Life, 1907-05-02 · page 46 of 48
Life — May 2, 1907 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with a small cartoon joke. The ads promote: self-heating food cans (Aetna), Egyptian Deities cigarettes, and pressed-steel boats (Mullins). The only comic content is the bottom cartoon titled "How It Happened," which shows two farmers discussing a burial. The joke plays on a misunderstanding: Farmer Medders asks if Deacon Lurlap was "buried from the house," and Farmer Green clarifies he was buried "from the back yard" because "his wife was house-cleaning." The humor derives from the practical domestic concern (the wife needing the house clean) taking priority over funeral arrangements—a rustic, irreverent gag about rural priorities and domestic practicality overriding solemn occasions. The cartoon contains no political content or satire—merely a gentle joke about country life.
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DERE Hot Food Without Fire @ The new Aetna Can makes hot food without fire possible. This can is double—the outer can contains heating material: the inner can, containing the food, is hermetically sealed, making it absolutely im- possible for anything to reach the contents. Fill the reservoir in the end giving access to the heating material with cold water and in a few minutes the food is heated ready to serve. Q Thirty-three varieties of soups and entrees from which to select. @The foods canned by us are unsa-passed. Prepared from prime stock, by an expert chef, of many years’ experience. @ Our factory is operated under government supervision. @ Ghe Aetna foods are indispensable for picnics, motor and yachting parties, ete. @ If your dealer can't supply you send us $1.00 for three sample cans. @Send us the name of your dealer and we will mail you our book- let, “Hot Food Without Fire.” The Aetna Self-Heating Food Co Jersey City, N. J. The standard of cigarette quality among critical smokers. The call for them is always ‘a 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 35c. No. 3 Size 10 for 25c. S. ANARGYROS. Mfr., 111 Fifth Ave., N.Y. venue in Thebes, MULLINS Pressed Steel BOATS Are the Fastest and Safest Boats Built 1h, pressed steel plates, with air chambers in each end like a lines, and glides throu e water with the urable and safer—they don’t crack, zed motor boat building, and a e equipped with Mullins Reversible ata boy can run them and the h makes them absolutely noiseless. Every instruction and so ater Exhaust, wh Write for Catalogue of Motor Boats—Row Boats—Hunting and Fishing Boats THE W. H. MULLINS CO., 122 Franklin Street, SALEM, OHIO HOW IT HAPPENED Farmer Medders; WAS DEACON LURLAP BURIED PROM THE MOUSE? Farmer Green : SO, FROM THE BACK YARD. HIS WIFE WAS HOUSE-CLEANING. comicbooks.com