Life, 1906-04-05 · page 18 of 58
Life — April 5, 1906 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists entirely of **advertisements**, not editorial content or satire. It contains four product promotions typical of early 20th-century magazines: 1. **A.B.C. Wardrobe Trunk** - A traveling trunk designed to hold clothes that hang vertically, eliminating unpacking hassles for travelers. Priced at $35+. 2. **Pond's Extract Soap** - A beauty product claiming to produce natural complexion improvements through health and purity rather than cosmetic artifice. Cost: 25 cents. 3. **Andrew Usher & Co. Scotch Whiskies** - Premium imported spirits including "Old Vatted Glenlivet." 4. **Beech-Nut Sliced Bacon** - Machine-sliced bacon marketed for uniform cooking quality, vacuum-packed in glass jars. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture targeting middle-class travelers and home cooks. There is no political satire, no caricatures, and no jokes—merely straightforward product marketing using period typography and illustration styles.
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B. C. of Traveling A place for everything—every- thing in its place, where you can get at it without trouble. The A. B.C. Wardrobe Trunk is the most practical trunk of its kind made. It does away with un- packing when you arrive and pack ing up when you leave—your clothes hang up just as they do in your wardrobe at home—an oak follower keeps them free from wrinkles, When closed, takes up : of the and up. only half the floor sy ordinary trunk, Pric Write for our book, “Tips to Travelers,” telling you more about the A. B.C. Wardrobe ‘Trunk, and showing you many new and practical articles of traveling equipment manufactured by us. Abel @ Bach Company Largest Makers of Trunks and Bags in the World Milwaukee, Wisconsim, U. S. A. y Trunk, Suit rantee of quality, this mark on G. S. NICHOLAS, Sole Agent, New York. A Armour Compasy Pond’s Extract Soap makes natural beauty. Not the beauty that confesses to the arts and artifices of the toilet table. But true beauty that is more than ‘skin deep.” The brilliant freshness and bloom of a perfect complexion— the unmis- takable proof of health and purity of skin, Begin to use Pond's Extract Soap today. 25 cents, Ask your druggist You Cannot Slice Bacon wi fe so that it is as thin and uniform as it should be. Thickly sliced bacon loses flavor and becomes tougher in the cooking. To it thin and uniform Beech-Nut Sliced Bacon is sliced by machinery. Because at is thin, it cooks quickly and cr retaining its fine flavor, Because it is uniform, each slice cooks ev none of it half-done, none of it over-done, Always packed in vacuum glass jars. All good. grocers, butchers and provision men sell Beech-Nut_ Products —Beech-Nut Sliced Beef, Beech-Nut Bacon and Beech-Nut Conserves. Send 2cent stamp for Beech Nut Cook Booklet, BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY 16 Beech-Nut Street Canajoharie, N. Y. comicbooks.com