Life, 1907-11-14 · page 2 of 20
Life — November 14, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it's primarily **advertising** from approximately 1908. The four ads promote: 1. **Feathersilk Petticoats**—marketed as durable fabric offering luxury appearance at modest cost 2. **Johann Maria Farina Cologne**—emphasizing authenticity and warning against counterfeits, with bottles and labels shown 3. **Andrew Usher & Co. Scotch Whiskies**—featuring their product line 4. **Life's Prints Catalogue**—announcing a new collection of 163 reproductions of paintings and prints for home decoration The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture, with emphasis on brand authenticity, affordable luxury goods, and home decoration. There is no satirical content to decode—this is straightforward period advertising.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
. If You Use Cologne— Feathersilk Get the Genuine TRADE AKS Getting the genuine Johann Maria Farina Cologne is a motter of | getting an entirely different preparation from the imitations. The P ‘ | cologne bearing the label shown below was invested neatly 200 | ears ago in ne, Germany, and has since manufactured etticoats een of Coteans Geman ea bas tine Pech eel N a secret one, which cannot be discovered by analysis, and which not only has never been given to an outside maker, but has been allowed to only one branch of the Farina family. The genuine g <Pigyt | ‘Strong: Johann Maria Farina Cologne has a delicate pungency, an invigorating fragrance and a lasting quality posecssed by nove of its imitators. 9 The frge out hace: s cleat Coeater(ehet Sy satater mee oe the Made of the New Taffeta Printed te rafat the ower left hand corser ef the label” “Be sere at Feathersilk; Light, Strong, | N Sspat od shapes of ftisw Pure Dye. Look and wear 5 4 snes ind wey ep as if they cost four times as much as they do. For sale everywhere. NOW READY The 1908 Catalogue of Life's Prints Reproducing in carefully printed miniatures, 163 of LIFE'S latest and best pictures by Hutt, Clay, Read, Balfour Ker, Blashfield. Gibson, Gilbert, Budd, Flagg, Bayard Jones, Squires, Broughton, Jacobs, Stewart, Hanna, Grant, Phillips, and-others. LIFE’S PRINTS provide an inexpensive but not cheap form of mural decoration. They are embellishments for any home, the most costly or the simplest. The new Catalogue will be sent to any ad- dress on receipt of ten cents, by G. S. NICHOLAS & co. LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st Street, New York Sole Agents, New York comicbooks.com