Life, 1906-05-03 · page 8 of 44
Life — May 3, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains four commercial advertisements: 1. **Baker Electric Stanhope** - promoting an early electric automobile, emphasizing its reliability and low maintenance compared to gasoline cars 2. **John Jameson Three Star Whiskey** - Irish whiskey advertisement highlighting authenticity and quality 3. **Horlick's Malted Milk** - a nutritional drink marketed for "All Ages" 4. **Cerebos Table Salt** - promoting the product's moisture-resistant properties and nutritional benefits The page also includes **"The Niagara Recessional,"** a poem reflecting on national decline, and two brief humorous anecdotes ("From Headquarters" and "Doubtful") typical of *Life* magazine's satirical content. The advertising reflects early 20th-century consumer products and commercial messaging strategies.
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The BAKER Electric Stanhope tne _is equipped with a battery of twelve cells, which furnishes power sufficient BATTERY ive it at a speed of fifteen miles per hour, and to climb any hills. USED IN ‘he ELECTRIC is essentially an automobile for city use, and in com- A BAKER pliance with city Laws you can't we more spced than this, stan Why, then, do you not buy the car which will furnish you all the speed you can use and all the mileage you ever want for city driving with the least possible battery equipment required for the service to be rendered? SOME MAKES Remember that a battery of twenty-four or more cells weighs proportion REQUIRE — ately more than one of twelve; costs more for current, more for mainte- BATTERIES nance, and more for eventual replacement, yet gives no better service. oF rwenry-rour BAKER CONSTRUCTION, ‘caLts With ball-bearings on all revolving parts, with perfect workmanship and the choicest materials, ensures BAKER ELECTRIC owners better, longer and more efficient service at far less cost than can be AND “A secured in other automobiles. THATY-Six = Write for Catalogs ing these “ARISTOCRATS BATTERY 6 M10TORDOM.”* THE BAKER | / MOTOR VEHICLE (E> “ores co. XZ 10 Jessie Street = CLEVELAND, OHIO THREE STAR WHISKEW Bottled only under this label. Its higher price is your protection. ten in| “The Salt of Kings The King of Salts” For All Ages The fact that it doesn’t absorb — ene that ena ment ms f 7th— Last sya et ee ds this event moisture and “cake” is one of Isa boon to the aged, the infant, and the the minor claims for invalid. A delicious, invigorating food- drink, nutritious and easily digested, thal agrees with the weakest stomach. More Wholesome than tea, coffee or cocoa, It not only stimulates, but also strengthens and invigorates. milk, combined with the nutritive elements ‘of carefully selected malted graina In powder for ious table drink in a mo by simpl: irring in water, herrea Tablets are B, coqveniaat, quick atch for basy people, and a pleasant, wholee some confectinn for children i It restores to the food those Atall druggists. mple, vest pocket lunch fl . ease, also booklet, giving valuable recipes, natural phosphates lost in the sent free if mentioned. ASK FOR HORLICK’S; manufacture of white flour and others are imitations. : le ie Hertick’s Mialed Milk Co boiled or cooked out of vege Racine, Win, U. S. A. . tables and meats. Sold by all good groceries Write to so Ferry street, New York, fora sample tia, The Niagara Recessional OD of our fathers, known of old, Lord Who hast given us dower divine- ‘The richness of the harvest gold, he strength of crested hills of pine— Lord of the Waves be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget! The tumult of the waters dies, ‘The glories of the scene depart; We sell with eager sacrifice Our country’s be: ‘The barter’s not ¢ May we regret, may Unmourned the splendor fades away, A bargain for the 3 hire; The nation’s pride of ye : Is flickering like a dying Judge of the Nations, may we see The loveliness we hold in fee! If, drunk with sight of Power, we use ‘The mighty stream, once held in awe, And boast of every mean abuse By which we sell within the Law— Lord Who that majesty decreed Give us to know our sordid greed! of the thund’rous wave, But we have bowed us in the dust And called on Mammon’s power to save. For thankless heart and faithless word, Thy mercy on this people, Lord —J.G., in Toronto Saturday Night From Headquarters A! AN unexpected interruption in an aiter dinner speech Senator Hale smiled “These words,” he said, “surprise and con fuse me. They come with a shock. They cor with a shock like that which a young girl of Le received one night. “This young girl sat in her bedroom with « novel. Her hair was down and her feet were in red slippers. Now and then, extending her white arms, she yawned. “You see, it was very late, and downstairs in the parlor her older sister was entertaining a young man. She naturally felt a deep interest in the entertainment. She was waiting to hear how it would terminate. “And at last there was a sound in the ha h as of a closing door, and it was plain to the impatient girl that the young man had gone. She threw down her novel,and, running forth, peered over the balus down into the hall's intense blackness. “Well, Maude,’ she said, ‘did you land him?” “There was no immediate reply to her ques Phere was a silence, a peculiar silence, silence with a certain strained quality in it. Then York Tribune. Doubtful “M Y SON is taking algebra under you this term, is he not?” remarked the fond father to the new Boston High School teacher. “Well,” answered the pedagogue, “your son has been ‘exposed’ to algebra, but I doubt if he will take it.”—New York Tribune. 1540} init “Oh aid, “| hink A” \ wor Orleans (5a) comicbooks.com