Life, 1906-03-15 · page 6 of 38
Life — March 15, 1906 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a Peter's Chocolate advertisement featuring an Alpine mountaineer in traditional Swiss dress, promoting "The Original Swiss Milk Chocolate" with the slogan "high as the Alps in Quality." The accompanying article, "Brought the Howl to Court," describes a humorous legal dispute between two doctors, Dunton and Diggs, who argued about whether a Newfoundland dog's howling constituted a noise nuisance. The dispute was settled using an early recording device (a cylinder) to capture and reproduce the dog's actual howl for court evidence. This represents an early novelty use of sound-recording technology for legal purposes—the joke being that courtroom proceedings now included literal animal noise evidence.
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