Life, 1906-02-01 · page 40 of 48
Life — February 1, 1906 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content**, not political satire. The top contains three product advertisements: Underberg Boonekamp Bitters (a digestive liqueur), La Magnita cigars, and Luyties Brothers wine merchants. These use typical early 1900s marketing—the bitters ad features a well-dressed man being attended to, positioning the product as a tonic for busy professionals. The majority of the page consists of **legal commentary** discussing theater contract disputes, specifically referencing cases like *Lumley vs. Gye* and *McGowan vs. Duff*. This appears to be educational content about contract law and conspiracy, not satire. The bottom advertises **Life's Prints catalog**—reproductions of drawings by artists including Hutt and Gilbert, available for wall decoration at ten cents. Overall, this is a commercial/informational page rather than a satirical one, typical of Life's mixed-content format during this period.
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Underberg BOONEKAMP Bitters A safe, delicious, bene- ficial, stimulating tonic is a necessity with every busy manand woman. Af ter the worry of business, late hours, shopping or te- dious travel nothing equals UNDERBERG BOONEKAMP BITTERS Braces the nerves and creates a wholesome ac petite. Should be o sideboard. Call for it at any first class hotel, cafe, club of restaurant, and see that it is UNDER- BERG. TH. UNDERDE AtG OTTLED ONT R GERMANY, RUEINBE ENJOVABLE AS A COCKTAIL AND SETTER FOR YOU U.S. LUYTIES BROTHERS GenlAg'ts Model Wine Cellars, 204 William Street,New York “The Perfect Havana.” The 1905 clear salen of thin javana Segar were double those of 1904—that's how good La Magnita ts, Wa nan Otice ana tamaors LidorFAstoria NO 2 private place te which for the ticket, But onc dd other public places public ol fe with these je makes it a public place to t Point 4 afe had a contr ers entitling him to occupy the s to with ce by the m s ublawful a handed down December, The mana. ticket and part of tract, rs to induce the manager of any particular theatre to Met was an actionable wro is was an action br | tion would lie. Crompton, It was held that the It was further held t s were e¢ y at comp The agreement by the managers to cause the manager of a particular theatre to break his ccntract with Mr, Metcalfe was actuated by evil motives and was a criminal | conspiracy In the case at bar, as in Lumley vs, there was a contract made between two parties and violated by one of them, owing to the inducement of a third. The contract was lawful; there was nothing done by Mr. Metcalfe to break it and each manager violated his agreement solely through the unlawful conspiracy entered into with the other managers. Port 5. The agreement to exclude Mr. Metcalfe from the theatre after he bad purchased a ticket was an agreement toslander him, (McGowan vs. Duff.) The new edition of our catalogue, LIFE’S PRINTS, is now ready and be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents. It contains many reproductions in mini ature of new drawings by Hutt, Gilbert, Read, Ker and others, which, when framed, make artistic wall decorations. LIFE PUBLISHING CO. 17 West 31st Street New York THE MWARVES After Victor C. MOON, A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT, After Bayard Jones. Vhotogravure in Sepia, 20 by 18 in. $1.00.