Life, 1906-05-24 · page 21 of 26
Life — May 24, 1906 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two main pieces of content: **"Adventure of a Puppy"** (left side): A satirical poem reprinted from a London publication. The editor notes it parallels a college graduate's experience—starting sheltered in an "alma mater," enduring hardships and struggles ("sharp, precursive" trials, "Fevers"), emerging transformed with newfound confidence (displaying his "Tooth" with "conscious Pride"), then facing an indifferent world. The satire suggests the shock of leaving protected academic life for harsh reality. **"When the Auto Came Back"**: A humorous anecdote about an automobile driver who hits a chicken. When he returns to compensate the owner, the man reveals he merely wanted to verify *how* the chicken died—implying he planned to eat it regardless. The joke satirizes opportunistic logic and rural practicality. **The advertisements** (Gibbons' Record Rye Whiskey, Abbott's Bitters, Buffalo Lithia Water, Old Crow Rye) are period medical/alcoholic remedies claiming to treat various ailments—typical early-20th-century patent medicine marketing.
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Adventure of a Puppy A PAPER in London makes us all jealous by printing the following beautiful poem on a puppy. . . . Harken and see if you do not detect in the brief but pregnant history it unfolds the history of e college graduate as he leaves his alma mater weeping disconsolately behind him and goes to meeta humtl le and welcoming world ? ‘a Now harken: Once on a Time, a Terrier Pup Kept in his Kennel-Run shut up, Through many a sharp, precursive Through Jaws th. joot and prick, Alive in every N Q Fevers that his Frame exhaust, Till up he gives himself for lost N the solemn Crisis ¢o Toosipeg peeps through bi Our Pup, to whom this Thing of Bone, | Iden through his Gums had grown, nknown, ind Awe. of his Jaw, c. believed ‘Then ea Displayed with conscious Pride his Tooth, ch Symptom. tokd each Pang thi And pecluc Of so uniqu When the Auto Came Back N AUTOMOBILIST, speeding along a cougtry road at a rapid clip, ran over and killedachicken. When he retumed the same way | an hourlater,a man was standing in the middleof the road signalling excitedly for him to stop. He brought the machine to a standstill, and there lying on the roadside was the poor chicken whose life had been snuffed out. He was prepared for the worst, when the following dialogue took place: “May I ask, did you nun over this chicken?” | Z “Yes, I'm the guilty party, but I am willing to pay for the damage. How much do you want?” “Oh, that’s all right. You see, before I tool the chicken home I wanted to make sure how it had been killed. If your automobile ran over it, I guess it’s sod to cat." —Pittsburg Press. SEA CLIFF INN| NANTUCKET, MASS. Open from June until October Excellent Table: Music. Bookings by | . 26 East 23d Street, New York City. | | ABBOTT’S* RECORD RYE WHISKEY BITTERS Make the best cocktall, A rn ery NGOSTU RA: weer ar ret i Important to see that it is Abbott's. _ BUFFALO LITHIA WATER Has Been Before the Public for Thirty-three Years In the Experience of the Following Physicians It Has a Pronounced Value in the Treatment of Bright’s Disease Alfred L. Loomis, J. Marion Sims, Samuel O. 4 Potter, John V. Shoemaker, Graeme M. an Hammond Wm. H. Drummond, I. N. Love, Albuminuria of G. Halsted Boyland, Cyrus Edson, J. Allison Hodges, George W. Miltenberger, J. Page Pregnancy Massie and Geo. Ben Johnston, Uric Acid Troubles ( Roberts Bartholow, Jas. K. Cook, Hunter aad McGuire, John T. Metcalf, Frank Woodbury, Alex. B. Mott, Chas. B. anerede. Nathan Inflammation of jS. Davis. Jr., Jas. L. Cabell, P. B. Barringer, A. F. A. King, T. Griswold Comstock, the Bladder Holt and Giuseppe Lapponi. Medical Testimony. Upon Request to the Proprietor, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, For Sale by the General Drug and Mineral Water Trade. Hotel at Springs opens June 15th. BOTTLERS, NEW YORK OLD CROW RYE « STRAIGHT + WHISKEY count’ B. KIRK & CO. comicbooks.com