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Life — January 7, 1909 — page 46: Life, 1909-01-07

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This page is primarily **advertising and promotional content** rather than editorial cartoons. The dominant features are: 1. **Astor Trust Company Advertisement** — A substantial bank advertisement listing directors and officers, emphasizing "Interest Paid on Daily Balances." This reflects the pre-1929 financial world. 2. **Life Magazine Self-Promotion** — A large advertisement for Life's upcoming twenty-sixth year of publication, offering subscriptions and a free Charles Dana Gibson drawing ("Absent Friends") to new subscribers. 3. **Small Humorous Anecdotes** — Several brief, mild jokes appear in the right column: - "Bulow's Patient" — references a German political figure (likely Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow) and a sarcastic caption about a scorched bear - "Getting Rid of Him," "Unconvinced," and "A Question of Relative Merit" — gentle domestic humor about children's innocent misstatements The page exemplifies early 1900s Life magazine: a mix of financial advertisements, self-promotion, and light social satire targeting middle-class readers.

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oe Sule Aslor Censl Compara FIFTH AVE. & 36™ST., NEW YORK CAPITAL & SURPLUS $1,400,000 Interest Paid on Daily Balances DIRECTORS ROBERT WALTON Gor THOMAS W. LAMONT, Vice-Pres't Bankers T EDGAR L. MARSTO: , Blair & Co,, Banker: Manhattan Co, GATES W. ARRAH, Pres't Mechantes Nat'l Bank, CHARLES A. PEAHODY, Pres't Mutual Life Ins. C GEO. W. PERKINS, J.P. Morgan & Co., Bankers, WILLIAM H. PORT! Pres't Chemical Nat'l Bank. WARD PROSSER, Vice-Pres't, BENJAMIN ALTMA B, Altman & Co, JOUN JACOK ASTOR, ANDER H. STEVE Vice-Pres't Gallatin Nat'l Bank. JOHN F. THOMPSON, Vice-Pres't Bankers Tru: TIFFANY, «Tiffany & JOHN I. DOWNEY, Bullding Construction, OFFICERS SEWARD PROSSER, Vico-Pre: THOMAS COCHRAN, Jr., Vie NCOAST, Cashier. ARD BOOCOCK, Ass't Sec. For the Coming Year Copyright, 1908, by Life Pub. Co, . D. Gibson Photogravure, 18x22 in, Now in its Twenty-Sixth Year, Always improving. Each year better than the year before. It retains all of its best features and is constantly adding new ones. The subscription price of LIFE is Five dollars a year, for which amount it will be sent weekly to any address in the United States, Mexico or the American Possessions. To Canada, $5.52. To any point in the Postal Union, $6.04. With each Yearly subscripticn received before April Ist, 1909, LIFE will send, post free, a copy of Mr, Charles Dana Gibson's charming and decorative crawing “Absent Friends” LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 17 West 3lst Street, New York BULOW'S PATIENT E WHO HAS SCORCHED MIs BEAK.—From Der Waire Jacob. The Mourner The minister had just been giving the class a lesson on the Prodigal Son. At the finish, to test what attention had been paid to his teach ing, he asked: “ Who was sorry that the Prod igal had returned? ’’ The most forward young ster in the class breathlessly answered, “The fated calf! ""—Home Herald. Getting Rid of Him S-s-s-s-sus-say, ma,"" — stammered Bobby through the suds, as his mother scrubbed and scrubbed him, “I guess you want to get rid o' me, don’t you?" “Why, no, Bobby dear,"” replied his mother “Whatever put such an idea as that into your mind?" “Oh, nothin’, said Bobby. “Only it seem to me you're tryin’ to rub me out."’—Harper's Weekly. Unconvinced Mas, Exersox: Waldo, I was surprised to hear you say, “Hallo, Mrs. Baker."” Hallo is a word that nice people don’t use. They say, “How do you do? Watvo (aged fiv “How do you do, Central Why, mother, you never —Brook!s A Question of Relative Merit A little boy of eight years, attending school away from home, wrote a letter to his sister, from which the following extract is taken: “We had a spelling-match in school to-day, and I spelled all the boys down and won the meddle.""—The Delineator. jest reemsarien trees Assiress Det 1 Radciitte 4 Pearl St., & Londen. FC jectic as “ wash may whicl art, ploite young it—ar less, * artis kickes she ¢ wast by re and voice Name Addres: Busines Positior comicbooks.com