Life, 1907-02-07 · page 11 of 52
Life — February 7, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. The dominant right-side content advertises the Harrison Motor Company's "Self Starting" Model C-40 automobile, emphasizing its innovative features like water-cooled motors and automatic ignition—technological marvels for 1907. The left sidebar advertises the Jones Speedometer, an instrument for measuring vehicle speed accurately. Below these ads is a humorous illustrated anecdote about a "temperance reformer" who converted a drunk in a Scottish town by preaching abstinence, then ironically became so thirsty himself that he later asked for a drink. The joke plays on hypocrisy and the difficulty of maintaining moral principles. The cartoonish illustrations are decorative period humor rather than political satire. This is essentially a commercial page dressed up with entertaining content.
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ring ype tion. don yung cent eto orld oa THE SENSITIVE INDICATING ARROW of the Jones Speedometer responds to every change of speed. The tendency of many indicators is to “drag” from one speed to another, and seldom indicate accurately, This error was very much in evidence in the A.C.G.B. &l.speed- indicating contest. The Jones Speedometer was the only in- Stument in the trials to score an absolutely per- fect record. Jones Speedometer 104 W, 32d St. New York MELPLESS HE temperance reformer was justly proud of * having converted the biggest drunkard in the little Scotch town, and induced him—he was the local grave-digger—to get upon the platform and testify. This is how he did it: “My friends,” he said, “T never thocht to stand upon this platform with the provost on one side of me, and the toon clerk on th’ ither side of me. I never thocht to tell ye that for a whole month I havena’ touched a drap of anything. I’ve saved enough to buy mea braw oak coffin wi? brass handles and brass nails —and if I'm a teetotaler for anither month I shall be wantin’ it!”"— Argonaut, THE SELF STARTING Harrise MODEL C-40 (actuat) H.P-7 PASSENGER-$5000 RESSED steel frame; well braced by cross members; water-cooled motor—4- P cylinder vertical with expanding clutch in fly-wheel running in oil bath. Selective type transmission with gears always in mesh and speed changes through individual clutches. Shaft drive. Floating type rear axle. Front wheels, roller-bearing; rear wheels, ball-bearing. 36 by 44 flat tread Diamond tires. Half-elliptic springs front and rear. Exceedingly powerful internal and external expanding brakes on rear hubs. Rear wheels can be instantly brought to dead stop with car moving at maximum speed. Both brakes controlled by foot pedals. Motor and transmission slung from frame on forged brackets. Mechanical force feed lubrication to every point in motor. Water circulation through gear-driven cen- trifugal pump specially built (capable of throwing stream of water 60 feet). Mechan- ically operated valves. Float feed, automatic carburetor. Jump-spark ignition from exide battery. Wood body, beautifully finished, upholstered in hand-buffed leather. Carries 7 passengers at 50 miles an hour. Complete equipment included. This specification more than covers the accepted construction of the other good 1907 cars, but when here, where other makers must quit the details and go to generalities, we beg to call attention to the exclusive features of the HARRISON. The car is entirely operated and controlled from the driver’s seat, with the exception of the operation of filling a tire with air. We regret to say that in this case some one must attach a tube to the air valve of the tire, but the driver can sit in his seat and test the coils, test the spark-plugs, start the motor, light the lene headlights and, if he wants to, clean the car of dust. Then, too, the valves can be opened and the motor cooled while running down-hill, or while standing still the valves can be opened, all dead gas blown from the cylinde ace! and the motor cooled. The motor can instantly be stopped, no matter at what speed. The rear seat is protected from an accumulation of dust. Every nut on the car is castellated and fastened with a cotter-pin. And with all these things, the HARRISON car is very simple in construction. It is not nearly so complicated as many another car built in the ordinary which the driver must get out into the dust or mud to do everything except simply steer. ‘and from And more—the Harrison Car is built throughout of the very finest material obtainable in the markets of the world. Chrome nickel steel; special bronze; Hoyt metal; imported hand-buffed leather; every single part of the HARRISON Car is special and cannot be found elsewhere. Only the most skilled workmen are employed in the Harrison shop, and it is the best car that brains and money can build. It is an honest car, actually worth the price asked. We will exhibit space G-6—Chicago Automobile Show—February 2d-9th FOR 1907 CATALOG ADDRESS Harrison HMlotor Company 560 Davis Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Selling Agents: FRANK FOSTER LADD, Times Building, 42d St. and Broadway, N. Y. JOHN A, SEVERNS, 1024 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. comicbooks.com