Life, 1907-08-01 · page 5 of 48
Life — August 1, 1907 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains four commercial advertisements: 1. **Barrett Automobile Jacks** (top left): Promotes industrial lifting equipment with claims of "Rapidity, Certainty, Safety" 2. **Packard Motor Car, 1908** (top right): Shows an early automobile model 3. **Untitled cartoon** (bottom left): A humorous illustration of a rooster in an awkward pose, captioned "What's the use, anyway? To-day we're eggs and to-morrow we're feather dusters"—a joke about poultry's limited purpose 4. **Egyptian Deities Cigarettes** (bottom right): Promotes cigarettes using Egyptian imagery and monuments as marketing appeal The rooster cartoon is the only satirical element, mocking the bird's fate rather than commenting on politics or society.
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ARRETT AUTOMOBILE gal ¢ wet Rapidity, Certainty, Safety— hese are the main points of excellence which give the “Barrett” Jack superiority over all other automobile jacks. Highest grade materials, in the hands of skilled workmen, in the only workshop in the world having perfect jack-making equipment, produce this inexcelled combination. The “Barrett” Jack is always ready— under any circumstances. It never fails out of adjustment— never requires any tinkering. : Toe “Barret is supplied by responsible dealers, by the leading makers of automobiles or direct by wi... DUFF MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 26 Cortlandt Street, NEW YORK Works: Allegheny, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa. 4 Roe Auber, Paris Antwerp Montreal 124 Longacre, London “THE JACK THAT DUFF BUILDS” Siil highest in quality; still most renowned, now, as for years, the choice everywhere of connoisseurs. EGYPTIAN DEITIES CIGARETTES have 0 long and so exclusively repre- sented the highest quality obtainable that to emoke them is usually considered the best evidence of good taste, No.1Size + + - - 10for35e. No. 35i : “WHAT'S THE USE, ANYWAY? TO-DAY WE'RE EGGS AND 4 S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer TO-MORROW WE'RE FEATHER DUSTERS.”” 111 Fifth Avenue, New York corm’ i906 # Ah Egyptian Scenes—Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinzes at Luxor. comicbooks.com