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Life — September 6, 1906 — page 34: Life, 1906-09-06

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This is primarily an advertising page from Life magazine. There is minimal editorial content or satire. **Notable features:** The **Winchester cartridge ad** (top left) features a large ram's head image—Winchester's brand mascot—emphasizing the company's ammunition reliability from "forty years of gun making." A small **narrative vignette** ("Good-by," she said...) appears to be sentimental fiction filler, followed by a brief mention of a Kansas woman who won a contest answering "What constitutes success?"—ordinary human interest, not satirical. The remaining space is filled with product advertisements: **White Rock mineral water**, **Jones Speedometer** (claiming international recognition), random factual trivia ("Numbers of Things"), **Haskell-Match golf balls**, and **B.F. Goodrich**. This reflects Life's early function as part lifestyle magazine, part advertising vehicle. There is no discernible political cartoon or satire on this particular page.

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ae ba ee eag CHESTER METALLIC CARTRIDGES FOR RIFLES, REVOLVERS AND PISTOLS In forty years of gun making we have learned many things about ammunition that no one could learn in any other way. These discov- eries and years of experience in manufacturing ammunition enable us to embody many fine points in Winchester make of cartridges not to be found in any other brand. Winchester make of cartridges in all calibers are accurate, sure fire and exact in size. Always ask for Winchester make and insist upon getting it. Winchester Ammunition and Guns are sold everywhere WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. “Good-by,” she said. “He has achieved success who has lived She watched him long and silently as he laughed often and loved much; who has gained walked slowly down the village street. Then the respect of intelligent men and the love of little she turned and went into the house. Her children; who has filled his niche and accom- father, standing on the threshold of his study, plished his task; who has left the world better held out his arms to her. T.M. than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul ; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to KANSAS woman, Mrs. A. J. Stanley, of express it; who has always looked for the best in Lincoln, has been awarded a prize of S250 _ others and given the best he had ; whose life was by a Boston firm for the best answer to the ques- an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.” — tion, ‘‘What constitutes success?” She wrote: Kansas City Independent. Good luck, good health and good fellowship follow the opening of each bottle of sparkling OC The Incomparable Mineral Water —the beverage which refreshes and delights with its natural effervescent purity. International Victory for Jones Speedometer Acknowledged to be the Most Reliable ‘Speed Indicator in the Werld. In awarding the Jones Speedometer the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland's GOLD MEDAL the committce of judges—fourteen scientific men ruled that this instrument was the most reliable speedometer of the world. In competition with eleven’ speed indicating devices in which every automobile manufacturing nation of portance was represented—the Jones Speedometr was the only instrument to “stand up” through the 2.000 mile reliability test and score an absolutely perfect n cord T the points of accuracy, dura. rsing the car on the subse- Gold wedal literature on application: Jones Speedometer 104 W. 32d Se. New York Numbers of Things STRONOMICAL photographs show stars to the number of 68,000,000. There are 17,000 daily papers published in the English language. An expert cigarette maker will roll 2,500 cigarettes a day. In Rome’s cemetery over 6,000,000 people © are buried. The Greenland whale often lives 400 years. There are 200 kinds of patent horseshoes. In Ireland it rains 208 days in the year. The ‘Haskell -Match Golf Ball ¢ ‘We were the originators of the Rubber-core ball. Each cof our yearly productions has been marked by inescve- ments, Our latest and best, the FASRELL-MA TCH ba, embasoy every good cualiy . very best ball oa the market. Fe leat of fight and fr pte ting, it is unequal Price $6.00 perdozen Obtainable Everywhere The B. F. Goodrich Co. Akron, O.