Life, 1906-10-11 · page 2 of 24
Life — October 11, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements rather than political satire**. The main content advertises The Cecilian piano-player—a mechanical device featuring metal pneumatics instead of wooden ones, marketed as superior and more durable. The sidebar includes a poem titled "A Face in the Crowd" about encountering a stranger, along with ads for P.B. Ale, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, Allen's Foot-Ease powder, and Jacqueline French Tailor Suits. **No political cartoon or satirical content is visible on this page.** It represents a typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with paid advertisements—common practice when advertising subsidized magazine production.
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i} i i i i Presccccececccceccecceceesecect J Lie SSS New Style Primary and Secondary Pneumatics and Wind Chest-made all of Metal and in HE only pianopla er whose mechan: ism ‘is made of metal instead of wood and leather In every Piano-Player there are 65 primary and 65 secondary pneumatics, or bellows. (See illustrations at bottom of page.) These 130 pneumatics operate the wooden fingers which strike the keys of the piano. In all Piano-Players except the Cecilian these pneumatics are made of wood and leather, and the constant changes in the weather, from hot to cold, from wet to dry, ete., cause them sooner or later to split or leak, and then the Player must be repaired. Ask the man who owns one if this is not so. In the Cecilian Piano-Player the primary and secondary pneumatics, and also the wind chest, are built of steel, brass, and phosphor bronze, and consequently are never affected by atmospheric or climatic changes of any kind, and practically do away with all necessity for repairs. Furthermore, the Metal Action of the Cecilian enables it to give a more perfect musical per- formance than anything heretofore accomplished by any Piano-Player. The Metal Action is now put into the Cecitian (cabinet) Piano-Player, the Sohmer-Cecilian, and the Farrand-Cecilian pianos. FULL PARTICULARS SENT ON REQUEST. The DETROIT, MICH. H{ London, Eat. Horm seven Paris, France. ff] SECONDARY PNEUMATIC PLMADE OF WOOD AND LEATHER oxo sTyLe PRIMARY PNEUMATIC MADE OF WOOD AND LEATHER CHEw... Beeman's THE Onicinat Pepsin Gum « + Cares Indigestion nd Sea-sickness. All Others are_tmitations, Shake Into + 8 feet. It cures painfal, sw nervous feet, and instantly out of corns and bunions. ext co It'nthe grea fort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot=Ease makes tight-fitting of new shoes feeleasy. It is a certain cure for ingrowing nails, sweati tired, aching feet We testimonials” TRY IT by all Druggists and Shoe Stores not accept any substitute. mail for 5c. in stamps. FRE TRIAL PACKAGE Do Sent by sent by mail. Address LMSTED, Le Roy, N.Y, oeceeee eee eeeecececeecescece : NS FOOT-EASE "Oh Be Jolly" P.B. a . Pat, Off. ‘THE BRITISH BEATEN AGAIN AT BUNKER HILL ‘Tha et Ale to, the world is brewed at Bunker Drink P. B. and be proud of your country. Pints $1.50 dozen, All dealers. Bunker Hill Breweries, Charlestown, Mass. A Face in the Crowd LOOKED at him; he didn't see, Because he didn't look at me. And Twas glad 1 didn't face him, Because somehow I couldn't place hi IVs awkward when you recognize A\ persons nose and mouth and eyes Yet feel that you are in some danger Of bowing to a perfect stranger ‘That firm, clo: outh, that noble | ¢ piercing eves, that ne beefy neck, that chin pug The more I loc LT felt Vd seen at him the more 1 before I wished to give the greeting due him, Provided that [really knew him Tt seen I couldn't rec <to me a per With all of this 4 It didn't help my He went, but still his image stays. Was he a fri p Or were those features tantalizing A feature of his advertising? He might have been an old-time chu Or potentate of chewing gun I'd give a dollar bill te name hit Who was that homely brute Exery physician an experience behind every can Sacqueline French Tailor Suits Wraps Evening and Street Gouns Lingerie 65 West 52nd Street Telephone, 3433 Plaza