Life, 1906-12-13 · page 27 of 28
Life — December 13, 1906 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains mostly **advertising** rather than satirical content. The left side promotes two products from Life Publishing Company: a humorous book "Why They Married?" by James Montgomery Flagg (featuring a cartoon of a befuddled man) and a 1907 calendar with drawings by prominent Life artists. The right side is a substantial **promotional advertisement** for the Quoin Club, a trade association of major periodicals. The Club advertises its service connecting Pacific Coast businesses and communities with potential investors, settlers, and tourists through coordinated advertising in their member publications. A map shows Washington, Oregon, and California. The pitch emphasizes that strategic advertising in quality periodicals reaches affluent, educated audiences nationwide and internationally—essentially a sales pitch from the magazine industry to demonstrate advertising's value. This reflects early-1900s boosterism promoting Western expansion and investment. The content is commercial rather than satirical.
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~ YF Bess Your Freart 9 He doesn’t know any more than you do “Why They Married?” Get the book by that title and see for yourself It's by James Montgomery Flagg and contains fifty humorous drawings and quatrains, every one of which means a hearty laugh. 75 Cents Postpaid LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 We&t 318 Street : New York City Calendar ABS, Designs by the beft of Life's Artits—R. M. Crosby, Herbert Johnson, W. B. King, Balfour Ker, Bayard Jones, Heary Hatt, C. Clyde Squires. Life’s Calendar A combination of drawings and remarques artistically printed in two colors, on cardboard 1234 x 154 inches, the thirteen sheets tied to- gether with red silk cord and prettily boxed. The great variety of drawings reproduced in this calendar makes it particularly attradtive. $2.00 Each Postpaid LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 W. Thitty-Fira St., N.Y. To Upbuild the Pacific Coast States The Quoin Club of New York, an asso- ciation of the leading period- icals Graeaeeal circulation, reaching prac- tically every family of means and intelli- gence in the United States 1 and Canada, is represented on the Pacific Coast bya gentle- man thoroughly conversant with the most approved modern advertising meth- ods. He will gladly co- operate in obtaining profit- able publicity for the com- munities and industries of that region among capi- talists, settlers and tourists throughout the whole continent, \ and,indeed,muchof the \. foreign English- speaking world. In order to assist in this undertak- ing, the Quoin Club is acting as a means of putting persons interested ceuaae | in touch with re- liable sources of in- formation as to the Pacific Coast States. It has already furnished the various organized bodies interested with the names of large numbers of prospective investors and residents, and will continue to do so. All this with a view to demonstrating the value of advertising in weekly and monthly periodicals of good standing to be the most effective means (cost consid- ered) of ibersaene the nation as a whole in any city, locality, or high grade article of commerce. If you are interested in investing on the Pacific Coast or living there, or in advertising it or its communities or products, address ARCADE BUILDING, oR FLATIRON BUILDING, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON NEW YORK CITY ‘The periodicals represented in the Quoin Club issue over 15,000,000 copies a month Lire is @ member of the Quoin Club comicbooks.com~