Life, 1906-05-10 · page 22 of 26
Life — May 10, 1906 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and product promotion** rather than political satire. It contains: **Left side:** A Miller High Life Beer advertisement featuring an illustrated woman, emphasizing the product's "purity" and availability on dining cars and in hotels—reflecting early-1900s marketing that associated beer with respectability and good health. **Right side:** A testimonial from actor David Warfield endorsing a book called "The House of a Thousand Candles," a common promotional strategy of the era. **Bottom section:** "Life's Prints"—advertisements for photogravure reproductions available for purchase, including works titled "Trouble with the Sparker," "P.S.," "To the Bride," "The Dog Watch," and "The Harvest Moon," priced between 50 cents and $1.00. The page demonstrates how Life Publishing Company used its magazine platform to sell both advertising space and reproductions of artwork, monetizing multiple revenue streams typical of early-20th-century magazine publishing.
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Can be chosen as your ¢ daily beverage with every assurance that its use conserves good health, good appetite and good living, for it represents the highest attainment of purity in brewing HIGH LIFE can now be had on all dining cars and pree T lines, in leading hotels and cafes, Ask for it by name—HIGH LIFE ° “The Best” Milwaukee Beer Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee DAVID WARFIELD whose polished work in “The Music Master places him among the greatest players of all hme, writes of Mr, Nicholson's book: vid dramatic quality of House of a Thousand Hea, combined with its ro- manticadventure,makesthestory one of the most interesting I have read.” Corrment, 1908, #F Lire Pus. C0. TROUBLE WITH THE SPARKER W. Balfour Ker Photogravure in Sepia, 20 by 15 ia. $1.09 Corrmant, thot, er Lite Pus. Co. B.S. After J. M. Flagg Photogravure in Sepia, 20 by 15 in $1.00 LIFE’S PRINTS TO THE BRIDE Alter A.D. Blashfield Photogravure in Terra Cotta, 11 by 14 in 50 cents A complete catalogue with reduced prints of 137 subjects will be sent to any address on receipt of ‘Ten Cents by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street New York THE DOG WATCH After W. Balfour Ker Photogravure in Sepia, 20 by 15 ia. $100