Life, 1907-10-03 · page 34 of 36
Life — October 3, 1907 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page**, not political satire. It contains commercial ads for women's corsets, petticoats, felt shoes, and men's hats, alongside a list of newly published books. The only narrative content is "Taking a Flyer"—a humorous anecdote (not a cartoon) about mining negotiations. A company hires an expert to evaluate a silver-lead mine in the Northwest. The expert's report is famously terse: the ore exists and is plentiful, but transporting supplies in and ore out would require "a pack-train of bald eagles"—meaning the location is so remote it's practically inaccessible. The joke satirizes the gap between optimistic business projections and harsh practical reality. It's the sort of tall-tale humor common to American mining folklore of the era. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and advertising conventions rather than political commentary.
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ERE E- The Standard of Corset Fashion a Geeels- The charm of a Redfern fig- ure ie subtly felt —whether > clinging Em- pire, it is the , corset that f makes the fig “ ure—not the ¢) Redfern cor- sets are advised 5 by leading * dressmakers, who wish their SE creations dis- played to the bestadvantage. ‘They will be especially fit- ted to you at any high-class shop. Reyes S) Qreuily, Rubber Bur- ton Hose Supporters attached. down to $3.50, accond- ing to material. The Wareer Rrothers Co. New York, Chicago, San Francisco Prettiest, Daintiest, Softest Made | petiverep Women’s $1.25 Children’s 1.00 Men's (Plain Front) $1.25 Comfy Moccasin Made of pure “Comfy Felt,” soft leather soles with one inch of carded wool between | felt inner sole and felt and leather outer soles, making a perfect cushion tread. Ideal for the bed- toom. Colors: Red. Gray, Navy Bixe,.” Fancy colors Jor Women and Children Send for CATALOGUE No. 32 showing many new styles. THER Priced from $15.00| Lastest Books The Story of My Childhood, by Clara Barton. (Baker and Taylor Company.) Montaigne’s Essays. Selected by Curtis H. Page. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) | The Lone Star, by E. P. Lyle, Jr. (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.50.) The Younger Set, by R.V ton and Company. $1.50.) Andiron Tales, by J. K. Bangs. (The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. $1.25.) Sand-Burrs, bj lishing Company The Rabbit Foot, by Byrd Mason. Publishing Company.) Grandon oj Sierra, by C. E. Winter. (Broadway Publishing Company Lovella, by Lydia ing Company.) The Purple Butterfly, by Louise C.Denio. (Broad- way Publishing Company.) Poland, the Public Inn, by Emily H. Borne. (Broadway Publishing Company.) Grinmar, by Nathan Kussy. (Broadway Publish- ing Company.) Tuckahoe, by Mrs. T. P. Bagby. (Broadway Pub- lishing Company.) Clem, by Edna Kenton | $1.00.) 1 Lost Leader, by E. P. Oppenheim. | Brown and Company, Boston. $1.50.) The Mauleverer Murders, by A. C. Fox-Davies. John Lane Company. $1.50.) Temptation, by Richard Bagot Company. $1.50.) Barbary Sheep, by Robert Hichens. (Harper and Brothers. $1.25.) Adventures of Uncle Sam's Soldiers. (Harper and | Brothers. $0.60.) 2835 May/air, by Frank Richardson. Kennerley. $1.50.) Taking a Flyer HE secretary of an Eastern company that some time ago was anxious to purchase a silver-lead mine in the Northwest tells of an amusing incident in the negotiations for its purch As the ore assayed well and everything looked propitious, a mining expert was sent to examine the mine. His report was favo hambers. (D. Apple- (Broadway . Bixby. (Broadway Publish- (The Century Company. (Little, (The Macmillan (Mitchell purchasers; so it was determined to investigate more closely. At this point a well-known mining man of Butte recommended that a certain rough-and-ready genius should be sent to look at the mine. ‘You can de- pend upon his judgment,” the mining man said. **You can trust to his report, which, in all probabil- ty, will be brief and very much to the point.” ‘The advice was followed. As predicted, the re- port was short and pithy. It read substantially as follows: Gents: I have made an examination of the X—— mine, and report that the ore is there as repre- sented; that it assays high; that it is there in plenty; but to get your supplies in and your ore out, you will need a pack-train of bald eagles.""—Hearper’s Weekly. 'HE fact is, the sensitiveness of feeling which man has made the leading characteristic of the dog, sensitiveness of body and sensitiveness of emotional character, makes the vivisection of the dog actually more cruel as well as morally a greater outrage than the vivisection of any other animal. ‘The vivisection even of the anthropoid ape, of one blood, as science asserts, with man, hateful as it is, is a less hateful outrage, for there is no betrayal of a many-centuried DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOE CO. 114-116 East 13th Street, -__NEW YORK ||| friendship, no treachery against an almost human love and devotion, —The Abolitionist. G. C. Connor. (Broadway Pub- | —too favorable, in | fact, and aroused the suspicions of the would-be | An Instantaneous Success Feathersilk TRADE MARK Petticoats Made of the New Taffeta _Feathersilk For sale everywhere. Look and wear as if they cost four times as much as they do. This Trade Mark must be on the waistband. Feathersilk the new Taffeta is for sale at all Lining Departments, Price 35c. a yard. The first Derby made in America was a C. & K. Hats for Men NAPP-FELT Hats are for the discrimi- ; dj nating—those V4 for whom the best 1s none too good. Knapp-Felt DeLuxe Hats are Six Dollars. Knapp-Felt Hats jare Four Dollars everywhere. Write for “The Hatman” THe CrorutT & KNAPP Co. BROADWAY, AT THIRTEENTH ST.. NEW YORK comicbooks.com Wee oO. C 10% were thi mac um, fort