Life, 1908-09-10 · page 6 of 22
Life — September 10, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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The main image is a humorous fake photograph showing an elephant in New York City, captioned "What an Amateur Nature-Faker Saw in New York the Morning After." This appears to satirize sensationalist reporting or exaggerated claims about urban wildlife sightings—the "nature-faker" being someone who fabricates or grossly embellishes nature stories. The accompanying sections ("His Choice," "Yet a More Excellent Way") contain unrelated satirical dialogues about money and prophets, while the right page features poetry and images of an owl and a warship. This is primarily a humor/satire magazine mixing visual jokes, short comedy pieces, and advertisements. The overall tone mocks gullibility and exaggeration in contemporary news and society.
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265 the Morning After Photographs by A.B. Phelan, Who Accompanies the Naturalist on His Tours “aR? What an Amateur Nature-Faker Saw in New York With Apologies the Subway, oh, my darling, When the lights are dim and low, And the evening hordes of people Wildly come and wildly go— In the Subway, oh, my darling— Think not bitterly of me, Though I slid into an end-seat, Left you lonely—set you free. For my hat was crushed and battered— My cravat a sight to see; Tt was best to leave you thus, dear— Best for you and best for me. Laura Simmons. Fresh Air Fund « Peggy ‘Twitch Sch : Macpherson’ Coliver (6 vears old) “OG. D. sly acka'led sed. $6,168.03 $10.00 Duecan. 10.00 prowl 3.00 on Pp. Wo 3.00 The Perfectly Horrible Club is Kemp"... Lake day 11.77 stbses 8.00 Frances 30.00 His Choice HE: Frankly, now, if you had to choose between me and a million, what would He: I'd take the million. you do? Then you would be easy. Yet a More Excellent Way CERTAIN prophet grew very tired of being not without A s precisely where the big mor So he resolved to try something besides straight prophecy. honor save in his own country, for his own country was to be made. u just as big a scoundrel as anybody in the System!" he cried in a loud voice. “ Nobody but a fool will take my When I tell a man to buy Acidulated Copper, I've got an axe to grind—I'm trying to work him.”* The effect was instant. Before sundown the buying public had absorbed all the prophet's Acidulated Copper at his own figure. word! HAT are they putting up an awning in front of the house across the way for? "” “ There's going to be a wedding, followed by a storm,’””