Life, 1906-07-05 · page 5 of 40
Life — July 5, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor**, not political commentary. The main content includes: 1. **Horlick's Malted Milk ad** - a health product marketed for children 2. **Franklin automobile ad** - promoting a car that won first prize in an Automobile Club efficiency contest 3. **"The Politest Man" anecdote** - a brief humorous story about two men in a street altercation where one deliberately de-escalates by apologizing and leaving quickly, the joke being his politeness masks his desire to avoid trouble 4. **"A Foolometer" joke** - visitors to an asylum learn the facility drains water from a trough to measure how foolish visitors are 5. **Lansdowne fabric and Richelieu Ontario Navigation Company ads** The page reflects early 20th-century advertising and genteel humor typical of *Life* magazine's satirical tone.
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2cid—" The school boy with his shining morning face.” Isacomplete pure food, which builds up the brain, bones and muscles, and promotes healthy. growth of the entire system. All of Nature's mineral phosphates are re- tained. Helpful in meeting the strains put upon the growing child of school age. ff Also as a table drink, far superior to tea, coffee and cocoa, for the whole family. Pure milk and the extracts of selected malted grains. A delicious food-drink is ready in a moment by simply stirring the powder in water. In Lunch Tablet form also, a healthy confection for children, I recommended by physicians, Excellent asa lunch at recess. sample, vest pocket lunch case, also book- let, giving Valuable, recipes, sent requested. At all druggists. | ASK FOR HORLICK’S; \ers are imitations. \| Horli ‘ks’s Malted Milk Co., Racine, Wis., U.S. A. 5 Montreal, England. . Canada, The Polite’ Man Te politest_ man has been discovered. He was hurrying along the strect the other night, when another man, also in violent haste, rushed ut of a doorway, and the two collided with great force. The second man looked mad, while the polite man, taking off his hat, said: “My dear sir, I don’t know which of us is to blame for this violent encounter, but Iam in too a hurry to investigate. If I ran into you, I eg your pardon; if you ran into me, don’t mention it.” And he tore away with redoubled speed.— Chicago Journal, A poor store shows how poor it is by selling imita- tions of ansdowne The World’s Finest Silk and Wool Dress Fabric ALL COLORS AND SHADES Genuine perforated every 3 yards on the selvedge for sale at all good stores Niagara to the Sea ‘Send 6c. postage for illustrated guide to THOS. HENRY, Traffic Manager, Montreal, Canada, FRANKLIN Wins In the Automobile Club of America’s recent great Efficiency Contest, among 65 of the ablest cars made in Europe or America, a Franklin won First prize—the $500 Punch-Bow]; went nearly twice as far as any other 4-cylinder car; carried four passengers farther than any other car; and went farther on two gallons of gasolene than any other motor-car ever went in the world. Shaft-driven Runabout, $1650 Four-cylinder Touring-car, $2800 Foureylinder ight Touring-<ar $1809 Six-cylinder Touring-<car, $4000 0.b. Syracuse H. H. FRANKLIN MFG. CO. Syracuse, N.Y. Write for the book Type D $2800 180 pounds; 45 miles an hour A Foolometer OME visitors who were being shown over a pauper lunatic asylum inquired of their guide what method was employed to discover when the inmates were sufficiently recovered to leave. “Well,” replied he, “you see, it’s this way. We have a big trough of water, and we tums on the tap. We leave it running, and tells ’em to bail out the water with pails until they’ve emptied the . trough.” “How does that prove it?” asked one of the visitors. BUYING THAT SUBURBAN HOUSE ON THE INSTALMENT PLAN Ps ug ; 2p aus “Well,” said the guide, “them as ain’t idiots tums off the tap.” —Harper’s Weekly, cheliew ntario = Oe ion G. ‘The grandett trip in America for health and pleasure The ‘Thousand Islands, Rapids, Montreal, Quebec and the famed Saguenay River, with its @upendous Capes “* Trinity" and “ Eternity.” comicbooks.com