Life, 1906-05-03 · page 5 of 44
Life — May 3, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political commentary**. The main content features ads for three early automobiles: the REO touring car ($1,250), the Detroit Auto-Marine engine, and Krementz collar buttons. The only cartoon element is a small illustration on the left showing a bird leaving a cottage, captioned "Yes, sweetheart, and then you must leave this stuffy old maid we will take a little cottage." This appears to be a generic romance illustration unrelated to the automotive advertisements. The REO ad emphasizes customer testimonials praising the car's reliability and fuel efficiency. This represents typical early-1900s automotive marketing, before such vehicles were luxuries rather than novelties.
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REO $1,250 Touring-car ae ee Ibs wheel bs passenge Every REO Sells a REO Wherever Reo cars appear they quickly form an endless chain of success—sales followed by splendid performance; followed in turn by splendid sales. An origin, a record and an appearance which sells the first car almost on sight; a consistent “making good” of every promise, which sells the others before they are seen. «« We have driven our REO five thousand miles, with a repair bill—except- ing tires—of less than two dollars,’? writes IW. R. Strait, Wolcott, N. J. «It is the only car I ever saw that would take our highest hills without change VPS. SWEETHEART, AND THEN YOU MUST LEAVE THIS STUTFY of gear,” asserts R. D. Clark, President Akron Savings Bank, Akron, Lowa. \T AND WE WILL TAKE A LITTLE COTTAGE “ ««Cannot see where two or three thousand dollars more can be added to the price of other makes,’” declares Arthur J. Lane, Grand Rapids, Mich. «*My car will go as far and as fast and use less fuel than any of them.” «Near Cathedral Spires at the foot of Pikes Peak,’? says Albert J. Cole, of Denver, Colo, * out gradomecer showed that our 16 h.-p. REO engine was driv- ing a total weight of 2,725 Ibs. up a grade of 18 to 20 per cent through three inches of red sand. Any one ever making this trip by machine, or otherwise, will verify what] say. Itis remarkable what the REO can do as a hill-climber.’” These are only a few of the countless examples of the REO’s thorough making good. REO Four-seat Runabout, § h.-p.; 1,coo lbs. 25 mil per hour; extra seat folds down when not in use, $673 £0. b. Factory REO. ¢raph, showing the inside of a typical motor in actual moving operation, sent to you for six cents in stamps addressed to Dept 35 Catalogue Free SALES DEPARTMENT, LANSING, MICH. REO Motor Car Co. x. c-oups. President M. OWEN, Salos Manager Agencies throughout the United States DETROIT abe MODEL 1906 THE SMOOTHEST THING THAT RUNS. Sich and Uncertainty reduced to a mishnum. Ic : : quaury }| azsszee dard means every plece of metal On BACK y tule of methods, on a testing for that p eter, the DETROIT AUTO-MARINE MOTOR F The Unbreakable Collar to ctaqes Enrhing Ate Maria Motos 1 te 91 x eck. Eazy to batton and unbuttan stay bartonc r4tr $3535 Fosine alr i J Bidde in Goidand Rolled Plate, 11 damaecd acy BALE. sa cevetop 4 HLP. $44.00 Engine Only — ? way, exchanged for new one ai your jeweler’s oF DETROIT AUTO.MARINE CO. er ; 3 habérdasher's. Booklet on requeit. es : Krementz & Co., 60 Cheftaut St. Newark, N. J RETIRING ON HIS MONEY comicbooks.com