Life, 1908-09-03 · page 6 of 36
Life — September 3, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** rather than satirical content. The main items are: 1. **Manning-Bowman Gas Stove** (left): Promotes a denatured alcohol gas stove for home cooking, emphasizing convenience and economy compared to traditional ranges. 2. **Whitman's Chocolates** (lower left): Advertises their "Fussy Package," marketing chocolates without cream centers. 3. **Diamond Tires** and **Marsh Rim** (right): Competing tire advertisements emphasizing quality casings and tubes. 4. **Alex. Taylor & Co.** (right): Athletic goods specialist. 5. **Life's Musical Number** (bottom right): Promotes a special edition. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture, with no apparent political satire. The "How Rabies Are Manufactured" section appears to be genuine educational content about dog behavior rather than satirical commentary.
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that a gas range can cook, but is far more convenient and economical. You can prepare as com- plete a dinner on the dining table as can be prepared in the kitchen on a gas range. The anning- owman (Denatured) Alcohol Gas Stove (Patents Pending) makes its own gas from denatured or other alcohol. Burns with a hot, blue flame. No smoke—no odor. Made with single and double burn- ers Beautifully nickeled. Maccing-Dowman Cba6eg Dishes ate especially adapted for use on alcobot tores. Provided with “Ivory” Ene Cleanest and most durable cooking utensil yet de- At leading dealers. Write for descriptive booklet * 11.08 MANNING- BOWMAN 8CO., For People Who Don’t Like Cream } Chocolates ’ §* FUSSY PACKAGE’”’ A Fussy Packace FoR Fastio) All Chocolates and not a Cream Center in the Lot—$1 a Pound. ‘Assortment indicated on every bor. Newest and best thing in the whole candy world. Only those chocolates the “fussiest”™ people choose in making up a box. Seat postpaid anyabere ie UA, oF for sale by all Waltman agencies fo Stepco F. Whitman & Soa, 1316 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, THE WORST, ALL RIGHT Back in the dark ages, when the management of the Erie Railroad was not all that it should have rolling stock needing more oil and the westbound passenger day two hours behind teh up the engine and take on mon stock less water ed into Corning o no hurry and preferred Just as the t about to jerk itself into mo- tion an excited individual came rushing along. the platform, dragging a heavy carpethag with one hand a telegram wil he he shouted breathle “Tm an awiul hurry! I want to get to Buffalo the st way! AIL right,” sang out the conductor of the starting train, “Murry up and jump rd. You won't ike anything worse thar Uti THE HYDROPHOBIA SCARE My objection to M. Pasteur is that in the interests of vivisection his establishment has been ss. The panic woul >. but it has been ts of Pasteurism, and lable for sensational treat- One thing is mence till Pasteur was ready for it. If he were to morrow to abardon his experiments in this directic turn his attention to, say, small-pox or cholera, I hear of very few cases of mad dogs. The to stamp out hydrophobia would be tow «and send Pastenr to the North HOW RABIES ARE MANUFACTURED Recipe. Malice Cowardice d Nervousness { tres + Ignorance aa Equal Party Dog hatred, add quantum suftic Shake the ingredients well up, look intently and constantly of the daily press for Hydrophobia announce and imagine every playful, lost, sick that is at libe of rabies. the Royal Colle the mixture, carefully sean the e¢ worried dog ors isin the frenzied stage Hilt of England, Fellow of Latest Books Sour Sonnets of a Sourhead, by Haver- (LM. Caldwell Company, Summer St. by John Galsworthy. (G. PL Put: Dur Bird Friends, by George FP (Outing Publishieg Company, Deposit, N. Yo $1.0 her, by Robert Merrick. “(Macmillan Com <0.) renhutda of Orr's Island, by William Tasper Nice (Geo. W. Jacobs and Company, Philadelph Land of the 1. (larper and Prothees 0.), The Northwest Pacsoge, by Roald Amu ion_ard Company. |2 vols. $8.00 1 Iasect Stories, by Vernon Le Kellog. (itenry Tot? and, Company The Poctic Old World, by Lucy VM. Wu (Henry Holt and Company.) Poems for Travelers, by Mary R. J. Dubois. (enry Holt and Com Hore to Get a Position and How to Keep It, by S. Roland Hall. (Funk and Wagnalls Company.’ 50 cents net.) The Bishop's Emeralds. by Woushton Townley. (WV. J. Watt and Comp: ew York.) Wiliam Tell. a Drama, by Arthur D. Rees. (J. 1 -inpincott, Philatetphia.) Christmas h of July, by Asenath idge.” (Published ‘by author, Weterte cents.) The Power Supreme, by Francis C. Nicholas. (R E, Lee Compsny, Boston.) Aunt Maud, Company. $1.50.) Mrs. Eeatherweight's Musical Moments, by John Brady. (Printed and published at the Goerck’ Art Press, 925 Sixth Ave., New York.) 230 Ernest Oldmeadow, (McClure and Diamond Quick oFTA ARE THE BEST CASINGS TUBES Te MARSH 1S: THE: BEST QUIGK-AGTING-RIM THE DIAMOND RUBBER CO AKRON.OHIO | | # SPECIALISTS \ in the colors, styles and quality of jerseys, sweaters, caps and other Athletic Goods that’s our reputation among schools, colleges and clubs— & ALEX. TAYLOR &CO. Formerly JOHNSON & TAYLOR Opp. Hotel Manhattan, LIFE’S UUSIGAL NUMIBER Double Spectal, Dated Oct. 1 MAGAZINE COPY 60 Cents Per Agate Lice LIFE COPY $250. per Page Mang \% pro rata GEO. B. RICHARDSON Advertis's g Manager 17 West 31st Street NEW YORK Lost Forms Close Sept. 17 friendly toward O recently battl “And these par William, will Ty mer and + The « pact with ¢ comicbooks.com