Life, 1907-06-06 · page 54 of 56
Life — June 6, 1907 — page 54: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **not a cartoon page** but rather a **Life magazine advertisement section**, typical of early 1900s publications. The page contains four product advertisements: 1. **General Electric's Electric Percolator** — promoting modern electric kitchen convenience, positioning coffee-making as effortless and safe compared to fire-based methods. 2. **Glycerine Soap** — featuring a classical allegorical figure (appears to be representing purity or beauty), emphasizing transparency as proof of quality. 3. **Firestone Tires** — advertising pneumatic and solid motor tires for automobiles and carriages, emphasizing durability and service. 4. **Oldsmobile** — showcasing an early automobile with text emphasizing "serviceability" and versatility across different road conditions. The collective message reflects early 20th-century consumer culture: modern electricity, hygiene products, and automobiles as desirable innovations improving daily life. No satire is present—this is straightforward commercial promotion.
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Perfect Coffee easily made by anyone any time without fire, flame or fuss in pur Electric Percolator Simply put in coffee and water and attach plug in place of your lamp. As simple, clean and certain as an incandescent lamp in every way. When used with our Electric Chafing Dish and Electric Liquid Heater, a complete luncheon or supper can be prepared and served at any hour of the day or night. Booklet 3435-E tells how to do it—write General Electric Co. Schenectady, N. Y. A perfect complexion is assured to all who use this Soap. Its transparency is a sign of its purity. FERD. MULHENS, Cologne o/R, Germany NTLHENS & KROPF, 208 Brood ay Send 15 cents in stamps for a ful “Firestone: is the trade-mark of “Sterling Quality” in rubber tires Pneumatic Tires FOR ALL STANDARD AUTOMOBILE RIMS Side-Wire Solid Motor Tires THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD FOR COMMER- CIAL MOTOR VEHICLES Carriage Tires SIDE-WIRE, INTERNAL WIRE, CUSHION Unvarying High Quality Yields Unvarying Good Service New Catalog on entire line of Pneumatic Tires, Rims, etc , just out—will be sent on request. The largest exclusive rubber tire makers in America FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO. AKRON, OHIO BRANCHES: New York, Botton, Pljladelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo, Pitnbure. SERVICEABILITY ‘The prime requisite of a motor car. . our machine depends the satisfaction you get out of it. It orough quality, the infinite care exercised in every detail of its motor car Success. “It must be equally efficient on city or the level as developed along the Iatext correct lines of body design, finish ell as motor equipment and chassis, until it is the peer of any is neither too pronounced along any line, nor does it lag behind smobile has all the style a car can have because it has the correct and proper a car that not only acts but looks the part securing the Style, Roadability has not been sacrificed, as its record proves. The most prictical kind of testimony classes it at once the car of Perfect Roadebility—Perlect Modeability— Perfect ability. The Oldsmobile makes it unnecessary to own several cars for different uses—it's an entire stable of horses in itself, Our proofs of Roadability, based on exploits from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, on request Write Jor or special “ Motor Talk" offer and sample copy. Address Dept. L OLDS MOTOR WORKS, Lansing, Mich., U.S. A. Member A. L. A. M. Canadian Trade Supplied from Canadian Factory, Adidress Frederick Sager, St. Catherines, Ont. comicbooks.com