Life, 1906-05-10 · page 25 of 26
Life — May 10, 1906 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with minimal editorial content. The few satirical items are: 1. **Webster City Telephone Monopoly**: A brief news item mocking a Iowa telephone company owner who, facing doctor boycotts over high rates, advertises for cheaper physicians—then threatens to control their fees just as he does his phone rates. The irony: he complains about doctors' "exorbitant" charges while defending his own. 2. **"Modest Greatness"**: A humorous anecdote about a Paris letter addressed to "the Greatest French Poet." It passes between Victor Hugo, Lamartine, and Alfred de Musset, each too modest to claim the title, until Hugo finally accepts it by default. 3. **Marion Crawford quote**: A novelist's pragmatic answer about legacy—he writes to earn money to live *now*, not for posterity. The rest is commercial advertising for pianos, champagne, shirts, and ale—typical of Life's revenue model. No political satire is evident on this page.
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TE hE Intending purchasers of a strictly first- class Piano should not fail to exam- ine the merits of THE WORLD RENOWNED SOHMER It is the special favorite of the refined and cultured musical public on account of its unsurpassed tone-quality, unequaled dura- bility, elegance of design and finish. Cata- logue mailed on application. Tuc SOHMER-CECILIAN INS!DE PLAYER SURPASSES ALL OTHERS Favorable Terms to Responsible Parties SOHMER & COMPANY Warerooms Cor. Sth Ave. 22d St. NEW YORK “WE may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; We may live without books; BUT civilized man cannot live without COOR’S Ghampagne MIS MASTER'S CHOICE 18 A COAT SHIRT KER WOULD MAKE Tr FAGRICS. ORE BLNO FOR BOOK OF STYLES AND DEALER'S NAME, CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. ‘Largest Makers of Collars and Shirts in the World, 467 River St., TROY, N.Y. Te “magnate” of the Webster City, Iowa, telephone monopoly is advertising for physi- cans. Webster City’s regular doctors boycotted the telephone company on account of rates. The result was this advertisement: WANTED.—The addresses of two or three good sidans, who wish to locate in this city, cither heir own hook or upon a good salary. Call or © at my expense. E. H. Martts, Webster City, Iowa. tin owns one of the best business in the city, and purposes to place his hmen in luxurious suites. He announces that will dictate the scale of fees to all the doctors who accept his offer of a sala “Tf our tele- phone rates are high, what of the doctors’ bills ?”” he has remarked sarcastically. ‘The rates which these men are charging are exorbitant, and I'll make them cut rates or leave town.” —New York Tribune, mis Tor MORTON TRUST COMPANY 38 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK Capit, - - + - $2,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $7,000,000 OFFICERS Pres. « Vaul D. Cravath, Counsel EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Paul D. Cravath G.G, Maven dames N. Jarvie Jacob I. Sebi Modest Greatness E daya letter was received at the post-office in Paris bearing the following inscription ‘o the Greatest French Poet.” The letter car rier was instructed to deliver it to Victor Hugo, who refused to receive it and sent it to Lamartine. This ge: also declined to accept the letter and passed it on to Alfred de Musset. The latter, equally modest, resent it to Victor Hugo, who finally accepted it. The letter had reached its destination. —Lippincott’s Magazine. His Life Work WOMAN once said to Marion Crawford, the novelist “Have you ever written anything that will live after you are gone?” “Madam,” Crawford replied, “what I am trying to do is to write something that will enabhe me to live while Iam here.” —K, C, Independent. vans: Ale Makes Strong Men ana Robust Women Not a Medicine—Simple Ale All Dealers and Places. Patronize American Industries. Wear a the creation par excellence of the naticn. | Agencies in all the principa! cities in the world. —=) comicbooks.com