Life, 1909-03-04 · page 41 of 44
Life — March 4, 1909 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and announcements**, not satirical content. The major elements are: 1. **Astor Trust Company ad** (center): Lists prominent New York financial leaders and directors, emphasizing the bank's capital and interest rates—typical banking advertisement. 2. **William R. Compton Company ad** (left): Promotes tax bonds and mortgages from the American Midwest, appealing to investors seeking safe returns. 3. **Woman's Number announcement** (bottom): Life magazine invites women writers to contribute to an upcoming special issue, paying standard rates. Topics suggested include women's suffrage, marriage, homemaking—reflecting early 20th-century women's interests during the suffrage era. 4. **Peres Chartreux liqueur ad** (bottom right): French liqueur advertisement. The only potential humor is the opening anecdote about "The Parson and the Dentist"—a gentle joke about a clergyman gifting his written sermons as payment, with a Biblical quote about praising God through one's mouth. This appears to be a **business/financial page** from approximately 1912-1915, not a satirical section.
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-LIFE: ROUND THE WORLD CRUISE | By S.S. Aral 16,000 Tons, Oct. 16 30 TOURS TO EUROPE $250 UP sf )Y y. C. CLARK, Times Building, New York ~ The Pi id the Dentist dentist. When the work was done the dentist de- clined to accept more than a nominal fee. The arson, in return for this favor, insisted later on 4 the dentist accepting a volume of the reverend gentienan's own writing. It was a disquisition on the Psalms, and on the fly leaf he had in- scribed this appropriate quotation: ‘nd my mouth shall show forth thy praise FIFTH AVE. & 36™ST., NEW YORK -Harper’s Weekly. CAPITAL & SURPLUS $1,400,000 = WR. COMPTON COMPANY Interest Paid on Daily Balances WILLIA DIRECTORS ST LOUIS MISSOURI BENJAMIN ALTMAN, HARRISON EB, GAWTRY, DANIEL G, REID, ist ' ‘ B. Altman & Co, Island Syst TAX BONDS ano FIRST MORTGAGE SECURITIES N JACON ASTOR. 3OELET, 'GLAS ROBINSON, . First Ni THOMAS W. LAMONT, e. from We own and offer fifty different issues of Wrath a your TAX BONDS including Municipal School, @EO. b. OAS _ Improvement Bonds, etc. ¢ . $ W. McGARRAH, wa 7 _ THOMAS COC! AD os jat'l Bank, sO> . ‘al Yielding 3.75% to 6% ; . Presents a ; ny Vice-Pres't Bankers Trust Co. “t Mutual Life Ins, Co, CHARLES L. TIFFANY These issues cover the most prosperous . Vice-Pres't Tiffany centers of Bankers ALBERT H. WIG 5 THE GREAT CENTRAL WEST 1. DOWNEY, Prove Chemical ve chase Natt Bank. Bullding Construction, SEWARD BHO! hee Falk ubere good bonds have always paid and still OFFICERS pay, with equal safety, better interest returns CEEA ; than similar securities issued by Easter Com- dig ERSE, President, SEWARD PROSSE Vice- ‘Pres GEO. W. PANCOAST, Casal munities. Among other attractive issues we : Sra Vi HOWARD BOOCOCK, Ast Sec. offer the following — $100,000 City of St. Louis, Missouri 44 116,000 Minneapolis, Minn. 49 280,000 Oklahoma City, Okla. School 44% 1921 000 R. » OkL 1 6% + soiooo Lafayette Co. Ark LeveeDist.6% 1928 WOMAN'S NUMBER OF LIFE 100,000 (Carey Act) Irrigation Gold 6% Serial ‘An lovitation to All Women Writers All of these Bonds were selected with the sam: 7 g mania’ tt ' 4 . ARLY in the Spring Lire will issue a Woman's Number, the text of which will be written careful judgment which has enabled this house to E exclusively ie be Se omin's i serve its clientage for twenty years without the Lire extends Ith a general invitation to the wo eriters of this country to con- ‘ tribute to this number. Contributions will be paid for at Lirr’s regular rates. loss of a single dollar for any customer. ‘The editors reserve the usual privilege of rejecting all contributions not suited to 11 1928 a havevant siomernin THY: purposes, Pe We have satisfied customers in Thirty-one This is not a contest. It ts an opportunity thrown open to women to express themse It tes. . Is not necessarily confined to well-known writers. o manuscript will be rejected because the Sendus your name forourmailinglist, andwe write wes aio pot happen to coinelde With Miiowr af Shin payin. = will keep you advised of our special. offerings. Among the subjects suggested are Woman Suff the Care of Husbands, Matrimony, Divorce, ieee pecial oll erings: Bables, Children, Spinsters, Nome Decoration. Gardening, Music, Drama, Travel, Woman's Clubs Shal Voinen Speak in Public? Local Government, Woman's Dress, Education, Servants and their WILLIAM R. COMPTON COMPANY mianepement, afl domestle toples, ete. ‘ Mtentimes the cleverest and most original thought of the week may be expressed In one line. 228 Merchants Laclede Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. All contributions should be sent in before March 15, 109, addressed to the Editor of Lire 17 West Thitty-lirst Street, New York. Not Quite—in New York York critics are mild and their criti- the pen would owe the audience LIQU EUR _ That is what Ashton Stevens wrote of a pro- at the San Francisco Grand Opera d ‘ House, Everybody who read it haw-hawed, and the word was passed along, “ Did you see what Ashton Stevens said about the show at the Grand?" And everybody got a copy of the ind read it. If Stevens should say that ~GREEN AND YELLOW— play in a New York theater he would be brought up with a round turn, and FOR CENTURIES THE ; GRAND FINALE TO THE e theaters. ORLD'S BES INERS scenery needed a bath," he once said WORLD'S BEST DINNERS traveling company that presented some # ‘ at offering at a San Francisco theater At Areca toe Dsante, Gracers: Bite Oats, wouldn't do in New York: the man- Sole Agents for Uulted States, ets vould not permit it—Charles Williams, in 1s comicbooks.com