Life, 1907-07-04 · page 37 of 48
Life — July 4, 1907 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains four commercial ads: **Egyptian Deities Cigarettes** (top left): Features an orientalist illustration of a woman in Egyptian dress, capitalizing on early 1900s fascination with "exotic" imagery to market premium cigarettes as luxury goods. **Angostura Bitters** (top right): Shows a well-dressed man endorsing medicinal bitters as a health tonic for digestion and appetite—typical of patent medicines marketed with dubious health claims before FDA regulation. **Town & Country magazine** (bottom left): A glowing editorial-style endorsement praising the magazine's superior illustrations and London society coverage, positioned to attract wealthy American subscribers. **Thermos Bottle** (bottom right): Detailed product advertising emphasizing the new vacuum-bottle technology's practical uses—keeping liquids hot or cold for extended periods—with applications from baby care to automobiles. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture: orientalism in design, unregulated health claims, class-aspirational marketing, and celebration of modern technology. No political satire is evident.
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STURA BITTERS ile 1908.3 Ane \ ad The highest quality ever attained—the standard by which all other cigarettes are judged— EGYPTIAN DEITIES CIGARETTES a rr a erp Se ted of ena nomena btn and in fos a rey Your Health!” js tsacal soci “Rinsaata No. 1 Size, 10 for 35¢. No. 3 Size, 10 for 28e. before meals and on retiring lends tone to the stomach and stimulates the appetite. A tonic of exquisite lavor. Delicious with grape fruit, lemonade. water ices, cut frui S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York lemon and wine jellies. Twenty-three awards at Principal Expositions. Send for free book of recipes. J. W. WUPPERMANN, 44 W. 34th St., New York. Egyptian scenes. Colonnade. Temple of I An English @Oriter’s |\|_ THIS NEW BOTTLE PRESERVES HEAT OR COLD FOR DAYS GILL it with ice cold wat bouillon, soup, wine, - Estimate of beer, tea, coffee or any li At the end of three day Town C®Q Country By (72 hours) uncork it. You ui md the contents appro. Then fill the same Thermos Bottle with any hot liquid. “ a NIM Uncork it at the end of twenty-four hours. You'll find the Eromilhe London e:Caterer | contents approximately as hot as when first put in. These claims are conservative—much below the facts « ‘i j The Thermos Bottle is two glass bottles, one within the . Among the newspapers I TSESIVE from the IM other, and joined at the neck. Between these bottles the United States the most superbly illustrated is | HB) air has been drawn out—which makes it impossible for : cold or heat to radiate. A nickeled brass covering protects TOWN & COUNTRY—a new series of the the bottle trom breakage ! . ght and st g. Pint and quart sizes. Filled, iT once-popular Home Journal, but such pictures as Pe ey Tee aay ordigary uiert sites. Filled, emptied TOWN & COUNTRY publishes weekly were 4d Warm milk at night f ¢ baby at an instant's notice without heating unknown in the times of N. P. Willis and General Fe Saby i is tnvatusble. "For Sick Room Cool drinks for jurthed ps and Morris, both poets and writers of distinction. bottles, One New Fork motorist carries twenty four bottles Finks can be I -aming broths for tender stomachs, always cold or hot by the bedside. For Automobilis! know of no paper in Europe that prints more beau- bottled also. For Sailing, Hunting and P ' 8 bet day fn {There's no such thing as a motor thirst if you carry a Thermos Motor Basict f Thermos cold field of stream or on the water? No ice to cai 1 for camping, picnickin tiful pictures, especially of country seats and man- wiih lanl a bot couceal tee beetle able cone oo ieee Coakin ee sions, with their luxurious interiors. The paper in Men's Furnishings Lenther nnd Sporting Geode Kate Supply Seiten Al ther mae sete ass . . . 1 trial offer or you can’t get it from your dealer, ord irect Irom us. all departments is edited with marked ability, and Send For This Book To-day “The Story of a Wonderful Bottle” reads like a, dashing London topics are discussed by Mr. Ralph D. mepadioe ancl _ Give your Sddress in full om a post card before you forget to and you'll receive Blumenfeld with a bright and agile pen. Any one THE INTERNATIONAL SALES COMPANY, Dept. L, 527 Fifth Avenue, New York desiring to subscribe to a first-class American paper cannot do better than take TOWN & COUNTRY. THE THERMOS BOTTLE The address is 289 Fourth Avenue, New York.” 5 aoe 89 = PRESERVES COLD THREE DAYS. HEAT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS comicbooks.com