Life, 1907-02-21 · page 7 of 36
Life — February 21, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The left side features an Ajax-Grier Rubber Company advertisement promoting tire guarantees for 5,000 miles of riding. The small cartoon below (showing a rooster and birdcage) appears to be a generic joke about confinement, with the caption warning against spending one's days "behind the bars" and losing one's "head on the block"—likely a metaphor for avoiding restrictive situations. The right side advertises a country estate for sale on Rye Neck and Egyptian Deities cigarettes. There is **no meaningful political commentary** on this page. It represents typical early 20th-century magazine layout mixing commercial advertisements with light humor.
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| i Op) i cal ong How Many Miles of TIRE SERVICE Can You Depend On? If your experience has been that the tires you use gi 5,000 miles of riding, then answer this advertisement and receive from us some information that will help to lessen your “tire trouble.” “Service” is the real and only test of tire goality. Para rubber and Sea Island corton and ‘scuperior workmanship" are good strong talking points, and these materials Should be in every good tire, but, Rave you found the mere state- ment that they are in it > Very / The Ajax-Grieb Rubber Company is mak- ing the very best tire that brains and capital can tum out, All that is necessary to a good tire is there—Para rubber, Sea Island cotton and all the rest of it. But what is more important to you, the buyer, is that with every tire sold there ia a cor- respondingly numbered certificate of guarantee that absolutely “assures the owner of §,000 miles” rolling. And that ‘guarantee is a8 good as a govern- ment bond. What other tire carries such insurance? Frat help to you in keeping TIRES Iin't it common tense to your tire trouble and your GUARANTEE believe that the tire sold tire expense at a minimum ? under such a guarantee must ‘And, have you found that FOR be beter than Soe wil co on ttatement of any great value verbal claims and salesmen's mocmmemmmre 5000 MILES “tim flagrant piece of ‘rubber rotten- RIDING We want every “tire- nea," you have tried to “get tomething" out of the tire maker? Wouldn't a guarantee have helped? And (here's the pith of the whole argu- ment) wouldn't that same tire have stood up better, and under the same conditions have listed longer, if it had been sold under a guarantee ? —_ ““Wooldn’t it have been made better? The right kind of a guarantee, you know, is just as legal and as binding as any other correctly drawn business contract. No manu- facturer can afford to guarantee his product unless he feels pretty certain that what he makes is just as good as he says it is. A guarantee is a mighty good protection for the buyer, but it’s a mighty good argument for the seller, too. bothered” motorist in this country to write to us for a copy of this guarantee of ours, and for some interesting information that we can give him concerning the Ajax Tire and the tire trade in general. We want you to write now while the subject fresh in your mind and ‘we want you particularly to let us know the size tire you are using. A postal will do. AJAX-GRIEB RUBBER CO. 1778 Broadway, New York Ciwtestcnes PLACE, located on Rye Neck,at Mamaroneck, Villa style, located on a hill overlooking the Sound; entirely renovated and tastefully decorated this year; has cight bed- rooms, three bathrooms, parlor, library and dining-rooms, kitchen, laundry and cellars; hardwood floors throughout; open, nickel, modern sanitary plumbing, open fireplaces, be- sides furnace and hot-air arrangements; running water as well as an art in house and stable; telephone, etc. most beautiful views of water and landscape to be had on the Sound. The structure is most substantial and intended for both summer and winter use. hardwood ; five single and two box stalls, two living-rooms over- head, hayloft, etc. The barnyard is arranged as a paddock for exercising horses, and is fitted with four box stalls. house, cow st: shaded walks, all bluestoned, and abound in rare trees of all kinds, including many fruit and fir trees, several pine groves, and a great va dens. For particulars, address LIFE PUBLISHING CO.,17 W. 31st St., New York = For Dale Westchester County, N. Y., about five acr water front of about 1,000 feet. aving a The house is in Italian n well; gas and every convenience ; electric light Twelve-foot porches surround the house, giving one of the The stable and carriage-house are commodious, finished in The outhouses consist of a brick ice-house, greenhouses, boat- | Is, tennis court, etc. The grounds are beautifully laid out in lawns, drives and riety of flowering shrubs and vines. Large gar- baxs, 2) SALT tery AR THAT YOU WILL SPEND THE REST OF YOUR DAYS BEMIND THE “AND 1 WAVE A PREMONITION THAT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR HEAD oN Tr BLoeK."* ‘The standard of cigarette quality amoag critical smokers, The call for them is always ‘ countersign of good taste. EGYPTIAN DEITIES CIGARETTES are now, as ever, the unhesitating choice of those who demand the best. The recognized “standard of luxury” in smoking—no better cigarettes have ever been produced. No. 1 Size 10 for 35¢. No. 3 Size 10 for 25c. S. ANARGYROS, Mifr., 111 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Egyptian Scenes—A Typical Avenue in Thebes comicbooks.com