Life, 1907-05-02 · page 10 of 48
Life — May 2, 1907 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire or editorial cartooning. The main feature is "The Literary Spotlight," a biographical column about various figures who've had diverse careers—Jack London (described as "oyster pirate, fish patrolman, longshoreman, goldminer and tramp"), James Whitcomb Riley, Charles F. Lummis, and Frank Cushing. The text celebrates their varied life experiences and accomplishments. The advertisements include **Mobiloil motor oil**, the **Jones Speedometer**, **Park & Tilford** food products, **Hinckkel & Winckler wines**, **John Jameson whiskey**, and flower services. These reflect early 20th-century consumer products and luxury goods targeting affluent readers. There is **no political cartoon or satire visible**—this is a standard magazine page mixing editorial content with period advertising.
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Makes Easy *» Motoring == The only oil which can be re- lied upon to take care of your engine under all conditions is Mobiloil. © What- ever the make of your automobile or the kind of engine which propels it— there is a special grade of OBILOIL for it. Mobiloil in its five dif. ferent grades is scientifically correct —its use completely eliminates all lubrication troubles. Send for booklet which tells the oper oll for your automobile. Ite ree Mobilotl x VACUUM OIL CO., Rochester, N.Y. The Exhaustive Scientific Tests of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and_Ireland did not establish the Jones Speedometer as the Standard | Speed Indicator. Its position as such has existed since it was fret pre- sented as the Pioneer Speed Indicator. The Gold Medal and Highest Award of the Auto- mobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland to the Jones Speedometer for superiority was simply a logical resuht of an official determination of such a standard. You will find “The Speedometer"”—a pub- lication on Speed Sub- jeets—worth many times its price. Its price is merely a request to Dept. 34. The Jones Speedometer Co. 127 WEST 32nd ST. NEW YORK avos aac. | Ex 1874 Rare Plants City and N.E.Cor. 4éth St. Landscape Madison Ave., N.Y. | Gardening | erate Literary Zoo Corse me with “Old Creole Days.” Jack London has been an oyster pirate, a fish patrolman, a longshoreman, a goldminer and a tramp. F. Hopkinson Smith, “author, artist, en- gineer, contractor, raconteur”—all at one and the same time—built the Race Rock lighthouse and the Block Island break- water. James Whitcomb Riley began life as a journeyman. sign-writer, and later joined a theatrical troupe, for which he rewrote plays and improvised songs. It is long since he used the step-ladder for artistic purposes; perhaps in time he will abandon it in his verse. Joaquin Miller has lived to write his reminiscences of the time when he was a lawyer, a miner, an express messenger, a newspaper editor and correspondent and an Indian fighter. Edwin Markham in his youth herded cat- tle and sh and worked as a blacksmith. His descent into poetry was made in later 2S of the wandering foot ulti- settled down. And so has Charles F. Lummis. Every little while a copy of “Out West” comes to remind us that, after all, one cannot be perpetually peripat that the editorial easy chair has ensnared the activities of him who fared afoot from Canada to Chile for the sheer love of it. Mr. Lummis is quite the most accomplished tramp that ever swapped the saddle for Shanks’s mare. He acquired the walking habit early in the 80s, when he abandoned a newspaper desk in Ohio and took a pleasant ‘roundabout stroll from Cincinnati to Los Angeles—a matter of 3,500 miles; and it clung to him through his subsequent explorations in the land of poco tiempo and elsewhere * * * 'T IS good to settle down in Los Angeles, in a house built with one’s own hands. It is even better to have eamed it. And Mr. Lummis has been earning many things including an enviable literary reputation —since he left home and Harvard to teach New England that the wonderful South- west is older than Plymouth Rock. * * * 'HE zeal of the late Frank Cushing led him to cast his lot for a time in Zufi; and it killed him. But it is not easy to kill Charles F. Lummis. He, himself, for five years lived with the Indians of another New Mexico pueblo—Isleta; and that was. the least of his hardships. There are some things in his singular and successful career that you will not find in the current biographies. To be para- lyzed, to lose every dollar you possess, to suffer a still greater loss that can only be alluded to here—finally, to be waylaid at your own door by assassinsand riddled with buckshot; these are sore afflictions that few men could live to overcome. They fell upon Lummis suddenly and in swift fo2 A standard of food excel- lence, placed and maintained at the highest mark, means con- stant food security and grati- fication at American tables Siaty-seven years Park & Tillord have with- fut change maintained’ this exceptional standard, and without fear Park & Tilford always welcome a comparvon of their uni- formly lowest_prices—for the best food ddicacies the seorld peoitanes Price Lis at your dnpoual HINCKEL & WINCKLER *¥ Frankfurt a/Main Finest Rhine and Moselle Wines Grand Prize St. Louis 1904 Send for Catalogue of Specialties C. H. ARNOLD & CO. | (E,W. Snyder, Pres.) Sole Agents New York Host to Offer— for the Guest to Appreciate Sole Agents comicbooks.com