Life, 1907-04-25 · page 2 of 24
Life — April 25, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial content. The left side features a **Cadillac Model G advertisement** (priced at $2,000), emphasizing its powerful engine and quality construction. The ad targets "discriminating motorists" who want performance at lower cost than competing luxury cars. The right side advertises the **Witherbee Battery** and offers a free instructional booklet (No. 11) about engine ignition systems for automobiles and boats. The Witherbee Igniter Company lists branches in multiple cities. The bottom section, titled "Life's Prints," advertises photogravure prints available from Life Publishing Company, featuring scenes from films like "Starving in the Midst of Plenty" and "Forewarned" (all priced 50 cents to $1.00). This is a typical early-20th-century magazine page mixing automotive and consumer product advertisements with entertainment offerings.
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Ere - PERFORMANCE AND PRICE It remained for the Cadillac Model G to convince discriminating motorists that a powerful, dependable, “thoroughbred” four-cylinder automobile, of high-grade construction and finish, could be built and sold at a price considerably less than the average touring car. Model G represents more than mere money saving ; in every detail it typifies really superior mechanical achievement, embodying features and improvements found only in the most expensive models. Its motor, designed on time-tried Cadillac principles, is finished under a system of inspection that insures accuracy in vital parts to a thousandth of an inch. This same rigidity of requirement characterizes every stage of Model G’s construction, resulting in a car highly efficient in operation, and destined to prove surprisingly economical in maintenance. ‘Twenty horse power; direct shaft drive: wheel base, 100 inches: new type 1a an, selective type sliding gear Model G—20h. p. Four-Cylinder Touring Car; $2,000. (Described in Catalog GR) Model H—30h. p. Four-Cylinder Touring C. 500. (Described in Catalog HR) Model M-10h. p. Four passenger car; $9: (Described in Catalog MR) Model K-10h. p. Runabout ; $800. (Described in Catalog MR) All prices F. O. B. Detroit; Lamps not included. Send Jor special Catalog 0] car in which you are interested, as above designated. CADILLAC MOTOR CAR CO., Detroit, Mich. 4/2", Every owner of an automobile or power boat ought to have this book. The information it contains will save him hundreds of dollars in waste engine energy, in deterioration of engine and accessories and hours of annoyance due to poor ignition; it will show how to increase the speed of your engine and lengthen the life of your entire equipment. It treats on ignition of gas engines for automo- bile and marine work. It tells why poor ignition costs money, and how good ignition saves it. It tells of ignition troubles, their sources and remedies. It also tells why your engine should be equipped with a Witherbee Battery Book No. 11 is free. Address THE WITHERBEE IGNITER CO. 541 WEST 42d STREET NEW YORK CITY NO. 11 IT EXP SAVES 3 or BRANCHES: Baltimore, 510 Continental Block Chicago, 1426 Michigan Avenue Detroit, 260 J A Life’s Prints A complete catalogue with reduced prints of 137 subjects will be sent Copyighe 16 by Le Pets Co, FOREWARNED Alter Bayard Jones Photogravure in Black, 15 by 20 in. to any address upon ap- $1.00 plication Conteh 1006 by Life PAR Co, f yeas LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street New York Ajter Nesbitt Benson re in Black, 15 by 20 in. 50 cents . King Photogravure in Blue, 15 by 20 in. 50 cents comicbooks.com