Life, 1908-06-11 · page 17 of 20
Life — June 11, 1908 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from an early 1900s issue of Life magazine, not a satirical cartoon page. The main content promotes **Studebaker Electric automobiles** to businessmen, positioning electric vehicles as practical for short urban trips—replacing the need for hired drivers ("chauffeur, coachman, or cabby"). The appeal emphasizes convenience, reliability, and economical operation. Supporting advertisements include: - **Surbrug's Arcadia Mixture** tobacco (marketed as superior pipe tobacco) - **Haskell-Whiz Golf Ball** (emphasizing durability) - **Cortez Cigars** (branded "for men of brains") - **The Sagamore** resort (leisure destination) - **Bilin** mineral water and other products The **satire, if any, is subtle**—Life's implicit message appears to be that modern businessmen should adopt progressive technologies (electric cars) while maintaining traditional leisure pursuits (golf, boating). This reflects early-1900s optimism about technology and the emerging automobile industry.
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SURBRUG'S ARCADIA MIXTURE Its aromatic delicacy will surprise you. I is the most perfect blend of tobacco you. ever put in your pipe the highest class—it stands all by itself, the KING of mixtures. ‘A tobacco that your women folks will like to have you smoke at home—you may never have known the luxury of a pipe smoke before. SEND 10 CENTS S23", THE SURBRUG CO., 132 Reade St., New York its cage Iphia A name to swear by—not at Hawn GOLF BALL It stands for durability, distance, direction A perfectly balanced golf ball Price, 50 cents The B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY AKRON, OHIO ELECTRICS Vehicles of Great Utility for the BUSINESS MAN ELECTRIC STANHOPE Please write to nearest Branch House for full infor- mation regarding cost, private installation of charging apparatus and folder describing various models BRANCHES: Studebaker Bros. Co. fo Boylston Street (Sub tudedaker Bros, ory Streets. radedaker Au- 19 2064 Euclid Avenve. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— Studebaker Bros. Co. of Callfornia, Mission and Fremont Streets. DALLAS, TEX.—Studedaker Bros. Mfg. Co., 317-319 Elm Street. YORK Cl Co..0f New York, Broadway and 48th Street. Street (Sub Branch). SALT LAKECI Bros. Co. of Ut PORTLAND, OR Co. Northwest, 3 TAH—Stadebaker 7 State Street. East Morrison Street. SEATTLE, WASH.—Stadebaker Bros Co. Northwest, 308 First Avenue South (Sab Branch). SELLING AGENCY ST. LOUIS, MO,—Union Electric Light and Power Co. No business man who has ever used a Studebaker Elec- |tric Runabout or Stanhope for visiting his bank, his attor- ney, going to and from his home, to his office, to lunch- eon, or on the score of other short ex- cursions he finds it necessary to make every day, ever again desires to utilize any other conveyance whatever. For such use a Studebaker Electric is as handy as the formerly so popular bicycle, with all the comforts of a carriage. It dispenses with the need of a chauffeur, coachman, or cabby, is always ready to start upon a moment’s notice, and is unaffected by heat, cold or inclement weather. Under the new Studebaker plan for individ val charging, the Studebaker Electric Car is the most economical means in existence for transporting individual passengers in a city or town. Hudobaitor Automobile Company MainPactory: General fice: South Bend, Ind. Cleveland, Ohio FOR MEN OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST#— THE SAGAMORE ‘The children enjoy these perfectly bullt, stro ‘corrlages—exact JON LAKE GEORGE Open June to October on the Grandest Lake in America. Tennis, Boating, Riding. Golf, Automobiling, etc. New State Road. t.epmuxp KeumpnoLz SAGAMORE, N. Y. CARRIAGE . ro0mn ininiatares of el comicbooks.com