Life, 1907-01-03 · page 9 of 44
Life — January 3, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or satire. The dominant advertisements are: 1. **Atlantic Coast Line Railroad** (left): Promotes train service to Florida, Cuba, and the South, featuring a silhouette of a man consulting "the purple folder" of travel information. 2. **Makaroff Russian Cigarettes** (right): Advertises imported cigarettes at 20-25 cents per box, with an offer of private monograms and a money-back guarantee. 3. **Evans' Ale** (center-bottom): Claims "121 Years of Purity Progress Popularity." 4. **Beeman's Pepsin Gum** (lower left): Advertises chewing gum with a portrait photograph. The page also includes a "Books Received" section listing recent publications. There is **no political cartoon or satirical content** to interpret—this is a straightforward advertising and book review page from the magazine.
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE FLORIDA CUBA SOUTH “CONSULT THE PURPLE FOLDER” FLORIDA'S FAMOUS TRAINS Y.& FLORIDA SPECIAL” COAST LINE NBW YORK Bway cor. 30th St. BOSTON 298 Washington St. PHILADELPHIA 1019 Chestaut St. WASHINGTON, D. C. 601 Pennsyly: BALTIMORE cor. Light & - Beeman's THE ORIGINAL Pepsin Gum » + All Others sre_Imitations. Books Received The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by E. Boyd Smith. (Houghton, Mifflin and Com- pany. $2.50.) River and Jungle, by Edward S. Ellis. John C. Winston Compan Father Pink, by Alfred Wilson Barrett Maynard and Company. $1.50.) The Secret of the Moor Cottage, by H. Ripley Cromarsh. (Small, Maynard and Company. $1.25.) he Electric Theft, by Neil Wynn Williams. (Small, Maynard and Company. $1.50.) Charleston, the Place and the People, by Mrs. ‘ Julien Ravenel. (The Macmillan Compa $2.50.) The Rise of Man, by William Marabell Press, San Francisco. $1.50.) Smith of Bear City and Other Frontier Sketches, by George T. Buffum. (The Grafton Press.) The Prisoner atthe Bar, by Arthur Train. Scribner's Sons. $2.00.) Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis. (Charles Scribner's Sons. 1 Will Repay, by the Baroness Orez pincott Company. $1.50.) Don Q in the Sierra, by K. and H. Pritchard. (J. B. Lippincott Company ) The Man on the Bo (The Bobbs-Merrill Company. $1.50. Lilts o’ Love, by Judd Mortimer Lewi, Glimpses of Italian Court Life, by Tryphosa Bates Batcheller. (Doubleday, Page Friendship's Offering, by A. Press.) Over the Nuts and Wine, Caldwell Company.) (The (Star (Charles by Harvey. (H. M. (Dovbleday, and Company. $3. Eight Secrets, by Ernest Ingersoll. lan Company. $1.50.) The Wonders of the Colorado Desert, by George Wharton James. (Little, Brown and Company. $5.00.) Boy Wanted, by Nixon Waterman. Company. $1.25.) The Hunt of the White Elephant, by E. S. Ellis. (The J. C, Winston Compa’ A Game at Love, by k. (Brentano’s.) Letters of a Business Woman to Her Niece, by Caroline A. Huling. (R. F. Fenno and Company.) Poems, by W. B. Yeats. (The Macmillan Com- pany. $1.75.) ight Secrets, by Press. $1.50.) he New Art of an Ancient People, by M. S. Levussove. (B. W. Huebsch. $2.00.) Evans’ Ale 121 Years of Purity Progress Popularity ° (The Macmil- Two volumes. (Forbes and Ernest Ingersoll. (Norwood (Small, | MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS May now be had from best dealers in boxes of ten, at AND CENTS PER BOX If you are not convenient to a dealer who sells Makaroffs, | will send you by mail, postage paid, a box of one hundred, securely packed in cedar. PRIVATE MONOGRAMS two letters in gold, without extra charge to regular customers. Fill out the coupon below for a trial order of these famous cigarets, and get my plans for supplying you regularly without an ounce of trouble on your part. If you don’t find Maka- tos the “best ever,” back goes your hundred Makaroff Cigarets of size and value marked hereon. comicbooks.com