Life, 1908-05-28 · page 4 of 24
Life — May 28, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no cartoons or satirical content**—it's purely advertising from what appears to be an early 20th-century *Life* magazine. The ads include: 1. **Krug & Co. champagne** (left)—promoting French wine through a New York distributor 2. **Brooks Brothers clothing** (right)—advertising gentlemen's furnishings, hats, and shoes 3. **Brooklyn Jockey Club** (bottom)—announcing a spring horse-racing event at Gravesend, Long Island, featuring a $25,000 handicap race These advertisements reflect the leisure activities and consumer goods marketed to wealthy American readers of the period. There is no political or social satire present on this page.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
KRUG & CO. Private Cuvée The very highest type of champagne. es Made from the world-famed growths CSQSLOTHINGS») of Verzenay, Ay, Bouzy and Cra- Gentlemens Furnish rhishing mant. Of the many thousand acres of vines which form the champagne dis- k | trict, hardly ten thousand can produce Flannels for Town and Country; wine of such an exceedingly high type. Straw and Panama Hats; Rus- | sia, Calf and Buckskin Shoes. | G. S. NICHOLAS & CO. Sole Agents for the United States / I , 41 AND 43 BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK Sena for Mustrated Catalogue BROADWAY Con. TWENTY SECOND ST., NEW YORK SPRING MEETING Ghe BROOKLYN JOCKEY CLUB GRAVESEND, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. Monday, June Ist to Thursday, June 18th SIX RACES EACH DAY. First Race at 2.50 P.M. Each Day THE GREAT BROOKLYN HANDICAP $25,000 AT ONE MILE AND A QUARTER, WILL BE RUN ON MONDAY, JUNE Ist Over 25 Other Stake Events Track can be reached via Long Island Railroad; also via Electric Train and Trolley Service from Brooklyn Bridge, 39th St. Ferry, etc. PHILIP J. DWYER, President Office: 399 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. FRED, REHBERGER, Secretary