURS to the Land of Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers SOUTHERN PACIFIC offers a trip of continual scenic surprises. su XPRESS, a train of superior latest dining, sleeping and obser- vation cars, with clean’ motive power (Oil Burning Locomotives) daily between New Orleans and San Francisco, traversing Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. The Best Route for Comfortable Travel and Picturesque Scenery. ORXE of the mysteries of a public n is how his friends sce every thir miss everyt —Saturday ¢ good that is printed about him. ning Post Show are vez this mor-rnin’?” ‘ ‘ bad, thank ye.” “An? phwat’s th’ matther 2” “Oi had such bad dhreams th't Oi couldn't slape a wink all night."—Cleveland Leader. & A guesswork cocktail is always a new experiment. You rarely get the same thing twice from the same mixer. CLUB COCKTAILS are scien- tifically blended from choicest liquors. Their aroma,taste, strength, are always uniformly ex- cellent, and their ageing is a virtue the tried taster can appreciate. Always ready. Just strain through cracked ice and serve. Seven kinds — Manhattan, Martini, Vermouth, Whiskey, Holland Gin, Tom Gin and York. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Sole Froprietors Hartford New York London