Life, 1906-09-06 · page 6 of 40
Life — September 6, 1906 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical editorial content. The main advertisements are: 1. **Mitchell automobiles** (top right) - promoting their cars' reliability through practical testing 2. **Hiawatha Sparkling Spring Water** (left) - a mineral water product sold at hotels and restaurants 3. **Jenner & Company** (bottom left) - real estate services in New York 4. **"Infallible" Smokeless** (bottom right) - appears to be a firearm or ammunition product The only cartoon element is a small humorous sketch labeled "EATING BETWEEN MEALS" showing three caricatured figures sharing food—a generic joke with no apparent political content or historical reference. This is typical filler humor for the era. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer advertising and leisure culture.
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rightactwhotetome, eatthe GO ful satisfaction in every bottle of Sparkling Spring Water This delicious table water has received the highest award at every World’s Fair where it has been entered, in competition with other table waters, because ofits absolute purity and health- ful mineral qualities. Hiawatha is on sale at the leading hotels, restaurants and cafes. Order a bottle and test its worth yourself, Then order acase of your local dealer for home use. Alittle booklet, “It's What's Insice,” gives ‘many recipes for delicious summer drinks. is yours for the asking. Hiawatha Spring Company Order Hiawatha Today* Leuts/4 Prk CHeAe, Distributors, Minneapolis New York Chicago | JENNER & COMPANY Undivided Estates Exclusively 55 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Telephone 4050-4031 Rector = + + Cable Address “dewnlonn™ UNDIVIDED ESTATES | AYE deat ta tt kinds of unitivided estate interests, iactoding vested ve contingent remainder Interests, subject to life estate or payable at some fu S perlad. We porchase or arrange advances upon the security of such faterests epoa moderate terms and at legal laterest Our facilities for bandling such proposals are adequate tor any requirement What Practical Test gill you have to Prove HIS 1s the way we sell Mitchell cars— Go Into any Mitchell agency and tell the man what your tdea/ is. Everybody has one when he starts to buy a car. Is there some particularly vicious hill you have in mind that a car at fwice the price has balked on? Het aticcheil wi Or perhaps there's a particularly bad strip of sand that you'd like to have your car go through on the high. Get right io and we'll go out and “show yon." Or may be you'd like to go 40 or 45 miles an hour for a while. Pertectly agrecablo—the car will do tt easy, and wo can stand it as long as you Want to know about durability and up-keep cost Hero's a lirt of usera, Call them up on the ‘phone 11 go out and “show you" how Tho ivap.” taining the theat their bu ted an the cour that of | r tick you are: or write them ‘enclosing stamp). We’! brtheir ‘ Statomeute and wo haven't nor won't ettempe to toleratio influence them in any ee Theories are all right, and “estimated” qaalica horse power Dut practical, We h: homely “show: is the only thing that will banish doubt and sllence argument. theater Now tha ‘And when these hi priced fellows contempt rate one, nocgiy refer to The Mivchell as @ low-priced : carec"won'e mean much to Yous particularlg itassuct Sta goa remember that apyihiag’ wo Used to priced bieye Write es for eatsloxve which wil take gos bre modern perfectly organized factory. {will show you Now exis Tarchuntcal Faowindgs and syetom cvts down price without in the alight: eat degree loworing QUALITY, the primo cwcntial fo‘any car. THE MITCHELL MOTOR CAR CO., 111 Mitchell Street, Racine, | Mis. U.S.A. © Member American Motor Car Manufacturers’ Association, N._Y. shether Asa rest il be the past, feexcluc assthing We de are tof have wor “EATING BETWEEN MEALS" “INFALLIBLE” SMOKELESS ABSOLUTELY WATERPROOF ALWAYS "THE SAME UNDER ANY CONDITIONS AOR Ra . oT, SMOKELESS = comicbooks.com