Life, 1907-07-18 · page 4 of 28
Life — July 18, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It features automobile and consumer product advertisements from the early 1900s, including Ford Motor Company, Corbin Motor Vehicle, and various accessories. The only cartoon element is a small illustrated advertisement for **Whitman's Chocolates** at bottom center, showing a stylized silhouette figure with text "To sweetly wedge your way into her affections keep her well provided with..." The humor is romantic/lighthearted rather than political—it's a common early-20th-century marketing trope using gentle courtship imagery to sell candy. The page's real interest lies in documenting period consumer culture and early automobile advertising rather than satirical commentary.
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Undoubtedly the most sensational performance ever accomplished by a motor car was that of the Ford “Six”? in the 24 hour speed-endurance contest at Detroit, June 21 and 22—! 1135 miles in 24 hours 55 miles in one hour 412 miles in eight consecutive hours— are all world records. ‘Two Ford Runabouts also made perfect scores in this severest of all tests—-798 Only 25 miles less than former world’s record. miles. $2800 F.O.B. Detroit or MODEL “K" 6 Cyl. 40 H. P. ‘Write for catalog and address of your nearest Ford ‘agents or branch Ford Motor Company 263 PIQUETTE AVE. DETROIT, MICH. One Hundred Million Stogies are made _in Wheeling each year. The cream of this vait produdtion is the DBAENEL WHEELING STCGIE at gennine ld Wheeling product Split one lengihwise with your knife; do the same with a cheap Rowe of a 5c. cigar and note the diference. My DRAKNEL WHEELING STOGIES are finest long filler, hand made. ‘Their Gve-inch panatella shape is a new and good in Wheeling Stogies. Try the genuine article. cedar boxer. $}$0 per 100: $125 per So.charees Gud your money back if you do mot lake therm EARLE A. LENKARD, Wheeling, West Virginia Write for free booklet about my Stogies—it's interesting Automobile Apparel Accessories LIGHT WEIGHT GAR- MENTS FOR HOT WEATHER VERYONE needs a light | weight coat or duster of linen, pongee, silk or mohair. A rain coat is also a necessary perquisite—feather weight gum, rubber, cravennette or Scandi- navian leather. No matter where youshould go in this country or abroad there is no one place where you will find so great a, variety of every. thing necessary for the comfort of the autoist or other lover of out-of-door sports than may be found at our salesrooms. If unable to call send for Catalog A Scandinavian Fur and Leather Co. 14-16 West 33d Street, New York “THE most popular Canadian whisky is more easily remembered by taste than name—Gooderham & Worts Special. Preferred invariably by those who care to stand the price. _————_— The “Full-Jeweled” Model I, Runabout, $2,400 Corbin construction reduces tire trouble to the minimum —one of many reasons why it is‘the car you can best afford to own. CORBIN MOTOR VEHICLE CORPORATION Member Aseclatioe Liseed Astometie Manafectarert NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT 1888 Broadway, 62d St., New York. Motor Mart, Boston, Mass IIIS IO RIT STINTS TNT I To sweetly wedge your way into her affections keep her well and Confections STEPHEN ¥. WHITMAN &80N, 1316 Che St., Phila, N TO APPETITE” —Prov., 23.2 comicbooks.com