Life, 1908-04-16 · page 23 of 24
Life — April 16, 1908 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple unrelated content pieces typical of Life magazine's format: **Main Editorial Content:** - "Champ Clark's Story on Arkansas": A humorous anecdote by Champ Clark (a real Missouri congressman) mocking Arkansas as a depressed, desolate state. A train passenger asks a local to name the town; the native replies it's not worth naming. - "Assets": A brief story about a young Pittsburgh man courting a manufacturer's daughter, negotiating a substantial financial settlement ($2,000-$50,000) for marriage—satirizing the transactional nature of wealthy marriages. - A section on "A New Yorker" returning from England, mentioning Roman history and Oxford—appears to be a society anecdote, text partially unclear. **Advertisements:** The page is dominated by ads for Goodrich Tires, Cortez Cigars, Clark's European Tours, English Motor Tours, and Rad-Bridge playing cards. **Overall:** This is primarily an advertising-heavy page with light satirical content targeting regional stereotypes and marriage customs.
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Champ Clark’s Story on Arkansas HAMP CLARK, Representative from Missouri, ly loves a good story at the expense of the Clark, in the course of a in the fever: ing his head out of the car window, de- get, th mande who w what citizen a dejected-lool leaning against the station ell me, | » you call this dried up, dreary, God-forsaken That's near enough,’ replied the native ancholy voice, ‘let it go st that." —Wash or i's of pictures she 1 domino entering the infe “What does the lost soul wish ?” “A place at your side “Why? Who are “The soul of an anage prise which counted more than seve hundred my bole n who u nter ims every Ye Ac executioner 7" “Wh it orm Goodrich Tires 27,7244, for, it— ail have whether rocks and ruts, mud and clay, or granite blocks, they are ready to carry their load with speed and safety. With boulevard ease and resilience, but with cros are you, then, that you dare my immense so sooner! Assets How in Pittsburg whe will although, as yet, he , S| i country ' durability, they take roads as they find them—because they are made ready by the Goodrich method of building tires, in the largest rubber 1 factory in the world. The proof of their superiority is recorded on every t | he has not succeeded in am. fact, he receives a weekly wa an extremely good-looking and wever, we and ¢ wo suceeded in pression upon the daughter of a well-to-do manu- facturer that it was decided between them that he ‘This he procecded to do, and, s received not unkindly | young ih an highway in America—and the records are yours for the asking. The B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio SAN FRANCISCO, 10.00 F LOS ANGELES, x18 S, re ont St. Our net Iway. | NEW YORK, he BUPPALO, 331 my boy yan remarked, SEATT 0 First Ave, pushing up his gla ir annual in- BU now Hill, E By come? PARIS, No, 2 Rue Branel, THE B. PF, GOODRICH COMPANY “Well, sir, I should estimate it at $2,000," the Avenue de la Grande Armee. of New York. { i \ Our Goodrich Solid Rubber Tires started in the lead fifteen years young man replied 0 and have held their own ever since “Well—not so bad, not so bac That added to her interest at f $50,000 I hi ther marri * the old man said ur per cent. on the id I would settle upon Mar ve always would ive you $4,000. You s be able to get alon 1 For 5S AGARS Clark’s 40 Tours to Europe “Well, sir, to tell the truth," the young ma GARS Moet Comprehensive and Attiscive Eves Offered terrupted, “I took the liberty of fj ae that Fignt Depertere: April 18,135: Daysi:S475 Harper's Weekly. -MADE AT KEY WEST+- Frank C. Clark, Times Building, New York interest into my esti NEW YORKER, recently returned from England, where hesw muchoftheune ot -ENglish Motor Tours tin armor pageantry by w jous anniversaries have been celebrated at Oxford and elsewhere, tells Member of Historic Society personally drives parties 7] this: A Roman in cost. e approached a fel of tinned character Claud ius ?”* “N registered at Pet. of | CLUB LINEN PLAYING CARDS Ag deat Heb Card Tes on private tours arranged as to scenery and pla interest to suit his clients; interesting and historic places visited and explained. For terms write Box No. 242, T. B. Browne's Advertising Office, 163 Queen comicbooks.com