Life, 1906-12-27 · page 30 of 33
Life — December 27, 1906 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book promotion** from an early 1900s American magazine. The main elements are: **Top cartoon**: Shows "Deaf-Mute Dick," a notorious outlaw, using a small mechanical invention (appears to be a shock absorber or similar device). The humor likely plays on the incongruity of a dangerous criminal exploiting mundane new technology—reflecting contemporary anxiety about how modern innovations could be misused by criminals. **Center feature**: "The Incubator Baby" by Ellis Parker Butler—a humorous story about an artificially incubated infant. This references the genuine public fascination with incubators as cutting-edge medical technology circa 1900-1910, when they were novelties displayed at world's fairs. **Advertisements**: Graygood hydraulic shock absorbers, automobile advertising statistics, and book promotions (including novels about London and Biblical history) dominate the page. The overall tone reflects turn-of-the-century American optimism about technological progress, mixed with satire about how such innovations captured public imagination.
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GRAYGOO HYDRAULIC D Mustration Double-Acting shows section SHOCK ABSORBER and how the - absorber is attached. chamber above be no" How “ DEAPMUTE DICK.” THE NOTORIOUS OUTLAW, MADE USE OF ALITTLE INVENTION OF THE DAY To-day For Free Booklet and practice of - ages or by GRAHAM & GOODMAN Sole Mirs. 50 West 934 Street, New York Reliable Agents Wanted, * MARJORIE”” = —— Weight— | 1b. Box. AUTOMOBILE Sect Intelligent, ADVERTISING eee She IN 1905 | ee Magazine Lines TALKS: LIFE . 2. . . . 45378 from Birth Collier's. . «45239 | Country Life in America |. 34734 McClure’s 2. » « 33480 Saturday Eyenng Post’ - . 31548 Harper's : » 2. 29568 eens Soe oe ee Senos By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER, Author of ‘Pigs is Pigs” ‘ Everybo dsl lol LL 24192 The cleverest and most uniqne story of the year, A little classic ‘Sentiment—Sense brimming over with tires: big ‘ ‘i by is All other magazines of uct circulation catried less than 24000 lines. Our total for 1906 is 47168 lines. 12mo, Cloth. Illustrated. 75 Cents “The Man Who Wro Paris Books LIFE'S AUTOMOBILE. NUMBER IN LONDON TOWN By F. BERKELEY SMITH Will be on Sale jk or has done JANUARY 15th i oe COVER IN COLORS By HENRY HUTT Forms Close January 3d A Powerful Historical Novel Under Pontius Pilate who have studied the life of Christ in Jus nder Pontius Pilate’s governorship. Address all communications relative to advertising to the ‘own drawings make his work (ing makes for brisk reading.” ork. 12mo, cloth, profusely illus. ten years , Dayton, O- 12mo, cloth, Illustrated. $1.60 $1.60 net ADVERTISEMENT DEPARTMENT LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Sweet, New York AT ALL BOOKSTORES, or Funk & Wagnalls Company, Pubs., New York and London comicbooks.com We Wi Ba ch ol pa lin