Life, 1907-01-17 · page 8 of 60
Life — January 17, 1907 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and product promotion** rather than political satire. The dominant content includes: 1. **1907 Deere Type "B" automobile advertisement** — promoting a 4-cylinder, 25-30 H.P. vehicle priced at $2,500, emphasizing that "Many Heads Are Better Than One" through the expertise of Mr. W.E. Clark. 2. **"Become a Cartoonist" advertisement** — promoting art instruction, offering training in cartooning for "$23.00 a week." 3. **Porto Rico steamship advertisement** — promoting tourist travel. 4. **Right column: "Literary Jury" article** — discussing Napoleon's recently-discovered library volumes at Marseilles and what books he read. No political cartoons or satire appear on this page. It represents typical early-20th-century magazine advertising mixed with cultural content.
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—— if STR 1907 TYPE ‘‘B”’ Price - - $2,500 Vly i> G) Uy = ( yy BZ D | Ye ib a0 wn Se TES 2, Many Heads Are Better Than One Our Mr. W. E. Clark is an expert on Motor Cars and their parts, having manufactured Automobiles for the past ten years. Yet with all of his knowledge to draw upon, we did not pretend to know it all. We have watched the improvements of the Motor Car from its very infancy—noting each new feature and trying its efficiency. In the manufacture of the Deere we avoided all features that proved to be unsuccessful or doubtful in other makes, both foreign and domestic, but perfected and improved upon such as with them proved to be essential or desirable. e Deere is a modern car, built upon principles strictly ‘up to the very minute ”"—the combined results of others and our experiments. Call at the Chicago Auto Show and compare the features of the DEERE with the Srong talking points of every other make. Our 1907 Catalog tells you all about it DEERE-CLARK MOTOR CAR COMPANY 121 Blackhawk Avenue, Moline, Il. Ke WK : = AAV PAY P<pY Lib kkhdj 3 yi Yum Dy. 7) AA | {rele ur fend P F203) HE news that nineteen volumes of Napoleon’s library have just been found at Marseilles, and are to be put back in their place at the Mal- maison, has caused a little tremor of excitement among some of the Emperor’s worshipers in life, very few know anything about N leon’s favorite books, writes a Paris correspond. ent of the London Standard, His annotated copy of Machiavelli has run to more editions in France than the plain copy of “The Prince,” and the marginal notes leave little doubt that the book was read and reread by the Emperor. But what else did he read? Some biographers mention that he borrowed Rousseau’s ‘Confession: when at Valence, in 1786, and it is also known that he liked Molitre and admired Corneille so much that he would have made him a prince if be had come back to earth. 4-Cylinder 25-30 H. P. 5-Passenger | The finding of these nineteen little volumes of Cazin editions, which are once more to stand on the shelves of the famous library at Malmaison— the one in which the execution of the Duc d’En- ghien and other equally famous and less ignoble plans were conceived—has almost doubled the knowledge about what Napoleon read. Among the newly found books are two volumes of Bacon's Essays, two volumes of Mme. de Staél’s “Influence des Passions” and Mercier’s ‘Visions Philosophique These nineteen are all that remain of thiny which Napoleon deposited at the Marseilles library, when hurrying back to Paris from Egypt | He forgot to reclaim them, and they remained there until 1813, when M. Thibadeau, prefect of the Vienne, commandcered a hundred of them. The remainder lay on a top shelf behind some dusty quartos until 1818. A certain M. Gauffret found them then, and wrote an article about his discovery in a seilles review. He wrote down the names of the books and mentioned the passages annotated or underlined, and also said that a certain pa Mme. de Stail’s book bore a large coffee stain He reminded his readers that Napoleon drank great deal of cofice and used to read at meals when in Egypt. The coffce stain is still to te scen—though faint now—on the page mentioned by M. Gaufiret. The marks in these little books show that Napoleon liked to read history ard philosophy. One passage marked in Mercier’s ‘Visiors Philosophiques,” on a page which is torn vides food for reflection. Mercier tells of a WH at interesting places Around y including every expense, $140. Send for booklet THE NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP CO., 12 Broadway, New York. or Raymond and Whitcomb Cows 25 Union Square, N.Y. WY orget business for three | crowds held him in much res} (000 andl upwards Pe Ri Misnas looked out over the future b rerie to mest your side of happiness. He saw his victorious careet ian Sara O710 Kico of happiness oS f Most luxurious hotel accommodations on board steamer during the entire trip. All outsi staterooms. Weekly sailings. Special tour ical person called Misnas. Misnas was honoré as the most valiant captain of India, and cage and admiratio weeks—take a steamshi| . C C is Ge reeks take a steamship | He was able to approach the presence of his Go Porto Rico. Stopadayortwo | being one of the first to receive that awful honot He received it with an ironic smile, as thi indifferent or superior to his own d ston the he beheld conquered towns and subjugated peo ist ts. | and to transmit them to posterity. Misnas migtt have long lived happy and contented had h hed to know the end of his triumphant destiny y le | ples, and gets all eager to learn of his great deed [ him erec it in his mot laur the had exil hooc trate to re of Pe amu parti greet light matu estate she p the fi for so poem youn Ril thoug she w tribut “Al matro “O; “Ar Thi sorry t “In “M inform wherea facts t¢ this my G* R co is com says in 1 thi Califory return t sake of while, fe from me reality, descripti that the ence—fi to the a Writes fir