Life, 1907-08-29 · page 2 of 24
Life — August 29, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content**, not political satire. The top half features a **Cadillac automobile advertisement** highlighting the "New Model H" at $2,500, marketing it to "critical motorists" with emphasis on its powerful engine and economy. Below is a book advertisement for **"A Woman's Confessional" by Helen Woljeska**—described as containing a woman's honest life history with "sentiments of revolt and passionate cynicism." The accompanying illustration shows a woman in period dress. The right side advertises **Yellowstone Park** as ideal for September tourism and **"The Comedy of Life,"** a collection of 118 photographs from Life Publishing Company. No political cartoons or satire appear on this page—it's a standard commercial magazine layout typical of early 20th-century publications.
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NEW MODEL H, $2,500 ITS STRONGEST APPEAL TO CRITICAL MOTORISTS Approaching the mid-Summer stage—the motorists’ paradise when an automobile is most appreciated and its best points come out—the season steadily adds to the lead main- tained by New Model H after a year's tests and trials all over the world, of the largan tod ben equipped mate car lacery ca earth is Tats porns ol wuperiooty as well os 10 price. For luxunous riding qualities, ease of control, concn of fuel, perfect es, weadinem and saying, power under inde all conditions, the splendid service which New Mosel Hi has consistently gr to be Unsarpa: mead by Any Automobile, American or Foreign, Recardless of oY Price ‘onde of the Namber of Cylinders. ‘American of Foreign Car entitled to rank in the same class wll fr 50 to 100 per cent. more. Fully desenbed in Catalogue HR. Other models as follows: Model C20 bp. Cylinder Touring Car, $2 000—Catalg @ adel N10 bp AsPassengee Car, 8050—Cialag NK Node! KO hep Renabeat, 8800—Cataag HR SEND FOR CATALOG OF CAR THAT INTERESTS YOU CADILLAC MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit, Mich. mewnen pb Ja a test onthe Rendufie track at Denton, cm, May yoo Model 1 sock car completed ao elles in 2 osreb mloutes og i seconds good moe ulon of ls tescyte power sud’ byeed~there te be ised Tf emergeacy tequltes Yellowstone Park IDEAL IN SEPTEMBER Every month of the open season is delightful in the Park, but the early days of September present its wonderful charms in the best light. The temperature is bracing, the atmosphere without a blemish, the view distinct, and the roads at their best. The coach ride of 145 miles by easy stages, in full daylight, makes this a distinctively close-to-nature outing. The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a most attractive tour leaving the East on September 3, arriving in the Park on the 6th and remaining until the | Ith, allowing five and one-half days of perfect sightseeing. The return trip, by way of the bustling cities of the North Pacific Coast, through Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and the scenic trail of Colorado is enhanced in interest by the charm of the season. Excursion tickets, including all ne expenses, will be sold cessary from New York at $233; . Philadelphia, $231, and at pro- portionate rates from other cities. A completely appoint:d special train, in charge of Tourist Agent and Chaperon, for the exclusive use of the party, adds to the uniqueness of the trip. As the membership of the party is necessarily limited, applica- tions for reservations and itineraries should be made at once to C. Studds, E. P. A., 263 Fifth Avenue, New York; Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Philadelphia, or to Pennsyl- vania Railroad Ticket Agents. @ Woman’s Confessional By HELEN WOLJESKA This little purple book contains the history of a woman's inmost life, told ina punning fire of sparkling eprgrams.— Birmingham Age- Herald. The intimate thoughts of a brilliant and erratic creature. The p'ilosophy of ‘a mind unusually free ond untrammel brave and truthful —Detrow Journal. Sugnestive of Ralph Iron's Story of en African Farm. Mere as there the pages abound with sentiments of revolt and passionate cynicisms, with the intoler- ance of recognized law and civilization, with the pagan yearning for a Deity, only Poemblens exoressed io, nature. Decided- yan interesting book— Pittsburg Bulletin. An odd little bundle of witand wisdom, folly and. pathos—always. with the shadow of the erratic over the author's brilliant intell~t. Some of these epigrams are glorious. Ali are honest. And serve to stripa human soul bare to thoughtful eyes.—San Francisco Bulletin. Ultra-revolutionary, xsthetico-mora], stimulative . . . and revelative of an in: teresting woman behind it —St. Lowis firrer. A slender volume, bound and printed in passionate purple, containing epi- grams, observations and whimsicalities, cumulative in intensity. The woman's death is a forlorn triumph.—Bufale Evening News. It will give you a better insight into the heart of a woman than all the so-called conirasions ol women who have lived only in their own writings.—Chicago Jour: 75 Cents, Postpaid LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York =) Uniform with the Social Comedy The Comedy of Life THE TATTLE-TALE HANDSOME volume of 118 of LIFE'’S Best Pictures reprinted on heavy Coated Paper and Bound in Cloth with Special Cover Design by Blashfield. Price $2.00 LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thiny-6rst Street, New York Loxp comicbooks.com