Life, 1908-10-01 · page 39 of 44
Life — October 1, 1908 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements** rather than editorial cartoons. The main visual elements are: 1. **Winchester Repeating Shotguns ad** (center-top): A large illustration of dead game birds promotes Winchester shotguns, claiming they've been tested and endorsed by the U.S. Ordnance Board as superior for hunting. 2. **Small cartoon titled "An Exclamation Point"** (center): A simple line drawing of what appears to be an exclamation mark, accompanying an ad for Evans' Ale—a play on words suggesting the product's quality is emphatic or noteworthy. 3. **"A Dreadful Thought"** (upper-left): A brief humorous anecdote about a charwoman (cleaning woman) who lost an eye, with her employer offering sympathy. The joke relies on working-class dialect humor typical of early 20th-century American magazines. The remaining content includes travel tours, chocolates, champagne, and playing cards. This is largely a **commercial page** with minimal political or social satire—typical advertising and light humor for a general-audience magazine of this era.
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For People Who Dent Like Cream Whe ** FUSSY PACKAGE” All Chocolates and not a Cream Center in the Lot—$1 a Pound. Assortment tndicated on every box. Newest and best thing in the whole candy world. Oily those chocolates the “fussiest” people choose in making up a box. Seat povipaid anywhere la CK or for sal Stepten F. WeIiman & Son, 1316 Chestar REPEATING SHOTGUNS VER four hundred and fifty thousand sportsmen use and endorse Winchester Repeating Shotguns, The U.S. Ordnance Board, after subjecting one of these guns totheseverest oftests forstrength, reliability, accuracy, penetration, endurance, excess- ive loads, defective shells,rust and dust, reported officially that the gun could not be improved upon. For field, fowl or trap shooting they are equally good. Then why nota Winchester? # & *% FREE; Send address for catalogus of Winchester —the Red W Brand— Guna and Ammunition. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., NEW HAVEN, CONN. A DREADFUL THOUGHT Ore day Mary, the charwoman, reported for service “Why. Mai “what “Yes'm, “Well. there's one consolation, said her sympathetic mistress, vad eye you have!” It might have been ght have had both of them hurt.” worse'n that; I might not ha’ been at all."—Everybody's Magazine. COLLVER TOURS Exclasive and Exceptional ROUND®WORLD LEAVE IN October, November, Decem- ber and January FOR ITINERARIES Berkeley Building, Boston LIFE’S THANKSGIVING NUMBER Double Monthly Special dated Nov. 5th. LIFE copy $250.00 per page; one-half nd one-quarter page pro rata. Magazine copy 60c. per agate line. Last forms close October 22nd. For information pertaining to adver- tising address GEORGE B. RICHARDSON, M. 4 Advertising Department, LIFE, 17 W. 31a St, New York. Cdrev~ AN EXCLAMATION POINT Evan Ale. ‘TIME was when any ale would do — then diene drinking fell off. Now nothing but Evans’ will do. Where Evans’ Ale is served there you will find the dependable in everything. C, MM, EVANS & SONS, Hudson, CLUB LINEN PLAYING CARDS “An Ideal Bridge Card."* Design of back, hemstitched linen, pat. Sept. 24, °07. Colors Red, Blue, Brown, Geen. 25cents per pack: ee teasers Dealers everywhere or sent postpaid on receipt of peice. Htustrated eatalog of Rridge seremories free. Address Dept L. Radcliffe & Co.,New Yort.144 Pear! St., & Lenton, E,C. HAPPY IGNORANCE Francis Wilson, the comedian, apropos of certain curios whereon he believed he had been swin: said with a light laugh “The one drawback to knowledge is that it reveals to many dupes and swindles to us. One summer, for instance, I was ‘doing’ Switzerland, In the neigh borhood of Geneva, where the Swiss talk French, I climbed a little peak one fine morning, and on my arrival at the chalet 2t the top I heard the pretty EXTRA DRY AMPAGNE Our vineyards are the oldest in America. Culti- vation of nearly one hundred years bas given the soil the elements to to produce the finest quality —rich, deli- cately flavored—Cham- pagne grape. Great Western was recognized by Paris- ians and awarded a gold medal at Paris. comicbooks.com