Life, 1906-03-01 · page 8 of 46
Life — March 1, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains three automobile advertisements (REO, Wayne, and Goodyear tire brand) and several brief humorous anecdotes in the "Yes or No" column. The ads emphasize early 1910s automotive marketing claims: the REO highlights "honest power" and racing performance; Wayne promotes a high-horsepower touring car; Goodyear touts tire reliability. The short jokes concern mundane social situations—a young lady difficult to reach by phone, parliamentary miscommunication, a street-crossing incident—typical light humor of the era. The Maurice Barrymore anecdote and Irish travelers' commentary are gentle ethnic/social humor common to period magazines. The page reflects early automotive culture's novelty and the era's genteel humor conventions rather than substantive satire.
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LIFE is not “faked” in tha ay. It is Honest Power Honest Price Anyone can speed up a motor in the factory with a heavy fly-wheel, so that for a period of ten seconds it will show a high brake horse-power; but that is a mere trick. Itisno test. REO rating obtained by an actual ten-hour dynamo test. It is accurate; it is honest; and, above all, it is thoroughly proven by unquestioned performance. Those were REO cars that captured five out of seven prizes in the National six-day economy test It was a REO that broke the middle-weight speed rec s record 23 minutes in the ‘*Climb_ to the Clouds’ H ) that won three cups in one day on Paddock Hill, Cincinnati— a REO that low Washington acuse race track— * up Mount don the S beating all twenty competitors; cight of them having nearly double its rating and pri Write fort the REO book that tells why. REO Fourseat Runabout, 8 hap. tomo pounds, 25 miles per hour. Wath folding seat fo carry 2 extra passengers $675. RE " APH showing the insi ent te REO Motor Car Co., n.254) Agencies th H : There is a certain young lady deeply interested in me, and while I like her, you know, still I never could love her. I want to pnt an end to it without breaking the poor girl's heart. Can you s Sue Do y indeed ; gest any plan? call there often? sot any oftener than 1 can ly help.” “all oftener.” iarchange. je of at: of in actual movil ALES DEPARTMENT, LANSING, MICH. wen, Mar. IE danger of sending telegrams is shown in the following story: A member of Parliament was to have made a speech at Derby and being unable to do so because the heavy rains had destroyed the branch railway sent a telegram as follows: “Cannot come; wash out on line.” Ina few hours the reply came: “Never mind; borrow a shirt.” —New York Tribune. This is the Wayne Model "F" a 50 H. P. 7 passenger car at $3500.00 built solely for touring purposes. The enormous power of this engine is transmited to the rear wheels with practically no loss. Hess-Bright ball bearings are used through- Jit and she man who’ appreciates the noed :of ‘reserve’ power lv always ere to Gnd kia Wayne Modal Ft: We alo make two other 4 Cylinder cars Model "K" 35 H. P., $2500. Model *BY 24-28 H. P., $2000; also Model "C* 20 H. P. 2 Cylinder opposed Tonneau car $1250 and Model "H" 14 H. P. shaft drive Runabout with double opposed motor under the hood, $800. Call at our nearest Agency of write us for full particulars about our cars. Wayne Automobile Co., Dept. E. Detroit, Mich. OOODYEAR DETACHAB Does Away With TIRE TROUBLES You have found that 922 of tuto troubles ar 1 ROUBLES, haven't you? Well, here's an Auto Tire (The Goodyear De tachable on Universal Rim) that ‘cuts out 97 all Tire Troubles at ONE SWEET That’ nd WE CAN PROVE IT This tire is almost as durable as asolid tére, ve 30 resilient and casy to ride that it conveys a new idea of what a Pneumatic Tire show/i be. me Cut even though you ride it for peed over granite pavements. ‘wou't creep or come off the rim when Tid hough hot mechanieally fastened to and if it shoutd pane tre of put it tack in rine ‘wt tne Ra atom _ PRove mt five minutes of your tune at ant STORES and we'll show you ther: nent we have mate is Gospel Truth ‘Orit you are not hear a branch trite wrand we “hoi aoe you. Doa’t lasist upon this troahle raving tire and tiv nse pat on ah v bles give US a cha: IT THe Goopyear ‘TIRE. & RUBBER Co. Wayne St., Akron, 0. can remove U Balley “Won't Sip Varnished on Grodyear Tires Yes or No. Y good woman,” said the learned judge “you must give an answer in the fewest possible words of which you are capable to the plain and simple question whether, were crossing ithe street with the bal arm, and the motor car was coming dow the right side and the dog cart was tryi pass the motor car, you saw the plaintif? tween the carriage and the dog cart, or motor car and the dog cart, or whether when you saw him at al id whether « near the carriage, dog cart and motor ca cither, or any two, and which of them respec tively, or how it was.”"—/Ilustrated Bits. FRIEND of Maurice Barrymore relates an incident of his last meeting with the briifiant actor, which occurred only a short t before his faculties began to fail. As they were parting, the newspaper man asked the other “Where are you to be found nowadays—a! the Players? “No,” replied Barrymore; “I'm posted at the Players, but you can always find me at th Lambs. As a matter of fact.” he added, w! sically, “I’m posted at the Lambs, too, but temper the wind there."—drgonaut YOUNG Irish lady one day ente: railway carriage where three men were seated. When the train had started, and was about half a mile out of the station, the three travelers began talking about Irish, when one of them was heard to s “Why, the Irish sleep with the pigs.” “Yes,” interrupted the young lady, travel with them, too.”"—Kansas City [nde pendent, comicbooks.com