Life, 1908-10-01 · page 3 of 44
Life — October 1, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than satire or political commentary**. It contains three commercial advertisements from what appears to be the early 1900s automotive era: 1. **Air-tight Steel Tank Co.** (Pittsburgh): Promotes gasoline storage tanks, emphasizing savings and safety benefits over buying fuel in small quantities. 2. **Springfield Portable Garage**: Advertises prefabricated garages to protect automobiles and save storage costs. 3. **Cartoon caption** (bottom left): A humorous illustration showing someone frantically trying to prevent a runaway car, with a caption about "a little runaway" and cylinder car use—likely a joke about early automobile dangers. The page reflects **early-20th-century concerns**: automobile ownership logistics, fuel storage inefficiency, and the novelty of automotive infrastructure. The humor derives from the era's primitive automotive technology rather than political satire.
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Save a full third on your Gasolene Bills! When you buy gasolene in small lots you pay an excessive hen you buy you pay price for it. When you keep it in a barrel you lose a lot by evaporation and leak- age. When you buy two, three or five barrels at a time and keep it in The Air-tight Steel Tank you save a full third on the gallon price; you lose nothing whatever by evaporation and you avoid the fire risk, which is always present when you have a barrel of such a dangerous and combustible fluid as gasolene lying about. The Air-tight Steel Tank is different from any other gasolene storage system. The tank is indestructible—no rivets, no solder. asily installed —just dig a hole and set it in the ground. Leakage impossible. Easiest to Pump ‘An auxiliary chamber, within the tank, is kept automatically filed with gasolene. The first stroke of a ligbt airpemp warty the fow—an occasional stroke maintains a steady stream. The fow of gasolene is always under perfect control. Open a valve on the pamp when you've draws as much gasolene as you need. The ait excapes {rom the tank—the gasolene Instantly returns from the bote to the tank where it's hermetically sealed. For case, efficiency and convenience our air-pressure method is infinitely better than any suction pump. =< Air-tight Steel Tank Co. Two barrel size, 858 net; three b: 17 net : five barrel size, $85 net—delivered at your nea: ion. These prices include pump and 12 ft each of gasol hose, Money 421 Wood Street, Pittsburg, Pa. felunded if you are not perfectly sati Portable Garages and Cottages Save Storage Bills! A\\ . : | StyleNo. . 12x18 Hip Roof, glass doors, 5 windows opening out. RON ) > > Bullt for Mr. Robeson, Englesoll Grove, Springfield, Mass. So Excessive gargage charges, the long delays after ordering your car, the danger of fire and of unauthorized use by unscrupulous persons can be saved by having your own garage—on your own premises—a SPRINGFIELD PORTABLE GARAGE A garage built along the lines of not how cheap, but how good. It houses your automobile safely and where it is free from the destructive odors of pub- lic garage of stable. You always have your car ready for instant use. Write for Full Particulars and Prices Springfield Portable Construction Co. Janotic: THE IDEA OF A LITTLE RUNABOUT LIKE THAT TRYING TO GIVE A SIX 61 Waltham Ave., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. CYLINDER CAR LIKE ME 17S DUST. comicbooks.com