Life, 1908-07-02 · page 9 of 40
Life — July 2, 1908 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or editorial content. The page features two gun advertisements: 1. **UMC (Union Metallic Cartridge Company)** promotes "Shot Shells" for hunting, showing a dog retrieving game. The ad emphasizes ordering ammunition by brand name for reliability. 2. **Remington** advertises an "Autoloading Shot Gun" with illustrations of hunting scenes. The text claims this gun represents technological progress for hunters, offering "comfort, power and execution." A smaller item titled **"His Eyes Opened"** appears to be a brief joke about divorce, unrelated to the advertisements. The page also advertises **Life's 1908 Print Catalogue** at bottom. These hunting advertisements reflect early 20th-century American leisure culture and the commercialization of sporting equipment.
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Putnam's Agency, 313-315 Broadway, New York Reproducing in carefully printed miniatures 163 of LIFE'S latest and best pictures by Hutt, Clivette. (The Lacroix Sweet Company ty cals) Clay, Read, Balfour Ker, Blashfield, Gibson, Gilbert, Budd, Flagg, Bayard Jones, Squires, His Eyes Opened | Broughton, Jacobs, Stewart, Hanna, Grant, Phillips, and others. LIFE’S PRINTS provide “ HY is she getting a divorce?” < | an inexpensive but not cheap form of mural decoration. They are embellishments for any apes eed ba salerepreaenaton: ste home, the most costly or the simplest. The new catalogue will be sent to any address on well off!” a receipt of ten cents, by “And what does he say?” “He says he was, but didn’t know it.’—Lippin- cott's. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thitty-first Street, NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com