Life, 1906-03-01 · page 5 of 46
Life — March 1, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The left page features a satirical cartoon titled "Just Suppose!" depicting animals—a pig, cow, and other creatures—wearing name tags. The joke plays on naming conventions: it imagines what would happen if Adam, when naming animals in the Biblical creation story, had given them humorous or unexpected names instead of their actual ones. This is gentle absurdist humor about language and tradition. Below this is an advertisement for Pennsylvania Rubber Company's tire economy competition. The right page is dominated by a Columbia automobiles advertisement, promoting their 1906 gasoline cars as superior to competitors in engineering and design. This page mixes editorial humor with commercial advertising—typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's format.
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JUST SUPPOSE ! DAM NAMED TILE ANIMALS, SE ME"D CALLED THEM WRONG, AND GIVEN NAMES TO SOME To WHOM THOSE NAMES DID NOT BELONG ! Fast fire PENNSYLVANIA. Wé Mlon_20% CLONE Tees PENNSYLVANIA aanae iad RUBBER_COMPANY NEW YORK: 1665 Broadway PHILADELPHIA: 615 N. Broad Street Tire Economy Competition and save tire expense BOSTON : 167 Oliver Street CHICAGO: 166 Lake Street LONDON: 4 Snow Hill UR factory buildings and equipment, materials and processes, are unapproached in the entire American automobile industry and in many essentials Columbia Gasolene Cars for 1906 are a full year in advance of all others. This is not mere assertion. Make the comparison yourself. In no other cars will you find crankshafts machined cold from a solid block of metal and chrome-nickel steel transmission shafts, jack-shafts, gears, etc., nor the I-beam front axle forged in one con- tinuous piece. In no others will you find the same per- fection of body designs, beauty of color schemes and painstaking details of finish. | Mark XLVII, four cylinders, 40-45 h. p., double chain drive, price $4500 to $5500 according to body, is the accepted ideal of the American high-powered car. Mark XLVI, four cylinders, 28 h. p., shaft-drive, price $3000, is unequalled among medium-powered four-cylinder cars. Mark XLIV-2, two opposed cylinders, 18 h. p., shaft drive, price $1750, we offer as the highest grade two-cylinder car in the market. Separate Catalogues of Columbia Gasolene Cars, Columbia Electic Carriages and Columbia Electric Commercial Vehicles will be mailed on request ; alo, tpecial illustrated booklets; “Columbia Chrome-nickel Steel,”” “Fashioning a Crankshaft,” “Consistent Differences in Columbia Cars,” * Transmission, Etc.” Electric Vehicle Company, HARTFORD, CONN. New Yerk Beanch: 134-136-138 West 39th Si. Chicago Branch: 1332-1334 Michigan Ave. Boston: Columbia Motor Vehicle Co., 74-76-7" ctanhope Street. Philadelphia: Peaneylvania Electic Vehicle Co., 250 Noth Broad Steet. Washington: Washington E. V. Trans portation Co., 15th Street and Ohio Ave. "Member Association Licensed Auto. Mfrs. comicbooks.com