Life, 1906-06-14 · page 3 of 24
Life — June 14, 1906 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content features ads for: 1. **Bausch & Lomb Zeiss Tessar lens** — promoting camera equipment, emphasizing the lens's superiority for various photography conditions 2. **Baker Electric automobiles** — highlighting economic advantages of electric cars over gasoline vehicles (cheaper operation, no fuel needed, low maintenance) 3. **Crouch & Fitzgerald** luggage and **Summer Homes** rentals The cartoon at bottom-left appears to be a humorous domestic scene about a neighbor's dog, unrelated to the advertisements. There is **no significant political or social satire** on this page—it's a straightforward commercial publication typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's mixed advertising and light humor format.
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The Economy of Baker Electrics The Lens of the Camera is the most important feature. This year Kodaks, Premos, Hawk- eyes, Centuries and other cameras can be had fitted with the Tessar Lens, a lens that will make all kinds of pictures under all kinds of conditions. This lens requires only about half the light required by lenses usually furnished on cameras. It is there- fore possible to use it for home portraiture, photographing the babies, as well as the most rapid outdoor pictures, with equally good results. No other lens has so wide a range of usefulness and is at the same time so compact and perfect optically. Specify Tessar when ordering your camera. Send for Booklet “Aids to Artistic Aims.” Sil In economy of operation no automobile Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., <{||| can compare with the BAKER. Rochester, N.Y. ¥ For example, take our Stanhope or . " Imperial; its capacity is 40 miles per -ASMINGTON cuicaco SAN FRANCISCO charge. Suppese you exhaust your battery daily (few owners average this daily mileage with any type of automobile); any garage will recharge it for 30 to 50 cents. Assuming that you pay the bighest price, the cost for charging is $15.00 per month if you operate your car every day. Add to this, say, $2.00 per month for care of battery and you have a maximum main- tenance cost of $17.00 monthly. By owning your charging plant you will cut this down to about one-third of this sum. No gasoline or oil to buy, no ignition devices to annoy you and cause expense, no costly accessories. BAKER ELECTRICS are always ready—always dainty and clean—always rich and elegant in appearance—always the true ARISTOCRATS OF MOTORDOM. IMPERIALS, STANHOPES, SUBURBANS, VICTORIAS, SURREYS, DEPOT CAR- RIAGES, BROUGHAMS. The Baker Motor Vehicle Co. cttigtaino. <> OUCH 1 G FirzcerA 177 BROADWAY 688 BROADWAY 723 SIXTH AVENUE SUMMER HOMES in Green Hills of Vermont and Lake Champlain Terms $4 to $10 per week New trains between Boston. New York, Springfield and Vermont points. As good as any on the continent. | agopage illustrated brochure mailed {ree on receipt of 6c. aay in stamps for postage. First Neighbor: Loox OUR DOG HAS EATEN ONE OF MY CHICKENS! ‘Address A.W. ECCLESTONE, S. P. A., Central Vermont Second Neighbor: wt YOU OBJECT TO MY DOG ROAMING ND MY OWN YARD? Ry., 385 Broadway, New York. comicbooks.com