Life, 1906-04-12 · page 4 of 24
Life — April 12, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertising** rather than satirical content. It contains four distinct ads: 1. **Great Northern Steamship Company** - advertising luxury trans-Pacific liners to Japan and China, featuring the S.S. Dakota and S.S. Minnesota 2. **Brownsville Water Crackers** - a food product advertisement highlighting its suitability for hotels, homes, and children's digestion 3. **Tabard Inn Library** - offering a book club membership bundle with a year's subscription to *The Metropolitan Magazine* for $2.10, listing eleven popular novels 4. **Tomfoolery** - promoting a humorous book of drawings and limericks by James Montgomery Flagg There are **no political cartoons or satirical commentary** visible on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine advertising and product promotions.
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The cracker that is good enough for the most particular chefs of best hotels of America, that is cheap enough for the simplest Americar home, that is pleasing to the taste of the good liver, and wholesome enoggi for the digestion of a young child, is the real American cracker. Such a» Shortest Most as Water Crackers Route to ‘The Cracker that has Brownsville" on it CHATLAND & LENHART, Brownsville, Pa. Japan and China SOLD BY By Special Warrant Purveyors to follows the mild Japan Current from Seattle to Yoka- S. S. Pierce Co., Boston Pennsylvania R. R. Dining C bama and the J Park & Tilford, New York ss " The Waldorf. Astoria Great Northern The Joseph R. Peebles’ Sons Co., Cincinnati ‘The Hotel Manhattan . Geo. K. Stevenson & Co., Pittsburg .: Steamship Company A A Finley Acker Co., Philadelphia The Cafe Martin is the only linc of mammoth twin-scrow steamers that , C. Jewne & Co., Chicago 2 The Cafe des Beaux Arts sail over this route, Goldberg, Bowen & Co., San Francisco The Bellevue-Stratford, Phila ite Dakota and Minnesota 722° A} wan! 205 conten ty the crachers of aay reer at yoy cae reach emo be largest and most sumptuous Trans-Pacific liners . The Parlor Suites are elegant and luxurious, th appointments equal to the most palatial hotel. a handsomely furnished outside room, ‘Oper 1 Northern and Northern Pa and illustrated oriental fo + % —e BROWNSVILUBS i rcial Bldg, St. Louis dlelphia ic Agent, 21 Cock- eattle, Wash. eS SS. Minnesota sails from Seattle April 29th_¢, ee has = SS. Dakota sails from Seattle June 7th ‘gay y A Rare Opportunity |} TOMFOOLERY to obtain the Drawings and Limericks by JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG Most Popular Novel Select any one of the books enumerated below. You get one of these books hand- somely bound, a Tabard Inn Library Membership and a year's subscription to THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE all for $2.10. Order to-day. We pay the “freight.” The Long Arm. - Samuel M. Gardeshire The f Te wr jo Dawn of a Tomorrey ies Hogan Barat The Wheel of Life . . - Ellen Glasgow .. : The Truth About Tolna . —. Bertha Runkle It isn’t predigested The: Hause, of a Thensen Cs cick Tt won't manufacture brains The Lake... «George Moore It isn’t good to eat at all— The Great Refusal =. © Mazwell Gray It simpl z Carolina Lee. . «+e Lilian Bell it simply entertains The Shadow of Life. Anne Douglas Sedgwick } The Lawbreakers . . = Robert Grant “TOMFOOLERY” The Last Spike =... «Cy Warman FSeexe aay pe The most monumental collection of fun since the famous Nonsense Book. Printed in red and black with forty-eight remark heads, and bound in boards “ey os 4 with special cover design. 75 CENTS POSTPAID. THE TABARD INN LIBRARY LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Dept L 1611 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 17 West 31st Street, New York City comicbooks.com