Life, 1907-07-18 · page 24 of 28
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This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of early 20th-century magazines. The content includes: **Advertisements:** - Steamship lines (Northern Steamship Co.) - Evans Ale, positioned as suitable for various leisure activities - Allen's Foot-Ease powder for shoe comfort - Liqueur, hosiery, and other consumer goods **Editorial Content:** A brief humorous piece mocking tall tales: it describes an absurdly implausible fish story from the Missouri River involving nested animals (a 140-pound catfish swallowing a 6-pound perch, which swallowed a 9-ounce chub). The joke concludes with mock regret that no one cut open the original minnow to continue the chain—satirizing exaggerated frontier fishing narratives. Another short anecdote ridicules a American press clipping bureau that sent a postcard to the historical poet Petrarch, soliciting payment for publicity about "Madonna Laura," confusing the centuries-old literary figure with a contemporary subject. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and gentle satire of American gullibility.
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Allen's Foot-Fase is a certain eure for tired, sweating, hot, aching feet. Atall druggists and shoe stores, 25e. Don't accept any substitute. For FREE. trial package, also Free Sample of the FOOT-EASE Sanitary CORN pew invention, address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The Wattersons, by William Marabell. (Stanley- Taylor Company. $1.50.) Brown of Harvard, by Rita J. Young and G. P. Coleman. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) imrod’s Wife, by Grace G. Seton. (Doubleday, and Company. $1.75.) The Diary of Delia, by Onoto Watanna, (Double- day, Page and Company. $1.25.) The Mystics, by Katherine C. Thurston. (Harper and Brothers. $1.25.) Lord Beaconsfield and Other Tory Memories, by T. E. Kebbel. (M. Kennerley. $4.00.) The Prodigatand Other Poems, by Peter McArthur. | (M. Kennerley. $1.00.) The Militants, by Mary R. S. Andrews Scribner’s Sons. $1.50.) The Haunts of the Silences, by C. G. D. Roberts (L. C. Page and Company. $2.00.) Stolen Treasure, by Howard Pyle. Brothers. $1.25.) Strange Stories of 1812. 60 cents.) Strange Stories of the Civil War. | Brothers. 60 cents.) « | The Prado, by A. F. Calvert and C. John Lane Con $1.25.) (Chas. (Harper and (Harper and Brothers. (Harper and . Hartley. On Lake Champlain the Magnifi ind natural attractions. Tickets hon ; amplain steamers. Send ¢ cents postage for illustrated guide to A. A. Heard, G. P.A., Albany, N.Y. HE prize fish story of the season comes from Atchison Co A certain Mr. Smith, de- scendant from John Smith of Pocahontas fame, cast a line into the Missouri, baited with a la~=~ minnow. | He left it there over night. Next morning he hauled |in a catfish that weighed 140 pounds. When the cat- h was cut open it was discovered that it had swallowed a perch that weighed a little over six pounds. And when the perch was cut open the further discovery was made that the latter had swallowed a chub that weighed nine ounces. Unfortunately, no one thought of cutting the minnow open to ascertain if it had swallowed a saw- mill before it was taken into port by the catfish. The fact that perch in this State seldom weigh above half a pound was not allowed to interfere with the symmetry of this story.—St. Louis Republic. Iv a pinch, use Allen's Foot-Ease, OT long ago there was published here a volume “On the Death of Madonna Laura.” ‘This publication—according to an English paper—led a press clipping bureau in America to address a post- card to Petrarch, care of Mr. William Heinemann, the London publisher. In this post-card Petrarch is urged to send five dollars if he wished to know “how much publicity his work is receiving.” —New York Tribune. 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